News From Nowhere Radical & Community Bookshop

20/06/2026

Today (Saturday 20th June) at 2pm! Do come and join us. ❤️🕊🌿🌏

Poems for Peace was a community writing project that invited participants to respond to the topic of peace, using poetry as a vehicle for discussion and writing:

"Throughout the project, participants found ways of exploring ideas of peace, whether by workshopping a poem over a couple of sessions, or simply adding a line to the communal poetry wall in Liverpool’s radical bookshop, ‘News from Nowhere’.

Participants included the Ukrainian Storytelling Group, participants from the News from Nowhere bookshop, and the University of the Third Age (Liverpool) Creative Writing group. Participants wrote in various ways: by using 'broken' extracts from poems which had been specially commissioned by The University of Liverpool, by responding more generally to a particular piece of writing, or by writing collaborative and individual poems purely based on their own experiences and reflections on peace.

Writing about peace at a time when we see the devastating impacts of war on our timelines and in the news daily has been a thought-provoking and humbling experience.

The Poems for Peace workshops were funded by the University of Liverpool’s Centre for New and International Writing and the University of Liverpool. It was facilitated by The Windows Project writer Alison Down, and University of Liverpool Creative Writers postgraduate, Emily Turnbull. We are grateful to the five poets published by Pavilion Poetry -- Mona Arshi, Bhanu Kapil, Anita Pati, Denise Saul and Martha Sprackland -- who provided poems on the theme of peace as prompts for the project’s writing and thinking.
We are now launching the zine produced during the project. This free zine will be distributed on Saturday, the 20th of June at 2 pm, to coincide with the International Conference Against War being held in London.

We are really pleased to be back at New from Nowhere for the launch. Participants and those interested in this work are invited to drop in to pick up a copy of the zine and contribute to a final communal poem.

We hope to see you there."

12/06/2026

09/06/2026

Irish Women and the Indian Independence Movement

Free public lecture by Dr Jyoti Atwal, Associate Professor of Modern Indian History Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

During the freedom struggle in India women emerged as political leaders, aligning with the experience of women in the Irish Independence movement. In both countries self-emancipatory agendas were intertwined with the nationalist cause of political freedom. In this event, Dr Jyoti Atwal will explore the transnational bonding of women across Ireland and India during the anti-colonial campaigns. Both countries were colonies of Great Britain and though the freedom movements in the two nations saw different methods – some of the events powerfully influenced the course of the freedom struggles in both nations. She also focuses on life and work of an Irish suffragette, Margaret E Cousins (1878 -1954) in India, who established the All-India Women’s Conference in 1927 along with Indian women reformers and political activist

The evening will conclude with a reception.

Please note: Booking via Eventbrite is required: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1990010498972

Dr Jyoti Atwal is Associate Professor of Modern Indian History Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India & Visiting Professor (2022-2027) at University College Dublin, Ireland. She specialises in modern Indian history focusing on gender and socio-political history. Her area of interest includes Irish history with a focus on transnational anti-imperial movements and gender. She has published on themes ranging from the transnational movements and World Wars to widowhood, child marriage, gender-based violence, caste and cinema.

Please note that the University of Liverpool South Campus Teaching Hub is in a pedestrianised part of the campus. Unfortunately, Eventbrite and Google put their map pins in different places so the best directions are via the downloadable UoL campus map, on which the SCTH is building 120 in E2. Alternatively, the What3Words code for the entrance is ///mess.mash.tins

09/06/2026

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Today is so we're taking back all the books that people have read, putting them onto shelves for people to look at, then giving them out again to other people who haven't read them yet. For free.

What a system. ❤️

♻️

09/06/2026

New in stock!

This is Fascism: A Wake-Up Call, by Rosan Smits

A #1 bestseller in the Netherlands, this urgent book explains why fascism has returned to Europe in the 21st century – and how we can stop it.

