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Glasgow's socialist bookshop, home to over 5,000 books, pamphlets, and periodicals from across the workers' movement. Temporarily closed, see pinned post.📚🚩

Unit 15, 69 Dixon Rd, Glasgow
Joined April 2024
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Communists, Trade Unionists and supporters of Cuba met in @unitybookshop to commemorate the 26th July, celebrate the achievements of Cuban socialism, and to raise funds to bypass the US-imposed embargo. Viva el 26 de Julio! Viva Cuba! 🇨🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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🇨🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @GlasgowBranchCP are hosting a social this Saturday at @unitybookshop to commemorate the storming of the Moncada Barracks and raise funds for medical aid for Cuba. All welcome, sign up here: forms.gle/3HkAhvudkZsYBFSs8
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To commemorate the storming of Moncada Barracks, @CPBritain and @CubaSolidarity will be running a social and fundraiser open to everyone at @unitybookshop on Saturday 26th July from 6pm. Sign up at: forms.gle/3HkAhvudkZsYBFSs8 Venceremos! 🇨🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Two great reads! Here's a shot of the author Roger McKenzie from the Phoenix book launch.
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Unity Books retweeted
Solidarity with the workers of Syria ! Solidarity with the SDYU 🚩
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Manifesto Press is proud to announce the launch of The Rebirth of the African Phoenix - A View from Babylon by Roger McKenzie on the 2nd of May 2025 at 6pm at the Scottish Trades Union Congress, 8 Landressy Street, Glasgow, G40 1BP. Register here: tinyurl.com/africanphoenix
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🇨🇺TONIGHT🇨🇺 Our fundraiser for medical supplies to take to Cuba is tonight at 19:30. Thanks to @unitybookshop, @tina_sandwich and The Stand for their raffle prize donations! All welcome, come along! 🎟️: eventbrite.co.uk/e/break-the…
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Sunday reading 🚩
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Unity Books retweeted
Scanning in some excellent and very interesting books this weekend - @unitybookshop
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Well now. Look what just arrived from @unitybookshop. Pristine condition.
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This indispensable new volume from @REDLETTERS12 Praxis Press redletterspp.com/?srsltid=Af…
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Great wee night at Unity Books. A treat to be entertained by the very talented Eddie McGuire 🪈 Thoroughly enjoyed the breakdown and class analysis of some of Burns’ works and a fantastic rendition of Tam o' Shanter 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🚩
Getting fou wi' drouthy neibors for a fantastic night of poems, pints, politics (and even prizes!) 😉 in the immortal memory of Robbie Burns. Not to mention over £500 raised for the Star! ✊ Great seeing so many old friends too. Safe home and see you back soon comrades! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🚩
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Comrades visiting @unitybookshop will be able to get Vol. 3 & 4 of Collected Stalin a little early! Reminder! That you can pre-order Vol.3 & Vol.4 ahead of their release date on Wednesday Feb 5th! Vol. 3 📗iskrabooks.org/collected-wor… Vol. 4 📙 iskrabooks.org/collected-wor… -- Also, the special jacketed hardback editions Vol. 1-4 will be available to buy on Feb 5th: 1️⃣📕iskrabooks.org/collected-wor…… 2⃣📕 iskrabooks.org/collected-wor…… 3⃣📕 iskrabooks.org/collected-wor… 4⃣📕 iskrabooks.org/collected-wor…
Our first batch from @iskrabooks sold out fast! But we've restocked and got the collection online and in store. 📚 We've also just got their new books: The Journey of the Farmers' Rebellion in India, the Hampton Reader, and Stalin's Collected Works 3 & 4! Check 'em out! ✊
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One of the best book shops in the city!
Good haul from @unitybookshop today…great shop
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Good haul from @unitybookshop today…great shop
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Had a really brilliant time speaking at the @unitybookshop launch in Govan tonight for @iskrabooks. Credit to all involved in putting on such a successful event. Got myself a few decent reads as well 👀
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Looking forward to good browse! Great work, comrades! – at Ardrossan, Scotland
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This looks brilliant. 🙌
JUST ARRIVED! Iskra Books are a Marxist publisher of socialist texts both beautiful and useful. Committed to worker education, all their books are free to download on their website! ✊ Check out the Iskra collection and hear about the project from @ngdt77 this Saturday at 6! 🚩
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I though the Losurdo on Stalin was really excellent. highly reccomend it.
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Amazing spread of our books! And nice to see Art and the Working Class in there 👀
JUST ARRIVED! Iskra Books are a Marxist publisher of socialist texts both beautiful and useful. Committed to worker education, all their books are free to download on their website! ✊ Check out the Iskra collection and hear about the project from @ngdt77 this Saturday at 6! 🚩
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