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Arbeiter Ring Publishing Ltd. was founded in 1996 through the work of a group of activists in Winnipeg. Now operating as ARP Books, we publish innovative books with an emphasis on leftist political analysis of contemporary issues.
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World’s End,
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Island Falls
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Bebakhshid
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Indigenous Resistance and Development in Winnipeg: 1960-2000
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A Separate Star
Exovede in the Darkroom
Critical Fictions
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lisan al’asfour
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The Vanishing Signs
Ndè Sı̀ı̀ Wet’aɂà
Malleable Forms
Black Women Under State
Surveillance, Poverty, & the Violence of Social Assistance
I Have Lived Four Lives
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Permanent Carnival Time
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An Essay on Social Movements and DemocracySelect options
World’s End,
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Island Falls
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Bebakhshid
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Indigenous Resistance and Development in Winnipeg: 1960-2000
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A Separate Star
Politics and Strategy for Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Colonial, and Anti-Imperialist StruggleSelect options
Exovede in the Darkroom
The Films of Rhayne VermetteSelect options
Critical Fictions
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lisan al’asfour
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The Vanishing Signs
EssaysSelect options
Ndè Sı̀ı̀ Wet’aɂà
Northern Indigenous Voices on Land, Life, & ArtSelect options
Malleable Forms
Selected EssaysSelect options
Black Women Under State
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Dumb-Show
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I Have Lived Four Lives
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You Don’t Know Me, But You Love Me
The Lives of Dick MillerSelect options
World in Crisis
The End of the American CenturySelect options
Unsettling the Commons
Social Movements Against, Within, and Beyond Settler ColonialismSelect options
Totem Poles and Railroads
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Time and the Suburbs
The Politics of Built Environments and the Future of DissentSelect options
Thought Dreams
Radical Theory for the 21st CenturySelect options
This is an Honour Song
Twenty Years Since the BlockadesSelect options
Thinking Forward
Learning to Conceptualize Economic VisionSelect options
They Came From Within
A History of Canadian Horror Cinema, Revised and Updated EditionSelect options
The Winter We Danced
Voices from the Past, the Future, and the Idle No More MovementSelect options
The Red Indians
An Episodic, Informal Collection of Tales from the History of Aboriginal People's Struggles in CanadaSelect options
The Party without Bosses
Lessons on Anti-Capitalism from Félix Guattari and Luís Inácio 'Lula' da SilvaSelect options
The Listener
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The Land We Are
Artists and Writers Unsettle the Politics of ReconciliationSelect options
The Gruesome Acts of Capitalism
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The Archaeologists
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Talking to the Diaspora
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Taking Responsibility, Taking Direction
White Anti-Racism in CanadaSelect options
Surviving Canada
Indigenous Peoples Celebrate 150 Years of BetrayalSelect options
Storying Violence
Unravelling Colonial Narratives in the Stanley TrialSelect options
Stolen City
Racial Capitalism and the Making of WinnipegSelect options
Somewhere Else
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Somewhere a Long and Happy Life Probably Awaits You
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Social Murder
And Other Shortcomings of Conservative EconomicsSelect options
Smells Like Heaven
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Small Predators
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Sin Eater
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Shopping Cart Pantheism
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Sex Work Activism in Canada
Speaking Out, Standing UpSelect options
Set-Point
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ROMANS/SNOWMARE
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Revolutionary Traveller
Freeze-Frames From a LifeSelect options
Radical Trust
Basic Income for Complicated LivesSelect options
Radical Medicine
The International Origins of Socialized Health Care in CanadaSelect options
Quivering Land
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Preempting Dissent
The Politics of an Inevitable FutureSelect options
Practicing Feminist Mothering
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Permanent Carnival Time
In this bracing collection, Colin Smith's droll humour and meticulous control of language are metered out to explore the stakes of pain and the pain of folly.Select options
My Claustrophobic Happiness
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Mnidoo Bemaasing Bemaadiziwin
Reclaiming, Reconnecting, and Demystifying Resiliency as Life Force Energy for Residential School SurvivorsSelect options
Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg
This is our TerritorySelect options
Maple Leaf Rag
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Manuel populaire de citoyenneté
une réponse au conservatisme canadienSelect options
Lyrics and Poems, 1997-2012
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Love the Questions
University Education and EnlightenmentSelect options
Lighting the Eighth Fire
The Liberation, Resurgence, and Protection of Indigenous NationsSelect options
Let Them Eat Junk
How Capitalism Creates Hunger and ObesitySelect options
Last Supper
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Kino Delirium
