José Antonio Emmanuel was one of the many aliases of José Ruíz Rodríguez, an educator, philanthropist, and anarchist from Málaga, Spain. Until 1923, when Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship began, Ruíz Rodríguez went by Max Bembo. Under this pen name, he authored La mala vida en Barcelona: Anormalidad, miseria y vicio. In the early 1930s, after the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic, he reappeared as José Antonio Emmanuel. As Emmanuel, he collaborated with the International Committee of Schools in promoting nontraditional schools. He also founded the IAL Press, whose International Library Collection published affordable, brief works that explained concepts such as the proletariat’s organization, union action, and anarchy. During the Spanish Civil War, Ruíz Rodríguez vanished without a trace, and it is not known what happened to him. As a political activist and innovator who never lost sight of those most in need, especially children, he holds a special place in the history of Spanish education.

NAFTA (North American Free Translation Agreement/No America Fraught Translation Argument), ratified in 2019, is a collective of three poets writing from the occupied territories of Canada, Mexico, and the United States. They have translated Commonplace/Lo común by Hugo García Manríquez, String Theory by Karen Villeda, and selections drawn from Poelectrons by Jesús Arellano. 

Piu Martínez (Editor's Note) has edited Anarquía explicada a los niños, Cartilla Escolar Antifascista, and Gato en el camino, among other works, and is director of Libros Asombrosos, a collection published by Barrett.

Fábrica de Estampas is an Argentine graphic collective founded by Delfina Estrada and Victoria Volpini. They create original posters and prints employing etching, woodcut, linoleum, and monocopy techniques. They also offer printmaking courses. Fábrica de Estampas uses engraving, an intrinsically communal practice, as a tool for community-building.