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
The Mohawk Warrior Society
A Handbook on Sovereignty and Survival
Brotherhood to Nationhood
George Manuel and the Making of the Modern Indian Movement
Unsettling Canada
A National Wake-up Call
Fighting the Climate Crisis
Standing on High Ground
Civil Disobedience on Burnaby Mountain
The End of This World
Climate Justice in So-Called Canada
Ecology for the 99%
Twenty Capitalist Myths Debunked
The Sea Is Rising and So Are We
A Climate Justice Handbook
Must-Read Interventions
And Sometimes They Kill You
Confronting the Epidemic of Intimate Partner Violence
The Tenant Class
Feminist City
A Field Guide
Harvesting Freedom
The Life of a Migrant Worker in Canada
Jewish Alternatives
The Bund
A Graphic History of Jewish Labour Resistance
Primo Levi
A Future Without Hate or Need
The Promise of the Jewish Left in Canada
The Montreal Shtetl
Making Home After the Holocaust
Feminist Thought and Activism
Shout Your Abortion
Revolutionary Mothering
Love on the Front Lines
Women and Work
Feminism, Labour, and Social Reproduction
Resilience Is Futile
The Life and Death and Life of Julie S. Lalonde
Black Lives
The Mantle of Struggle
A Biography of Black Revolutionary Rosie Douglas
Ain’t I a Woman
Black Women and Feminism
The Point Is to Change the World
Selected Writings of Andaiye
Black Geographies and the Politics of Place
Radical Education
Roles of Resistance
Game Plans for Teachers and Troublemakers
Higher Expectations
How to Survive Academia, Make it Better for Others, and Transform the University
Class Action
How Ontario’s Elementary Teachers Became a Political Force
The University and Social Justice
Struggles across the Globe
Graphic Histories
Wonder Drug
LSD in the Land of Living Skies
Drawn to Change
Graphic Histories of Working-Class Struggle
A Train in the Night
The Tragedy of Lac-Mégantic
1919
Une histoire graphique de la grève générale de Winnipeg
Little Books, Big Ideas
Decolonize Drag
Decolonize Self-Care
Fired Up about Capitalism
