ARP Books
Activist press publishing literary and academic books for 29 years. Non-fiction, poetry, and fiction with an emphasis on critical leftist political analysis of contemporary issues. Based in Winnipeg on Treaty 1. arpbooks.org
- Reposted by ARP BooksResisting the might-makes-right order, in solidarity with the peoples of Palestine, Venezuela, Cuba and Greenland. Boycott, divest from, or exclude from contracts these complicit US companies.
- Reposted by ARP BooksMark Carney is right to say that the old order is not coming back. But where his remarks fall short is in their insistence on answering the crises of our time through the lens of neoliberalism—an ideology that has, for decades, hollowed out the very sovereignty he now claims to defend.
- Reposted by ARP BooksCanadians who oppose Washington’s barefaced imperial violence in Venezuela—and Ottawa’s complicity in it—must mobilize and raise our voices for change. As Owen Schalk writes, it is our responsibility to the hemisphere, and to the planet, on which we live.
- Reposted by ARP BooksIt seems it is once again time for everyone to familiarize themselves with this anti-imperialist classic.
- For those in Winnipeg, there is an emergency rally at River and Osborne 2:30pm tomorrow Sunday January 4th in response to the US invasion today of Venezuela. Organized by Peace Alliance Winnipeg
- Reposted by ARP BooksNearly half of the journalists killed this year were murdered in Gaza by Israel. Since the beginning of its genocide, Israel has killed more than 270 Palestinian journalists and media workers. Read the Reporters Without Borders report: rsf.org/en/2025-dead...
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- Congratulations to @bengymen.bsky.social on being awarded the Kerry Schooley Award for his book As Is at the Hamilton Literary Awards. As Is was also shortlisted for the HLA Poetry Award. www.thespec.com/entertainmen...
- Reposted by ARP Books“Would you like to spend the day with me? I can show you around.” Ooooooooo, an adventure! My favourite kind of day. Let me grab my sunglasses! Kirby @itsakirby.bsky.social Reviews AS IS by Ben Robinson @bengymen.bsky.social The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social thefiddlehead.ca/content/kirb...
- Reposted by ARP Books#ReadPalestineWeek begins today! We’ve made #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar ebook free for download tracepress.org/products/arabi… Please read Palestinian poems out loud, in public, & in community…& visit publishersforpalestine.org for full list of free / fund-raising books for Gaza.
- "A book borne out of a deep love for who we are as queer Indigenous peoples and who we may still become in all our plentitude and power." -Billy-Ray Belcourt
- On the heels of the federal government's jaw-dropping new war budget, we are eager to announce the March 2026 publication of Owen Schalk's latest book, Canada and NATO: The Myth of a Global Peacekeeper
- Building from the backdrop of global tensions and wars, including conflicts that have been stoked and intensified by the US and its allies, global military spending has reached record levels ($2.44 trillion in 2024), driven mostly by the same players: the US-driven NATO alliance.
- A founding member of NATO, Canada has contributed to this global militarization by increasing its military spending massively since the end of the Cold War, and capitulating to US pressure to commit an unprecedented proportion of its own GDP to militarization and war.
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View full threadOwen Schalk is the author of Canada in Afghanistan: A story of military, diplomatic, political and media failure, 2003-2023 (Lorimer Books, 2023) and the co-author with Yves Engler of Canada's Long Fight Against Democracy (Baraka Books, 2024).
- Reposted by ARP BooksThis brilliant new collection of poetry from Cam Scott (@vanishingsigns.bsky.social) launches TONIGHT Wednesday Nov 5 at 7pm. Scott will be joined by @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social launching his own collection, No Depression in Heaven (@talonbooks.bsky.social). www.mcnallyrobinson.com/event-18835/...
