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Variations
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Disobey! : A Philosophy of Resistance
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Ballad of a Happy Immigrant
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Assembly
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140 Artists’ Ideas for Planet Earth
£9.99by Obrist, Hans Ulrich, Stasinopoulos, Kostas The arts Hardback
140 Artists’ Ideas for Planet Earth
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The Pink Line : The World’s Queer Frontiers
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Crude Britannia : How Oil Shaped a Nation
£20.00by Marriott, James, Macalister, Terry Humanities Hardback
Crude Britannia : How Oil Shaped a Nation
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Dark Academia : How Universities Die
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Recent and Upcoming Book Launches and Events
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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Transgender Marxism
£16.99by Gleeson, Jules Joanne and O’Rourke, Elle / LGBTQIA Published 20 May by Pluto Press Paperback / 320 pages The first collection of its kind, Transgender Marxism is a provocative and groundbreaking union of transgender studies and Marxist theory. Exploring trans lives and movements, the authors delve into the experience of surviving as transgender considering the totality […]
Transgender Marxism
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The Revenge of the Real : Politics for a Post-Pandemic World -book plus event entry
£11.99by Bratton, Benjamin / Political Thought Published 29 June by Verso Hardback / 176 pages Please note this product includes a copy of The Revenge of the Real and access to the online event with author Benjamin Bratton and Nick Srnicek on Wednesday June 30 at 7pm BST. You will be emailed an invitation link […]
Left Populism in Europe: Lessons from Jeremy Corbyn to Podemos
£16.99by Prentoulis, Marina / Political Thought/ Europe Published 20 May 2021 by Pluto Press Softback / 192 pages This book evaluates the transformational process of left populism across grassroots, national and European levels and asks what we can do to harness the power of broad-based, popular left politics. While the right is using populist rhetoric […]
The Marks Left on Her – book plus event entry
£12.99by Lebowitz, Di / Fiction Published 18 May 2021 by Onwe Press Hardback / 384 pages This product includes a copy of the book The Marks Left on Her and access to the online event which will be part of our autumn 2021 events programme. Date to be announced. Please note that you will be […]
The Marks Left on Her – book plus event entry
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Paint Your Town Red : How Preston Took Back Control and Your Town Can Too
£10.99by Brown, Matthew and Jones, Rhian E / UK politics Published 11 May 2021 by Repeater Books UK paperback / 180 pages Across the world, there is a growing recognition that a new kind of economy is needed: more democratic, less exploitative, less destructive of society and the planet. Paint Your Town Red looks at how […]
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 […]
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, […]
Postcapitalist Desire : The Final Lectures
£12.99by Fisher, Mark, Colquhoun, Matt
Humanities
Hardback
Postcapitalist Desire : The Final Lectures
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Work Won’t Love You Back : How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted and Alone [Signed Copy]
£20.00by Jaffe, Sarah | Non-fiction Published 28/01/2021 by Hurst in the United Kingdom Hardback | 296 pages *Signed copies while stock lasts* 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 […]
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, […]
In Their Shoes : Navigating Non-Binary Life
£12.99by Windust, Jamie
Society & social sciences
Paperback
In Their Shoes : Navigating Non-Binary Life
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Resist : Stories of Uprising
£14.99by Page, Ra, Shamsie, Kamila, Williams, Eley, Lambert, Zoe, Caldwell, Lucy, Bradley, SJ, Bidisha, Goldi Language Hardback
Resist : Stories of Uprising
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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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Settling the World by M. John Harrison
£9.99Comma Press, 2020 (paperback, 271 pages) We have four signed copies of M. John Harrison’s latest publication: selected stories spanning his 50 year career. Till stock lasts. Throughout his career, M. John Harrison’s writing has defied categorisation, building worlds both unreal and all-too real, overlapping and interlocking with each other. His stories are replete with […]
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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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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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
Bitch Magazine issue 91/ Summer 2021 – Plastic
£12.00The Plastic Issue We live in an inflexible world. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer, rapists evade accountability, and the police kill Black, Indigenous, and Latinx people with relative impunity. Our conditions create a sense that the inflexibility of our world is its constant condition, incapable of bending into something beyond what it […]
The Funambulist #35 – Decolonial Ecologies
£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 […]
The Funambulist #35 – Decolonial Ecologies
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The Funambulist #34 – The Paris Commune and the World
£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 […]
The Funambulist #33 – Spaces of Labor
£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 […]
The Funambulist #33 – Spaces of Labor
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THIIIRD #5 Defiant Beauty
£10.00THIIIRD is an independent magazine and inclusive platform amplifying the voices and visibility of talent from underrepresented backgrounds. On glossy mag pages, over the radio and through events, we centralises the thought, being and art of people of colour, queer, trans and non-binary people and others with underrepresented backgrounds. We produce an annual print magazine, […]
THIIIRD #5 Defiant Beauty
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Bitch Magazine issue 90/ Spring 2021 – Legacy
£10.00The Legacy Issue Consider this: Now is the perfect time to think about our legacies. Though climate change is accelerating, racial inequity is ever-increasing, and the pandemic is raging without a true end in sight, we must now face realities that we have attempted to avoid: mortality, inequality, and systems rigged to enrich the wealthy […]
Bitch Magazine issue 90/ Spring 2021 – Legacy
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Salvage Magazine #9: That Hideous Strength
£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 […]
Salvage Magazine #9: That Hideous Strength
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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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Tribune Spring 21 – Against the Right
£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 Spring 21 – Against the Right
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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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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 […]
Asylum Magazine Vol 28.1 -The Radical Mental Health Magazine
£4.00Asylum is a quarterly produced radical mental health magazine. This issue opens with a moving extract from Donna Holder’s forthcoming personal memoir reflecting on a year spent as an in-patient (one of our sample articles). We continue with Alastair Kemp’s piece on the politics of language in our current times. Other sample articles in this […]
The View Magazine – Spring 2021
£5.00By and for women in the criminal justice system, their families, NGOs and support networks. The View Magazine is a magazine campaigning platform and is filled with first-person stories – art, and poems by and from women in prison. Women in prison or serving license in the community are paid for their contributions. In the […]
The View Magazine – Spring 2021
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Asylum Magazine Vol 28.2 -The Radical Mental Health Magazine
£4.00Asylum is a quarterly produced radical mental health magazine. Asylum Summer 2021 includes a number of powerful reflections on extreme states of distress. Paul Rousseau’s Fragmented diary of seven weeks provides a powerful insight into the experience of depression and near suicide. In Healing from Dissociation, Sam Ruck tells us about supporting his wife’s ‘multiple […]
Worms #3 – Biomythography
£15.00Worms is a bi-annual literary style magazine that celebrates female and non-binary writer culture. Issue three looks at personal myth-making and the stories that shape us. Featuring Michelle Tea, Moyra Davey, Lynne Tillman, Johanna Hedva, Jenny Hval, Ellen van Neervan, Caroline Calloway, Julie Enszerl and more.
Worms #3 – Biomythography
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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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Jacobin #41 – The Ruling Class
£8.95Jacobin is a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture. Contents of issue 41 I Was a 1970’s CIA Brat, by Ted Jessup An Army of Pete Buttigiegs, by Nicole Aschoff Take Me to Your Leader: The Rot of the American Ruling Class, by Doug Henwood The Political Wing […]
Jacobin #41 – The Ruling Class
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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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It’s Freezing in LA! #7 -Regeneration
£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! #7 -Regeneration
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Staff Picks
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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