Rebel Press

15/07/2024

Love all you beautiful people at Wellington Zinefest what a great event! Thank you xx

30/06/2024

The message to Russia is: ‘F**k off. We will buy more books now.

A Russian missile killed seven people and wiped out the country’s main book printer in May. But moves are already afoot to rebuild Factor Druk

17/06/2024

What a wonderful short story competition: let's all dream of an end to the nightmare of genocide in Gaza, and a world without war. Justice for Palestine Left of the Equator Press 5ever books Lawrence & Gibson Publishing

04/03/2024

WE love Wardini Books!! So thrilled to hear that people are standing up against racism and transphobia. We really DO NOT have to tolerate intolerance. We DO NOT have to make space for racists and transphobes - because they make others fear for their lives. Thank you Gareth and Louise Ward for your simple humanity.

'All we did was make a business decision, and we wish it hadn’t gone the way it has.'

28/12/2023

From Samidoun Network (https://samidoun.net/2023/12/free-khalida-jarrar-palestinian-feminist-leftist-and-scholar-seized-by-occupation-forces/):

"Free Khalida Jarrar! The feminist, leftist, and Palestinian scholar was seized from her home in El-Bireh, occupied Palestine, in the morning hours of 26 December 2023 as part of mass arrests by Zionist forces in the West Bank of occupied Palestine during the genocide in Gaza.

Jarrar has long been a leftist leader and is currently a scholar and researcher at the Muwatin Institute at Birzeit University. In fact, she was scheduled to appear on 27 December at a panel convened by Jadaliyya on imprisonment in the time of genocide; she was seized from her home only one day before.

Jarrar has been imprisoned on multiple occasions by the occupation regime, including in 2015, when her administrative detention without charge or trial drew global protests before she was then transferred to the occupation military courts. She is a lifelong advocate for the liberation of political prisoners and was targeted specifically for her statements and advocacy for the liberation of Palestinian prisoners.

In 2019, she was once again seized by the occupation regime. While she was imprisoned, her daughter Suha tragically passed away. She was denied the right to see Suha's body and attend her funeral before she was released again in 2021. During both of her times of imprisonment, she established independent educational programs to teach the imprisoned minor girls the high school education they were denied as well as the adult women prisoners their rights under international law.

She discusses her imprisonment in the book by Ramzy Baroud and Ilan Pappe, "Our vision for liberation;" her piece is published at the The Palestine Chronicle: https://www.palestinechronicle.com/fashioning-hope-out-of-despair-who-is-khalida-jarrar-iconic-palestinian-leader-detained-by-israel/

In the months since 7 October, while the Zionist regime has been waging a full-fledged genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza, they have seized thousands of prisoners and subjected them to horrific conditions. Palestinians from Gaza in particular have been brutally and routinely tortured and abused by occupation forces. This is both a continuation of the attack on the Palestinian people as well as a mechanism to inflate the number of prisoners in order to manipulate the results of a prisoner exchange with the Palestinian resistance.

Freedom for Khalida Jarrar and all Palestinians in zionist, imperialist and reactionary jails!"

Image description: Picture of Khalida Jarrar in handcuffs with the following white and red text on top of a red background:

"Freedom For Khalida Jarrar

Palestinian leftist, feminist and scholar seized by the Zionist occupation regime on 26 December 2023 as part of mass arrests in the West Bank of occupied Palestine during the genocide in Gaza

Samidoun
Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network"

28/12/2023

The Kate Sharpley Library exists to preserve and promote anarchist history.

28/12/2023

Forget about yesterday, NOW is the most wonderful time of the year! It’s time for our big end-of-the-year sale. Now through January 7th, all books published by AK Press are 50% OFF!

Browse the sale here:
https://www.akpress.org/published-by-ak.html

22/09/2023

22/08/2023

Our last workshop for August! 💃💃 Get into the beautiful and gratifying world of bookbinding with this beginner's workshop. The AZF team will introduce you to the craft, teach you different creative binding techniques and support you to create your own booklet to take home!

All materials will be provided for free, all you’ve got to do is register to reserve your spot and turn up on the day 🥰

➡️ Sign up now: https://forms.gle/7YRtJKkdVD6tdSMr6

22/08/2023

We are looking for volunteers to help run the community table next Sunday. Please send us a message if you have an hour or two free to help.

22/08/2023

12/08/2023

26/06/2023

We had a great time at the first ever Rebel Press Ball on Friday night. Here's a few of the photos of some of our amazing supporters/writers/poets and people. Here's to Lawrence & Gibson Publishing Freedom Shop Left of the Equator Press 5ever books and all our wonderful friends who make this space possible. Onwards comrades!

16/04/2023

Fantastic to see this amazing new stock at the Freedom Shop

17/03/2023

Looking forward to the great Tāmaki Anarchist Bookfair starting tonight!!

We'll be at the Tāmaki Anarchist Bookfair this Saturday.
We're bringing down 24kg of the newsprint Renters United edition of Murdoch Stephens' Rat King Landlord novel available for koha.

