A monthly Radical Reading Group at Left Bank Leeds with Pluto Press & Left Book Club.
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The reading group meet on the last Wednesday of every month at 6.30pm. Register to attend the next one 🗓
Become Ungovernable by H.L.T. Quan •
As if already free by Holly High & Joshua O Reno •
Badvertising by Andrew Murray & Leo Simms •
Less Is More by Jason Hickel •
Radical Intimacy by Sophie K Rosa •
Queer Footprints by Dan Glass
Hope In Hopeless Times by John Holloway
Become Ungovernable by H.L.T. Quan •
As if already free by Holly High & Joshua O Reno •
Badvertising by Andrew Murray & Leo Simms •
Less Is More by Jason Hickel •
Radical Intimacy by Sophie K Rosa •
Become Ungovernable by H.L.T. Quan •
Queer Footprints by Dan Glass
As if already free by Holly High & Joshua O Reno •
Badvertising by Andrew Murray & Leo Simms •
Less Is More by Jason Hickel •
Queer Footprints by Dan Glass
Radical Intimacy by Sophie K Rosa •
Hope In Hopeless Times by John Holloway
Queer Footprints
Enough
Become Ungovernable by H.L.T. Quan • As if already free by Holly High & Joshua O Reno • Badvertising by Andrew Murray & Leo Simms • Less Is More by Jason Hickel • Radical Intimacy by Sophie K Rosa • Queer Footprints by Dan Glass Hope In Hopeless Times by John Holloway Become Ungovernable by H.L.T. Quan • As if already free by Holly High & Joshua O Reno • Badvertising by Andrew Murray & Leo Simms • Less Is More by Jason Hickel • Radical Intimacy by Sophie K Rosa • Become Ungovernable by H.L.T. Quan • Queer Footprints by Dan Glass As if already free by Holly High & Joshua O Reno • Badvertising by Andrew Murray & Leo Simms • Less Is More by Jason Hickel • Queer Footprints by Dan Glass Radical Intimacy by Sophie K Rosa • Hope In Hopeless Times by John Holloway Queer Footprints Enough
Radical Reading
Room FAQ’s
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The Radical Reading Room meet-ups take place on the last Wednesday of the month at 6.30pm as part of the Left Bank Leeds Culture Club.
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The reading room starts at 6.30pm.
Between 6.30-6.45 you will have time to arrive, get a drink and acquaint yourself with the group. We wrap up by 8pm.
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The Radical Reading Group is free to attend.
There will always be at least one copy of the book available in the library to borrow.
If you do wish to buy the book from Pluto Press, you will receive a 40% discount code. To get the code, please email sarahaautumn@gmail.com once you have booked your ticket.
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Whilst you may find the reading group more enjoyable if you have read the book, it isn’t essential. You can come along to listen and learn about the book or discuss the broader ideas within the book. Sarah will highlight passages and quotes to discuss. You will also receive some information about the book and author in your reminder email.
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Yes! We would love to hear your suggestions. It is worth keeping in mind though that this reading group is in collaboration with Pluto Press and Left Book Club so it does need to be a book within one of those two catalogues. Fortunately that gives you lots of awesome books to choose from.
At the end of each group, we discuss books for the following meet up and usually agree one then. The book selection will be added to the event listing on the Left Bank Website, Leeds Inspired and social media.
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YES! The Radical Reading Room Library at Left Bank is available for all!
Trans Femme Futures
'Equips readers with the information they need to resist the lies that feed humanity's urge to commit suicide. Read it!' Yanis Varoufakis
'Devastating testimony. Faultless research. It's impossible to exaggerate the timeliness of this powerfully written book' Peter Oborne
We are seeing injustices caused by war and occupation unfold in real-time via social media, and we are speaking out in our millions against these horrors. Yet, from Gaza to Ukraine, the bombs continue to fall. We must understand why this is happening if we are to end it.
Monstrous Anger of the Guns lays bare the dark and deceitful world of the global arms trade, which, often funded in our name, is a business that counts its profits in billions and its losses in human lives. Leading activists and campaigners connect the dots, showing how notions of citizenship, democracy and trust in governments are misguided, and how we can fight back by building mass movements, using direct action and legal justice to end the flow of weapons and the environmental and human devastation they bring.
To See In the Dark
To see Palestine is to see the world. Since October 7th 2023, the forces of racial capitalism, settler colonialism and white supremacy have become all too visible in Israel's war on Gaza. Urban, networked Gazan youth have documented and shared their struggle with the world using social media strategies, derived from movements from Tahrir Square to Black Lives Matter.
In To See In The Dark, Nicholas Mirzoeff explores how these videos and photos transmitted and viewed outside Palestine, via platforms like Instagram and TikTok, enabled a dramatic switch in public opinion, leading to the global uprising against genocide.
In this groundbreaking analysis, he also connects the personal and the political via his own anti-Zionist Jewishness, weaving an autotheory of domestic, political and sexual violence. Through this exploration, he finds new collective anticolonial ways of seeing, combining online and embodied experiences.
Monstrous Anger of the Guns
'Equips readers with the information they need to resist the lies that feed humanity's urge to commit suicide. Read it!' Yanis Varoufakis
'Devastating testimony. Faultless research. It's impossible to exaggerate the timeliness of this powerfully written book' Peter Oborne
We are seeing injustices caused by war and occupation unfold in real-time via social media, and we are speaking out in our millions against these horrors. Yet, from Gaza to Ukraine, the bombs continue to fall. We must understand why this is happening if we are to end it.
Monstrous Anger of the Guns lays bare the dark and deceitful world of the global arms trade, which, often funded in our name, is a business that counts its profits in billions and its losses in human lives. Leading activists and campaigners connect the dots, showing how notions of citizenship, democracy and trust in governments are misguided, and how we can fight back by building mass movements, using direct action and legal justice to end the flow of weapons and the environmental and human devastation they bring.
Enough
'This, right now, with no excuses, no delays, no equivocation, no loop-holes, no moaning' - Danny Dorling
'A concise, sharp book that makes an incontrovertible case for a profound redistribution of wealth; and a rousing call to arms to take on the super-rich and build an economy that works for everyone' - Grace Blakeley
The story is all too familiar. The global economy generates immense fortunes for a super-rich elite. Yet at the same time pay stagnates for ordinary workers, food banks proliferate and public services collapse around us.
In Enough, Luke Hildyard argues that far from being the hard-working and productive entrepreneurs that they claim to be, the super-rich are an extractive, parasitic force sucking up a vastly disproportionate share of society's resources – making the rest of us all poorer as a result.
Politicians make absurd promises about economic growth while ignoring the solution that's staring them in the face. Enough shows that a major programme of taxes on the rich and economic reform could be used to get the wealth of the one per cent flowing instead to the workers who actually create it.