Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company

08/03/2026

Chicago friends! Check out this event at Pilsen Community Books on September 1st, and buy some AK Press and Kerr books while you're there:

07/21/2026

Chicago friends! This Saturday's free ride is appropriate for all ages and abilities - see links to register and donate in the comments.

Please join the Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project for our 8th Annual Historic Bike Tour, a 7-mile slow-roll ride through Bronzeville, Bridgeport, and the lakefront that explores the history and lasting legacy of the 1919 Chicago Race Riot.

This year's tour marks a historic milestone, the completion of our seven-year campaign to install all 38 memorial markers honoring each life lost during the Chicago Race Riot of 1919. Together, these memorials transform Chicago into a living memorial that remembers the past while inspiring healing and justice for future generations.

Along the route, participants will hear the stories of the victims, learn how the events of 1919 shaped Chicago's neighborhoods, and visit sites that connect our city's history to the present.

An event flyer is attached and please sign up at Eventbrite (link in comments). The event is free to attend, with optional donations supporting the ongoing work of the Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project.

Starting Location: Eugene Williams Memorial Plaza (125 Fort Dearborn Drive). Directional signage will be provided

Ending Location: Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) Parking Lot D535th Street & State Street

Schedule

9:15–9:45 a.m. – Check-in (and check out the two new markers!)
10:00 a.m. – Opening program
10:30 a.m. – Ride begins

Many more details are at our Eventbrite, but here's a few other key ones:

Divvy Bikes

Need a bike? Divvy will fully stock the stations near 31st Street Beach for the event. A limited number of $50 Divvy credits are available for registered participants while supplies last. The credit covers the full cost of a classic bike rental for the tour. Participants wishing to receive a code should email us after registering. Divvy bikes require either the Divvy or Lyft app.

Accessibility

A trolley will accompany the tour and stop at each location. Seating is limited and will be prioritized for elders and participants needing mobility accommodations. To request a trolley seat, please email us (address in comments).

07/17/2026

Thank you, Martin Sostre Solidarity House

"Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals."

—Lucy Parsons

07/17/2026

Thank you to our distributor, AK Press, for the Disability Month reading suggestions!

We're halfway through Disability Pride Month. It's been a hundred degrees, the air's full of smoke, and we can't eat vegetables. This sucks for all of us, but like a lot of things, it hits disabled people hardest. Our disabled comrades are not disposable, and this month is a good time to think about how to incorporate disability analysis into our work (or if we already are, do so more/better).

Check out some of our book recommendations as a starting point:
https://www.akpress.org/featured-products/disability.html

07/17/2026

Hello friends! Took some time off posting here to work on more books, like this: Imagining Surrealist Revolution: Refusing Miserabilism/Emancipating Desire by Ron Sakolsky with anarcho-surrealist “double portraits” by Guy Girard. Printed and designed by Eberhardt Press, and published by our surrealist sibling, Black Swan Press. More to come . . .

A subversive collage of essays, poems, and stories that each in their own way imagines what it is about surrealism as a revolutionary force of transformation that makes it such a marvelous dancing partner for anarchy.

06/08/2026

Donate for a chance to win a Kerr book while supporting trans lives! The three trans-led collectives benefiting from the raffle provide mutual aid to trans and q***r folks as well as sex/massage workers and trafficking survivors of all genders, assisting folks in danger to cross borders and seek asylum - all through the lenses of solidarity, border abolition, prison abolition, migrant rights, and workers' rights. Click the link in comments to learn more.

05/04/2026

Great work by Kerr author Peter Cole - with thanks to the Illinois Labor History Society for the link!

On October 4, 1970, Chicago’s Haymarket Police Monument – quite possibly the first statue in the United States dedicated to police – was attacked for the third time in three years. Two years prior, on the anniversary of the Haymarket Affair, May 4, antiwar protesters poured black paint on it a...

05/01/2026

Gracias a Historia de la Clase Trabajadora https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1NUZ1wfbP3/