Pwnc Llosg’s Library

Welcome to Pwnc Llosg’s library at The Canopi, Cardiff. If you’re not sure what to pick up, check out our Pwnc Llosg Picks for books we have hosted events on, and related books we recommend for further reading. Or, browse our Pwnc Llosg’s Starters to find great introductory books for exploring new topics.

Feel free to read these at Canopi, or take a book home, and be sure to return it later. You can even leave your name and thoughts on the sheet inside the book! And feel free to leave notes in the margin, or however you like to make notes while you read, for the next reader to enjoy.

A - C

A Certain Amount of Madness: Amber J. Keyser (Editor) 

A Feminist Reading of Debt: Lucí Cavallero and Verónica Gago

A Feminist Theory of Violence: Elsa Dorlin

A History of Anthropology: Thomas Hylland Eriksen

A History of Modern Lebanon: Fawwaz Traboulsi

A Nation of Shopkeepers: Dan Evans

A New Hope for Mexico: AMLO (Andrés Manuel López Obrador)

A Party with Socialists in It: Simon Hannah

A People's Green New Deal: Max Ajl

A People's History of Football: Mickaël Correia

A People's History of Modern Europe: William A. Pelz

A People's History of the Russian Revolution: Neil Faulkner

A Radical History of the World: Neil Faulkner

A Socialist History of the French Revolution: Jean Jaurès

A World Without Racism: Kenan Malik

Abolishing the Police: Mariame Kaba (Contributor/Editor)

After Grenfell: Dan Renwick and Robbie Shilliam

After Money: Ann Pettifor (or Anitra Nelson)

Ain't I a Woman: bell hooks

Anarchism and the Black Revolution: Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

Angela Davis: An Autobiography: Angela Davis

Anthropology and Development: Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan

Anti-Capitalist: Ezequiel Adamovsky

Arab Melancholy: Abdellah Taïa

Arise: Power, Strategy and Union Resurgence: Joshua超越 (Josh) French

Authentic Crafts: Cassian Lodge

Authentocrats: Joe Kennedy

Bad News for Labour: Greg Philo et al.

Behind Closed Doors: Polly Toynbee

Being Red: Howard Fast

Big Capital: Anna Minton

Black Minded: Lou Turner

Bread and Roses: Andrea D’Atri

Burning Country: Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila Al-Shami

Burnt: Chris Saltmarsh

Celts, Martyrs and Good Samaritans: Brian Kelly

Change the World Without Taking Power: John Holloway

Cities in the Anthropocene: Kevin Ward

Class Matters: bell hooks

Class Power on Zero-Hours: Jane Hardy (or AngryWorkersWorld)

Climate Capitalism and Communities: Brian Tokar

D - G

Data Power: Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias

Days of Love: Marcus Collins

Decent Capitalism: Sebastian Dullien

Democracy and Socialism: Arthur Rosenberg

Digital Degrowth: Agnieszka Rostalska

Digital Demagogue: Paris Marx

Dismantling Green Colonialism: Hamza Hamouchene and Katie Sandwell

Doughnut Economics: Kate Raworth

Down Girl: Kate Manne

Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson

Economics for Everyone: Jim Stanford

Empire of Normality: Robert Chapman

Empire's Endgame: Gargi Bhattacharyya et al.

Energy Revolutions: Richard Rhodes

Engage: Des Freedman

England's Discontents: Tom Hazeldine

Eros and Alienation: Tarun J. Tejpal

Faith and Resistance: Teresa Okure

Faithful Triangle: James Baldwin (or Noam Chomsky / Edward Said)

Family Abolition: M.E. O'Brien

Fascism: Kevin Passmore

Feminism is for Everybody: bell hooks

Feminism, Interrupted: Lola Olufemi

Feminist Theory: bell hooks

Fictions of Financialisation: Amy De'Ath

Fixing the Planet: James Dyke

Footwork: Tanita Tikaram

For Humanism: David Alderson

Fragments of Victory: Paul Mason

Gadget Consciousness: Joss Hands

Generation Palestine: Rich Wiles

H - M

Hezbollah: The Political Economy of Lebanon's Party of God: Joseph Daher

Here to Stay, Here to Fight: Paul Field et al.

