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An independent publisher of radical, left‐wing non­‐fiction books. Established in 1969, we are one of the oldest radical publishing houses in the world. plutobooks.com
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📚See you at the American Library Association Conference!📚 Authors @kylietcheung.bsky.social‬, ‪@nancyhiemstra.bsky.social‬, and @drdconlon.bsky.social‬ will speak about their books. Come join us! 🗓️June 26-30 🎟https://2025.alaannual.org/

📕Find Pluto and other radicals at @socialismconference.org‬ in Chicago! Authors @kylietcheung.bsky.social‬, @nancyhiemstra.bsky.social‬ and @drdconlon.bsky.social‬ will speak about their books. Come join us! 🗓️July 3-6 socialismconference.org/2025-schedule/

📚BOOK EVENT📚 Author @nancyhiemstra.bsky.social visits Bluestockings for a discussion of Immigration Detention Inc. 🗓️Tues, July 15 ⏰5:30 pm 📍Bluestockings withfriends.co/event/236709...

“Politicians and civil servants denied and lied, the only lessons learned: how to make evidence disappear and sanctions on claimants tougher.” The Department by John Pring reviewed in Counterfire

⚡️TODAY⚡️ @paullashmar.bsky.social will be joining us for an evening at @housmansbookshop.bsky.social‬ to discuss his latest book, Drax of Drax Hall 🗓️Wed, June 18 ⏰7 pm 📍Housmans Bookshop housmans.com/event/book-t...

💥BOOK EVENT💥 An evening with the Poet Laureate of Barbados and @paullashmar.bsky.social author of Drax of Drax Hall: How One British Family Got Rich 🗓️Tues, June 24 ⏰7 pm 📍Frontline Club www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-bri...

📚BOOK EVENT📚 Please join us for the launch of Naseej: Life-Weavings of Palestine in Berlin 🗓️Fri, June 20 ⏰7 pm 📍Motto Berlin 🎟https://www.mottodistribution.com/site/?p=57388

💥TODAY💥 Sound System is a book of raves, riots and revolution - join Dave Randall for a discussion of the second edition 🗓️Wed, Aug 20 ⏰6 pm 📍 @bookhaus.bsky.social‬ www.bookhausbristol.com/events/#e132...

Get an inside look at the brilliant exposé on the weird and disturbing history of the cult of yoga by @stewarthome.bsky.social‬ Sign up for our newsletter to read an early excerpt from Fascist Yoga. Plus, 50% off of your first order! www.plutobooks.com/978074535112...

Coercion by @kylietcheung.bsky.social‬ unpacks the deliberate acts of state-perpetrated violence inflicted on women and pregnant people by abortion bans. Sign up for our newsletter at plutobooks.com to get an early excerpt from Coercion. Plus, 50% off of your first order! Link in bio 🔗

“The very commitments that allowed the movements to garner attention and spectacle proved stumbling blocks once the cameras stopped rolling and only tanks and bullets remained.” @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social author of Elite Capture, in @time.com

“US unions have a history of discrimination against women, for example, arguing in the post-war era that married women in the workforce should make way for returning ex-servicemen” @LabourHub reviews Solidarity Betrayed by @Ana_ExAFLCIO

⚡️TOMORROW⚡️ @paullashmar.bsky.social will be joining us for an evening at @housmansbookshop.bsky.social‬ to discuss his latest book, Drax of Drax Hall 🗓️Wed, June 18 ⏰7 pm 📍Housmans Bookshop housmans.com/event/book-t...

📚BOOK EVENT📚 Dr. Rahul Rao will discuss his book The Psychic Lives of Statues: Reckoning with the Rubble of Empire with the @rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk Scholars’ Library Series. 🗓️Tues, June 24 ⏰6 pm 📍Rhodes House 🎟https://buff.ly/37LBrwQ

⚡️BOOK EVENT⚡️ Friendship is full of revolutionary potential in the face of a profoundly anti-social capitalist system. Join @lauracforster.bsky.social and @joeljoel.bsky.social for this book event! 🗓️Tues, June 24 ⏰6:30 pm 📍Juno Books

📚See you at the American Library Association Conference!📚 Authors @kylietcheung.bsky.social‬, ‪@nancyhiemstra.bsky.social‬, and @drdconlon.bsky.social‬ will speak about their books. Come join us! 🗓️June 26-30 🎟https://2025.alaannual.org/