- Reposted by ARP BooksOn Wednesday November 5 at 7pm, join Cam Scott (MANOR's RANSOM) and ryan fitzpatrick (No Depression in Heaven) for the dual launch of their new poetry books. - mailchi.mp/grant/scott-... @vanishingsigns.bsky.social @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social @talonbooks.bsky.social @arpbooks.bsky.social
- Reposted by ARP BooksPalestinians demand a life free from Zionism, including the structures of colonization and occupation that recreate the conditions for more violence and genocides.
- Reposted by ARP BooksThis month, for Bookshelf subscribers outside of the US, we’re glad to include as an additional extra Mahmoud Al-Shaer’s 𝘈 𝘠𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘣𝘺𝘴𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘥𝘦, which collects the entries from his fundraising campaign www.gofundme.com/f/aid-for-ma... Subscribe @ palfest.org/bookshelf
- Reposted by ARP BooksTwo of our marvellous poets have been recognized on the Nelson Ball Prize longlist: Margaret Christakos, THAT AUDIBLE SLIPPAGE Dawn Macdonald, NORTHERNY Congratulations to all! bit.ly/4n6Ezux @atbaypress.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @arpbooks.bsky.social @pressassembly.bsky.social
- Reposted by ARP Books🪶 Islands of Decolonial Love by @biidaasamose.bsky.social (@arpbooks.bsky.social) An unforgettable debut collection of short stories that weave together love, decolonization, and Indigenous resurgence. alllitup.ca/books/island... #lpg50 #canlit #alu #indigenousreads
- Reposted by ARP BooksA war of annihilation is unfolding in Gaza, but you wouldn’t know it from Canada’s establishment media. What they produce isn’t coverage—it’s a cover-up. The Breach is publishing a new book, a call for truth-telling in journalism. Order it here: breachmedia.ca/when-genocid...
- This fall we are deeply honoured to be publishing A Year On the Abyss of Genocide written by poet & curator Mahmoud Al-Shaer, documenting a year of his psychological states while displaced in Gaza 2024-5. Foreword by Nasrin Himada, afterword Fadi Ennab, & editor's note by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
- It’s been our honour to work with poet, editor, and curator Mahmoud Al-Shaer on a forthcoming book. Right now he is facing the unimaginable. Please help if you can: www.gofundme.com/f/aid-for-ma...
- Navigating self-reflection and public appeal for survival, Al-Shaer's daybook is a work of dignity and intense introspection, as his poetic prose defies the spectacle of suffering, focusing on deep psychological states that vacillate through despair, numbness, and hope. arpbooks.org/product/a-ye...
- Reposted by ARP Books"It is troubling that people in prison have to rely on us, a small group of volunteers with no funding or official status, for their basic information needs. This dependence points to a broader systemic information blackout in prisons..." canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
- Reposted by ARP BooksThe world is breaking- and being remade 💥 Join TNI's Fractures: 8 weeks of radical teach-ins on empire, climate, capitalism & resistance. A space for activists, organisers, and critical thinkers. ✨ More info & registration: www.tni.org/en/event/fra...
- Reposted by ARP Booksimportant work: Idil Abdillahi
- Spotlight on Idil Abdillahi for the significant contributions found in her book, Black Women Under State: Surveillance, Poverty & the Violence of Social Assistance, at the Canadian Assc. of Elizabeth Fry Societies www.instagram.com/p/DGot4a8uxI...
- Reposted by ARP BooksVery hard to read about Dakota pipeline oil spill this morning (!) after reading @nicke.bsky.social book Our History is the Future from @haymarketbooks.org. These protestors were always correct.
- Reposted by ARP Books"The man the landlords pay to cut our lawn insists on mulching Allison’s dahlias with the mower." We read "Establish a Perimeter" from Ben Robinson's AS IS (@arpbooks.bsky.social), which considers what it means to be connected to a place as a settler. #ALUtributaries alllitup.ca/tributaries-...
- “Thoroughly argued and anchored in textured critiques of capitalism, reproductive labour, and schooling as reproduction, Raveendrabose's writing is sure to challenge normative approaches to schooling and will spark a sense of possibility in the young activists he invites to take action." —Joe Curnow
- Reposted by ARP Books100 children have been killed or injured in Gaza every day since March 18.
