South End Press was anon-profitbook publisher run on a model ofparticipatory economics.^{[citation needed]} It was founded in 1977 inBoston'sSouth End. It published books written bypolitical activists, notablyArundhati 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.

Status	Defunct (July 2014)
Founded	1977
Defunct	2014
Country of origin	United States
Headquarters location	Boston(1977–2009) Brooklyn(2009–2014)
Publication types	Books
Owner(s)	Worker-owned and -operated collective
Official website	southendpress.org

South End Press was founded in 1977 byMichael Albert,^[1]Lydia Sargent, John Schall, Pat Walker,Juliet Schor,^[2] Mary Lea, Joe Bowring, and Dave Millikin, among others. It was based inBoston'sSouth End and run as anegalitariancollective with decision-making equally shared.

The publisher experienced financial difficulties in thefinancial crisis of 2007–08, with sales dropping by 12.8% in 2008. In 2009, South End Press moved to a new office inBrooklyn,New York, partnering withMedgar Evers College of theCity University of New York.^[3] A fundraising campaign was run in 2012 to help ease its financial situation.^[4]

South End Press closed in July 2014. Howard Zinn and an anonymous author had reportedly not received royalties for several years.^[4]

Some of South End Press's catalog has been republished including work by Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Dana Frank and Vanessa Tait (byHaymarket Books), Jeremy Brecher (byPM Press),^[4] and Eli Clare, Andrea Smith,Frank B. Wilderson III and Dean Spade (byDuke University Press),^[5] andVandana Shiva (byNorth Atlantic Books).^[6]

In 2014, commenting on the demise of the publisher,Monthly Review said it was "an important and vital part of the overall left movement".^[7]

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,^[8] the Committee on Women, Population and the Environment,^[9] andINCITE! Women of Color Against Violence.^[10]

• Brecher, Jeremy.Strike!
• Chomsky, Noam.Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians. Foreword byEdward W. Said.
• Churchill, Ward; Wall, Jim Vander.Agents of Repression: The FBI’s Secret Wars Against the American Indian Movement and the Black Panther Party.
• Churchill, Ward; Wall, Jim Vander.The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents From the FBI’s Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States.
• Clare, Eli.Exile & Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation. Afterword byDean Spade.
• Frank, Dana.Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America.
• Georgakas, Dan; Surkin, Marvin.Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution. Foreword byManning Marable.
• Hooks, Bell.Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery.
• Hooks, Bell.Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center.
• Marable, Manning.How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society.
• Moraga, Cherríe.Loving in the War Years: Lo que nunca pasó por sus labios.
• Sklar, Holly.Trilateralism: TheTrilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management. (1980)ISBN 0-89608-103-6,ISBN 0-89608-104-4,OCLC 6958001. 604 pages.Excerpts available online.
• Sklar, Holly.Washington's War on Nicaragua. (1988)ISBN 978-0896082953,ISBN 978-0896082960. 472 pages.
• Sklar, Holly.Streets of Hope: The Fall and Rise of an Urban Neighborhood. Co-authored with Peter Medoff. (1994)ISBN 978-0896085114. 221 pages.
• Sklar, Holly.Chaos Or Community?: Seeking Solutions, Not Scapegoats for Bad Economics. (1995)ISBN 978-0896085114. 221 pages.
• Sklar, Holly.Raise the Floor: Wages and Policies that Work for All of Us. Co-authored with Laryssa Mykyta andSusan Wefald. (2001)ISBN 978-0896086838. 262 pages.
• Tait, Vanessa.Poor Workers' Unions: Rebuilding Labor from Below.

• INC Pamphlet (series) (jointly published with Institute for New Communications)^[11]
• PACCA Series on the Domestic Roots of U.S. Foreign Policy^[12]
• Race and Resistance^[13]
• Radical Sixties^[14]
• South End Pamphlet (series)^[15]
• South End Political Controversies Series^[16]
• South End Press Classics^[17]

• Official website - archive copy dated 10 March 2014