‘Brilliant’ Alastair Campbell on The Rest Is Politics
‘Excellent’ Timothy Snyder
‘Definitive’ Jason Stanley
‘Chilling’ Paul Mason
‘A distress signal’ Rutger Bregman

Fascism is back. This time no swastikas, N**i flags, or deadly bureaucracy, but MAGA hats, right-wing extremist memes, and a triumphant fist held high. For the first time in modern history, far right parties in some European countries have won a larger share of the votes than the Conservatives and the Social Democrats.

But how do fascists mobilise citizens? How has fascism become normalised in Europe again? And how do we stop it?

This is Fascism: A Wake-Up Call is £9.99 (paperback) and is available to order from us here: http://www.newsfromnowhere.org.uk/books/DisplayBookInfo.php?ISBN=9781805466567

06/06/2026

🔥📦 Class Struggle Against Amazon - Building the Resistance to Big Business

📅 Sunday 7 June
⏰ 5pm
📍 The Casa, 29 Hope St, Liverpool, L1 9BP

With guest speakers:
📢 Jonathan Rosenblum
Amazon worker, organiser and author of "We’re Coming For You and Your Rotten System: How Socialists Beat Amazon and Upended Big-City Politics"
📢 Galen Zavala Sherby, Amazon worker and Teamsters union activist from Kentucky

Organising Amazon is a crucial priority for the labour movement. With powerful, fighting unions and shopfloor organisation, Amazon workers would have huge potential power. So how can the trade union movement take the lead in organising to take on Amazon? Come along to hear from two trade unionists from the US on their fight!

Endorsed by Liverpool TUC and Merseyside Pensioners Association

Zoom available for those unable to attend in person: https://bit.ly/42B5wip

06/06/2026

13th June:

06/06/2026

Poems for Peace was a community writing project that invited participants to respond to the topic of peace, using poetry as a vehicle for discussion and writing:

"Throughout the project, participants found ways of exploring ideas of peace, whether by workshopping a poem over a couple of sessions, or simply adding a line to the communal poetry wall in Liverpool’s radical bookshop, ‘News from Nowhere’.

Participants included the Ukrainian Storytelling Group, participants from the News from Nowhere bookshop, and the University of the Third Age (Liverpool) Creative Writing group. Participants wrote in various ways: by using 'broken' extracts from poems which had been specially commissioned by The University of Liverpool, by responding more generally to a particular piece of writing, or by writing collaborative and individual poems purely based on their own experiences and reflections on peace.

Writing about peace at a time when we see the devastating impacts of war on our timelines and in the news daily has been a thought-provoking and humbling experience.

The Poems for Peace workshops were funded by the University of Liverpool’s Centre for New and International Writing and the University of Liverpool. It was facilitated by The Windows Project writer Alison Down, and University of Liverpool Creative Writers postgraduate, Emily Turnbull. We are grateful to the five poets published by Pavilion Poetry -- Mona Arshi, Bhanu Kapil, Anita Pati, Denise Saul and Martha Sprackland -- who provided poems on the theme of peace as prompts for the project’s writing and thinking.

We are now launching the zine produced during the project. This free zine will be distributed on Saturday, the 20th of June at 2 pm, to coincide with the International Conference Against War being held in London.

We are really pleased to be back at New from Nowhere for the launch. Participants and those interested in this work are invited to drop in to pick up a copy of the zine and contribute to a final communal poem.

We hope to see you there."

05/06/2026

'...Books open our minds and keep them open. They improve our communication, critical thought and intelligence. But, most importantly, novels boost our empathy. They help us to navigate the world with kindness, with compassion. Putting away screens and spending time with a classic, lingering a little on human nature, feels like a valuable pursuit, even if you have to employ a few tricks.

There is no wrong way to read the right book. In literature, as in life, you should ignore all the purists and map out your own routes to success. Start at the end, if you must. Rip the book in two. Maybe read aloud in a Glaswegian accent. Do whatever you need to do to get reading.'

In less than a decade, surrounded by screens, I lost my ability to read some of the best books ever written. But, inspired by the Guardian’s 100 best novels list, I was determined to get it back