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ARP Books
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Activist press publishing literary and academic books for 29 years. Non-fiction, poetry, and fiction with an emphasis on critical leftist political analysis of contemporary issues. Based in Winnipeg on Treaty 1. arpbooks.org
On the heels of the federal government's jaw-dropping new war budget, we are eager to announce the March 2026 publication of Owen Schalk's latest book,

Canada and NATO: The Myth of a Global Peacekeeper
November 13, 2025 at 1:57 PM
This fall we are deeply honoured to be publishing A Year On the Abyss of Genocide written by poet & curator Mahmoud Al-Shaer, documenting a year of his psychological states while displaced in Gaza 2024-5. Foreword by Nasrin Himada, afterword Fadi Ennab, & editor's note by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
April 30, 2025 at 9:36 AM
“Thoroughly argued and anchored in textured critiques of capitalism, reproductive labour, and schooling as reproduction, Raveendrabose's writing is sure to challenge normative approaches to schooling and will spark a sense of possibility in the young activists he invites to take action."
—Joe Curnow
April 9, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Bebías Into Qndaa Ke:
Queer Indigenous Knowledge for Land and Community, eds. Kleo P. Skavinski & Sydney Rae Krill is a collection of queer Northern Indigenous writing, collapsing boundaries between queer Indigenous selfhood & land practices, as countering destructive colonial & capitalist forces
March 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Congratulations to Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill—artist, writer, and co-editor of The Land We Are: Artists and Writers Unsettle the Politics of Reconciliation—on being named recipient of the BC VIVA Award alongside T’uy’t’tanat Cease Wyss: thetyee.ca/Presents/202...
March 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The most comprehensive text of its kind, Sex Work Activism in Canada explores the organizing and advocacy efforts of sex workers across the country spanning decades:
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March 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Spotlight on Idil Abdillahi for the significant contributions found in her book, Black Women Under State:
Surveillance, Poverty & the Violence of Social Assistance, at the Canadian Assc. of Elizabeth Fry Societies
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March 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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).
February 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Hello from Louis Riel House
February 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Shiv Raveedrabose's persuasive Wages for School Work argues that capitalist education treats youth as workers-in-training, and argues for the implementation of a student wage as a necessary step in the ability of young people to take their place as active agents in the creation of a new society.
February 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
We're fortunate that theoretically & artistically vanguard Black writers have chosen to work with ARP, including in recent years foremost scholar, theorist, & cultural critic Rinaldo Walcott, brilliant scholar activist Idil Abdillahi, & outstanding poet & musician Kaie Kellough
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February 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM