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  • Cover image of book How to Stand Up to a Dictator by Maria Ressa
    How to Stand Up to a Dictator - by Maria Ressa

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780753559215 | ISBN 10: 0753559218

    Radio 4 Book of the Week  WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2021  What will you sacrifice for the truth?  Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. But her work tracking disinformation networks seeded by her own gov ... more

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  • Cover image of book African Activists of the Twentieth Century: Hani, Maathai, Mpama/Palmer, Saro-Wiwa by Hugh Macmillan, Tabitha Kanogo, Robert R. Edgar, Roy Doron and Toyin Falola
    African Activists of the Twentieth Century: Hani, Maathai, Mpama/Palmer, Saro-Wiwa - by Hugh Macmillan, Tabitha Kanogo, Robert R. Edgar, Roy Doron and Toyin Falola

    £32.00   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780821425145 | ISBN 10: 0821425145

    An omnibus collection of concise and up-to-date biographies of four influential figures from modern African history.  Chris Hani, by Hugh Macmillan Chris Hani was one of the most highly respected leaders of the African National Congress, the S ... more

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  • Cover image of book They Called Me a Lioness : A Palestinian Girl
    They Called Me a Lioness : A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom - by Ahed Tamimi and Dena Takruri

    £14.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780593134597 | ISBN 10: 0593134591

    A Palestinian activist jailed at sixteen after a confrontation with Israeli soldiers illuminates the daily struggles of life under occupation in this moving, deeply personal memoir.  “I cannot even begin to convey the clarity, the intensity, th ... more

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  • Cover image of book We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir by Raja Shehadeh
    We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir - by Raja Shehadeh

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781788169981 | ISBN 10: 1788169980

    A subtle psychological portrait of the author's relationship with his father during the twentieth-century battle for Palestinian human rights.   A FINALIST FOR THE US NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2023 FOR NONFICTION   'Profoundly personal as wel ... more

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  • Cover image of book Class War: A Literary History by Mark Steven
    Class War: A Literary History - by Mark Steven

    £18.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781839760693 | ISBN 10: 1839760699

    A thrilling and vivid work of history, Class War weaves together literature and politics to chart the making and unmaking of social class through revolutionary combat. In a narrative that spans the globe and more than two centuries of history, Mark S ... more

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  • Cover image of book We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist Action by Shannon Clay, Lady, Kristin Schwartz and Michael Staudenmaier
    We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist Action - by Shannon Clay, Lady, Kristin Schwartz and Michael Staudenmaier

    £23.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781629639727 | ISBN 10: 1629639729

    What does it mean to risk all for your beliefs? How do you fight an enemy in your midst?   We Go Where They Go recounts the thrilling story of a massive forgotten youth movement that set the stage for today’s anti-fascist organizing in Nort ... more

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  • Cover image of book Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul: How to Change the World in Quiet Ways by Dorcas Cheng-Tozun
    Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul: How to Change the World in Quiet Ways - by Dorcas Cheng-Tozun

    £17.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781506483436 | ISBN 10: 1506483437

    Social justice work, we often assume, is raised voices and raised fists. It requires leading, advocating, fighting, and organizing wherever it takes place--in the streets, slums, villages, inner cities, halls of political power, and more. But what do ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist by Marcus Rediker
    The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist - by Marcus Rediker

    £14.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781786634726 | ISBN 10: 1786634724

    The Fearless Benjamin Lay chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular and astonishing man-a Quaker dwarf who became one of the first ever to demand the total, unconditional emancipation of all enslaved Africans around the world.  He pe ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hope Not Fear: Finding My Way from Refugee to Filmmaker to NHS Hospital Cleaner and Activist by Hassan Akkad
    Hope Not Fear: Finding My Way from Refugee to Filmmaker to NHS Hospital Cleaner and Activist - by Hassan Akkad

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529059854 | ISBN 10: 1529059852

    'An extraordinary story that deals with the urgent issues of our era... a story about resilience, renewal' - Elif Shafak  A stunning testament to human strength, courage and compassion, Hope Not Fear shows that nobody is powerless to change t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Comrades Come Rally! Manchester Communists in the 1930s & 1940s by Mike Crowley
    Comrades Come Rally! Manchester Communists in the 1930s & 1940s - by Mike Crowley

    £15.00   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781914143533 | ISBN 10: 1914143531

    Comrades Come Rally is a history of the Communist Party in Manchester revealed through the lives of rank and file members, through the struggle against mass unemployment, the fight against fascism in Britain and in Spain, to the election of the 1945 ... more

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  • Cover image of book We Are No Dirty Shirkers: Women Unionising, Marching, Protesting... and Singing by Mary Quaile Club
    We Are No Dirty Shirkers: Women Unionising, Marching, Protesting... and Singing - by Mary Quaile Club

    £5.95   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780993224737 | ISBN 10: 0993224733

    We Are No Dirty Shirkers is the fourth publication by the Mary Quaile Club. The common theme to the articles is women challenging power and authority.   Mary Quaile, Manchester Irish Trade Unionist, was one of the most well-known trade union ... more

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  • Cover image of book Manifesto: On Never Giving Up by Bernardine Evaristo
    Manifesto: On Never Giving Up - by Bernardine Evaristo

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780241993620 | ISBN 10: 0241993628

    The powerful, urgent manifesto on never giving up from Booker prize-winning trailblazer, Bernardine Evaristo.  In 2019, Bernardine Evaristo became the first black woman to win the Booker Prize since its inception fifty years earlier - a revolutio ... more

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  • Cover image of book Freedom is A Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis
    Freedom is A Constant Struggle - by Angela Y. Davis

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780241994603 | ISBN 10: 0241994608

    From the Author of Women, Race and Class, this is a timely provocation that examines the concept of attaining freedom in light of our current world conflicts.  In these newly collected essays, interviews and speeches, world-renowned activist an ... more

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  • Cover image of book Speakers
    Speakers' Corner Anthology - by Jim Huggon (Editor)

    £10.00   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781944651268 | ISBN 10: 1944651268

    "I spoke on the Hyde Park Anarchist Platform for eighteen years from 1965 to 1983. At one time, briefly, we had three anarchist platforms at Speakers' Comer because our views on anarchism were so different. Which is - of course - as it should be. In ... more

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  • Cover image of book Charged: How the Police Try to Suppress Protest by Matt Foot and Morag Livingstone
    Charged: How the Police Try to Suppress Protest - by Matt Foot and Morag Livingstone

    £18.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781839762499 | ISBN 10: 1839762497

    An urgent investigation into modern British policing.  The UK government’s efforts to suppress dissent in the pursuit of greater power have given a green light to police to apply more aggressive tactics in managing crowds and protests. The ... more

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  • Cover image of book See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love by Valarie Kaur
    See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love - by Valarie Kaur

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781783255030 | ISBN 10: 178325503x

    Renowned activist, filmmaker and civil rights lawyer Valarie Kaur made headlines when her 'Breathe and Push' speech on how to survive in a time of rage went viral with 30 million views worldwide. In this inspiring and timely debut, she shows you how ... more

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  • Cover image of book Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement by Tarana Burke
    Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement - by Tarana Burke

    £20.00   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781472292315 | ISBN 10: 1472292316

    From the founder and activist behind one of the largest movements of the twenty-first century, the me too movement, Tarana Burke debuts a powerful memoir about her own journey to saying those two simple yet infinitely powerful words and how she broug ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Radical Bookstore: Counterspace for Social Movements by Kimberley Kinder
    The Radical Bookstore: Counterspace for Social Movements - by Kimberley Kinder

    £20.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781517909185 | ISBN 10: 151790918x

    How does social change happen? It requires an identified problem, an impassioned and committed group, a catalyst, and a plan.  In this deeply researched consideration of seventy-seven stores and establishments, Kimberley Kinder argues that activ ... more

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  • Cover image of book Why Rebel by Jay Griffiths
    Why Rebel - by Jay Griffiths

    £7.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780241992722 | ISBN 10: 0241992729

    "If bravery itself could write, it would write like she does"(John Berger) Why rebel?  Because our footprint on the Earth has never mattered more than now. How we treat it, in the spirit of gift or of theft, has never been more impor ... more

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  • Cover image of book Five Rules for Rebellion: Let
    Five Rules for Rebellion: Let's Change the World Ourselves - by Sophie Walker

    £7.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781785786860 | ISBN 10: 1785786865

    Had enough? Feeling hopeless? Don't give up - join the rebellion.   Activist, journalist, founding leader of the Women's Equality Party and 'modern-day suffragette' (Evening Standard) Sophie Walker presents an inspiring, five-step journey to inco ... more

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  • Cover image of book Do it Like a Woman... And Change the World by Caroline Criado-Perez
    Do it Like a Woman... And Change the World - by Caroline Criado-Perez

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781783787333 | ISBN 10: 1783787333

    In the last five years, the feminist movement has seen a radical upswell of energy and activism. We have been inspired by #LeanIn, we have found solidarity in #MeToo. We've pushed one another to be stronger and try harder.   Caroline Criado-Pe ... more

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  • Cover image of book Working Class History: Everyday Acts of Resistance and Rebellion by Working Class History (Editors)
    Working Class History: Everyday Acts of Resistance and Rebellion - by Working Class History (Editors)

    £16.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781629638232 | ISBN 10: 1629638234

    History is not made by kings, politicians, or a few rich individuals—it is made by all of us. From the temples of ancient Egypt to spacecraft orbiting Earth, workers and ordinary people everywhere have walked out, sat down, risen up, and fought bac ... more

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  • Cover image of book Now We Have Your Attention: The New Politics of the People by Jack Shenker
    Now We Have Your Attention: The New Politics of the People - by Jack Shenker

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781784708870 | ISBN 10: 1784708879

    Now We Have Your Attention makes sense of what is happening in British politics by taking a radically different perspective: the people's.   From a warehouse in Manchester to a pub in Essex, from the outskirts of Glasgow to a racecourse in Du ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Verso Book of Dissent: Revolutionary Words from Three Millennia of Rebellion and Resistance by Andrew Hsiao and Audrea Lim (Editors)
    The Verso Book of Dissent: Revolutionary Words from Three Millennia of Rebellion and Resistance - by Andrew Hsiao and Audrea Lim (Editors)

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781788739115 | ISBN 10: 1788739116

    Throughout the ages and across every continent, people have struggled against those in power and raised their voices in protest--rallying others around them and inspiring uprisings in eras yet to come. Their echoes reverberate from Ancient Greece, Ch ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Art of Disruption: A Manifesto For Real Change by Magid Magid
    The Art of Disruption: A Manifesto For Real Change - by Magid Magid

    £14.99   hardback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781788702904 | ISBN 10: 1788702905

    A guide to being courageous and community-minded, and to disrupting and dismantling age-old power structures in work, life and politics, written by someone who has done exactly that.  Let's be honest. Magid Magid's story seems an unlikely one.  ... more

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  • Cover image of book City on Fire: The Fight for Hong Kong by Antony Dapiran
    City on Fire: The Fight for Hong Kong - by Antony Dapiran

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781913348113 | ISBN 10: 1913348113

    A long-term resident and expert observer of dissent in Hong Kong takes readers to the frontlines of Hong Kong’s revolution.  Through the long, hot summer of 2019, Hong Kong burned. Anti-government protests, sparked by a government proposal ... more

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  • Cover image of book XOXY: A Memoir - Intersex Woman, Mother, Activist by Kimberly M Zieselman
    XOXY: A Memoir - Intersex Woman, Mother, Activist - by Kimberly M Zieselman

    £12.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781785928376 | ISBN 10: 1785928376

    Meet Kimberly, a regular suburban housewife and mother, whose discovery later in life that she was born intersex fuelled her to become an international human rights defender and globally-recognised activist.   Charting her intersex discovery a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Can
    Can't Pay, Won't Pay: The Fight to Stop the Poll Tax - by Simon Hannah

