this place is a co op bookstore run mostly by Vets for Peace and Vietnam vets.
they have a website but you have to call them to order books. they have 15% discount all the time and this saturday a 20% for their fundraiser day.
they will ship where ever.
They are extremely knowledgeable and have many non-fiction books on civil rights, social justice, and many on communism, socialism, union history, war/anti war history. sustainable living, environmental, native Americans, americas, black america.
http://www.maydaybookstore.org/
Located in the exciting West Bank community in Minneapolis, Mayday Books is a volunteer collective dedicated to selling left-wing literature - activist, labor, progressive, populist, anarchist, green, socialist, Marxist, radical, feminist, African-American, Latino, GLBT, community-oriented, survivalist, Do-It-Yourself, conspiracy analyst; 60’s Memorabilia — and providing a space for political education and camaraderie. We are a non-profit organization with a progressive educational mission, independent of the corporate fat cats who run the country and control the media.
We provide quality political books to the Twin Cities public, both fiction and non-fiction, sold at a discount rate of 15% below the cover price. We also have a wide assortment of political magazines, newspapers, used books, and zines. Mayday Books is also a progressive political hub for educational events and information on social movements in the Twin Cities. We regularly host public events and private group meetings. Please call the store directly to reserve the store for such an event or meeting.
Support your Independent Bookstore.
Mayday carries magazines like: The Nation, ISR, Monthly Review, Show Me The Money, New Internationalist, Earth Island Journal, Science in Society, Z Magazine, Dollars & Sense, Bitch, Against the Current, Labor Notes and left-wing newspapers like: Fight Back, Workers Vanguard, 5th Estate, Slingshot, Socialist Appeal, Justice, Progressive Populist, Catholic Worker (1 cent), Socialist Action, The Match and others.
(Sample) Used and Markdown Books in Stock:
“Blue Guitar Highway”, Paul Metsa, $9, Hdbk
New Books in Stock:
“The Rich and the Rest of Us,” Tavis Smiley, Cornel West. Joint work by two critics of Obama re the issue of poverty, based on their recent tour of the depressed U.S.
“Drone Warfare—Killing by Remote Control” by Medea Benjamin, 2012 Based on her experience in Afghanistan, Benjamin looks at the menace of robotic warfare now highly developed under the Obama administration.
“Representing Capital” - A Reading of Volume One, by Fredric Jameson, 2012. A wide-ranging Marxist analysis of the map of Western culture in the 20th Century.
“The Swerve—How the World Became Modern,” Stephen Greenblatt, A history that locates the foundations of modern secular, scientific thought in the brilliance and heroism of our intellectual forebears.
“Cifiscape Vol II: The Twin Cities—A science fiction anthology,” Science fiction from the Twin Cities and local writers.
“Drift – the Unmooring of American Military Power,” by Rachel Maddow, 2012. Obama supporter and MSNBC host has written a book about the politics of perpetual war, contrasting with the initial goals of the U.S.
“Sex, Race & Class, - The Perspective of Winning,” Writings 1952-2011 by Selma Jones (Wife of CLR James), 2012 James was a member of the Johnson-Forrest tendency in the SWP, then Race Today (Brixton) and Global Women’s Strike, and shares ideas with CLR James.
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