“Again, someone else was defining—and policing—our Blackness.” @kwanetaharris.bsky.social co-author of Ending Isolation, in Cosmopolitan

📚BOOK LAUNCH📚 In Fascist Yoga, @stewarthome.bsky.social shows that nothing is sacred. 🗓️Wed, July 16 ⏰6 pm 📍@bookhaus.bsky.social 🎟https://www.bookhausbristol.com/events/#e127741

Get an inside look at the brilliant exposé on the weird and disturbing history of the cult of yoga by @stewarthome.bsky.social‬ Sign up for our newsletter to read an early excerpt from Fascist Yoga. Plus, 50% off of your first order! www.plutobooks.com/978074535112...

“Bearing Witness reminds us of where fascist movements and the governments they take over can all too easily end up in their pursuit of total power and control.” Bearing Witness by Mercedes Núñez Targa reviewed in @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social

📘BOOK LAUNCH📘 Authors ‪@nancyhiemstra.bsky.social‬ and ‪@drdconlon.bsky.social‬ will launch Immigration Detention Inc. in New York! 🗓️Tues, July 1 ⏰7 pm 📍‪ @bookculture.com‬ 🎟

“While the enslaved and their immediate oppressors are long dead, the economic benefits of slavery are still very much alive in the assets, influence, and privileges [Richard Drax] enjoys.” Drax of Drax Hall by @paullashmar.bsky.social reviewed in the @dorseteye.bsky.social

💥BOOK EVENT💥 Join @lauracforster.bsky.social and @joeljoel.bsky.social for the Glasgow Launch of their new book Friends in Common: Radical Friendship and Everyday Solidarities 🗓️Fri, June 20 ⏰7 pm 📍Aye Aye Books www.cca-glasgow.com/programme/fr...

Get an inside look at the brilliant exposé on the weird and disturbing history of the cult of yoga by @stewarthome.bsky.social‬ Sign up for our newsletter to read an early excerpt from Fascist Yoga. Plus, 50% off of your first order! www.plutobooks.com/978074535112...

“Across the Global North, housing precarity has become normalised. Rents rise and standards fall.” @labour-hub.bsky.social reviews Renters Unite! by @peopletrees.bsky.social

“Clear-eyed and cutting … calls into question the very notion that America is an advanced society, let alone a just one.” Coercion by @kylietcheung.bsky.social reviewed in ‪@publisherswkly.bsky.social‬:

"Vergès is under no illusions about the scale of the activism, advocacy, and artistic work required to advance a decolonial programme: her book provides an urgent impetus." A Programme of Absolute Disorder by Françoise Vergès reviewed in @tribunemagazine.bsky.social

"Vergès is under no illusions about the scale of the activism, advocacy, and artistic work required to advance a decolonial programme: her book provides an urgent impetus." A Programme of Absolute Disorder by Françoise Vergès reviewed in @tribunemagazine.bsky.social

"Vergès is under no illusions about the scale of the activism, advocacy, and artistic work required to advance a decolonial programme: her book provides an urgent impetus." A Programme of Absolute Disorder by Françoise Vergès reviewed in @tribunemagazine.bsky.social

"The is an experiment in how to rule, how to govern in the absence of state legitimacy." 🎧 Listen now to the latest Radicals in Conversation with H. L. T. Quan and Dylan Rodríguez www.plutobooks.com/blog/podcast...

⚡️BOOK EVENT⚡️ @paullashmar.bsky.social will be joining us for an evening at @housmansbookshop.bsky.social‬ to discuss his latest book, Drax of Drax Hall 🗓️Wed, June 18 ⏰7 pm 📍Housmans Bookshop housmans.com/event/book-t...

“The horrifying practices of the DWP are brought into sharp focus, the consequences so predictable it is difficult to conclude they were not deliberate.” The Department by John Pring reviewed in Counterfire

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“The horrifying practices of the DWP are brought into sharp focus, the consequences so predictable it is difficult to conclude they were not deliberate.” The Department by John Pring reviewed in Counterfire

“For protests to succeed, they must be backed by movements with the ability to promise to withhold—labor, debt payments, rent payments, or consumer support—and to follow through if demands aren’t met.” @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social author of Elite Capture, in @time.com