    £16.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780745340814 | ISBN 10: 0745340814

    Thirty years ago, a social movement helped bring down one of the most powerful British Prime Ministers of the 20th Century. For the 30th anniversary of the Poll Tax rebellion, Simon Hannah looks back on those tumultuous days of resistance, telling th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Taking Up Space: The Black Girl
    Taking Up Space: The Black Girl's Manifesto for Change - by Chelsea Kwakye and Ore Ogunbiyi

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529118544 | ISBN 10: 1529118549

    As a minority in a predominantly white institution, taking up space is an act of resistance. Recent Cambridge grads Chelsea and Ore experienced this first-hand, and wrote Taking Up Space as a guide and a manifesto for change.  FOR BLACK GIRLS ... more

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  • Cover image of book Read and Riot: A Pussy Riot Guide to Activism by Nadya Tolokonnikova
    Read and Riot: A Pussy Riot Guide to Activism - by Nadya Tolokonnikova

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529393149 | ISBN 10: 1529393140

    "as indispensable to confronting, say, your domineering mother-in-law or your local city council as it is to helping foment an ongoing and ever-escalating insurrection against, say, a sexist, racist, nepotistic power-mad oligarchy threatening to dest ... more

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  • Cover image of book On the Other Side of Freedom: Race and Justice in a Divided America by DeRay Mckesson
    On the Other Side of Freedom: Race and Justice in a Divided America - by DeRay Mckesson

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786076519 | ISBN 10: 1786076519

    Five years ago, DeRay Mckesson quit his job as a schoolteacher, moved to Ferguson, Missouri, and spent the next 400 days on the streets as an activist, helping to bring the Black Lives Matter movement into being.   Now, in his first book, he ... more

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  • Cover image of book Trump: Signs of Protest by Scott Eaton
    Trump: Signs of Protest - by Scott Eaton

    £9.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781911622383 | ISBN 10: 1911622382

    On July 13, 2018, Londoners turned out en masse to protest against Donald Trump during his visit to the United Kingdom. The author of this book arrived to participate in the march and took his camera along, just in case there might be something ‘in ... more

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  • Cover image of book No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference (Illustrated Edition) by Greta Thunberg
    No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference (Illustrated Edition) - by Greta Thunberg

    £14.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780241453445 | ISBN 10: 0241453445

    A new expanded and illustrated edition of the history-making speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young activist who has become the voice of a generation.  'We are the change and change is coming'  In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, G ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran by Masih Alinejad
    The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran - by Masih Alinejad

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780349008967 | ISBN 10: 0349008965

    BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK   This memoir is the extraordinary story of how one Iranian woman overcame enormous adversity to fight for what she truly believed and founded a major movement for women around the world with the simple removal of her ... more

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  • Cover image of book Resist: Stories of Uprising by Ra Page (Editor)
    Resist: Stories of Uprising - by Ra Page (Editor)

    £14.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781912697076 | ISBN 10: 1912697076

    Featuring Julia Bell, SJ Bradley, Jude Brown, Lucy Caldwell, Steve Chambers, Martin Edwards, Uschi Gatward, Luan Goldie, Gaia Holmes, Nikita Lalwani, Zoe Lambert, Anna Lewis, Irfan Master, Donny O'Rourke, Kamila Shamsie, Bidisha SK Mamata, Karline Sm ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Long
    The Long '68: Radical Protest and Its Enemies - by Richard Vinen

    £10.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780141982526 | ISBN 10: 0141982527

    1968 saw an extraordinary range of protests across much of the western world. Some of these were genuinely revolutionary - around ten million French workers went on strike and the whole state teetered on the brink of collapse. Others were more easily ... more

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  • Cover image of book Now We Have Your Attention: The New Politics of the People by Jack Shenker
    Now We Have Your Attention: The New Politics of the People - by Jack Shenker

    £16.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781847925404 | ISBN 10: 1847925405

    "One of the most important and compelling books I've ever read, by one of Britain's most gifted writers. If you want to understand why we are in this crisis, listen to the voices all too often airbrushed from the political conversation"(Owen Jones) ... more

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  • Cover image of book How to be a Craftivist: The Art of Gentle Protest by Sarah Corbett
    How to be a Craftivist: The Art of Gentle Protest - by Sarah Corbett

    £10.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781783528431 | ISBN 10: 1783528435

    How to Be a Craftivist is a manifesto for quiet activism: how to tackle issues not with shouting and aggression but with gentle protest, using the process of ‘making’ to engage thoughtfully in the issues we are about, to influence and effect chan ... more

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  • Cover image of book Protest: Britain on the March by Mirrorpix
    Protest: Britain on the March - by Mirrorpix

    £12.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780750990721 | ISBN 10: 0750990724

    "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."(Margaret Mead) Britain was built on protest. From Magna Carta to the suffragettes, the Peasants’ Revolt to ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by adrienne maree brown
    Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good - by adrienne maree brown

    £14.00   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781849353267 | ISBN 10: 1849353263

    How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life?   Author and editor adrienne maree brown finds the ans ... more

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  • Cover image of book Parkland by Dave Cullen
    Parkland - by Dave Cullen

    £14.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781787477070 | ISBN 10: 178747707x

    The deeply moving account of the extraordinary teenage survivors of the Parkland shooting.  Emma Gonzalez called BS. David Hogg called out Adult America. Cameron Kasky recruited a colorful band of teenagers. Four days after escaping Marjory S ... more

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  • Cover image of book Let Her Fly: A Father
    Let Her Fly: A Father's Journey and the Fight for Equality - by Ziauddin Yousafzai, with Louise Carpenter

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780753552988 | ISBN 10: 0753552981

    In this intimate and extraordinary memoir, Ziauddin Yousafzai, the father of Malala, gives a moving account of fatherhood and his lifelong fight for equality – proving there are many faces of feminism.  “Whenever anybody has asked me how Mala ... more

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  • Cover image of book No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg
    No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference - by Greta Thunberg

    £2.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780141991740 | ISBN 10: 0141991747

    The history-making, ground-breaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young activist who has become the voice of a generation.   'Everything needs to change. And it has to start today'   In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Gre ... more

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  • Cover image of book After Grenfell: Violence, Resistance and Response by Dan Bulley, Jenny Edkins, Nadine El-Enany (Editors)
    After Grenfell: Violence, Resistance and Response - by Dan Bulley, Jenny Edkins, Nadine El-Enany (Editors)

    £16.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780745339580 | ISBN 10: 0745339581

    On the 14th June 2017, a fire engulfed a tower block in West London, seventy-two people lost their lives and hundreds of others were left displaced and traumatised. The Grenfell Tower fire is the epicentre of a long history of violence enacted by gov ... more

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  • Cover image of book This Is Not A Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook by Extinction Rebellion
    This Is Not A Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook - by Extinction Rebellion

    £7.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780141991443 | ISBN 10: 0141991445

    Extinction Rebellion are inspiring a whole generation to take action on climate breakdown. Now you can become part of the movement - and together, we can make history.   It's time. This is our last chance to do anything about the global climate ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Groundings with My Brothers by Walter Rodney
    The Groundings with My Brothers - by Walter Rodney

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781788731157 | ISBN 10: 1788731158

    A remarkable book on the international operations of racism and the global meaning of Black Power.  In this classic work published in the heady days of anti-colonial revolution, Groundings with My Brothers follows the global circulation of em ... more

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  • Cover image of book Change the World Without Taking Power: The Meaning of Revolution Today by John Holloway
    Change the World Without Taking Power: The Meaning of Revolution Today - by John Holloway

    £17.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780745339320 | ISBN 10: 0745339328

    This book is a profound search for a theory of social change. Through clearing away the cobwebs of revolutionary socialism, it renews the fight for the ending of capitalism and the construction of a new, fairer world.   After a century of fail ... more

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  • Cover image of book F**k the Establishment: 101 ways to get your voice heard and change the world by The F Team
    F**k the Establishment: 101 ways to get your voice heard and change the world - by The F Team

    £6.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781841883663 | ISBN 10: 1841883662

    A helpful and positive illustrated guide to exacting the change in the world you want to see, using the tools you already have at your disposal.   The mood in the world right now isn’t good. Some of us might be feeling let down by our govern ... more

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  • Cover image of book Protest Stencil Toolkit (Revised edition) by Patrick Thomas
    Protest Stencil Toolkit (Revised edition) - by Patrick Thomas

    £19.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786273710 | ISBN 10: 1786273713

    With this book anyone can create protest graphics. The 46 die-cut stencils, plus a bespoke typeface, can be combined to create both slogans and powerful visual messages, and are robust enough to be re-used any number of times.   There are cla ... more

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  • Cover image of book 50 Years Legal: Five Decades of Fighting for Equal Rights by Simon Napier-Bell, edited with Mark Neeter
    50 Years Legal: Five Decades of Fighting for Equal Rights - by Simon Napier-Bell, edited with Mark Neeter

    £12.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781911346203 | ISBN 10: 1911346202

    This is both the story of the 50-year battle for equal rights and deeply personal accounts from high profile politicians, comedians, actors and others in the public arena.  The book features contributions from David Hockney, Stephen Fry, Julian Clar ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution by David Harvey
    Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution - by David Harvey

    £11.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781788734929 | ISBN 10: 1788734920

    Rousing manifesto on the city and the commons from the acclaimed theorist.  Long before Occupy, cities were the subject of much utopian thinking. They are the centers of capital accumulation as well as of revolutionary politics, where deeper cu ... more

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  • Cover image of book Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline by Nick Estes
    Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline - by Nick Estes

    £16.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786636720 | ISBN 10: 1786636727

    How two centuries of Indigenous resistance created the movement proclaiming “Water is life.”  In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Acce ... more

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  • Cover image of book This Is How We Survive: Revolutionary Mothering, War, and Exile in the 21st Century by Mai’a Williams
    This Is How We Survive: Revolutionary Mothering, War, and Exile in the 21st Century - by Mai’a Williams

    £14.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781629635569 | ISBN 10: 1629635561

    In This Is How We Survive: Revolutionary Mothering, War, and Exile in the 21st Century, Mai’a Williams shares her experiences working in conflict zones and with liberatory resistance communities as a journalist, human rights worker, and midwife in ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Food Activist Handbook by Ali Berlow
    The Food Activist Handbook - by Ali Berlow

    £12.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781612121802 | ISBN 10: 1612121802

    One person really can make a difference.   From starting neighborhood kitchens to connecting food pantries with local family farms, Ali Berlow offers a variety of simple and practical strategies for improving your community’s food quality a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Intimate Violence within Activist Communities by Ching-In Chen, Jai Dulani and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (Editors)
    The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Intimate Violence within Activist Communities - by Ching-In Chen, Jai Dulani and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (Editors)

    £12.50   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781849352628 | ISBN 10: 1849352623

    The Revolution Starts at Home is as urgently needed today as when it was first published. This watershed collection breaks the dangerous silence surrounding the “secret” of intimate violence within social justice circles.  Just as importantl ... more

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  • Cover image of book Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest by Zeynep Tufekci
    Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest - by Zeynep Tufekci

    £10.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780300234176 | ISBN 10: 0300234171

    A firsthand account and incisive analysis of modern protest, revealing internet-fueled social movements’ greatest strengths and frequent challenges.  To understand a thwarted Turkish coup, an anti-Wall Street encampment, and a packed Tahrir ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Shock Doctrine of the Left by Graham Jones
    The Shock Doctrine of the Left - by Graham Jones

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781509528554 | ISBN 10: 1509528555

    Shocks, from natural disasters to military catastrophes, have been exploited for years by the state to impose privatisation, cuts and rampant free markets on us. This book argues that the Left can turn this on its head by using those same moments of ... more

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  • Cover image of book CND At 60: Britain
    CND At 60: Britain's Most Enduring Mass Movement - by Kate Hudson

    £12.95   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780995535244 | ISBN 10: 0995535248

    Kate Hudson’s new book charts the inside story of CND over six decades, as it became a byword for protest and radicalism.   This book is timed to coincide with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament’s 60th anniversary, drawing on archive m ... more

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  • Cover image of book May Made Me: An Oral History of the 1968 Uprising in France by Mitchell Abidor
    May Made Me: An Oral History of the 1968 Uprising in France - by Mitchell Abidor

    £12.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780745336947 | ISBN 10: 0745336949

    The mass protests that shook France in May 1968 were exciting, dangerous, creative and influential, changing European politics to this day. Students demonstrated, workers went on general strike, factories and universities were occupied. At the height ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stick it to the Man by Stickerbomb
    Stick it to the Man - by Stickerbomb

    £12.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786273383 | ISBN 10: 1786273381

    This timely sticker book brings together around 200 of the best protest stickers created by artists and activists around the world. Funny, irreverent, bold and poignant, the stickers tackle the range of key issues of acute concern today, including fe ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rhodes Must Fall: The Struggle to Decolonise the Racist Heart of Empire by the Rhodes Must Fall Movement, Oxford
    Rhodes Must Fall: The Struggle to Decolonise the Racist Heart of Empire - by the Rhodes Must Fall Movement, Oxford

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786993908 | ISBN 10: 1786993902

    A decisive book written by the Rhodes Must Fall movement, offering unparalleled insight into the institutional racism at the heart of empire.   When students at Oxford University called for a statue of Cecil Rhodes to be removed, following sim ... more

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  • Cover image of book So They Call You Pisher! A Memoir by Michael Rosen
    So They Call You Pisher! A Memoir - by Michael Rosen

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786633996 | ISBN 10: 178663399x

    The brilliant family memoir of the much-beloved poet and political campaigner.  In this hilarious, moving memoir, much-loved children’s poet and political campaigner Michael Rosen recalls the first twenty-three years of his life. He was born in ... more

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  • Cover image of book Standing Rock: Greed, Oil and the Lakota
    Standing Rock: Greed, Oil and the Lakota's Struggle for Justice - by Bikem Ekberzade

    £12.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786992826 | ISBN 10: 1786992825

    In 2016, the world looked on as thousands set up camp within Standing Rock Sioux Reservation to protest the re-routing of the Dakota Access oil pipeline close to the Reservation's northern border. People from many Native American tribes were joined b ... more

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  • Cover image of book Letters to Change the World: From Pankhurst to Orwell by Travis Elborough (Editor)
    Letters to Change the World: From Pankhurst to Orwell - by Travis Elborough (Editor)

    £14.99   hardback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781785039478 | ISBN 10: 1785039474

    "We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."(Martin Luther King) In an era where the liberties we often take for granted are under threat, Letters To Change th ... more

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  • Cover image of book I Can
    I Can't Breathe: The Killing that Started a Movement - by Matt Taibbi

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780753548691 | ISBN 10: 0753548690

    The incredible story of the death of Eric Garner, the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement and the new fault lines of race, protest, policing and the power of the people.   On July 17, 2014, a forty-three-year-old black man named Eric Garner d ... more

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  • Cover image of book Resist! How to Be an Activist in the Age of Defiance by Huck and Michael Segalov
    Resist! How to Be an Activist in the Age of Defiance - by Huck and Michael Segalov

    £14.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786272171 | ISBN 10: 1786272172

    Resist! is the indispensable how-to guide for people looking to make a stand. Included are solid pieces of advice, practical tips and inspirational stories from those who have already successfully stood up and made a difference. Learn the principles ... more

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  • Cover image of book No Way But This: In Search of Paul Robeson by Jeff Sparrow
    No Way But This: In Search of Paul Robeson - by Jeff Sparrow

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781911617204 | ISBN 10: 1911617206

    Film star. Icon. Agitator. Martyr.   Paul Robeson was a brilliant student and champion athlete who abandoned a career in law to find worldwide fame as a performer and activist. He was undoubtedly the most famous African American of his time — be ... more

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  • Cover image of book #NeverAgain: A New Generation Draws the Line by David Hogg and Lauren Hogg
    #NeverAgain: A New Generation Draws the Line - by David Hogg and Lauren Hogg

    £7.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781984801838 | ISBN 10: 198480183x

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER   From two survivors of the Parkland, Florida, shooting comes a declaration for our times, and an in-depth look at the making of the #NeverAgain movement.  On February 14, 2018, seventeen-year-old David Hogg and his ... more

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  • Cover image of book No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane F. McAlevey
    No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age - by Jane F. McAlevey

    £12.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780190868659 | ISBN 10: 0190868651

    The crisis of the progressive movement is so evident that nothing less than a fundamental rethinking of its basic assumptions is required. Today's progressives now work for professional organizations more comfortable with the inside game in Washingto ... more

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  • Cover image of book Riot Days by Maria Alyokhina
    Riot Days - by Maria Alyokhina

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780141986616 | ISBN 10: 0141986611

    From activist, Pussy Riot member and freedom fighter Maria Alyokhina, a raw, hallucinatory, passionate account of her arrest, trial and imprisonment in a penal colony in the Urals for standing up for what she believed in.  People who believe in f ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bitch Doctrine: Essays for Dissenting Adults by Laurie Penny
    Bitch Doctrine: Essays for Dissenting Adults - by Laurie Penny

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781408881583 | ISBN 10: 1408881586

    "I can't really think of another writer who so consistently and bravely keeps thinking and talking and learning and trying to make the world better"(Caitlin Moran) Smart and provocative, witty and uncompromising, this collection of Laurie Penn ... more

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  • Cover image of book Street-fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties by Tariq Ali
    Street-fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties - by Tariq Ali

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786636003 | ISBN 10: 178663600x

    Tariq Ali revisits his formative years as a young radical. Reissued for the 1968 anniversary, Street-Fighting Years captures the mood and energy of the era of hope and passion as Ali tracks the growing significance of the nascent protest movement. &n ... more

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  • Cover image of book Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times by Nick Montgomery and Carla Bergman
    Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times - by Nick Montgomery and Carla Bergman

    £13.00   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781849352888 | ISBN 10: 1849352887

    Why do radical movements and spaces sometimes feel laden with fear, anxiety, suspicion, self-righteousness, and competition? Montgomery and bergman call this phenomenon rigid radicalism: congealed and toxic ways of relating that have seeped into soci ... more

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  • Cover image of book Protest! Stories of Resistance by Ra Page (Editor)
    Protest! Stories of Resistance - by Ra Page (Editor)

    £12.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781910974438 | ISBN 10: 1910974439

    Whatever happened to British protest?  For a nation that brought the world Chartism, the Suffragettes, the Tolpuddle Martyrs, and so many other grassroots social movements, Britain rarely celebrates its long, great tradition of people power.   ... more

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  • Cover image of book Posters for Change: Tear, Paste, Protest: 50 Removable Posters by Various artists
    Posters for Change: Tear, Paste, Protest: 50 Removable Posters - by Various artists

    £21.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781616896928 | ISBN 10: 1616896922

    The US presidential election in 2016 brought to a head myriad political activism around the world, around the rights of minorities, women, the LGBTQ community, and the environment. In the midst of this turmoil, nearly 300 designers from around the wo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Reframing 1968: American Politics, Protest and Identity by Martin Halliwell and Nick Witham (Editors)
    Reframing 1968: American Politics, Protest and Identity - by Martin Halliwell and Nick Witham (Editors)

    £24.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780748698950 | ISBN 10: 0748698957

    The first 50-year retrospective of the most tumultuous year the 1960s for activism and radical politics.  The assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr and Robert Kennedy. Gay rights, women's rights and civil rights. The Black Panthers and the Viet ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sophie Scholl and the White Rose by Annette Dumbach and Jud Newborn
    Sophie Scholl and the White Rose - by Annette Dumbach and Jud Newborn

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786072504 | ISBN 10: 1786072505

    This is the gripping story of the five Munich university students who set up an underground resistance movement in World War II, featured in the award-winning Oscar-nominated film, Sophie Scholl - The Final Days.  This 75th anniversary edition c ... more

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  • Cover image of book Radicals: Outsiders Changing the World by Jamie Bartlett
    Radicals: Outsiders Changing the World - by Jamie Bartlett

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780099592723 | ISBN 10: 009959272x

    In the last few years the world has changed in unexpected ways. The power of radical ideas and groups is growing. What was once considered extreme is now the mainstream. But what is life like on the political fringes? What is the real power of radica ... more

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  • Cover image of book As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
    As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance - by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

    £18.99   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781517903862 | ISBN 10: 1517903866

    How to build Indigenous resistance movements that refuse the destructive thinking of settler colonialism.  Leanne Betasamosake Simpson locates Indigenous political resurgence as a practice rooted in uniquely Indigenous theorizing, writing, or ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beyond Terror: The Truth About the Real Threats to Our World by Chris Abbott, Paul Rogers and John Sloboda
    Beyond Terror: The Truth About the Real Threats to Our World - by Chris Abbott, Paul Rogers and John Sloboda

    £6.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781846045462 | ISBN 10: 1846045460

    Is international terrorism really the single greatest threat to world security? �Since the 9/11 attacks, many Western governments assume terrorism to be the greatest threat that we face. In response, their dangerous policies attempt to maintain con ... more

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  • Cover image of book Student Revolt: Voices of the Austerity Generation by Matt Myers
    Student Revolt: Voices of the Austerity Generation - by Matt Myers

    £12.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780745337340 | ISBN 10: 0745337341

    *Selected as one of openDemocracy's Best Political Books of 2017*   Whatever happened to the student revolt? In 2010 young people across Britain took to the streets to defy a wave of government attacks on education, increasing tuition fees, an ... more

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  • Cover image of book Crafting the Resistance: 35 Projects for Craftivists, Protestors, and Women Who Persist by Lara Neel and Heather Marano
    Crafting the Resistance: 35 Projects for Craftivists, Protestors, and Women Who Persist - by Lara Neel and Heather Marano

    £12.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781510731387 | ISBN 10: 1510731385

    Knit, sew, and craft your way to self-empowerment.  Are you a Nasty Woman ready to smash the patriarchy with a needle and thread? Proudly proclaim your feminism with your very own DIY Bleeding Heart T-shirt? Or stage a protest with the rest of th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Why Don
    Why Don't The Poor Rise Up? Organizing the Twenty-First Century Resistance - by Michael Truscello and Ajamu Nangwaya (Editors)

    £16.50   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781849352789 | ISBN 10: 184935278x

    Poverty is on the rise, especially since the 2008 economic meltdown. Riots and urban insurrections are also on the rise, and are becoming increasingly confrontational and intense.  Why Don't the Poor Rise Up? asks why the former hasn't led to mo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Guerillas Of Desire: Notes on Everyday Resistance and Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible by Kevin Van Meter
    Guerillas Of Desire: Notes on Everyday Resistance and Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible - by Kevin Van Meter

    £16.50   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781849352727 | ISBN 10: 1849352720

    Behind the smiling faces of cashiers, wait staff, and workers of all sorts, a war is going on, usually without the knowledge of official political and labor organizations.   Guerrillas of Desire begins with a provocation: The Left is wrong. I ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Leveller Revolution: Radical Political Organisation in England, 1640-1650 by John Rees
    The Leveller Revolution: Radical Political Organisation in England, 1640-1650 - by John Rees

    £11.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784783891 | ISBN 10: 1784783897

    The gripping story of the Levellers, the radical movement at the heart of the English Revolution.  The Levellers, formed out of the explosive tumult of the 1640s and the battlefields of the Civil War, are central figures in the history of dem ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Way of the Activist by Jamie Driscoll & Rachel Broadbent
    The Way of the Activist - by Jamie Driscoll & Rachel Broadbent

    £11.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781999939106 | ISBN 10: 1999939107

    The best way to learn is to participate. Don't leave it to the experts: learn for yourself.   When is an emotional argument more effective than a logical one? What are the group dynamics that determine an organisations success or failure? How do i ... more

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  • Cover image of book Change: Organising Tomorrow, Today by Jay Naidoo
    Change: Organising Tomorrow, Today - by Jay Naidoo

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781776091805 | ISBN 10: 1776091809

    Unless there is significant change, the world is heading for an explosion. The growing gap between rich and poor is dangerous and unsustainable. The plundering of resources is damaging our planet. Something has to be done.   In this book, Jay ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Naked Blogger of Cairo: Creative Insurgency in the Arab World by Marwan M. Kraidy
    The Naked Blogger of Cairo: Creative Insurgency in the Arab World - by Marwan M. Kraidy

    £15.95   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780674980051 | ISBN 10: 0674980050

    Uprisings spread like wildfire across the Arab world from 2010 to 2012, fueled by a desire for popular sovereignty. In Tunisia, Egypt, and Syria, protesters flooded the streets and the media, voicing dissent through slogans, graffiti, puppetry, video ... more

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  • Cover image of book How to Resist: Turn Protest to Power by Matthew Bolton
    How to Resist: Turn Protest to Power - by Matthew Bolton

    £9.99   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781408892725 | ISBN 10: 1408892723

    "This extraordinary book is the roadmap for a new kind of effective activism."(Brian Eno) "This book is for people who are angry with the ways things are and want to do something about it; for people who are frustrated with the system, or worried ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ten Years on the Parish: The Autobiography and Letters of George Garrett by Mike Morris, Tony Wailey, and Andrew Davies (Editors)
    Ten Years on the Parish: The Autobiography and Letters of George Garrett - by Mike Morris, Tony Wailey, and Andrew Davies (Editors)

    £12.00   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786940759 | ISBN 10: 1786940752

    George Garrett’s autobiographical work Ten Years On The Parish, published here in full for the first time since it was written in the late 1930s, shines a light on the hardships and poverty endured by many in the years between the wars. Garrett was ... more

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  • Cover image of book Until We Are Free: My Fight For Human Rights in Iran by Shirin Ebadi
    Until We Are Free: My Fight For Human Rights in Iran - by Shirin Ebadi

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781846045028 | ISBN 10: 1846045029

    In this powerful book, Dr Shirin Ebadi, Iranian human rights lawyer and activist, tells of her fight for reform inside Iran, and the devastating backlash she faced after winning the Nobel Peace Prize.   Having fought tirelessly for democracy, equa ... more

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  • Cover image of book Creating Freedom: Power, Control and the Fight for Our Future by Raoul Martinez
    Creating Freedom: Power, Control and the Fight for Our Future - by Raoul Martinez

    £10.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781782111887 | ISBN 10: 1782111883

    The ideal of freedom is at the heart of our political and economic system. It is foundational to our sense of justice, our way of life, our conception of what it is to be human. But are we free in the way that we think we are?  In Creating Freedo ... more

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  • Cover image of book People Power: Fighting for Peace from the First World War to the Present by Lyn Smith
    People Power: Fighting for Peace from the First World War to the Present - by Lyn Smith

    £24.95   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780500519158 | ISBN 10: 0500519153

    People Power charts the history of the anti-war movement in the UK from the outbreak of the First World War to present-day conflicts in the Middle East, telling the story of conscientious objectors and others who have been engaged in protest over the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bob Crow: Socialist, Leader, Fighter: A Political Biography by Gregor Gall
    Bob Crow: Socialist, Leader, Fighter: A Political Biography - by Gregor Gall

    £20.00   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781526100290 | ISBN 10: 1526100290

    Bob Crow was the most high-profile and militant union leader of his generation. This biography focuses on his leadership of the RMT union, examining and exposing a number of popular myths created about him by political opponents. Using the schema of ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin by Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin
    Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin - by Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin

    £12.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781909762572 | ISBN 10: 1909762571

    On February 26th 2012 seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was walking home with a bag of Skittles and a can of juice when a fatal encounter with a gun-wielding neighbourhood watchman ended his young life. In a matter of weeks, Trayvon Martin’s name w ... more

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  • Cover image of book Women
    Women's Activism in Africa: Struggles for Rights and Representation - by Balghis Badri and Aili Mari Tripp (Editor)

    £19.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781783609086 | ISBN 10: 1783609087

    Throughout Africa, growing numbers of women are coming together and making their voices heard, mobilising around causes ranging from democracy and land rights to campaigns against domestic violence. In Tanzania and Tunisia, women have made major gain ... more

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  • Cover image of book "They Can
    "They Can't Kill Us All": The Story of Black Lives Matter - by Wesley Lowery

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780141986142 | ISBN 10: 014198614x

    A deeply reported book on the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement, offering unparalleled insight into the reality of police violence in America, and an intimate, moving portrait of those working to end it   In over a year of on-the-ground ... more

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  • Cover image of book Greenpeace Captain: Bizarre Wanderings on the Rainbow Warrior by Peter Willcox
    Greenpeace Captain: Bizarre Wanderings on the Rainbow Warrior - by Peter Willcox

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781910985526 | ISBN 10: 191098552x

    In over 30 years as a senior captain for Greenpeace International, Peter Willcox has been in the vanguard of the international environmentalist movement. He has led crews into battle for the good of the planet against whale killers, nuclear testing s ... more

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  • Cover image of book From the Lines of Dissent by Media Diversified
    From the Lines of Dissent - by Media Diversified

    £10.00   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780993103889 | ISBN 10: 099310388x

    From the Lines of Dissent is a compilation of select articles, comment pieces and academic analysis originally commissioned for Media Diversified's online platform, covering politics, literature, sexuality, education, religion, media and much more. T ... more

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  • Cover image of book Specters of Revolt by Richard Gilman-Opalsky
    Specters of Revolt - by Richard Gilman-Opalsky

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781910924365 | ISBN 10: 1910924369

    In 1848, Karl Marx declared that a communist specter was haunting Europe. In 1994, Jacques Derrida considered how the specter of Marx would haunt the post-Cold War world. In Specters of Revolt, Gilman-Opalsky argues that the world is haunted by revol ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance by John Berger
    Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance - by John Berger

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784783723 | ISBN 10: 1784783722

    Hold Everything Dear is John Berger's vital response to today's global economic and military tyranny. From Hurricane Katrina, 9/11 and 7/7, to resistance in Ramallah and traumatic dislocation in the Middle East, it is a profound meditation on what po ... more

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  • Cover image of book Re-Enchanting the Activist: Spirituality and Social Change by Keith Hebden
    Re-Enchanting the Activist: Spirituality and Social Change - by Keith Hebden

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781785920417 | ISBN 10: 1785920413

    In this energising book, Keith Hebden gathers inspiring first-hand accounts that show how spirituality and politics are converging to reignite modern activism.   Informative and eye-opening, it explores the meaning of activism in a world that ... more

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  • Cover image of book Keywords for Radicals: The Contested Vocabulary of Late Capitalist Struggle by Kelly Fritsch, Clare O
    Keywords for Radicals: The Contested Vocabulary of Late Capitalist Struggle - by Kelly Fritsch, Clare O'Connor and A.K. Thompson (Editors)

    £18.95   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781849352420 | ISBN 10: 1849352429

    In Keywords (1976), Raymond Williams devised a "vocabulary" that reflected the vast social transformations of the post-war period. He revealed how these transformations could be grasped by investigating changes in word usage and meaning. Keywords for ... more

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  • Cover image of book Things That Can and Cannot Be Said by John Cusack and Arundhati Roy
    Things That Can and Cannot Be Said - by John Cusack and Arundhati Roy

    £6.00   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780241980088 | ISBN 10: 0241980089

    An account of the extraordinary meeting between four brilliant political activists: Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy, NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden, Pentagon Papers insider Daniel Ellsberg and acclaimed actor John Cusack.  'What sort of ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Dissent: Revolutionary Words from Three Millennia of Rebellion and Resistance by Andrew Hsiao
    The Book of Dissent: Revolutionary Words from Three Millennia of Rebellion and Resistance - by Andrew Hsiao

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784786175 | ISBN 10: 1784786179

    Throughout the ages and across every continent, people have struggled against those in power and raised their voices in protest - rallying others around them and inspiring uprisings in eras yet to come.  Their echoes reverberate from Ancient Gre ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ida B. Wells: Social Activist and Reformer by Kristina DuRocher
    Ida B. Wells: Social Activist and Reformer - by Kristina DuRocher

    £24.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781138786882 | ISBN 10: 1138786888

    Born into slavery in 1862, Ida B. Wells went on to become an influential reformer and leader in the African American community. A Southern black woman living in a time when little social power was available to people of her race or gender, Ida B. Wel ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit
    Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities - by Rebecca Solnit

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781782119074 | ISBN 10: 1782119078

    At a time when political, environmental and social gloom can seem overpowering, this remarkable work offers a lucid, affirmative and well-argued case for hope.   This exquisite work traces a history of activism and social change over the past ... more

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  • Cover image of book Left Field: The Memoir of a Lifelong Activist by David Wilson
    Left Field: The Memoir of a Lifelong Activist - by David Wilson

    £20.00   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781783522262 | ISBN 10: 1783522267

    David Wilson has been a gaucho, a teacher, an artist's agent, a documentary filmmaker and playwright, but above all, he has been a lifelong political activist. In the 60s he marched to Aldermaston. In the 70s he protested against the Vietnam War and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ideas for Action: Relevant Theory for Radical Change by Cynthia Kaufman
    Ideas for Action: Relevant Theory for Radical Change - by Cynthia Kaufman

    £17.90   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781629631479 | ISBN 10: 1629631477

    Written in an engaging and accessible style, Ideas for Action gives activists the intellectual tools to turn discontent into a plan of action. Exploring a wide range of political traditions including Marxism, anarchism, anti-imperialism, postmodern ... more

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  • Cover image of book Year of Fire, Year of Ash: The Soweto Schoolchildren
    Year of Fire, Year of Ash: The Soweto Schoolchildren's Revolt That Shook Apartheid - by Baruch Hirson

    £14.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781783608966 | ISBN 10: 178360896x

    "We can say without fear of being contradicted by history, that June 16, 1976 heralded the beginning of the end of the centuries-old white rule in this country"(Nelson Mandela ) Originally banned on publication by the apartheid government, Year ... more

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  • Cover image of book Riot. Strike. Riot. The New Era of Uprisings by Joshua Clover
    Riot. Strike. Riot. The New Era of Uprisings - by Joshua Clover

    £14.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784780593 | ISBN 10: 1784780596

    Award-winning poet Joshua Clover theorizes the riot as the form of the coming insurrection  Baltimore. Ferguson. Tottenham. Clichy-sous-Bois. Oakland. Ours has become an age of riots as the struggle of people versus state and capital has take ... more

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  • Cover image of book When We Fight, We Win by Greg Jobin-Leeds and AgitArte
    When We Fight, We Win - by Greg Jobin-Leeds and AgitArte

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781620970935 | ISBN 10: 1620970937

    Real stories of hard-fought battles for social change, with clear lessons and tips for activists to build powerful movements. "At the cliff edge of history is as good a place as any to mine insights that can benefit all those brave enough to try m ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bobby Sands: Nothing But an Unfinished Song by Denis O
    Bobby Sands: Nothing But an Unfinished Song - by Denis O' Hearn

    £16.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780745336336 | ISBN 10: 0745336337

    This is the best-selling biography of the IRA resistance fighter and hunger-striker, Bobby Sands. In this updated, new edition, Denis O'Hearn draws from a wealth of interviews with friends, comrades, fellow prisoners and prison wardens, to provide a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia by Bryan Talbot and Mary Talbot
    The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia - by Bryan Talbot and Mary Talbot

    £16.99   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780224102346 | ISBN 10: 0224102346

    Set against the background of violence and state repression in a turbulent period of French history, The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia chronicles the incredible and outrageous life of Louise Michel, the revolutionary feminist dubbed The Red Vi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America by Dana Frank
    Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America - by Dana Frank

    £11.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781608465354 | ISBN 10: 1608465357

    Women banana workers have organized themselves and gained increasing control over their unions, their workplaces, and their lives.  Highly accessible and narrative in style, Bananeras recounts the history and growth of this vital movement and sh ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS by Martin Duberman
    Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS - by Martin Duberman

    £14.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781620971925 | ISBN 10: 1620971925

    The Lambda Literary Awardwinning biography of two men fighting for their lives in the early days of the AIDS epidemic, from the celebrated historian. "A meticulously researched, nuanced, empathic and insightful portrait of two important artistic ... more

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  • Cover image of book Shooting Hipsters: Rethinking Dissent in the Age of PR by Christiana Spens
    Shooting Hipsters: Rethinking Dissent in the Age of PR - by Christiana Spens

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781910924167 | ISBN 10: 1910924164

    In an age of PR, public protest and other forms of dissent have lost their meaning and impact. The intense media interest in rioting and political violence, as well as an existing obsession with youth culture, have led to an over-saturation and misre ... more

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  • Cover image of book Raif Badawi: The Voice of Freedom - My Husband, Our Story by Ensaf Haidar and Andrea C Hoffmann
    Raif Badawi: The Voice of Freedom - My Husband, Our Story - by Ensaf Haidar and Andrea C Hoffmann

    £14.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781408707937 | ISBN 10: 1408707934

    A powerful and moving account of the treatment of Raif Badawi, the Saudi blogger sentenced to 1000 lashes, as well as the story of his wife and their family's struggle.  The whole world knows the face of the young man with the bright black ey ... more

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  • Cover image of book I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Quick Reads) by Malala Yousafzai
    I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Quick Reads) - by Malala Yousafzai

    £1.00   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781474600484 | ISBN 10: 1474600484

    A special abridged Quick Reads edition of I Am Malala, the bestselling memoir from the youngest-ever winner of a Nobel Prize. *Winner of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize* When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley, one girl fought for her right ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz by Aaron Swartz
    The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz - by Aaron Swartz

    £15.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784784966 | ISBN 10: 1784784966

    The writings of the computer genius and Internet hacktivist whose tragic suicide shook the world. In January 2013, Aaron Swartz, under arrest and threatened with thirty-five years imprisonment, committed suicide. He was twenty-six. But in his shor ... more

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  • Cover image of book Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary by Gerald Horne
    Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary - by Gerald Horne

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780745335322 | ISBN 10: 0745335322

    A world-famous singer and actor, a trained lawyer, an early star of American professional football and a polyglot who spoke over a dozen languages. These could be the crowning achievements of a life well-lived, yet for Paul Robeson the higher calling ... more

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  • Cover image of book Playing as If the World Mattered: An Illustrated History of Activism in Sports by Gabriel Kuhn
    Playing as If the World Mattered: An Illustrated History of Activism in Sports - by Gabriel Kuhn

    £11.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781629630977 | ISBN 10: 1629630977

    The world of sports is often associated with commercialism, corruption, and reckless competition. Liberals have objected to sport being used for political propaganda, and leftists have decried its role in distracting the masses from the class struggl ... more

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  • Cover image of book Improper Names: Collective Pseudonyms from the Luddites to Anonymous by Marco Deseriis
    Improper Names: Collective Pseudonyms from the Luddites to Anonymous - by Marco Deseriis

    £20.00   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780816694877 | ISBN 10: 0816694877

    The first comprehensive analysis of the shared pseudonym, a collective strategy to build symbolic power that challenges established forms of political and aesthetic representation. Bridging gaps among the history of the labor movement, cinema stu ... more

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  • Cover image of book Snowden by Ted Rall
    Snowden - by Ted Rall

    £11.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781609806354 | ISBN 10: 1609806352

    As many as 1.4 million citizens with security clearance saw some or all of the same documents that would later be leaked by Edward Snowden. Why did he, and no one else, decide to step forward and take on the risks associated with becoming a whistlebl ... more

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  • Cover image of book I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb
    I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban - by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781474602112 | ISBN 10: 1474602118

    The highly anticipated memoir of Malala Yousafzai, the schoolgirl from Pakistan's Swat region who stood up to the Taliban. I come from a country which was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday. When the Taliban to ... more

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  • Cover image of book First Measures of the Coming Insurrection by Eric Hazan and Kamo
    First Measures of the Coming Insurrection - by Eric Hazan and Kamo

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781783604098 | ISBN 10: 1783604093

    We have witnessed a beginning, the birth of a new age of revolt and upheaval. In North Africa and the Middle East it took the people a matter of days to topple what were supposedly entrenched regimes. Now, to the west, multiple crises are etching awa ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous by Gabriella Coleman
    Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous - by Gabriella Coleman

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781781689837 | ISBN 10: 1781689830

    Here is the ultimate book on the worldwide movement of hackers, pranksters, and activists that operates under the non-name Anonymous, by the writer the Huffington Post says knows all of Anonymous deepest, darkest secrets.   Half a dozen yea ... more

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  • Cover image of book Percy Bysshe Shelley Poet and Revolutionary by Jacqueline Mulhallen
    Percy Bysshe Shelley Poet and Revolutionary - by Jacqueline Mulhallen

    £12.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780745334615 | ISBN 10: 074533461x

    Today, Percy Bysshe Shelley has memorials in Poets Corner in Westminster Abbey and at Oxford University. Most famous for poems such as 'To A Skylark', 'Ozymandias' and 'The Mask of Anarchy', he is considered a major Romantic poet with important new ... more

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  • Cover image of book Photography and Social Movements by Antigoni Memou
    Photography and Social Movements - by Antigoni Memou

    £18.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780719099991 | ISBN 10: 0719099994

    Now available for the first time in paperback, Photography and Social Movements is the first thorough study of photographys interrelationship with social movements. Focusing on photographic production and dissemination during the student and wo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Spiritual Activism: Leadership as Service by Alastair McIntosh and Matt Carmichael
    Spiritual Activism: Leadership as Service - by Alastair McIntosh and Matt Carmichael

    £19.99   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780857843005 | ISBN 10: 0857843001

    Over the past half century the issues facing activists have changed, as has our understanding and awareness of spirituality. For activists, spiritual philosophy is rising up the agenda because it offers distinct, tried and tested approaches to deep q ... more

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  • Cover image of book 1000 Lashes Because I Say What I Think by Raif Badawi
    1000 Lashes Because I Say What I Think - by Raif Badawi

    £5.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781771642095 | ISBN 10: 1771642092

    "Raif Badawi's is an important voice for all of us to hear, mild, nuanced, but clear. His examination of his culture is perceptive and rigorous. Of course he must be saved from the dreadful sentence against him and the appalling conditions of his imp ... more

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  • Cover image of book We Have Nothing to Lose But Our Fear: Activism and Resistance in Dangerous Times by Fiona Jeffries
    We Have Nothing to Lose But Our Fear: Activism and Resistance in Dangerous Times - by Fiona Jeffries

    £14.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781783604142 | ISBN 10: 178360414x

    Our 24/7 lives are saturated with round-the-clock fear. Scare-tactic headlines fill our homes and our public spaces. If its not the war on terror, its the new war on the middle class. Crisis is the new black, as catastrophe after casualty after cra ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Headscarf Revolutionaries: Lillian Bilocca and the Hull Triple-Trawler Disaster by Brian W. Lavery
    The Headscarf Revolutionaries: Lillian Bilocca and the Hull Triple-Trawler Disaster - by Brian W. Lavery

    £12.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781909954144 | ISBN 10: 1909954144

    Brian W. Laverys The Headscarf Revolutionaries takes readers back to the highly dramatic Winter of 1968. Three trawlers from Hulls fleet sank in rapid succession. One fishwife, Lillian Bilocca, put down her filleting knife. It sickened her that ... more

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  • Cover image of book Remnants: A Memoir of Spirit, Activism, and Mothering by Rosemarie Freeney Harding with Rachel Elizabeth Harding
    Remnants: A Memoir of Spirit, Activism, and Mothering - by Rosemarie Freeney Harding with Rachel Elizabeth Harding

    £16.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780822358794 | ISBN 10: 0822358794

    An activist influential in the civil rights movement, Rosemarie Freeney Hardings spirituality blended many traditions, including southern African American mysticism, Anabaptist Christianity, Tibetan Buddhism, and Afro-Brazilian Candombl.  Remn ... more

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  • Cover image of book Speakers
    Speakers' Corner: Debate, Democracy and Disturbing the Peace - by Philip Wolmuth

    £14.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780750961066 | ISBN 10: 0750961066

    Speakers Corner is a unique look at the people who come to argue, discuss and preach at Speakers Corner in Londons Hyde Park, regarded worldwide as the home of free speech. Many of the photographs, taken on Sunday afternoons stretching back almost ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rebel Footprints: A Guide to Uncovering London
    Rebel Footprints: A Guide to Uncovering London's Radical History - by David Rosenberg

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780745334097 | ISBN 10: 0745334091

    The radical response to conservative heritage tours and banal day-tripper guides, Rebel Footprints brings to life the history of social movements in the capital. Transporting readers from well-known landmarks to history-making hidden corners, David R ... more

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  • Cover image of book Youth Activism in an Era of Education Inequality by Ben Kirshner
    Youth Activism in an Era of Education Inequality - by Ben Kirshner

    £18.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781479898053 | ISBN 10: 1479898058

    This is what democracy looks like: Youth organizers in Colorado negotiate new school discipline policies to end the school to jail track. Latino and African American students march to district headquarters to protest high school closure. Young immigr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Northern ReSisters: Conversations with Radical Women by Bernadette Hyland
    Northern ReSisters: Conversations with Radical Women - by Bernadette Hyland

    £5.95      (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780993224706 | ISBN 10: 0993224709

    Bernadette Hyland interviews nine women from the North of England (including our own Mandy!) who have been active in some of the most important political campaigns of the last forty years, including trade unionism, Women's Liberation, anti-racism, th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Artwash: Big Oil and the Arts by Mel Evans
    Artwash: Big Oil and the Arts - by Mel Evans

    £12.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780745335889 | ISBN 10: 0745335888

    Published on the fifth anniversary of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, Artwash is an intervention into the unsavoury role of the Big Oil company's sponsorship of the arts in Britain. Based on a high profile campaign, Mel Evans targets Chevron, Exxo ... more

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  • Cover image of book How to Start a Revolution by Lucy-Anne Holmes
    How to Start a Revolution - by Lucy-Anne Holmes

    £2.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780552172066 | ISBN 10: 0552172065

    A bite-sized guide to making change happen and the story behind the No More Page 3 campaign, written by its founder.   Change doesnt just happen. It starts with the idea that something could be different, could be better. It starts with a pe ... more

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  • Cover image of book Compaeras: Zapatista Women
    Compaeras: Zapatista Women's Stories - by Hilary Klein

    £12.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781609805876 | ISBN 10: 1609805879

    Compaeras is the untold story of womens involvement in the Zapatista movement, the indigenous rebellion that has inspired grassroots activists around the world for over two decades. Gathered here are the stories of grandmothers, mothers, and daught ... more

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  • Cover image of book Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist by Bill McKibben
    Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist - by Bill McKibben

    £10.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781250048714 | ISBN 10: 1250048710

    Bestselling author and environmental activist Bill McKibben recounts the personal and global story of the fight to build and preserve a sustainable planet.  Bill McKibben is not a person you'd expect to find handcuffed and behind bars, but that ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Coming Swarm: DDOS Actions, Hacktivism, and Civil Disobedience on the Internet by Molly Sauter
    The Coming Swarm: DDOS Actions, Hacktivism, and Civil Disobedience on the Internet - by Molly Sauter

    £13.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781623564568 | ISBN 10: 1623564565

    What is Hacktivism?   In The Coming Swarm, rising star Molly Sauter examines the history, development, theory, and practice of distributed denial of service actions as a tactic of political activism. The internet is a vital arena of communica ... more

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  • Cover image of book Turning Money into Rebellion: The Unlikely Story of Denmark
    Turning Money into Rebellion: The Unlikely Story of Denmark's Revolutionary Bank Robbers - by Gabriel Kuhn

    £14.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781604863161 | ISBN 10: 1604863161

    Blekingegade is a quiet Copenhagen street. It is also where, in May 1989, the police discovered an apartment that had served Denmarks most notorious twentieth-century bank robbers as a hideaway for years. The Blekingegade Group members belonged to a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Languages of the Unheard: Why Militant Protest is Good for Democracy by Stephen D
    Languages of the Unheard: Why Militant Protest is Good for Democracy - by Stephen D

    £14.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781783601622 | ISBN 10: 1783601620

    Martin Luther King once insisted that 'a riot is the language of the unheard.' Since 2011 swathes of protest, rebellion, and rioting have covered the globe. A new, disenfranchised generation is fighting for its voice as once again scores of police li ... more

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  • Cover image of book Comradely Greetings: The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj by Nadya Tolokonnikova and Slavoj iek
    Comradely Greetings: The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj - by Nadya Tolokonnikova and Slavoj iek

    £5.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781781687734 | ISBN 10: 1781687730

    A fascinating exchange between the punk-philosopher and the philosopher-punk.   We are the rebels asking for the storm, and believing that truth is only to be found in an endless search ... Two years of prison for Pussy Riot is our tribute to ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rainbow Warriors by Maite Mompo
    Rainbow Warriors - by Maite Mompo

    £14.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781780261720 | ISBN 10: 1780261721

    Following the lives of the three ships with the name Rainbow Warrior, this book, written by a long-serving Greenpeace activist, tells the inside stories of life on board and recounts some of the ships most exciting adventures and actions.   I ... more

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  • Cover image of book Revolution By Love: Emerging Arab Youth Voices by Dala Ghandour, Emna Ben Yedder, Mohammed Masbah and Steve Parks (Editors)
    Revolution By Love: Emerging Arab Youth Voices - by Dala Ghandour, Emna Ben Yedder, Mohammed Masbah and Steve Parks (Editors)

    £17.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780984042999 | ISBN 10: 0984042997

    Beginning in Tunisia and spreading across the Middle East and North Africa, everyday citizens stepped into the streets, staking their claim to a democratic future. The image of these protests captured the imagination of the world. Revolution by Love ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pink Sari Revolution: A Tale of Women and Power in the Badlands of India by Amana Fontanella-Khan
    Pink Sari Revolution: A Tale of Women and Power in the Badlands of India - by Amana Fontanella-Khan

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781780744063 | ISBN 10: 1780744064

    A Radio 4 Book of the Week. When Sheelu was arrested for stealing from a powerful politician in the notoriously crooked region of Uttar Pradesh, she was sure that she would be forced to accept a prison sentence, not least because she had alleged ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pirates, Punks & Politics FC St. Pauli: Falling in Love with a Radical Football Club by Nick Davidson
    Pirates, Punks & Politics FC St. Pauli: Falling in Love with a Radical Football Club - by Nick Davidson

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781907524417 | ISBN 10: 190752441x

    FC Sankt Pauli the football club in the red-light district of Hamburg; a transvestite chairman; terraces populated by punks, pimps and prostitutes; a club run by anarchists, united under the skull and crossbones flag. This is the clich that has be ... more

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  • Cover image of book The New Urban Question by Andy Merrifield
    The New Urban Question - by Andy Merrifield

    £18.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780745334837 | ISBN 10: 0745334830

    The New Urban Question is an exuberant and illuminating adventure through our current global urban condition, tracing the connections between radical urban theory and political activism.   From Haussmanns attempts to use urban planning to rid ... more

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  • Cover image of book Kicking the Kremlin: Russia
    Kicking the Kremlin: Russia's New Dissidents and the Battle to Topple Putin - by Marc Bennetts

    £11.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781780743486 | ISBN 10: 1780743483

    An astonishing journey through Russias new protest movement.   As 2011 came to a close, in what was a watershed moment, 100,000 took to Moscows freezing streets to protest the election victory of United Russia Vladimir Putins party amid ... more

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  • Cover image of book Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot by Masha Gessen
    Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot - by Masha Gessen

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781847089342 | ISBN 10: 1847089348

    On February 21st 2012, five members of an obscure feminist post-punk collective called Pussy Riot staged a performance in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. Dressed in their trademark brightly coloured dresses and balaclavas, the women perform ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hope Into Practice: Jewish Women Choosing Justice Despite Our Fears by Penny Rosenwasser
    Hope Into Practice: Jewish Women Choosing Justice Despite Our Fears - by Penny Rosenwasser

    £19.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780988918702 | ISBN 10: 0988918706

    Anchored in Jewish ethical tradition, community-building, and an activist's call to repair the world and end racism, Hope into Practice asks Jewish women for the courage to love ourselves enough to face our fears without acting on them - to free ours ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War to End Apartheid by Alan Wieder
    Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War to End Apartheid - by Alan Wieder

    £16.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781583673560 | ISBN 10: 1583673563

    Ruth First and Joe Slovo, husband and wife, were leaders of the war to end apartheid in South Africa. Communists, scholars, parents, and uncompromising militants, they were the perfect enemies for the white police state. Together they were swept up i ... more

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  • Cover image of book Revolting Subjects: Social Abjection and Resistance in Neoliberal Britain by Imogen Tyler
    Revolting Subjects: Social Abjection and Resistance in Neoliberal Britain - by Imogen Tyler

    £16.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781848138513 | ISBN 10: 1848138512

    Revolting Subjects is a groundbreaking account of social abjection in contemporary Britain, exploring how particular groups of people are figured as revolting and how they in turn revolt against their abject subjectification. The book utilizes a numb ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Power of Just Doing Stuff: How Local Action Can Change the World by Rob Hopkins
    The Power of Just Doing Stuff: How Local Action Can Change the World - by Rob Hopkins

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780857841179 | ISBN 10: 0857841173

    Something is stirring. People around the world are deciding that the well-being of their community and its economy lies with them. They're people like you. They've had enough, and, rather than waiting for permission, they're rolling up their sleeves, ... more

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  • Cover image of book The People Speak: Democracy Is Not A Spectator Sport by Colin Firth, Anthony Arnove and David Horspool
    The People Speak: Democracy Is Not A Spectator Sport - by Colin Firth, Anthony Arnove and David Horspool

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780857864482 | ISBN 10: 0857864483

    "The idea was simple - take the most impassioned speeches about the fight for what is right and bring them to life for a new generation."(Colin Firth) The People Speak tells the story of Britain through the voices of the visionaries, dissenter ... more

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  • Cover image of book Paul Robeson: A Watched Man by Jordan Goodman
    Paul Robeson: A Watched Man - by Jordan Goodman

    £20.00   hardback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781781681312 | ISBN 10: 1781681317

    In his heyday, Paul Robeson was one of the most famous people in the world; to his enemies he was also one of the most dangerous. From the 1930s to the 1960s, the African-American singer was the voice of the people, both as a performer and as a polit ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Little Book of Craftivism by Sarah Corbett
    A Little Book of Craftivism - by Sarah Corbett

    £5.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781908714077 | ISBN 10: 1908714077

    Craftivism is a term coined by Betsy Greer, referring to the raising of social consciousness through the medium of craft. The Craftivist Collective, run by Sarah Corbett, is at the forefront of this movement. Their mini cross-stitched banners and tin ... more

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  • Cover image of book Biko: A Life by Xolela Mangcu, with a Foreword by Nelson Mandela
    Biko: A Life - by Xolela Mangcu, with a Foreword by Nelson Mandela

    £13.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781780767857 | ISBN 10: 1780767854

    Steve Biko was an exceptional and inspirational leader, a pivotal figure in South African history. As a leading anti-apartheid activist and thinker, Biko created the Black Consciousness Movement, the grassroots organisation which would mobilise a lar ... more

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  • Cover image of book Digital Revolutions: Activism in the Internet Age by Symon Hill
    Digital Revolutions: Activism in the Internet Age - by Symon Hill

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781780260761 | ISBN 10: 1780260768

    From Occupy to Uncut, from the Arab Spring to the Slutwalk movement, few questions about recent activism raise as much controversy as the role of the internet. This book suggests that the internet is a tool, not a cause, of social change. It has prof ... more

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  • Cover image of book Resistance in the Age of Austerity: Nationalism, the Failure of the Left and the Return of God by Owen Worth
    Resistance in the Age of Austerity: Nationalism, the Failure of the Left and the Return of God - by Owen Worth

    £15.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781780323350 | ISBN 10: 1780323352

    In November 1999 the first protests associated with the 'anti-globalisation movement' took place in Seattle, and came to be seen as the starting point for globalised resistance to neoliberal capitalism. Despite initial optimism, the following years h ... more

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  • Cover image of book Why it
    Why it's Still Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions - by Paul Mason

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781844670284 | ISBN 10: 1844670287

    Eyewitness reporting and shrewd analysis from the many centers of the global movement for liberation.   Originally published in 2012 to wide acclaim, this updated edition, Why Its Still Kicking Off Everywhere, includes coverage of the most re ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution by Andrew Boyd, with Dave Oswald Mitchell
    Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution - by Andrew Boyd, with Dave Oswald Mitchell

    £16.00   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781935928577 | ISBN 10: 1935928570

    From Cairo to cyberspace, from Main Street to Wall Street, today’s social movements have a creative new edge that’s blurring the boundaries between artist and activist, hacker and dreamer. But the principles that make for successful creative acti ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism by Paolo Gerbaudo
    Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism - by Paolo Gerbaudo

    £21.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780745332482 | ISBN 10: 074533248x

    Tweets and the Streets analyses the culture of the new protest movements of the 21st century. From the Arab Spring to the 'indignados' protests in Spain and the Occupy movement, Paolo Gerbaudo examines the relationship between the rise of social medi ... more

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  • Cover image of book American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation by Michael Kazin
    American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation - by Michael Kazin

    £12.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780307279194 | ISBN 10: 0307279197

    An intimate history of the reformers, radicals, and idealists who fought for a different America, from the abolitionists to Michael Moore and Noam Chomsky.   While the history of the left is a long story of idealism and determination, it has ... more

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  • Cover image of book Secret Manoeuvres in the Dark: Corporate and Police Spying on Activists by Eveline Lubbers
    Secret Manoeuvres in the Dark: Corporate and Police Spying on Activists - by Eveline Lubbers

    £26.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780745331850 | ISBN 10: 0745331858

    The exposure of undercover policeman Mark Kennedy in the eco-activist movement revealed how the state monitors and undermines political activism. This book shows the other grave threat to our political freedoms - undercover activities by corporations ... more

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  • Cover image of book What We Are Fighting For: A Radical Collective Manifesto by Federico Campagna and Emanuele Campiglio (Editors)
    What We Are Fighting For: A Radical Collective Manifesto - by Federico Campagna and Emanuele Campiglio (Editors)

    £18.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780745332857 | ISBN 10: 0745332854

    The age of austerity has brought a new generation of protesters on to the streets across the world. As the economic crisis meets the environmental crisis, millions fear what the future will bring but also dare to dream of a different society.   ... more

