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The American Way : Stories of Invasion
£14.99by Casagrande, Orsola, Nasser, Payam, Onedera, Peter, Mujila, Fiston Mwanza, Pere, Ahmel Echevarria, Co Literature & literary studies Hardback
The American Way : Stories of Invasion
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Orwell’s Roses
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Make Bosses Pay : Why We Need Unions
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Burnt : Fighting for Climate Justice
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Against White Feminism
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2022 Verso Radical Diary and Weekly Planner
£12.99by Verso Books Society & social sciences Paperback
2022 Verso Radical Diary and Weekly Planner
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New Fiction
My Monticello
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Dream of Ding Village
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Tell Me I’m Worthless
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Keisha The Sket
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Those Bones Are Not My Child
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Reprieve
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Palmares
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Recent and Upcoming Book Launches and Events

Daring to Hope: My Life in the 1970s by Sheila Rowbotham
£20.00Daring to Hope My Life in the 1970s by Sheila Rowbotham Hardback £20.00 Verso Books 336 pages / 9 November 2021 / 9781839763892 A personal history of life, love and women’s liberation In this powerful memoir Sheila Rowbotham looks back at her life as a participant in the women’s liberation movement, left politics and the creative […]

Ill Feelings
£12.99by Hattrick, Alice / Health / Essay Published on 25 August 2021 by Fitzcarraldo Paperback / 360 pages Alice Hattrick will be discussing Ill Feelings at our online event on Wed 8 Sept at 7pm (UK time). To get tickets, click here. In 1995 Alice’s mother collapsed with pneumonia. She never fully recovered and was […]
Ill Feelings
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Putin’s Russia : The Rise of a Dictator
£16.99by Cunningham, Darryl / Graphic Novels Published by Myriad Editions 16 Sept 2021 Paperback / 144 pages Darryl will be joining us online on Wed 22 Sept at 7pm (UK time) to discuss Putin’s Russia: The Rise of a Dictator. You can get a copy of the book and access to the online event here. […]
Putin’s Russia : The Rise of a Dictator
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How to Stop Fascism : History, Ideology, Resistance
£20.00by Mason, Paul / Antifascism Published 26 August by Allen Lane UK Hardback / 320 pages Paul Mason will be in conversation with Ewa Majewska on Thursday 9 Sept at 7pm UK time. If you would like to buy a copy of the book and gain access to the online event, click here. ‘For its […]

Bi the Way : The Bisexual Guide to Life
£12.99by Shearing, Lois Of specific Gay & Lesbian interest Paperback
Bi the Way : The Bisexual Guide to Life
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We Played With Fire by Catherine Barter [signed]
£7.99SIGNED COPIES: for personalised dedications please leave instructions in the ‘Order notes’ box when you check out. Andersen Press, February 2021 (paperback, 336 pages) Maggie has witnessed impossible things. But no one believes her, and now her family has taken her away to spend the winter upstate in a remote, freezing farmhouse. Bored and angry, […]
Sanatorium
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Bestsellers
Against White Feminism
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The Transgender Issue: An Argument For Justice
£20.00by Shon Faye ‘Monumental and utterly convincing – crystal clear in its understanding of how the world should be’ Judith Butler ‘This book feels like a moment. It’s heartfelt but analytical, in-depth and utterly humane. A landmark piece of work’ Sinead Gleeson ‘If you’re sick of seeing people’s humanity reduced to cannon fodder for […]
Lost in Work : Escaping Capitalism
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Abolishing the Police
£8.00Dog Section Press, 2021 / paperback, 247 pages Join Koshka Duff, the editor of Abolishing the Police, and some of the book’s contributors for an exploration of anti-police theory and practice on Wed 03 November. More info and RSVP here. “This is the first time we are seeing… a conversation about defunding, and some people […]
Abolishing the Police
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A Decolonial Feminism by Francoise Verges
£12.99Pluto Press, 2021 (paperback, 128 pages) ***Winner of an English PEN Award 2021***For too long feminism has been co-opted by the forces they seek to dismantle. In this powerful manifesto, Francoise Verges argues that feminists should no longer be accomplices of capitalism, racism, colonialism and imperialism: it is time to fight the system that created […]
A Decolonial Feminism by Francoise Verges
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Black Resistance to British Policing
£11.99by Elliott-Cooper, Adam Society & social sciences Paperback
Black Resistance to British Policing
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Chav Solidarity by D. Hunter
£10.00The Class Work Project (3rd edition 2021, paperback) To the political left Hunter’s people are the ignorant and the ill informed, to the victorious right they are the unwashed and discarded waste product of the labouring class. Chav Solidarity is part autobiography, part meditation on trauma, class and identity, part one finger salute into the […]
Chav Solidarity by D. Hunter
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Revolting Prostitutes : The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights by Juno Mac and Molly Smith
£9.99Verso, 2020 (new edition) How the law harms sex workers–and what they want instead. Do you have to endorse prostitution in order to support sex worker rights? Should clients be criminalized, and can the police deliver justice? In Revolting Prostitutes, sex workers Juno Mac and Molly Smith bring a fresh perspective to questions that have […]

Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
£9.99Penguin Books Be honest: if your job didn’t exist, would anybody miss it? Have you ever wondered why not? Up to 40% of us secretly believe our jobs probably aren’t necessary. In other words: they are bullshit jobs. This book shows why, and what we can do about it. In the early twentieth century, people […]
Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
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Featured Mags & Zines

Capital & Class 45.4
£5.00About Capital & Class Since 1977 Capital & Class has been the main independent source for a Marxist critique of global capitalism. Pioneering key debates on value theory, domestic labour, and the state, it reaches out into the labour, trade union, anti-racist, feminist, environmentalist and other radical movements. It analyses the important political, economic and social developments […]
Capital & Class 45.4
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The Baffler #60 – The Squandering Earth
£9.95The Baffler is America’s leading voice of interesting and unexpected left-wing political criticism, cultural analysis, short stories, poems and art. We publish six print issues annually, as well as online content every day of the cursed workweek. Founded in 1988 by Thomas Frank as “the journal that blunts the cutting edge,” the magazine is currently […]

Bitch Magazine issue 92/ Fall Winter 2021 – The Wild Issue
£12.00The Wild Issue Being “wild” has always carried a negative connotation, especially for marginalized groups, but how much could we gain from shaking off social constraints and embracing freedom? In this Wild issue, we explore people, groups, and social ideas that are committed to liberation at all costs whether it’s the freedom fighters in Palestine, […]

gal-dem #5 – Roaring Twenties
£10.00what is gal-dem? gal-dem is a new media publication, committed to telling the stories of people of colour from marginalised genders. With our online and print magazine, we’re addressing inequality and misrepresentation in the industry through platforming the creative and editorial work of our community across essays, opinion, news, arts, music, politics and lifestyle content. […]
gal-dem #5 – Roaring Twenties
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The Funambulist #38 – Music and the Revolution
£10.00“A magazine with an activist line that does not follow the same political standards when it comes to its production has no reason to exist.” – Freunde von Freunden The Funambulist is a magazine that engages with the politics of space and bodies. Our hope is to provide a useful platform where activist/academic/practitioner voices can meet […]

Louche issue 2
£12.00The second instalment of Louche, the drag magazine, is here! The theme of this issue focuses on the material culture of drag; the objects, the things, the ephemera, that serve to create drag magic. Issue #2 features: Izzy Aman; Barbs; Cassandra; Cyro; Georgeous Michael; Sin Wai Kin; Kallum Király; Sigi Moonlight; Just May; Hardik Mistry; […]
Louche issue 2
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ANARCHO-SYNDICALIST REVIEW #83
£4.00The new summer issue (#83) is titled “Organizing Amazon” and also features articles on the Capitol riot, dock workers’ actions against war cargo, swedish syndicalists debating strategy, an article about Kropotkin’s legacy, and more!
ANARCHO-SYNDICALIST REVIEW #83
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Khidr Collective Zine – Issue Four: Water
£8.99In this issue, we present 128 pages of personalised essays, fiction, illustrations, photography and multimedia art exploring our relationship with water. We look at how water affects some of our political and economic structures, and how it transports our personal memories. We explore the manifestation of water in our daily lives, the comfort it provides […]