- Reposted by ARP BooksWe love libraries of every shape and size! 📚🖤 If not for the work of many librarians, researchers, activists & archivists, so much important movement history would be lost. "The Library Is a Commons" artwork is by @erikruin.bsky.social up on @justseeds.bsky.social #NationalLibraryWeek
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- Reposted by ARP BooksMahmoud Khalil's new op-ed from detention— "Faced with a movement for divestment they couldn't crush, your trustees opted to set fire to the institution they're entrusted with…History will redeem us, while those who were content to wait on the sidelines will be forever remembered for their silence."
- Reposted by ARP BooksGrateful to @literaryhub.bsky.social for publishing this open letter that I wrote with my colleagues at Stockton University. Academics must refuse fascist collaboration at every turn. lithub.com/silence-is-c...
- Reposted by ARP BooksPublishers for Palestine, a global solidarity collective of nearly 600 publishers across 50 countries, has condemned the ongoing silence of the world’s largest children’s book fair on the slaughter of children in Gaza.
- Reposted by ARP BooksIf Poilievre wins office, he’s planning a blitzkrieg of cuts and deregulation, following the model of Ontario premier Mike Harris. In an excerpt from his new book, Martin Lukacs reveals the first details of the group plotting Poilievre’s 100 day agenda. breachmedia.ca/inside-the-g...
- Reposted by ARP BooksRead Susan Abulhawa’s scorching letter to the head of PEN America where she takes a blowtorch to the organization’s continued complicity with Israel's genocide in Gaza. mondoweiss.net/2025/04/susa... #Palestine #Israel
- Reposted by ARP BooksAvailable for pre-order! Loreisa Lepine and I co-authored “Calling Our Selves Home: Indigiqueer practices of homecoming” for this brilliant collection. As 2SQ coastal relations, we write about gendered notions of tradition, knowledge, and land, upholding our voice & authority in our own homelands.
- Reposted by ARP Books1/ Israel is assassinating journalists in Gaza — and Western media’s silence enables it. On March 24, Israel killed two more reporters: Hossam Shabat and Mohammad Mansour. This isn’t “crossfire.” This is a kill list. 🧵
- Out this May, and available for preorder: arpbooks.org/product/bebi...
- Bebías Into Qndaa Ke: Queer Indigenous Knowledge for Land and Community, eds. Kleo P. Skavinski & Sydney Rae Krill is a collection of queer Northern Indigenous writing, collapsing boundaries between queer Indigenous selfhood & land practices, as countering destructive colonial & capitalist forces
- From the editors' introduction: "As centuries of European settlement and colonization took place on these lands, many queer Indigenous teachings and practices that existed outside of the colonial gender binary were forced underground or abandoned by individuals and communities.”
- “This was a matter of survival for our queer Indigenous kin. This collection of writing emerges as a vital source of knowledge amidst these attempts at erasure, offering us a glimpse into the fluid, Indigenous worlds that settler colonialism could not stamp out."
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View full threadSarah Wright Cardinal, Theron Cardinal Lennie, Ryan Crosschild (Sikapiohkiitopi), Riley Kucheron, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Jamaica Osorio, Alex Wilson, Max Liberoin, Brian Kowikchuk, Kata Kuhnert, Destiny Mercredi, Kai Pyle, Ames Val
- This Israeli Apartheid Week (March 21-30) we are answering the BDS-endorsed call from Publishers for Palestine to #boycottFrankfurt #boycottFBM More on the Fair’s complicity at publishersforpalestine.org/2025/03/22/h...
- Reposted by ARP Books“We will not take lectures on antisemitism from segregationists and neo-nazis.” Joseph Howley speaks out against the kidnapping of Mahmoud Khalil.
- It’s been our honour to work with poet, editor, and curator Mahmoud Al-Shaer on a forthcoming book. Right now he is facing the unimaginable. Please help if you can: www.gofundme.com/f/aid-for-ma...
