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“On fundamental issues the mass media in the United States—what we will refer to as the “Free Press”—function very much in the manner of a system of state-controlled propaganda…”
Dear Readers,
The lines above are from the first book I published with South End Press, whose editors stepped up when the original version of The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism was suppressed by Warner. Over the years the South End Press collective has demonstrated again and again that this Press is not a voice for state propaganda.
Look over the titles in the Classics series: bell hooks’ Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center and Sisters of the Yam; Manning Marable’s How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America; Jeremy Brecher’s Strike; Ward Churchill’s Agents of Repression; and Cherrie Moraga’s Loving in the War Years, to name just a few. In more recent years they’ve published important books by Arundhati Roy, Vandana Shiva, Edward Said, Andrea Smith, INCITE!, and Winona LaDuke, along with other writers and activists focusing on issues such as the rising resistance in Latin America, popular worker movements, and redefinitions of reproductive justice and sexual violence.
Few who witnessed its launching or were around when South End rescued my book would have predicted that South End would survive, much less play such an important role in pushing for radical social change. And now, I am asking you to help ensure they continue playing this role.
South End Press is collectively run, majority people of color, majority women—how they publish is as political as what they publish. They don’t rely on grants or foundations to do the work they do, and with books costing tens of thousands of dollars to produce and distribute, they exist on the financial edge. To keep the presses going they need your support now.
Can you give $50, $100, $250 toward the printing of a vital new book? Or $500 toward reprinting a book that has already changed your world? Or simply buy a South End Press book for a friend? Any size donation helps to move the struggle forward.
In solidarity,
Noam Chomsky
South End Press Collective
Click here to view South End Press Collective's full Author PageSouth End Press is a nonprofit, collectively run book publisher with more than 250 titles in print. Since our founding in 1977, we have met the needs of readers who are exploring, or are already committed to, the politics of radical social change. Our goal is to publish books that advance critical thinking and action on the key political, cultural, social, economic, and ecological issues shaping life in the United States and in the world. We hope to provide a forum for a wide variety of democratic social movements, and provide an alternative to the products of corporate publishing.
From its inception, the Press has organized itself as an egalitarian collective with decision-making arranged to share as equally as possible the rewards and stresses of running the business. Each collective member is responsible for core editorial and administrative tasks, and all collective members earn the same base salary. The Press also has made a practice of inverting the pervasive racial and gender hierarchies in traditional publishing houses; our staff has been majority women since the mid-1980s, and the collective has been at least 50 percent people of color since the mid-1990s. Our author list—which includes bell hooks, Arundhati Roy, Noam Chomsky, INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, Winona LaDuke, Manning Marable, Ward Churchill, Cherríe Moraga, Andrea Smith, and Howard Zinn—reflects the Press’s commitment to publish on diverse issues from diverse perspectives.
To expand access to information and critical analysis, South End Press has been instrumental to the start of two on-going political media projects—Speak Out and Z Magazine. We have worked closely with a number of important media and research institutions including Alternative Radio, Political Research Associates, and the Committee on Women, Population and the Environment.