DOPE Magazine #15 Autumn 2021
£3.00“Across Britain, from Brighton to Edinburgh, DOPE is distributed for homeless people to sell on the streets. People ranging from rough sleepers to asylum seekers can collect the newspaper for free, sell it for the cover price of £3 and keep the proceeds.” – New Statesman DOPE Magazine is a quarterly newspaper published by Dog […]
DOPE Magazine #15 Autumn 2021
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An Phoblacht #3 – 2021
£4.00This An Phoblacht has an exclusive article by Palestinian Ambassador to Ireland Jilan Wahba. Mairead Farrell and Joe Guinan unwrap the potential of Community Wealth Building policies. We have extensive features on 40th anniversary of the 1981 hunger strikes with contributions from former republican prisoners Sile Darragh, Jim Gibney, Chrissie McAuley and Pat Sheehan. Roy […]
An Phoblacht #3 – 2021
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Resurgence & Ecologist #329 – Living Cities
£6.95Resurgence remains one of the best antidotes to the superficial banalities and mindless materialism that grips contemporary society. Jonathon Porritt About Resurgence & Ecologist Resurgence & Ecologist offers positive perspectives on a range of engaging topics covering ecology, social justice, philosophy, spirituality, sustainable development and the arts – an eclectic mix that cannot be found […]

Adbusters 157 – Ultimatum to World Leaders
£7.50We’re an international collective of activists, artists, writers, designers, musicians, philosophers, poets, punks and wild hearts. Join us as we take down Big Tech. Clean up the toxic areas of our mental environment. Reverse the upward flow of wealth. Punish every corporation that betrays the public trust. Hold corrupt politicians accountable. Wake up a thoughtless, […]

Tribune Summer 21 – Renewing the Left
£9.95About Tribune Magazine “The cause of labour is the hope of the world” – Walter Crane, 1894 Tribune was established in 1937 as a socialist magazine that would give voice to the popular front campaigns against the rising tide of fascism in Europe. For eighty years it has been at the heart of left-wing politics in […]
Tribune Summer 21 – Renewing the Left
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Anarchist Studies 29.2
£18.00Contents About this issue’s cover: ‘Art is the Map of the Human Soul’ Alan Antliff Peter Kropotkin: An Appreciation Herbert Read Bakunin, the Franco-Prussian War and After; Civilisation, Internationalism and Change A.W. Zurbrugg Character Flaws – An Anarchist Critique of Character Education in England’s Secondary Schools DaN McKee The Cryptoanarchist Character of Bitcoin’s Digital Governance […]
Anarchist Studies 29.2
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Stormy Petrel -The Theoretical Journal of the Anarchist Communist Group #3
£4.00Stormy Petrel -The Theoretical Journal of the Anarchist Communist Group #3 Hot off the press, this latest issue of Stormy Petrel, the ACG mag is packed full of in-depth and analytical articles. Contents: Editorial: capital is burning No one is safe until everyone is safe: lessons from the pandemic The green new deal: a fake […]

Red Pepper #233 – Democracy on the Wing
£6.00Thelma Walker on regional autonomy ● An interview with Clive Lewis ● The World Transformed ● Gender, sexuality and witchcraft ● The globalisation of ‘Asian horror’ ● A tribute to Dawn Foster ● Latest book reviews ● And much more! About Red Pepper: Red Pepper is a quarterly magazine and website of left politics and culture. […]

