What’s the opposite of truth? We think immediately “the lie.” But in Greek, the opposite of truth is forgetting. This is a very subtle thing. What is the action you take to tell the truth?
It is un-forgetting.
-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Legacy Left Publishing
Legacy Left Publishing produces short books in which social movement veterans answer the question, “What lessons do you want to pass on to the next generation?”
We are an imprint of AK Press.
Conversations with Malik Rahim, edited by James Tracy with contributions from Malik Ismail, Mansa Munsa, Jessica Gingrich and the Whispered Media Collective.
Legacy Left Titles
Conversations with Walter Riley, interviewed and edited by Jesse Strauss, foreword by Boots Riley.
Conversations with Jan Adams and Rebecca Gordon, edited by Kate Raphael (Pre-Order, Out November 2026)
Legacy Left narrator portraits by
Julianna Sangalang
Submissions
Feel free to email us an informal pitch for new Legacy Left titles.
If we are intrigued, we will send you guidelines for a formal proposal.
We are interested in conversations with people who have shaped social movements through organizing, art, theory or all of the above.