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Opening new radical bookshop, coffee shop, and community space in Newcastle UK!
Newcastle is a city with a long and proud history of resistance, solidarity, and political struggle. But there hasn’t been a radical bookshop here since the 1980s. We want to change that.
We’re Books From Below – a forthcoming bookshop dedicated to radical politics, grassroots movements, and the voices too often pushed to the margins. We’ll focus on books on anti-capitalism, class, race, feminism, queer and trans issues, disability, and environmentalism alongside carefully designed goods and gifts.
We believe that books can change people, and people can change the world. But access to ideas, theory, and history shouldn’t be limited to academic libraries or those who can afford expensive journal subscriptions. It should be in the streets, for everyone.
Our goal is to create a space that does more than just sell books. We want to build an inclusive hub for discussion, organising, education, learning, and mutual support. Somewhere to host talks, reading groups, screenings, zine fairs, workshops, and everything in between. A space that is accessible to all, and rooted in both local community and international solidarity.
But to open the doors, we need your help. We do have a solid business plan, but we don't come from money, and it’s not like capitalist investors will be interested in funding a bookshop focused on radical political education.
We’re raising funds to secure a physical space in Newcastle, stock the shelves with radical, independent, and diverse literature, and create a sustainable foundation for the shop to grow from.
If you've ever wished there was somewhere on the Tyneside where you could browse Marxist classics, feminist theory, abolitionist texts, queer histories, or anti-capitalist fiction—somewhere that doesn't shy away from radical politics, but embraces it—Books From Below is for you.
Let’s build it together.
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Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made