Arbeiter Ring Publishing (2025)

22/03/2025

This Israeli Apartheid Week (March 21-30) we are answering the call from Publishers for Palestine, endorsed by BDS, to .

The world’s largest publishing event hosted 4,300 exhibitors from 151 countries last year, and had 215,000 visitors. Frankfurt is deeply complicit in Israel’s genocide, illegal occupation, and apartheid regime. We’re happy to do our small part to help globalize the Frankfurt boycott.

More on the Fair’s complicity, as well as access to these tiles and a printable flyer are up at publishersforpalestine.org.

The four basic calls that were posed by hundreds of international publishers to Frankfurt last year, that the Fair failed to meet, are:

• condemn Israel’s regime of genocide in Gaza and affirm the human rights of the Palestinian people

• refuse collaboration with complicit Israeli book publishers, including by barring their participation in the Frankfurt Book Fair

• denounce the attacks on Palestinian writers, journalists, and academics—and acknowledge that such attacks are part of a genocidal project seeking to erase Palestinian life and culture

• create programming that prominently features Palestinian writers, publishers, and narratives

18/02/2025

We’re excited to announce Cam Scott’s sequel of politically-inflected personal collage and city poems, MANOR’s RANSOM—the second installment of a life-poem that began with the Lambda-nominated ROMANS SNOWMARE (2019).

Gathering scraps of language in both open prose and verse, MANOR’S RANSOM sketches social space with psychological enclosure, shifting through moments mundane or charged. Offhand turns and phonetic idiosyncrasies overlay the sadness of an interminable track, nudging the tone just left of doom.

Cam Scott is a poet, critic, and non-musician from Winnipeg, Canada, Treaty 1 territory. His books include WRESTLERS (Greying Ghost, 2017), ROMANS/SNOWMARE (ARP, 2019) and THE VANISHING SIGNS (ARP, 2022). He is artistic director of send + receive, a festival of sound art and experimental music, and sings in the punk band Age of Self.

MANOR’S RANSOM will be available this June, and can be preordered now at arpbooks.org
Cover artwork and design by Bret Parenteau

13/02/2025

Both a youth call to action and an analysis of state motives behind existing educational frameworks, and taking as one of many points of inspiration the Wages for Housework movement, Shiv Raveedrabose’s persuasive Wages for School Work argues that capitalist educational structures treat youth as workers and schools as crucial training grounds for a future workforce, advancing a premise that one important part of the ability of youth to take their place as active agents in the creation of a new society would be the implementation of a student wage.

Confronting gruelling educational structures that have historically disguised, and continue to mask exploitative state practices, Wages for School Work not only addresses the harms of school workloads, vocational internships, racist and gender normative settings, disempowerment, and the concept that anything that happens within capitalist state-structured schooling is nurturing, it also looks at the formation of students into workers that generate value for the capitalist state, and at the organizing of schoolchildren past and present, analyzing the movements of grade school and high school students who have organized themselves, and acknowledging their agency in their own struggles as an enclave of the working class.

This concise yet wide-ranging exploration of youth as revolutionary agents traverses schooling conditions in Canada, including residential schools, and the movement work of students struggling against climate disaster, militarization, and for antiracist and gender inclusive education, as inspired by the work of earlier movements and of unions in the United States, England, and Chile—ultimately forming a powerful argument of waged compensation for the work of youth struggling under capitalism.

As suitable for a young reader interested in the harms of capitalism and what they can do about it, as it is to the general reader and activist, Wages for Schoolwork is sure to ignite debate!

Part of our Semaphore series of short polemical books on pressing contemporary issues.

Available this April.
Author bio in comments. Cover artwork design by Bret Parenteau.

11/02/2025

We’re fortunate that some exceptional Black authors have chosen to work with ARP, and we’re honoured to have had the opportunity to publish books in recent years such as outstanding poet, novelist and musician Kaie Kellough’s experimental novel Accordéon; foremost scholar, theorist, and cultural critic Rinaldo Walcott & brilliant scholar and activist Idil Abdillahi’s Black Life: Post-BLM and the Struggle for Freedom, and Idil Abdillahi’s Black Women Under State: Surveillance, Poverty, and the Violence of Social Assistance.