- Congratulations to Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill—artist, writer, and co-editor of The Land We Are: Artists and Writers Unsettle the Politics of Reconciliation—on being named recipient of the BC VIVA Award alongside T’uy’t’tanat Cease Wyss: thetyee.ca/Presents/202...
- Reposted by ARP BooksHuman remains in a Manitoba landfill have been identified as those of Marcedes Myran, one of the Indigenous women murdered by a serial killer. The remains of Morgan Harris were identified earlier this month. The previous PC government had refused to search the landfill for the bodies of the women.
- Reposted by ARP Books#FreeMahmoud! Let’s continue his work: #TheyRepressWeBDS. Broad-tent, intersectional coalitions against fascism, white supremacy, McCarthyism, colonial oppression, and unprecedented authoritarianism are needed now more than ever. @columbiauniversity.bsky.social loom.ly/_SJMhms
- Reposted by ARP Books#OtD 14 Mar 1883 Engels sent a wire to Friedrich Sorge saying simply "Marx died today!". Karl Marx died in London, aged 64. Marx's magnum opus, Capital, is still the most devastating critique of capitalist political economy. Works by and about him here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
- Reposted by ARP BooksWomen Resist the Unholy Union of Patriarchy and Capitalism in South Asia: The Fourth Asia Newsletter from @tri_continental by Elizabeth Alexander, a PhD Scholar at Ambedkar University Delhi: thetricontinental.org/asia/patriar...
- Reposted by ARP Books"By perpetuating the lying slogan that 'woman’s place is in the home,' monopoly capital seeks to conceal the real source of the problems of all workers."
- Reposted by ARP BooksThese Canadian performing arts organizations have joined the cultural boycott of Israel.
- Reposted by ARP Books'Morgan’s remains were found as part of a humanitarian search and recovery mission, initiated by the Manitoba government at the request of the families of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran'
- The most comprehensive text of its kind, Sex Work Activism in Canada explores the organizing and advocacy efforts of sex workers across the country spanning decades: arpbooks.org/product/sex-...
- Reposted by ARP BooksToday. Sarah Lamdan. American Library Association. Mar 3, 2025 2:00 PM Central Time... Data Brokers, Information Access, & Privacy. Please register on Zoom... us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
- Spotlight on Idil Abdillahi for the significant contributions found in her book, Black Women Under State: Surveillance, Poverty & the Violence of Social Assistance, at the Canadian Assc. of Elizabeth Fry Societies www.instagram.com/p/DGot4a8uxI...
- Reposted by ARP BooksThe Journal for Architectural Education’s Palestine issue — for which I was an issue co-editor — was cancelled by the board of Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture citing risks and “new actions by the U.S. presidential administration” 😐 www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...
- Reposted by ARP BooksIt was with a mixture of shock and grief that relatives of two slain First Nations women faced reporters Thursday. The families learned Wednesday “potential human remains” had been discovered by searchers at the Prairie Green Landfill outside Winnipeg.
- Reposted by ARP Bookseleven years since my debut, a short story collection about scraping by on the underbelly, sprinked with the weird and salted with the uncanny. still in print and available through ARP Books in Canada and AK Press in the States.
- Reposted by ARP BooksScholar Strike Canada urges York University to Defend not suspend Gender Sexuality and Women’s Studies Program and Indigenous Studies. Please read.
- Reposted by ARP Books“Tech companies selling books, music, and movies have long treated digital purchases more like rental agreements.”
- Reposted by ARP BooksHuman rights scholar Birju Dattani was forced to resign as Canada’s Chief Human Rights Commissioner following a pro-Israel smear campaign. His case reveals how false charges of antisemitism are used to silence support for Palestinian rights. buff.ly/438Fd4x #Palestine #Israel
- Reposted by ARP Books"In today’s Canada, offending Zionist influencers is apparently enough to land you behind bars." It's time to #FreeYvesEngler and restore free speech.
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