Status Defunct (July 2014) Founder Michael Albert Country of origin United States of America | Publication types Books Founded 1977 | |
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Owner(s) Worker-owned and -operated collective Official website www.southendpress.org (dead link) Headquarters location Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States Headquarters Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States | ||
South End Press was a non-profit book publisher run on a model of participatory economics. It was founded in 1977 by Michael Albert, Lydia Sargent, Juliet Schor, among others, in Boston's South End. It published books written by political activists, notably Arundhati Roy, Noam Chomsky, bell hooks, Winona LaDuke, Manning Marable, Ward Churchill, Cherríe Moraga, Andrea Smith, Howard Zinn, Jeremy Brecher and Scott Tucker. South End Press closed in 2014.
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History
South End Press was founded in 1977 by Michael Albert, Lydia Sargent, John Schall, Pat Walker, Juliet Schor, Mary Lea, Joe Bowring, and Dave Millikan, among others. It was based in Boston's South End and run as a egalitarian collective with decision-making equally shared.
The publisher got into financial difficulties in the financial crisis of 2007–08, with sales dropping by 12.8% in 2008. In 2009, South End Press moved to a new office in Brooklyn, New York, partnering with Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York. A fundraising campaign was run in 2012 to help ease its financial situation.
South End Press closed in July 2014. Howard Zinn and an anonymous author had reportedly not received royalties for several years.
Some of South End Press's catalogue has been republished including work by Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Dana Frank and Vanessa Tait (on Haymarket Books), Jeremy Brecher (on PM Press), and Eli Clare, Andrea Smith, Frank Wilderson and Dean Spade (on Duke University Press), and Vandana Shiva (on North Atlantic Books).
Related projects
The founders of South End Press have also been involved with two ongoing political media projects, 'Speak Out' and 'Z Magazine'. They have worked with a number of media and research institutions including Alternative Radio, Political Research Associates, the Committee on Women, Population and the Environment, and INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence.