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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 19 books in this booklist
£18.99 hardback (2024) - ISBN 13: 9780500298121 | ISBN 10: 0500298122
Five years of lies and hypocrisy. Four activists holding power to account. One book showing how they did it – and why they're not done yet. 'Not funny' Liz Truss ‘Led by Donkeys are diametrically opposed to our client’s aims’ Lawyer ... more
View book details£22.00 hardback (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781800182509 | ISBN 10: 1800182503
If we want our world to be more beautiful, kind and fair, can we make our activism more beautiful, kind and fair? ‘Gentle Protest’ is a unique methodology of strategic, compassionate and visually intriguing activism using handicrafts as a t ... more
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£10.00 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781739668143 | ISBN 10: 1739668146
“Drop a pebble in a pool and the waves spread. We can be that pebble” – Gladys Shaw The 30th ANNIVERSARY of the demise of the POLL TAX makes you think about a lot of things. Justice. Fairness. Civility. How elites often carve ... more
View book details£35.00 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780241479377 | ISBN 10: 0241479371
'A rich and readable account of left-wing activism in the West and opposition to Soviet-style communism in the East' Katja Hoyer, The Spectator 'A dream, perhaps, but one that still sounds worth fighting for, even beautiful' Stuart Jeffries, ... more
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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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