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The Secret to Superhuman Strength
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Ice Rivers
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Abolishing the Police
£8.00Dog Section Press, 2021 / paperback, 247 pages “This is the first time we are seeing… a conversation about defunding, and some people having a conversation about abolishing the police and prison state. This must be what it felt like when people were talking about abolishing slavery.” – Patrisse Cullors, Black Lives Matter. Abolishing the Police (An […]
Abolishing the Police
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The Dark Lady
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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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The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing
£25.00by Dawson, Hannah Literature & literary studies Hardback
The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing
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The Death of Vivek Oji
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Bordering Britain : Law, Race and Empire
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Stone Men : The Palestinians Who Built Israel
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I Am Not Your Baby Mother
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April Bestsellers

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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What White People Can Do Next : From Allyship to Coalition
£7.99Dabiri, Emma / Black Politics Published 1 April by Penguin Books UK Paperback / 176 pages What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition by academic and broadcaster, Emma Dabiri, is a manifesto for meaningful and lasting change born from the need to talk about racial injustice in a new way. An incisive, […]

Disturbing the Body
£9.99A subversive new anthology of speculative memoir about misbehaving bodies by women writers, from indie publisher Boudicca Press. “Inhabiting a body is an inherently strange thing.”–VERITY HOLLOWAY, from her introduction From illness to major medical operations, child-bearing to pain and chronic illness to disability, Disturbing the Body sets out to explore the many ways women […]
Disturbing the Body
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Come Join Our Disease
£16.99by Byers, Sam | Fiction Published 18 March 2021 by Faber Books in the United Kingdom Hardback | 368 pages ‘A savvy, subtle chronicler of contemporary malaise.’ Financial Times From the author of Perfidious Albion, a darkly comic and profoundly affecting novel about resistance, radicalism and redemption. Maya is homeless. When her site is razed […]
Come Join Our Disease
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Border Nation : A Story of Migration
£9.99by Cowan, Leah | Migration Published March 2021 by Pluto Press in the United Kingdom, as part of their Outspoken series Paperback | 160 pages Borders are more than geographical lines – they impact all our lives, whether it’s the inhumanity of deportations, or a rise in racist attacks in the wake of the EU […]
Border Nation : A Story of Migration
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Postcapitalist Desire : The Final Lectures
£12.99by Fisher, Mark, Colquhoun, Matt
Humanities
Hardback
Postcapitalist Desire : The Final Lectures
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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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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

An Phoblacht #4 -50 Anniversary Issue
£4.0050 years of An Phoblacht The unique history of 50 years of An Phoblacht and Republican News is told with contributions from Gerry Adams, Danny Morrison, Rita O’Hare, Mícheál Mac Donncha, former editors and writers of An Phoblacht since the 1970s. A comprehensive range of rarely seen photographs and front pages are also included in […]
An Phoblacht #4 -50 Anniversary Issue
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ANARCHO-SYNDICALIST REVIEW #81
£4.002 Editorial: Death Squad America 3 Obituaries: Stuart Christie, David Graeber 4 Wobbles: Anti-Labor Law, Shorter Hours, Billionaires… 7 Syndicalist News: Black Lives Strike, Belarus, Columbia 8 Articles: International Actions Against Wage Theft 10 Hitler’s Election as Metaphor for the 2020 Election: A bad argument for supporting Democrats by Wayne Price 12 Italy After 1918 by Marie-Louise Berneri 17 Intersecting Crises: Intersecting Resistance by Jeff Shantz 19 Direct […]
ANARCHO-SYNDICALIST REVIEW #81
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Historical Materialism – Research in Critical Marxist Theory 28.3
£15.50Research Article: Thinking Beyond the Lockdown: On the Possibility of a Democratic Biopolitics. Panagiotis Sotiris Research Article: Why Did Marx Declare the Revolution Permanent? The Tactical Principles of the Manifesto. Lars T. Lih Research Article: The Permanenz Locution in its Immediate Rhetorical Context. Textual Appendix for Lars T. Lih, ‘Why Did Marx Declare the Revolution Permanent?’ Research Article: Adorno’s Philistine: the Dialectic of […]

Stormy Petrel -The Theoretical Journal of the Anarchist Communist Group #2
£4.00Stormy Petrel, the Anarchist Communist Group’s theoretical and historical magazine. A bumper issue of 60 pages, it contains the following: Building Resilient Communities: The Challenges of Organising Locally Community Activism in South Essex Mutual Aid during the Pandemic Charity or Solidarity? Covid Mutual Aid: A Revolutionary Critique ACORN – no mighty oak! Anarchist Communists, anti-fascism […]