Holding the Line: Ondine S. (about miners' strike)

Hope Lies in the Proles: Aditya Bahl

How Long Can the Moon Be Caged?: Mithun Somaki and S.P. Udayakumar

How the West Came to Rule: Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nişancıoğlu

How to Read Donald Duck: Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart

Identity Destabilised: Shami Chakrabarti

In and Against the State: London Edinburgh Game Theory Group

In the Crossfire: Alan Johnson

Islamic State: Patrick Cockburn

James Baldwin: Living in Fire: Bill V. Mullen

Keywords: Raymond Williams

Learning Whiteness: Arathi Sriprakash

Long Road to Harpers Ferry: Mark Lause

Looking to London: Madge Dresser

Make Bosses Pay: Eve Livingston

Managerial Capitalism: Gerard Dumenil and Dominique Levy

Mask Off: Samuel Moore

May Made Me: Roger Magraw

Media Amnesia: Des Freedman

Memoirs of an Early Arab Feminist: Anbara Salam Khalidi

Military Inc.: Ayesha Siddiqa

Minority Rule: Ari Berman

Money and Society: Axel Paul

Monstrous Anger of the Guns: Derek Wall

N - R

Natives: Akala

Notes of a Native Son: James Baldwin

Of Black Study: Joshua Myers

On Cuddling: Amy Butcher (or relevant essayists)

Open Borders: Bryan Caplan and Zach Weinersmith

Outsourced Empire: Andrew J. Bacevich

Painting the Town Red: Sian Berry

Palm Oil: Jocelyn C. Zuckerman

Pandemic Solidarity: Marina Sitrin

Pandemonium: Lawrence Wright

Pirates and Emperors: Noam Chomsky

Platform Socialism: James Muldoon

Poet and Revolutionary: (Often refers to Rosa Luxemburg or Victor Serge)

Post-Colonial France: Alec G. Hargreaves

Postmodernism and the Other: Ziauddin Sardar

Practical Anarchism: Scott Crow

Practicing Social Ecology: Murray Bookchin

Private Auctions: Elizabeth Popp Berman

Propaganda Blitz: David Edwards and David Cromwell

Protest!: Tamsin Omond

Protest: Stories of Resistance: Ra Page (Editor)

Race to the Bottom: Sasha Abramsky

Radical Justice: Victor Hernandez-Huerta

Rebel Footprints: David Rosenberg

Rednecks and Barbarians: Gord Hill

Renters Unite: Glyn Robbins

Repealed: Linda Kavanagh

Resist the Punitive State: John Moore

Resisting Militarism: Owen Everett

Revolution in Psychology: Ian Parker

Revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg: Rosemary H. T. O'Kane

Rules for Radicals: Saul Alinsky

S - T

Sad by Design: Geert Lovink

Scourge of Empire: David Anderson

Selling Apartheid: Nixon Kaaba

Settler Colonialism: Lorenzo Veracini

Sex, Race, and Class: Selma James

Shadow Lives: Victoria Brittain

Shut Down the Business School: Martin Parker

Small is Necessary: Anitra Nelson

Social Reproduction Theory: Tithi Bhattacharya

Socialism or Barbarism: Rosa Luxemburg

Socialist Feminism: Frieda Afary

Sound Systems: Lloyd Bradley

Space Invaders: Nirmal Puwar

Staying Power: Peter Fryer

Stigma: Imogen Tyler

Stopping Oil: James Marriott

Student Revolt: Chris Harman

Suharto's Indonesia: Hamish McDonald

Tangled in Terror: Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan

Technofeudalism: Yanis Varoufakis

The Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: David Harvey

The Best of Tony Benn: Tony Benn (Edited by Ruth Winstone)

The Communist Manifesto: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

The Cost of Free Shipping: Jake Alimahomed-Wilson

The Death of Homo Economicus: Peter Fleming

The Digital Party: Paolo Gerbaudo

The End of Jewish Modernity: Enzo Traverso

The Failure of Capitalist Production: Andrew Kliman

The Fortune Men: Nadifa Mohamed

The Global Police State: William I. Robinson

The Hologram: Cassie Thornton

The Jakarta Method: Vincent Bevins

The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story: Ramzy Baroud

The Palestine-Israeli Conflict: Gregory Harms

The Point is to Change the World: Italo Poma

The Power in the People: Felix Morley

The Privatisation of Israeli Security: Shir Hever

The Rise of No-Party Politics: Peter Mair

The Solutions are Already Here: Peter Gelderloos

The Souls of Black Folk: W.E.B. Du Bois

Theatre of the Oppressed: Augusto Boal

U - Z

Ukraine and the Empire of Capital: Yuliya Yurchenko

Uncommon Wealth: Kojo Koram

Under the Cover of Chaos: Chamsy el-Ojeili

Unspeakable Things: Laurie Penny

Vicious Games: Chris Moore

Victor Grayson: In Search of Britain's Lost Revolutionary: David Clark

Video for Change: Sam Gregory

Visual Dissent: Gee Vaucher

Wages Against Housework: Silvia Federici

We Are All Greta: Valentina Giannella

We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Mariame Kaba

We Will Not Be Silenced: William I. Robinson and Maryam S. Griffin

What is Anthropology?: Thomas Hylland Eriksen

What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape: Sohaila Abdulali

Workers of the Earth: Ethan Miller

Working-Class Queers: Yvette Taylor

You'll Never Kill Us Puppies: Radosevic/Srecko Horvat