The Films of Guy MaddinSelect options
Islands of Decolonial Love
Stories and SongsSelect options
Infrastructure Critical
Sacrifice at Toronto's G8/G20 SummitSelect options
Indianland
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In and Out of the Working Class
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Imperialist Canada
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How to Tax a Billionaire
Project Loophole and the Campaign for Tax FairnessSelect options
Grammar Matters
The Social Significance of How We Use LanguageSelect options
Globalization, Neo-conservative Policies and Democratic Alternatives
Essays in Honour of John LoxleySelect options
Global Governance in Question
Empire, Class and the New Common Sense in Managing North-South RelationsSelect options
Gertrude Unmanageable
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Fury
Fictions and FilmsSelect options
Framing Identity
Social Practices of Photography in Canada (1880-1920)Select options
Dishonour of the Crown
The Ontario Resource Regime in the Valley of the Kiji SibiSelect options
Dancing On Our Turtle’s Back
Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence, and a New EmergenceSelect options
Crossing Borders
Essays in Honour of Ian H. AngusSelect options
Contest
Essays on Sports, Culture, and PoliticsSelect options
Consulted to Death
How Canada's Workplace Health and Safety System Fails WorkersSelect options
Burning Daylight
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BlackLife
Post-BLM and the Struggle for FreedomSelect options
Begin With the End in Mind
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Bedtime Stories for the Edge of the World
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Becoming Our Future
Global Indigenous Curatorial PracticeSelect options
Aqueduct
Colonialism, Resources, and the Histories We RememberSelect options
Any Given Power
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Another World Is Possible
Globalization and Anti-CapitalismSelect options
All We Want is Everything
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Against the New Authoritarianism
Politics After Abu GhraibSelect options
Accordéon
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Access to Information and Social Justice
Critical Research Strategies for Journalists, Scholars, and ActivistsSelect options
Aboriginal, Northern, and Community Economic Development
Papers and RetrospectivesSelect options
Aboriginal Rights Are Not Human Rights
In Defence of Indigenous StrugglesSelect options
A World to Win
Contemporary Social Movements and Counter-HegemonySelect options
A People’s Citizenship Guide
A Response to Conservative CanadaSelect options
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NewsNovember 10, 2023Publishers for Palestine: Statement of Solidarity
Come and stand for justice, freedom of expression, and the power of the written word Please note this is a collective statement in solidarity with Palestine from publishers, editors, and writers around the world who stand for justice, first posted on Verso...
August 22, 2023Book Launch!
Join us on Wednesday, August 30 at The Good Will Social Club, 625 Portage Avenue at 6:30 PM to celebrate the launch of A Separate Star: Politics and Strategy for Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Colonial, and Anti-Imperialist Struggle by the Red Braid Alliance...
April 19, 2023Community supper launches Mnidoo Bemaasing Bemaadiziwin
Residential school survivors invited to Sault book launch By James Hopkins sootoday.com, April 17, 2023 An Anishinaabe author who authored a book detailing the experiences of more than a dozen residential school survivors in Ontario will finally host an official...
July 14, 2022Gidigaa Migizi (Doug Williams) passing mourned
We feel very grateful to have been able to work with Gidigaa Migizi (Doug Williams), revered Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg Elder and knowledge keeper, whose oral history that stretched back through centuries of generational knowledge, Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg: This is Our Territory,...
July 12, 2021Mnidoo Bemaasing Review
SOOTODAY.com: Anishinaabe author details 'life force energy' of residential school survivors in latest book.
June 24, 2021Wilfred Buck Reading Hosted by Janet Rogers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh-lQpuMeQ0
April 7, 2021Book Launch and Panel for Crossing Borders: Essays in Honour of Ian H. Angus
IAN ANGUS, SAMIR GANDESHA, PEYMAN VAHABZADEH, ET AL. FRIDAY, APRIL 23,...
November 25, 2020Colonial Narratives in the Trial of Gerald Stanley
Join us for "Colonial Narratives in the Trial of Gerald...
November 16, 2020My Claustrophobic Happiness - Book Launch & Reading
Friday November 20th at 7 pm (CT) My Claustrophobic Happiness...
August 27, 2020Statement on Facebook Banning Anarchist, Antiracist, Antifascist Profiles from Facebook
A calculated effort to suppress social movements and the journalists and publishers that cover them. AUGUST 25th, 2020 Facebook’s de-platforming of anarchist, antiracist, antifascist, and independent media on August 19th is a malicious threat to free speech and public dissent....
July 30, 2020Our dear friend and mentor, John Loxley, died on July 28, 2020.
His place in Winnipeg’s left cannot be overstated, and we...
July 14, 2020Radical Medicine by Esyllt W. Jones finalist and prize winner!
Very happy to announce Radical Medicine: The International Origins of Socialized...
July 14, 2020An Important Announcement Regarding Amazon
ARP Books to discontinue books through Amazon.com Inc. By ARP...
March 10, 2020ROMANS/SNOWMARE by Cam Scott a Lambda Literary Award Finalist!
Very pleased to announce ROMANS/SNOWMARE by Cam Scott is a...
July 19, 2019Exploring the new book Black Life: Post-BLM and the Struggle for Freedom - Desmond Cole
Exploring the new book Black Life: Post-BLM and the Struggle for...
December 5, 2018Cagey Films reviews You Don't Know Me, But You Love Me
Kenneth George Godwin, Film Editor from Cagey Films reviews Caelum...
November 26, 2018Pat Lowther Memorial Award Winner
Wonderful news! Our warmest congratulations to Lesley Belleau on the...
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