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  • Cover image of book Memoirs of a Revolutionary by Victor Serge, foreword by Adam Hochschild
    Memoirs of a Revolutionary - by Victor Serge, foreword by Adam Hochschild

    £11.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781590174517 | ISBN 10: 1590174518

    Victor Serge is one of the great men of the 20th century and one of its great writers too. He was an anarchist, an agitator, a revolutionary, an exile, a historian of his times, as well as a brilliant novelist, and in Memoirs of a Revolutionary he ... more

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  • Cover image of book Organize! Building from the Local for Global Justice by Aziz Choudry (Editor)
    Organize! Building from the Local for Global Justice - by Aziz Choudry (Editor)

    £21.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781604864335 | ISBN 10: 1604864338

    What are the ways forward for organizing for progressive social change in an era of unprecedented economic, social, and ecological crises? How do political activists build power and critical analysis in their daily work for change?  Grounded ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hungary 1930 and the Forgotten History of a Mass Protest by Bob Dent
    Hungary 1930 and the Forgotten History of a Mass Protest - by Bob Dent

    £13.95   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780850366594 | ISBN 10: 0850366593

    In 1930, on 1 September, 100,000 workers, employed and unemployed, marched through Budapest under the slogan 'Work and Bread!'. Many were injured and one person was killed as the police used swords and, at one point, fired into the crowd.   Th ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Journey to Tahrir: Revolution, Protest and Social Change in Egypt, 1999 - 2011 by Jeannie Sowers and Chris Toensing (Editors)
    The Journey to Tahrir: Revolution, Protest and Social Change in Egypt, 1999 - 2011 - by Jeannie Sowers and Chris Toensing (Editors)

    £19.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781844678754 | ISBN 10: 184467875x

    Leading analysts of Egypt on repression, dissent and the dramatic revolution.  The toppling of Hosni Mubarak marked the beginning of a revolutionary restructuring of Egypt's political and social order. Jeannie Sowers and Chris Toensing bring to ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Song: A Memoir of Art, Race & Defiance by Harry Belafonte and Michael Schnayerson
    My Song: A Memoir of Art, Race & Defiance - by Harry Belafonte and Michael Schnayerson

    £14.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780857865861 | ISBN 10: 0857865862

    Written with Vanity Fair contributing editor Michael Schnayerson, My Song is an inspiring story of performance and protest, from a superstar singer and actor who was on the front lines of practically every progressive political battle in modern memor ... more

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  • Cover image of book Toward a Living Revolution: A Five-Stage Framework for Creating Radical Social Change by George Lakey
    Toward a Living Revolution: A Five-Stage Framework for Creating Radical Social Change - by George Lakey

    £14.00   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780946409167 | ISBN 10: 0946409161

    "For 50 years, George Lakey has pursued radical nonviolence with determination, imagination and a wondrously creative intelligence. He has put his body on the line for peace and justice, and he has helped develop soul-searching and self-renewal into ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Activists
    The Activists' Handbook: A Step-by-step Guide to Activism - by Aidan Ricketts

    £14.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781848135925 | ISBN 10: 1848135920

    The Activists' Handbook is a powerful guide to grassroots activism. A priceless resource for everyone ready to make a difference, environmental activist Aidan Ricketts offers a step-by-step handbook for citizens eager to start or get involved in gras ... more

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  • Cover image of book Portugal: The Impossible Revolution? by Phil Mailer, with an afterword by Maurice Brinton
    Portugal: The Impossible Revolution? - by Phil Mailer, with an afterword by Maurice Brinton

    £16.95   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780850366488 | ISBN 10: 0850366488

    In 1974, Portugal was at the end of almost 50 years of fascist rule, and three colonial wars. Things had to change. They did.  The military coup that began on April 25th 1974 morphed into massive radical movements for social change. There ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stieg: From Activist to Author by Jan-Erik Pettersson, translated by Tom Geddes
    Stieg: From Activist to Author - by Jan-Erik Pettersson, translated by Tom Geddes

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781849165013 | ISBN 10: 1849165017

    Until the posthumous publication of the Millennium Trilogy, Stieg Larsson was probably best known for his commitment to left-wing causes, and his tireless work as an anti-fascist activist. Horrified by the rise of far-right extremism in Sweden, he th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Women in Cuba: The Making of a Revolution Within the Revolution by Vilma Espn, Asela de los Santos, and Yolanda Ferrer
    Women in Cuba: The Making of a Revolution Within the Revolution - by Vilma Espn, Asela de los Santos, and Yolanda Ferrer

    £17.00   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781604880366 | ISBN 10: 1604880368

    The social revolution that in 1959 brought down the bloody Batista dictatorship began in the streets of cities like Santiago de Cuba and the Rebel Armys liberated mountain zones of eastern Cuba. The unprecedented integration of women in the ranks an ... more

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  • Cover image of book Twelve Who Don
    Twelve Who Don't Agree - by Valery Panyushkin, translated by Marian Schwartz

    £11.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781609450106 | ISBN 10: 1609450108

    In Twelve Who Dont Agree, journalist Valery Panyushkin profiles twelve Russians from across the countrys social spectrum: a politician, a journalist, an army officer, an author, a bank manager, a laborer, a university student...  Despit ... more

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  • Cover image of book Viva La Revolution! The Story of People Power in 30 Revolutions by Derry Nairn
    Viva La Revolution! The Story of People Power in 30 Revolutions - by Derry Nairn

    £12.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781907642401 | ISBN 10: 1907642404

    Revolution is in the air. Throughout the Middle East, across Europe, America and beyond, 2011 was a year of mass uprising of communal protest, sometimes violent suppression and above all a burning desire for change. Yet these events are no ... more

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  • Cover image of book Here Comes Trouble: Stories from My Life by Michael Moore
    Here Comes Trouble: Stories from My Life - by Michael Moore

    £12.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780141013015 | ISBN 10: 014101301x

    Here Comes Trouble is Michael Moore's anti-memoir. Breaking the autobiographical mould, he hilariously presents 20 far-ranging, irreverent vignettes from his own life. Moore is his own meta-Forrest Gump, as one moment he's an 11-year old boy stu ... more

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  • Cover image of book Memoirs of a Black Englishman (Paul Stephenson OBE) by Paul Stephenson
    Memoirs of a Black Englishman (Paul Stephenson OBE) - by Paul Stephenson

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781906477394 | ISBN 10: 1906477396

    Paul Stephenson OBE is one of the leading black civil rights activists of his generation. It was in Bristol in 1963 that Paul and the black community took on the Bristol Omnibus Company that was refusing to employ black workers. The Bristol Bus Boyco ... more

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  • Cover image of book Messages from Tahrir: Signs from Egypts Revolution by Karima Khalil (Editor)
    Messages from Tahrir: Signs from Egypts Revolution - by Karima Khalil (Editor)

    £16.95   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9789774165122 | ISBN 10: 9774165128

    The written word of the revolution captured by 36 photographers.   One of the many striking things about Egypts 25 January Revolution as manifested in Cairos Tahrir Square was the imagination and creativity of the posters, placards, an ... more

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  • Cover image of book Penny Red: Notes from the New Age of Dissent by Laurie Penny
    Penny Red: Notes from the New Age of Dissent - by Laurie Penny

    £17.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780745332086 | ISBN 10: 0745332080

    In the space of a year, Laurie Penny has become one of the most prominent voices of the new left. This book brings together her diverse writings, showing what it is to be young, angry and progressive in the face of an increasingly violent and oppress ... more

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  • Cover image of book Counterpower: Why Movements Succeed and Fail by Tim Gee
    Counterpower: Why Movements Succeed and Fail - by Tim Gee

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781780260327 | ISBN 10: 1780260326

    Change can and does happen. But why is it that some campaigns succeed while others fail? Is it luck, or is there a common strategy unifying those that have achieved their aim, and what can we learn from the past?   In Counterpower, activist Ti ... more

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  • Cover image of book Karama! Journeys Through the Arab Spring by Johnny West
    Karama! Journeys Through the Arab Spring - by Johnny West

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780857389947 | ISBN 10: 0857389947

    Johnny West has lived in this area for the past decade and speaks fluent Arabic, and so has the skills and ability to talk to everyone from security guards to revolutionaries, from families of protestors, some of whom have been killed, to oil workers ... more

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  • Cover image of book Blood on the Tracks: The Life And Times of S. Brian Willson by S. Brian Willson
    Blood on the Tracks: The Life And Times of S. Brian Willson - by S. Brian Willson

    £17.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781604864212 | ISBN 10: 1604864214

    "We are not worth more, they are not worth less." This is the mantra of S. Brian Willson and the theme that runs throughout his compelling psycho-historical memoir. Willson's story begins in small-town, rural America, where he grew up as a "Commie-ha ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Reverend Billy Project from Rehearsal Hall to Super Mall with the Church of Life After Shopping by Savitri D & Bill Talen
    The Reverend Billy Project from Rehearsal Hall to Super Mall with the Church of Life After Shopping - by Savitri D & Bill Talen

    £19.50   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780472051564 | ISBN 10: 0472051563

    Reverend Billy, the revivalist preacher created by performance artist Bill Talen, has attracted an international following as he has railed in white suit and clerical collar against the evils of excessive consumerism and corporate irresponsibility. I ... more

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  • Cover image of book Oppose and Propose: Lessons from Movement for a New Society by Andrew Cornell
    Oppose and Propose: Lessons from Movement for a New Society - by Andrew Cornell

    £9.00   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781849350662 | ISBN 10: 1849350663

    Where do the strategies, tactics, and lifestyles of contemporary activists come from? Movement for a New Society, a radical pacifist organization active in the 1970s and 1980s, pioneered forms of consensus decision making, communal living, direct act ... more

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  • Cover image of book Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008 by Nadine Gordimer
    Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008 - by Nadine Gordimer

    £12.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781408800966 | ISBN 10: 1408800969

    Nadine Gordimers life reflects the true spirit of the writer as moral activist, political visionary and literary icon. Telling Times collects together all her non-fiction for the first time, spanning more than half a century, from the twilight of co ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ai Weiwei
    Ai Weiwei's Blog: Writings, Interviews, and Digital Rants, 2006-2009 - by Ai Weiwei, translated by Lee Ambrozy

    £30.00   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780262015219 | ISBN 10: 0262015218

    In 2006, even though he could barely type, China's most famous artist started blogging. For more than three years, Ai Weiwei turned out a steady stream of scathing social commentary, criticism of government policy, thoughts on art and architecture, a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Magical Marxism: Subversive Politics & the Imagination by Andy Merrifield
    Magical Marxism: Subversive Politics & the Imagination - by Andy Merrifield

    £22.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780745330594 | ISBN 10: 0745330592

    Following his hugely popular book, The Wisdom of Donkeys, Andy Merrifield breathes new life into the Marxist tradition. Magical Marxism demands something more of traditional Marxism - something more interesting and liberating. It asks that we imagine ... more

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  • Cover image of book Springtime: The New Student Rebellions by Clare Solomon & Tania Palmieri (eds)
    Springtime: The New Student Rebellions - by Clare Solomon & Tania Palmieri (eds)

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781844677405 | ISBN 10: 1844677400

    The autumn and winter of 2010 saw an unprecedented wave of student protests across the UK, in response to the coalition government's savage cuts in state funding for higher education, cuts which formed the basis for an ideological attack on the natur ... more

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  • Cover image of book Celebrate People
    Celebrate People's History: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution - by Josh MacPhee

    £21.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781558616776 | ISBN 10: 1558616772

    The best way to learn history is to visualize it! Since 1998, Josh MacPhee has commissioned and produced over one hundred posters by over eighty artists that pay tribute to revolution, racial justice, womens rights, queer liberation, labor struggles ... more

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  • Cover image of book Revolution, Rebellion, Resistance: the Power of Story by Eric Selbin
    Revolution, Rebellion, Resistance: the Power of Story - by Eric Selbin

    £19.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781848130173 | ISBN 10: 1848130171

    Why do revolutions happen? Decades of social science research have brought us little closer to understanding where, when and amongst whom they occur. In this groundbreaking book, Eric Selbin argues that we need to look beyond the economic, political ... more

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  • Cover image of book Creating a Movement with Teeth: A Documentary History of the George Jackson Brigade by Daniel Burton-Rose
    Creating a Movement with Teeth: A Documentary History of the George Jackson Brigade - by Daniel Burton-Rose

    £21.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781604862232 | ISBN 10: 1604862238

    Bursting into existence in the Pacific Northwest in 1975, the George Jackson Brigade claimed 14 pipe bombings against corporate and state targets, as many bank robberies, and the daring rescue of a jailed member. Combining veterans of the prisoners' ... more

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  • Cover image of book What Would it Mean to Win? by Turbulence Collective
    What Would it Mean to Win? - by Turbulence Collective

    £13.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781604861105 | ISBN 10: 160486110x

    Movements become apparent as movements at times of acceleration and expansion. In these heady moments they have fuzzy boundaries, no membership lists - everybody is too engaged in whats coming next, in creating the new, looking to the horizon. But ... more

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  • Cover image of book Self Defense for Radicals: A to Z Guide for Subversive Struggle by Mickey Z.
    Self Defense for Radicals: A to Z Guide for Subversive Struggle - by Mickey Z.

