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A River Called Time
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Sexuality : A Graphic Guide
£13.99by Barker, Meg-John, Scheele, Jules Fiction & related items Paperback
Sexuality : A Graphic Guide
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Open Water
£12.99by Azumah Nelson, Caleb / Fiction Published 4 Feb by Viking UK Hardback / 176 pages ‘A tender and touching love story, beautifully told’ Observer ‘A beautiful and powerful novel about the true and sometimes painful depths of love’ Candice Carty-Williams, bestselling author of QUEENIE Two young people meet at a pub in South East […]
Open Water
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The Care Crisis : What Caused It and How Can We End It?
£16.99by Dowling, Emma / Gender Studies Published 26 Jan 2021 by Verso in the UK Hardback 256 pages Valuing care and care work does not simply mean attributing care work more monetary value. To really achieve change, we must go further. In this groundbreaking book, Emma Dowling charts the multi-faceted nature of care in the […]
Luster
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Work Won’t Love You Back : How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted and Alone
£20.00by Jaffe, Sarah | Non-fiction Published 28/01/2021 by Hurst in the United Kingdom Hardback | 296 pages Whether it’s working for free in exchange for ‘experience’, enduring poor treatment in the name of being ‘part of the family’, or clocking serious overtime for a good cause, more and more of us are pushed to make […]
Detransition, Baby
£14.99by Peters, Torrey | Fiction Published 07/01/2021 by Profile Books in the United Kingdom Hardback | 352 pages ‘A voraciously knowing, compulsively readable novel’ Chris Kraus ‘Tremendously funny and sexy as hell’ Juliet Jacques ‘Emotionally generous, richly textured, and deeply intelligent’ Claire Lombardo Reese nearly had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment […]
Detransition, Baby
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A Fire in My Head
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Get a Grip, Love
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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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No Modernism Without Lesbians
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Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
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How To Do Nothing : Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
£12.99Melville House (2021, paperback) “A complex, smart and ambitious book that at first reads like a self-help manual, then blossoms into a wide-ranging political manifesto.”—Jonah Engel Bromwich, The New York Times Book Review Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity […]
Featured Mags & Zines
Resurgence & Ecologist #324 – Resilience
£5.95Resurgence 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 […]
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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Adbusters 152 – The Big Ideas of 2025
£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, […]
Adbusters 152 – The Big Ideas of 2025
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Tribune Autumn 20 – Building the Ruins
£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 […]
Soundings 75 – System Change
£14.00About Soundings Soundings offers committed, informed and thoughtful writing on a wide range of contemporary political and cultural debates. Founded twenty years ago by Stuart Hall, Doreen Massey and Michael Rustin. Contents Contents Editorial: Challenging the structures of racism Sally Davison, Deborah Grayson and Kirsten Forkert Notes from lockdown Georgie Wemyss & Nira Yuval-Davis, Hannah Hamad, Joy White, Karen Patel, Deborah Grayson, Alister Wedderburn […]
Soundings 75 – System Change
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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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Kajet – A Journal of Eastern European Encounters #4
£20.00Peripheries of the World, unite! By producing an archaeology of the periphery, the fourth issue of Kajet explores the possibility of a revised vision for the future of Europe, not in a totalising manner, but in a critical, reflexive way. Kajet alerts the centre of the possibility that there is not one world, not one […]
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 […]
Red Pepper #230 – Struggles for Truth
£6.00Struggle – exploring social movements in the Middle East and Africa, as well as global student movements Truth – how important are post-truth movements (5G, QAnon, anti-vaxxers) in mainstream politics and movements? Culture – how do brands utilise avenues of popular culture to sell, push, and paint themselves positively About Red Pepper: Red Pepper is a […]
Red Pepper #230 – Struggles for Truth
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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
£7.50**special 50% discount off RRP £15, limited time only** A 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 […]
A Void #3
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Jacobin #39 -Failure is not an option
£8.95Jacobin is a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture. Contents of issue 39 VULGAR EMPIRICIST America the Laggard By virtually any measure, people in the United States are worse off than those in other rich countries. There’s no disputing the impact of our weak entitlements and paltry labor […]
Jacobin #39 -Failure is not an option
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Catalyst 4.2
£9.99Discussion 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 4.2
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Grrrl in Print #4 – A DIY Guide to Feminism
£6.50Grrrl In Print is a DIY guide written by feminists, platforming the voices of womxn, trans and non-binary people sharing advice, tutorials and ideas. We care about prioritising marginalised people to share our stories and empower others, to create, to write and to speak out. Issue 4 contemplates lockdown across the globe, taking a look […]
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 […]
Staff Picks
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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Postcapitalist Desire : The Final Lectures
£12.99by Fisher, Mark, Colquhoun, Matt
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Postcapitalist Desire : The Final Lectures
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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 […]