Please find ARP’s titles at arpbooks.org, and the Black-focussed/owned bookstore map that is being built at https://shorturl.at/whg17.

07/02/2025

X and instagram have different audiences, so you’ll still find us here for now, but we announced that we’d no longer be using X some days before its owner’s sieg heil last month. You can now find us on Bluesky 🪣

Watch for announcements of more 2025 titles soon. We are very excited for the first two books of the year:

📗 Shiv Raveendrabose’s Wages for Schoolwork, a radical proposal to acknowledge the role that students play in capitalist society,

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📕 Bebías Into Ǫhndaa Ke, a collection of q***r Northern Indigenous writing edited by Kleo P. Skavinski Sydney Rae Krill.

20/01/2025

“The Winnipeg Police Service is 100 years old - a century they’ve used to repress dissent, censor media, bungle investigations and devour city budgets. Author James Wilt joins Team Advantage to discuss his new book, which explores this history of policing, resistance, and what a vision for a Winnipeg beyond police might look like.”

Listen at https://m.soundcloud.com/albertaadvantage/james-wilt-on-the-winnipeg

19/12/2024

Thanks to our friends we are reunited with our tabling banner. We’d be happy to table at your event with a selection of our books—feel free to invite us! [email protected] 📙📖📚

03/12/2024

Come join us for the last First Friday of 2024 on December 6th! In full solidarity with the CUPW strike, we are not fulfilling online orders until the strike is resolved, so this coming Friday is the best chance to browse and buy directly from us before the new year. Plus, all books are 20% off! 📚

We’ve been having a blast this year inviting you into our space and are thrilled with the continued support of our press. We hope to see you amidst the many cool things happening this Friday!

02/12/2024

Join Workshops4Gaza for their second online poetry reading, featuring Natalie Diaz, Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, followed by a short moderated discussion.

Details and registration

22/11/2024

Solidarity with 55,000 postal workers. ARP won’t be shipping books during the CUPW strike. You can find our books at your local indie bookstore. Orders can still be placed directly from our site (and we encourage them), but please note that they will be filled after the strike ends.

Thank you for your patience and solidarity! 🤝📚📭

28/10/2024

All writers and cultural workers in book publishing, libraries, archives, periodicals, etc can sign on.

tinyurl.com/refusingcomplicityletter

24/10/2024

Also this winter, we’re incredibly honoured to be publishing a second book developed through the work of : Bebías Into Ǫhndaa Ke: Q***r Indigenous Knowledge for Land and Community, edited by Kleo P. Skavinski and Sydney Rae Krill.

Bebías Into Ǫhndaa Ke: Q***r Indigenous Knowledge for Land and Community
Kleo P. Skavinski, Sydney Rae Krill, eds.

A powerful collection of essays, stories and conversations that provide us with a diverse roadmap for navigating and overcoming hate, supporting q***r Indigenous kin, and revitalizing radical ethics of care for building healthy, inclusive, and self-determining lands and communities. A celebration of trans, q***r, and Two-Spirit Indigenous brilliance, with an intentional inclusion of voices from the North (the Yukon, Northwest Territories, Inuvialuit and Nunatsiavut), the essays in this collection offer a wealth of q***r Indigenous theory, experience, and practices, with a unique emphasis on the critical role of land in these conversations.

The contributors, who range from young activists, artists, families, and both emerging and established scholars, provide insightful and transformative q***r perspectives on a number of pertinent topics, including: knowledge reclamation, resurgence, nation-building, community life and governance, cultural revitalization, belonging, family relationships, creative practice, environmental degradation, mental health and wellbeing, youth empowerment, and Indigenous pedagogy. Amidst the ongoing violence of settler colonization, and its legacies of exclusion and erasure that continue to target q***r, gender-diverse and Two-Spirit Indigenous people, this collection is an invaluable gift and resource for our communities, showing us that a different world is possible, and reminding us that q***r Indigenous people have always belonged on the land and in community.