    £4.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781604862041 | ISBN 10: 1604862041

    Radicals, feminists, environmentalists. Activists for animal rights, human rights, civil rights. There are plenty of rebels and dissidents putting their asses on the line. Conversely, there's never been a shortage of reactionaries seeking to repress ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Left Alternative by Roberto Mangabeira Unger
    The Left Alternative - by Roberto Mangabeira Unger

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781844673704 | ISBN 10: 1844673707

    One of the leading social and political thinkers in the world today asks the question: What should the Left propose today? A manifesto that engages a vital question of our time: where should the Left go from here? Confronting the major debates in the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Belching Out the Devil: Global Adventures with Coca Cola by Mark Thomas
    Belching Out the Devil: Global Adventures with Coca Cola - by Mark Thomas

    £12.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780091927042 | ISBN 10: 0091927048

    Coca-Cola and its logo are everywhere. In our homes, our workplaces, and even our schools. It is a company that sponsors the Olympics, backs US presidents and even re-brands Santa Claus. A truly universal product, it has even been served in space. F ... more

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  • Cover image of book How Shall I Live My Life? On Liberating the Earth from Civilization by Derrick Jensen
    How Shall I Live My Life? On Liberating the Earth from Civilization - by Derrick Jensen

    £17.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781604860030 | ISBN 10: 1604860030

    In this collection of interviews, Derrick Jensen discusses the destructive dominant culture with ten people who have devoted their lives to undermining it. Whether it is Carolyn Raffensperger and her radical approach to public health, or Thomas Berry ... more

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  • Cover image of book Cranks and Revolutions by Mark Gold
    Cranks and Revolutions - by Mark Gold

    £9.95   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781854250971 | ISBN 10: 1854250973

    Cranks and Revolutions tells the story of two brothers from a family for whom protest has always been a way of life. Brought up in the 1960s on CND marches, fund raising events for the victims of the Nigeria-Biafra civil war and rescuing oiled sea bi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie by Rachel Corrie
    Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie - by Rachel Corrie

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781847080509 | ISBN 10: 1847080502

    Rachel Corrie was a young American activist killed on March 16th 2003, as she tried to block the demolition of a Palestinian family's home in the Gaza strip. She was twenty-three years old. Let Me Stand Alone reveals Corrie's striking gifts as a poe ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rabble-Rouser for Peace: The Authorised Biography of Desmond Tutu by John Allen
    Rabble-Rouser for Peace: The Authorised Biography of Desmond Tutu - by John Allen

    £12.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781846040641 | ISBN 10: 1846040647

    Rabble-Rouser for Peace is the first book to tell the full story of how a boy from South Africa's poverty-stricken black townships became one of the world's best-known religious figures, a moral icon to those who work for peace and justice everywhere ... more

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  • Cover image of book How Non-Violence Protects the State by Peter Gelderloos
    How Non-Violence Protects the State - by Peter Gelderloos

    £7.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780896087729 | ISBN 10: 0896087727

    Since the civil rights era, the doctrine of nonviolence has enjoyed near-universal acceptance by the US Left. Today protest is often shaped by cooperation with state authoritieseven organizers of rallies against police brutality apply for police per ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Idler 39 (Spring 2007) Lie Back and Protest by Edited by Tom Hodgkinson
    The Idler 39 (Spring 2007) Lie Back and Protest - by Edited by Tom Hodgkinson

    £10.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780091916503 | ISBN 10: 009191650x

    We are all agreed that there's a lot to complain about in contemporary society. Boredom, exploitation, an explosion of legislation and interference with our everyday freedoms: central government and big business seem to make life more difficult with ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Rebels: African-Caribbean Freedom Fighters in Jamaica by Werner Zips, translated by Shelley Frisch
    Black Rebels: African-Caribbean Freedom Fighters in Jamaica - by Werner Zips, translated by Shelley Frisch

    £22.95   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781558762138 | ISBN 10: 1558762132

    An exploration of African-American freedom fighters in Jamaica, presenting a history of resistance instead of a history of domination. The context of marronage is carefully established: the plantation system as an economic and ideological machine fue ... more

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  • Cover image of book Talking the Walk: A Communications Guide for Racial Justice by Edited by Hunter Cutting and Makani Themba-Nixon
    Talking the Walk: A Communications Guide for Racial Justice - by Edited by Hunter Cutting and Makani Themba-Nixon

    £11.00   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781904859529 | ISBN 10: 1904859526

    Talking the Walk is an incomparabel resource for learning to discuss and spin issues of race and racial justice. Hunter Cutting and Makani Themba-Nixon help progressive activists and advocates to conduct media work, reframe public debate, and interru ... more

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  • Cover image of book Naming the Dead by Maya Anne Evans
    Naming the Dead - by Maya Anne Evans

    £8.00   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781904527107 | ISBN 10: 1904527108

    On 25 October 2005, Maya Anne Evans stood near the Cenotaph, facing Downing Street, reading aloud the names of British soldiers who had died in the war in Iraq. She was arrested under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act (2005).On 7 December 2 ... more

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  • Cover image of book Change the World 9 to 5 by We Are What We Do
    Change the World 9 to 5 - by We Are What We Do

    £9.95   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781904977483 | ISBN 10: 1904977480

    Change the World 9 to 5 picks up where the bestselling book Change the World for a Fiver left off; with fifty simple everyday actions which we can all do during our working day to change the world.  Its a simple concept. Change the small things ... more

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  • Cover image of book Global Activism, Global Media by Wilma de Jong, Martin Shaw and  Neil Stammers
    Global Activism, Global Media - by Wilma de Jong, Martin Shaw and Neil Stammers

    £24.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780745321950 | ISBN 10: 074532195x

    Radical political activist movements have grown exponentially over the last decade. Activist politics have come to influence 'mainstream' politics over fundamental issues such as trade, gender relations, the environment and war.This book brings toge ... more

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  • Cover image of book Video for Change: A Guide for Advocacy and Activism by Edited by Gregory, Caldwell, Avni and Harding
    Video for Change: A Guide for Advocacy and Activism - by Edited by Gregory, Caldwell, Avni and Harding

    £19.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780745324128 | ISBN 10: 0745324126

    Filmmaking - at its best - has the capacity to transform the way people think, and create real social change. This book shows how activists and human right campaigners can harness the power of images and stories for their own purposes - it's a step-b ... more

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  • Cover image of book Next Year in Jerusalem by Daphna Golan-Agnon
    Next Year in Jerusalem - by Daphna Golan-Agnon

    £21.99   hardback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781565849303 | ISBN 10: 1565849302

    Through anecdotes, interviews and letters, the author provides an insider's view of the milestones of the Israeli peace movement, drawing on her experience as co-founder of the pioneering human rights organization B'Tselem and the feminist peace grou ... more

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  • Cover image of book Soil and Soul: People Versus Corporate Power by Alastair McIntosh
    Soil and Soul: People Versus Corporate Power - by Alastair McIntosh

    £9.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781854109422 | ISBN 10: 1854109421

    In this rousing book, Scottish writer and campaigner Alastair McIntosh shows how it is still possibe for ordinary people to take on powerful individuals or mighty corporations and emerge victorious. As a founder of the residents of the Isle of Eigg T ... more

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  • Cover image of book Peace Under Fire: Israel/Palestine and the International Solidarity Movement by Josie Sandercock et al (ed)
    Peace Under Fire: Israel/Palestine and the International Solidarity Movement - by Josie Sandercock et al (ed)

    £15.00   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781844675012 | ISBN 10: 1844675017

    The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) was founded to support Palestinian non-violent resistance to Israel's military occupation. Its highly visible actions, which have included breaking the sieges in Ramallah and Bethlehem, as well as saving co ... more

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  • Cover image of book 1968 - the Year That Rocked the World by Mark Kurlansky
    1968 - the Year That Rocked the World - by Mark Kurlansky

    £12.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780099429623 | ISBN 10: 0099429624

    Encompassing the worlds of youth and music, politics, war, economics, demonstrations and the media, 1968 shows us how we got to where we are today. It was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll; it was also the year of the Martin Luther King an ... more

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  • Cover image of book Banners and Dragons: The Complete Guide to Creative Campaigning by Dan Jones
    Banners and Dragons: The Complete Guide to Creative Campaigning - by Dan Jones

    £12.99   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9781873328590 | ISBN 10: 1873328591

    Do you want some publicity? Banners and Dragons: The Complete Guide to Creative Campaigning is for anyone trying to attract attention for a good cause.This practical workbook shows you how to campaign effectively, whatever your resources. Full of si ... more

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  • Cover image of book Be the Difference: A Beginner
    Be the Difference: A Beginner's Guide to Changing the World - by Danny Seo

    £15.99   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780865714328 | ISBN 10: 0865714320

    At the age of 12, Danny Seo gathered a handful of kids and founded Earth 2000 - an environmental group that blossomed into a 20,000 member force of tenacious teenage crusaders. Since then he has continued to work passionately for change. In this ... more

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  • Cover image of book Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and the Global Order by Noam Chomsky
    Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and the Global Order - by Noam Chomsky

    £13.99   paperback   (1998) - ISBN 13: 9781888363821 | ISBN 10: 1888363827

    In Profit Over People, Noam Chomsky takes on neoliberalism: the pro-corporate system of economic and political policies presently waging a form of class war worldwide. Chomsky critiques the tyranny of the few that restricts the public arena and enact ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Angela Y. Davis Reader by Angela Y Davis (edited by Joy James)
    The Angela Y. Davis Reader - by Angela Y Davis (edited by Joy James)

    £30.99   paperback   (1998) - ISBN 13: 9780631203612 | ISBN 10: 0631203613

    For three decades, Angela Y. Davis has written on liberation theory and democratic praxis. Challenging the foundations of mainstream discourse, her analyses of culture, gender, capital, and race have profoundly influenced democratic theory, antiracis ... more

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  • Cover image of book Civil Disobedience & Other Essays by Henry David Thoreau
    Civil Disobedience & Other Essays - by Henry David Thoreau

    £1.99   paperback   (1993) - ISBN 13: 9780486275635 | ISBN 10: 0486275639

    Philosopher, naturalist, poet & rugged individualist Thoreau has inspired generations of readers to think for themselves, to follow the dictates of their own conscience adn to make an art of their lives. This representative sampling of his thought in ... more

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