Spartacus Books

02/10/2026

Our display

Don't forget to support the Vancouver Black Library too!
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02/07/2026

We love the support of our community—it's time to pay it forward! Cross & Crows is East Van's q***r bookstore, and you should support them! Find them at 2836 Commercial Drive (between 12th & 13th) or at https://www.crossandcrows.com

Gofundme: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-save-a-q***r-bookstore

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/u107027281

11/16/2025

Alice Wong video essay: Why Palestinian Liberation Is Disability Justice

"Why Palestinian Liberation Is Disability Justice", written by Alice Wong was originally published by the Disability Visibility Project in December 2023. In ...

09/26/2025

Assata Shakur's autobiography is one of the most important books about the Black liberation struggle. We are grateful for her decades of principled dissent. May she continue to inspire generations of revolutionaries

Chicago Review Press

06/08/2025

Happy Italian Day! Come check out our display of books by Italian authors like Errico Malatesta, Alfredo Bonanno, Silvia Federici, and Antonio Gramsci! We also have books on the history of Italy and the Italian diaspora. Come on by 1983 Commercial Drive and say buongiorno!

04/27/2025

Please support the people caring for those hurt at the Lapu Lapu Day Block Party tonight

02/16/2024

Join us for a monthly reading series on Radical Pedagogies, rethinking how we learn and teach.

Starting February 27, the discussion meeting will be held on the last Tuesday of each month at 8 pm.

You can either join in person at Spartacus Books or through the link in our bio linktree.

Text for February 27: “The Pedagogy of the Oppressed” by Paulo Freire, Chapter 2
(link to the text in bio linktree)

Potential future texts:

“You Can’t Reform Things Built to Harm” and “We Need More Pedagogy in our Movements” – Nerd Teacher

Land as pedagogy: Nishnaabeg intelligence and rebellious transformation – Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

“Poetry and Grammar” by Gertrude Stein

“Uncle’s Four Laws” youtube video – Sylvia McAdam

“Land Speaking” – Jeanette Armstrong

“The University and the Undercommons” from The Undercommons – Fred Moten and Stefano Harney

“The Promise of Deschooling” – Matt Hern

BURNITALLDOWN – Yerbamala Collective

“To Walk Questioning: Zapatismo, the Radical Imagination, and a Transnational Pedagogy of Liberation” – Alex Khasnabish

“That Teaching is Impossible” – Alejandro de Acosta

Book 6 Chapter 8 “Of National Education” from Enquiry Concerning Political Justice – William Godwin

“The False Principle of our Education” – Max Stirner

02/12/2024

Centralized calendar of events & actions for Palestine in so-called “Vancouver” & surrounding cities/towns, the unceded lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, & Tsleil-Waututh nations and Coast Salish peoples.

Here is the link to the calendar
tinyurl.com/palestinecalendarYVR

Add it to your Google Calendar by clicking on the link below:
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=dGhlLnBhbGVzdGluZS5jYWxlbmRhckBnbWFpbC5jb20

Please email [email protected] with events to add, corrections, or to volunteer to help run this calendar!

02/05/2024

Spartacus Books Top 25 Bestselling Books of 2023

1. The Communist Manifesto (Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels)
2. All About Love: New Visions (bell hooks)
3. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Robin Wall Kimmerer)
4. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Mark Fisher)
5. Capital Vol. 1 (Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels)
6. The Wretched of the Earth (Frantz Fanon)
7. State and Revolution (V. I. Lenin)
8. The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House (Audre Lorde)
9. The Dispossessed (Ursula K. Le Guin)
10. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialsim and Resistance, 1917‒2017 (Rashid Khalidi)
11. 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance Comic Book (Gord Hill)
12. Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy (Jessica Fern)
13. Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (Peter Kropotkin)
14. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) (Dean Spade)
15. Essential Works of Lenin: "What Is to Be Done?" and Other Writings (V. I. Lenin)
16. The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula K. Le Guin)
17. How Much Land Does a Man Need? (Leo Tolstoy)
18. Notes on Camp (Susan Sontag)
19. The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love (bell hooks)
20. Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents (Lindsay C. Gibson)
21. Mutual Aid Self/Social Therapy (Jane Addams Collective)
22. Anarchist Communism (Peter Kropotkin)
23. An Anxious Person's Guide to Non-Monogamy: Your Guide to Open Relationships, Polyamory and Letting Go (Lola Phoenix)
24. Anarchy & Alcohol (CrimethInc.)
25. Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures (Mark Fisher)

02/05/2024

Spartacus Books Top 16 Bestselling Zines of 2023

1. Creeker / The Creeker Companion (various authors)
2. Voices: Indigenous Women on the Front Lines Speak (various authors)
3. Abolish Supportive Housing (Red Braid Alliance)
4. D**e News (Kara Stanton)
5. EVAH: Elaho Valley Anarchist Horde (EVAH)
6. Accomplices Not Allies: Abolishing the Ally Industrial Complex (Indigenous Action Media)
7. D**e Dolls (Kat Hillson)
8. Between Storms: Anarchist Reflections of Solidarity with Wet'suwet'en (anonymous)
9. Learn Your ABC's: Defund the VPD (Erica Masuskapoe & Meenakshi Mannoe)
10. Water Falling on Granite: Deference Politics, Indigenous Leadership, and Anarchist Relationships (anonymous)
11. Fu***ng Trans Women #0 (Mira Bellwether)
12. Rare Breed (Ricky Lantos)
13. For an Anarchist Radio Relay League (anonymous)
14. Brute! (Joanna Wei)
15. Noted: Transmisogyny in the Radical Left (anonymous)
16. Understanding Capitalism (Vivek Chibber)

01/22/2024

Spartacus Books has organized a book stall in our store for the upcoming Holocaust remembrance day.
In the face of an ongoing gen0cid3 in P@lestine, we invite you to learn, remember, and reflect upon the lessons recorded in these books.
Image credits: Yad Vashem Art Museum
Jewish Voice for Peace