We'll also be selling our books:
* Splendid Bush: Q***r poetry by Clare Havell-Shufflebotham.
* Peace Action: Struggles for a Decolonised and Demilitarised Oceania and East Asia
* The Day the Raids Came: Stories of Survival and Resistance to the State Terror Raids. An oral history of the Muru/ Operation 8 raids
* Kia Mau: Resisting Colonial Fictions by Tina Ngata

See you this Saturday at the Mount Albert War Memorial Hall, Auckland.

09/03/2023

Settler colonialism is responsible for the dispossession of almost all land in Aoteraoa and the wider Pacific, genocidial acts of violence against indigenous people that have lasted generations and ongoing systemic racism that leads Māori and other indigenous people to early death, and yet somehow a fu***ng POEM is 'racist' and 'hate-filled' for talking about the Savage Coloniser. Get fu**ed ACT - you As****es Coming Together should read something for a change of pace.

"ACT do not understand this poem."

06/03/2023

An interview with 5ever Books, bad apple, eel mag, Kupu Toi Takataapui | Takataapui Literary Journal, Mineral Press, Motif Poetry, Overcom, Rat World, Saufo’i Press, Sweet Mammalian, Symposia Literary Magazine, Tarot Poetry Journal, Tender Press , Toitoi and WORD – The Front Line

13/02/2023

Spreading the 5ever books love wahoo

12/01/2023

Wahoo! How excellent.

Woohoo! 5ever just opened its own e-shoppe in the cyberspace!

Surf on in at https://5everbooks.bigcartel.com/

Bucks, Quids, Túgrik, Brouzouf, Mulah, Dough, Cash, Ducats, Dubloons, Nuka-Cola Caps, Multipasses, this shop takes it all and spits out a book at your preferred address! And this could be anywhere! You've heard it bb, we're going interrrnacional!

09/01/2023

Looks great 5ever books! We are looking forward to it.

Wellington Regional poetry slam final, October 2021

18/12/2022

Wow! Looks like it was an awesome night xx

04/12/2022

Very exciting to see another awesome title rolling off Bindy and into the world! Great work Left of the Equator Press

29/11/2022

super cool 5ever books! xx

26/11/2022

Plan B 2023 is available now. Full of interesting historic dates from Aotearoa, Plan B is an organiser with lots of information about events that are relevant to the history of Aotearoa. As you plot and plan your way through 2023, dates are highlighted showing some of the often ignored and forgotten...

26/11/2022

One hundred years ago today, Ricardo Flores Magon died in Leavenworth Prison in Kansas. An anarchist revolutionary, born to an indigenous father and a mestiza mother, he struggled against capital and the state for much of his life. He founded the newspaper Regeneración, an "independent organ of combat," and fought to keep the Mexican Revolution from simply exchanging one set of rulers for another. He was hunted and imprisoned by two governments and remains an inspiration to us today. AK Press published a collection of his brilliant work titled DREAMS OF FREEDOM. https://www.akpress.org/dreamsoffreedommagonreader.html

15/11/2022

The kind people at 5ever books have provided us with a copy of Crude Common Denominator Pleb Trash Baseline Urge Ass Poetry: Confessions from the Sick Bay to give away to one of your folks! If you’re interested in adding this book to your collection, head over to our Instagram page (.gay)...

24/09/2022

Awesome work 5ever books! Such a beautiful, heartbreaking kōrero from Massoud.

What a night! Absolutely full house last night at the City Gallery Wellington!

Thank you to everyone who came out last night to hear Massoud Hossaini, Nicky Hager and Behrouz Boochani discuss Afghanistan. Hope you managed to stick around after the event to enjoy some kai, and maybe even taste Mantu, a traditional Afghanistani beef dumpling with yoghurt and daal.

If you weren’t able to make it, we have both an audio and video recording. Hoping to get it online soon - stay tuned x

14/09/2022

In memory of the 15th anniversary of the state terror raids on Tūhoe, we are offering a special reprint of the Day the Raids Came: Stories of survival and resistance to the State Terror Raids, a collection of first hand accounts of the October 15th, 2007 raids.

You can get a copy of this for $20, or get a bonus three pack including Tina Ngata's Kia Mau: Resisting Colonial Fictions and the brand new book, Peace Action: struggles for a decolonised & demilitarised Oceania & East Asia that includes essays from outstanding voices across Aotearoa & the region including Pania Newton on Ihumātao, Dr Emalani Case on Hawai'i, and Tuhi-Ao Bailey on Parihaka. Please DM us for ordering details. The 3 pack is $50 including regular postage within NZ.

11/07/2022

Hey lovely people, we are postponing the Auckland book launch due to the current Covid surge, so if you would like a copy of the book, they are $25 (postage included) - message us with your name & address, and deposit funds to 38 9000 0068209 07. We are still hopeful the Wellington launch will be on - 12 August, but you can get a copy at Unity Books Wellington, too!