Books that offer Radical Hope (and inspiration for the ongoing fight)

Another depressing year has come and gone: Canada continues to deny the genocide in Palestine, Trump’s reelection spells a turn to fascism in the US, all while temperatures rise and standards of living drop. But this is also a time of great struggle and mobilization!

We’ve seen an exponential increase in labour actions against inflation, tenant movements striking against corporate landlords, and tens of thousands in the streets demanding a Free Palestine. While corporate publishers have buried their heads in the sand (or profited from vile rightwing narratives), independent presses like BTL are steadfast in our support of marginalized voices struggling for a better world for all. So, this holiday season, treat your comrades to the gift of radical hope, love, and community. Don’t blow your money on complicit corporations: give the gift of solidarity instead.

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Take a look at our selections below or browse our book categories, such as Award-Winning Books, Activism and Social Movements, Biography and Memoir, Young Adult, and more!

Indigenous Resistance

When the Pine Needles Fall

Indigenous Acts of Resistance

By Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel, with Sean Carleton

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The Mohawk Warrior Society

A Handbook on Sovereignty and Survival

By Louis Karoniaktajeh Hall, Edited by Philippe Blouin, Matt Peterson, Malek Rasamny and Kahentinetha Rotiskarewake

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$34.95 $27.9620% off

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$12.99 $10.3920% off

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Brotherhood to Nationhood

George Manuel and the Making of the Modern Indian Movement

By Peter McFarlane and Doreen Manuel

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Unsettling Canada

A National Wake-up Call

By Arthur Manuel and Ronald M. Derrickson

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Fighting the Climate Crisis

Standing on High Ground

Civil Disobedience on Burnaby Mountain

Edited by Rosemary Cornell, Adrienne Drobnies and Tim Bray

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$29.95 $23.9620% off
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The End of This World

Climate Justice in So-Called Canada

By Angele Alook, Emily Eaton, David Gray-Donald, Joël Laforest, Crystal Lameman and Bronwen Tucker

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$25.95 $20.7620% off
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Ecology for the 99%

Twenty Capitalist Myths Debunked

By Frédéric Legault, Arnaud Theurillat-Cloutier and Alain Savard

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$26.95 $21.5620% off
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The Sea Is Rising and So Are We

A Climate Justice Handbook

By Cynthia Kaufman

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$21.95 $17.5620% off

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Must-Read Interventions

And Sometimes They Kill You

Confronting the Epidemic of Intimate Partner Violence

By Pamela Cross

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The Tenant Class

By Ricardo Tranjan

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$22.95 $18.3620% off
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Feminist City

A Field Guide

By Leslie Kern

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Harvesting Freedom

The Life of a Migrant Worker in Canada

By Gabriel Allahdua, with Edward Dunsworth

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Jewish Alternatives

The Bund

A Graphic History of Jewish Labour Resistance

By Sharon Rudahl and Paul Buhle

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$34.95 $27.9620% off
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Primo Levi

By Matteo Mastragostino

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A Future Without Hate or Need

The Promise of the Jewish Left in Canada

By Ester Reiter

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The Montreal Shtetl

Making Home After the Holocaust

By Zelda Abramson and John Lynch

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Feminist Thought and Activism

Shout Your Abortion

Edited by Amelia Bonow and Emily Nokes

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Revolutionary Mothering

Love on the Front Lines

Edited by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens and Mai’a Williams

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$22.95 $18.3620% off

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Women and Work

Feminism, Labour, and Social Reproduction

By Susan Ferguson

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$23.95 $19.1620% off

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$22.99 $18.3920% off

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Resilience Is Futile

The Life and Death and Life of Julie S. Lalonde

By Julie S. Lalonde

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Black Lives

The Mantle of Struggle

A Biography of Black Revolutionary Rosie Douglas

By Irving Andre

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Ain’t I a Woman

Black Women and Feminism

By bell hooks

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The Point Is to Change the World

Selected Writings of Andaiye

By Andaiye, Edited by Alissa Trotz

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Black Geographies and the Politics of Place

Edited by Katherine McKittrick and Clyde Woods

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Radical Education

Roles of Resistance

Game Plans for Teachers and Troublemakers

By John-Henry Harter and Mark Leier

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Higher Expectations

How to Survive Academia, Make it Better for Others, and Transform the University

By Roberta Hawkins and Leslie Kern

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$27.95 $22.3620% off
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$26.99 $21.5920% off

Class Action

How Ontario’s Elementary Teachers Became a Political Force

By Andy Hanson

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$25.95 $20.7620% off
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The University and Social Justice

Struggles across the Globe

Edited by Aziz Choudry and Salim Vally

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Graphic Histories

Wonder Drug

LSD in the Land of Living Skies

By Hugh D.A. Goldring

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Drawn to Change

Graphic Histories of Working-Class Struggle

By Graphic History Collective, with Paul Buhle

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A Train in the Night

The Tragedy of Lac-Mégantic

By Anne-Marie Saint-Cerny

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1919

Une histoire graphique de la grève générale de Winnipeg

By Graphic History Collective

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Little Books, Big Ideas

Decolonize Drag

By Kareem Khubchandani

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Decolonize Self-Care

By Alyson K. Spurgas and Zoë Meleo-Erwin

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Fired Up about Capitalism

By Tom Malleson

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Fired Up about Consent

By Sarah Ratchford

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