22/10/2024

We are thrilled to announce the publication of the next instalment of ARP’s Semaphore Series: Wages for Schoolwork by Shiv Raveendrabose.

Wages for School Work
Shiv Raveendrabose

This book presents a radical proposal: paying students to attend school. Part polemic, part movement history, and part political strategy, Wages for Schoolwork is a rousing manifesto and call to action for disillusioned high school students fed up with cruel teachers, excessive workloads, and onerous adult expectations. Drawing on the rich history of student resistance and school strikes, it charts a new course for education—one that recognizes the immense energy students devote to studying for what it actually is: labour, arguing that like all forms of labour, schoolwork should be compensated. Informed by the victories of organized labour, feminist, and anti-racist movements, Wages for Schoolwork brings class struggle to the classroom by placing students at the center of the fight for a more just world.

The latest in ARP Books’ Semaphore Series of short polemical texts, Wages for Schoolwork addresses disillusioned high school students, critiquing the devaluation of their labour in schools, despite their crucial role in reproducing capitalist accumulation. Raveendrabose encourages high school students to recognize that they have the power to fight not only for wages, but for structural changes to the school system.

Shiv Raveendrabose is a schoolteacher, writer, and radical theorist born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He earned his Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Education degrees from the University of Winnipeg, followed by a Master of Education from the University of Manitoba. Shiv currently resides in Chilliwack, British Columbia and teaches at an alternative high school tailored for students who do not fit the traditional school system; there he encourages his students to think beyond established conventions of ‘teaching’ and ‘learning.’

21/09/2024

An excerpt from James Wilt’s new book Dogged and Destructive: Essays on the Winnipeg Police is up at the Walrus today. Check it out and come to the Winnipeg launch this Tuesday 6pm at the Millennium Library Carol Shields Auditorium!

https://shorturl.at/CU1bd

17/09/2024

“As Is serves as a historical reckoning. Taking an unvarnished look at how settler activity formed the city currently known as Hamilton, Ontario, Ben Robinson blurs neglected public records with personal lyrics, by turns interrogating the region’s placedness and its colonial legacy. This is an unflinching, necessary debut.”
—Jim Johnstone, author of The King of Terrors

Two events coming up later this month in Toronto and Hamilton to celebrate the emergence of Ben Robinson’s poetry collection As Is:

September 23rd at Flying Books (Toronto, College St.) with Fawn Parker
6:30PM

September 27th at The Printed Word (Hamilton) with Steacy Easton & Fawn Parker
7:00PM

13/09/2024

Come find us this weekend at the Prairie Art Book Fair!
Today from 5-8
Sat/Sun from 11-5
At Plugin ICA

10/09/2024

Join us on September 24th for the official book launch of Dogged and Destructive: Essays on the Winnipeg Police!

A new instalment into the ARP Semaphore Series, Dogged and Destructive provides a critical and comprehensive analysis of the WPS, its enormous police budgets, and its role in Winnipeg’s dynamic of settler-colonialism.

The launch will be hosted at the Carol Shields Auditorium at the Millennium Library, situated in downtown Winnipeg. The event will feature a discussion by author James Wilt and Dr. Bronwyn Dobchuk-Land.

This is an indoor event! Please wear a mask to keep yourself and others safe. See second slide for important information about the venue.

Image IDs to follow in the comments.

28/08/2024

25% off all books for Labour Day Weekend ⚙️
August 31st - September 2nd
Only at arpbooks.org 📚

We’ve been running our webshop now for almost exactly one year now, and we are very thankful for the continued direct support of ARP Books.

Please enjoy the long weekend courtesy of the labour movement with a 25% discount on all orders, and $10 flat rate shipping across Canada 📦!

Check out the slides for a small sample of our titles, and the wide variety of books we love to publish.

In perpetual solidarity, ARP Books 🤝

Arbeiter Ring Publishing