Monthly Review – Volume 72, Number 6
£4.00Volume 72, Number 6 Contents “Notes from the Editors, November 2020” by The Editors INTRODUCTION: “Engels’s Dialectics of Nature in the Anthropocene” by John Bellamy Foster “Engels’s Emergentist Dialectics” by Kaan Kangal “The COVID-19 Pandemic Exposes Fatal Health Inequities” by Meredeth Turshen, Annie Thébaud-Mony “The Commodification of Online Cooperation” by Joshua Sperber “Facing the Anthropocene: An Update” by Ian Angus REVIEW: “The Mexican and Latino Question: What Is to Be […]
Monthly Review – Volume 72, Number 6
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Weapons of Reason #8 – War Games
£7.00War has always been an essential tool of statecraft and empire building — a necessary means to acquire natural and human resources and expand territory. As a result, humanity is extremely adept at making excuses for it, using simple and effective narratives as an incitement to take up arms and lay down lives. But what […]
Weapons of Reason #8 – War Games
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A Void #3
£15.00A Void issue 3 – magazine of discipline & pleasure (adult content): STOYA naked bondage shoot and in conversation with LEV PARKER STEWART HOME bondage photo shoot by ITZIAR BILBAO URRUTIA LOUISE EBEL as Valentina shot by MICHAEL WILLIAM WEST SUPERVERT “Is porn problematic?” NIKOLAS SCHRECK exclusive extract from THE MANSON FILE 3rd edition URBAN […]
A Void #3
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Hope not Hate #43 – Are we winning the battle against extremism?
£7.00HOPE not hate magazine is a quarterly publication providing detailed analysis, major interviews, incisive investigations, reportage and other exclusives, it’s essential reading for all those committed to the fight against fascism, racism and extremism. The new edition of HOPE not hate magazine turns a spotlight on the thorny issue of Extremism. Featuring an exclusive interview with the head […]
Bitch Magazine issue 89/ Winter 2021 – Monster
£10.00The Monster Issue There is a lot to fear in our current world, including a consequential presidential election running up against rampant voter suppression, a growing current of white supremacist violence, a never-ending pandemic, and a climate change crisis that could soon bring our entire existence to a screeching halt. Yet, our horror canon rarely […]

Good Trouble #21 – The New One
£10.00DIY activist-arts broadsheet GOOD TROUBLE returns with its third issue, with a massive 44 pages of art, protest and creativity, plus a big poster. Basically three magazines in one! Good Trouble, More Trouble & The Waste Land With a special focus on the climate crisis, a dedicated section includes the likes of Olafur Eliasson, Extinction Rebellion and Bill McKibben […]
Good Trouble #21 – The New One
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Salvage Magazine #8: Comrades, This is Madness
£15.00Salvage is a bi-annual journal of revolutionary arts and letters. Salvage is written by and for the desolated Left, by and for those sick of capitalism and its planetary death-drive, implacably opposed to the fascist reflux and all ‘national’ solutions to our crisis, committed to radical change, guarded against the encroachments of ‘woke’ capitalism and its sadistic […]

She Shreds – Final print issue
£12.00Get your hands pronto on the final print issue of iconic feminist magazine She Shreds. This is a limited quantity edition. Once She Shreds sell out they will not be reprinting <3 Want to read more about the artists and the theme behind this issue? Read the founder’s editors letter here. Featuring: Yola, La Doña , […]
She Shreds – Final print issue
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It’s Freezing in LA! #6 -Greenwashing
£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 […]
It’s Freezing in LA! #6 -Greenwashing
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Staff Picks
Terminal Boredom : Stories
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System Crash – An activist guide to making revolution
£10.00Published 25 Feb 2021 by Resistance Books UK Paperback / 120 pages System Crash is an activist guide to making revolution, a call to arms. Written by Neil Faulkner, Phil Hearse, Nina Fortune, Rowan Fortune and Simon Hannah, System Crash argues that revolution – ending the rule of capital and the state – has become […]

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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Protest : Stories of Resistance
£12.99by Alland, Sandra, Maitland, Sara, Pester, Holly, Holness, Matthew, Cottrell Boyce, Frank, Hedgecock, A Fiction & related items Paperback
Protest : Stories of Resistance
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Exploring Degrowth : A Critical Guide by Vincent Liegey and Anitra Nelson
£16.99A sense of urgency pervades global environmentalism, and the degrowth movement is bursting into the mainstream. As climate catastrophe looms closer, people are eager to learn what degrowth is about, and whether we can save the planet by changing how we live. This book is an introduction to the movement. As politicians and corporations obsess […]