Monthly Review – Volume 73, Number 6
£4.00Volume 73, Number 6 Contents “Notes from the Editors, November 2021” by The Editors REVIEW OF THE MONTH: “The Planetary Rift” by John Bellamy Foster, Haris Golemis “World Development under Monopoly Capitalism” by Benjamin Selwyn, Dara Leyden “The Present in History, 2021” by William K. Tabb “Disney, Salò, and Pasolini’s Inconsumable Art” by Owen Schalk […]
Monthly Review – Volume 73, Number 6
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Jacobin #42 – The Working Class
£8.95Jacobin is a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture. Contents of issue 42 The Many Farewells to the Working Class by David Broder How China Avoided a Soviet-Style Collapse an interview with Isabella Weber and Daniel Zamora Lifestyle Environmentalism Will Never Win Over Workers by Matt Huber We […]
Jacobin #42 – The Working Class
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Catalyst 5.2
£9.95Discussion of capitalism is not off the table any longer. Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy launches with the aim of doing everything it can to promote and deepen this conversation. Our focus is, as our title suggests, to develop a theory and strategy with capitalism as its target — both in the North and in […]
Catalyst 5.2
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Cocoon zine 2
£6.50Cocoon 2 features writers from Dazed, The Guardian, Crack, gal-dem, Pitchfork, Gold Flake Paint and more (full list below). – 20 essays – 20 original illustrations from Katy Smail – A5 size 50% of all profits after printing costs will be donated to We Belong, an organisation set up by and for young people who […]
Cocoon zine 2
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Transform : A Journal of the Radical Left #9 June 2021
£8.00Journal of the radical left which seeks to help provide a theoretical basis to advance the left in this new political context. It is informed by Marxism and also welcomes the contribution of other progressive political currents such as feminism and environmentalism. It seeks to theorise and critically analyse: The nature of the period and […]

Archer Magazine #15 – THE FRIENDSHIP ISSUE
£10.00Archer Magazine is an award-winning print publication about sexuality, gender and identity. It is published twice-yearly in Melbourne, Australia, with a focus on lesser-heard voices and the uniqueness of our experiences. “Growing up isn’t just about popping pimples and trying new things. Growing up is about finding a better world, confronting the realities of life and realising […]
Archer Magazine #15 – THE FRIENDSHIP ISSUE
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Lumpen: a journal for poor and working class writers #8
£8.00A Journal of Poor and Working Class writing is exactly what it sounds like. First hand accounts of lives on the rock face of austerity, critical assessments of the state of the left, the UK, and the international. Touching on the intersections of race, gender, mental and physical health. Discussions of violence, sex, identity, family, […]

It’s Freezing in LA! #8 – Borders + Climate
£7.00It’s Freezing in LA! prints environmental slow journalism. IFLA! is a critically acclaimed independent magazine with a fresh take on climate change. Printed bi-annually, we find the ground between science and activism, inviting writers and illustrators from a variety of fields to give us their view on how climate change will affect — and is affecting — society. We want to […]

Girls Like Us #13
£12.00Welcome to your queer life. A life along a line, or several. A life through writing, images and objects. Life as a sticky, messy pile of narratives and emotions. Life not as singular and individual, but entangled and connected. GIRLS LIKE US is an independent magazine turning the spotlight on an international expanding community of […]
Girls Like Us #13
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Staff Picks
Anarchy In Action (Freedom Press ed.)
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The Mercies
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Terminal Boredom : Stories
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Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez
£8.99Dialogue Books, Feb 2021 (paperback) Staff pick: Catherine At the turn of the millennium, Jesse seeks a fresh start in London – escaping from a broken immediate family, a repressive religious community and the desolate, disempowered Black Country – but finds himself at a loss for a new centre of gravity, and turns to sex […]
Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez
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Homage to Catalonia
£8.99by Orwell, George | Spanish Civil War Published 07/01/2021 by Vintage in the United Kingdom Paperback | 288 pages THE AUTHORATITIVE TEXT ‘There are occasions where it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all’ Both a memoir of Orwell’s experiences during the Spanish Civil War and a heartfelt tribute […]
Homage to Catalonia
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Anarchy In Action
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Cane Warriors
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The Anti-Capitalist Chronicles
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The Undying : A Meditation on Modern Illness
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