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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 17 books in this booklist
£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£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£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
View book details£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
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 (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
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 (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
View book details£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
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£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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