About Us

Where do you go when you want to buy a book? A union-busting corporation or a socialist bookshop?

Bookmarks is the largest socialist bookshop in Britain. The shop has been running in London since 1973 and we are the official booksellers to the Trades Union Congress.

Bookmarks keeps alive the tradition of radical bookselling, ensuring that activists have access to the most important lessons from history as well as cutting edge political analysis.
Our range of books covers politics, economics, trade unionism, labour history, the environment, black struggle, women’s liberation, culture, fiction, radical children’s books and much more.

And we don’t just sell books, we publish them too, books that answer the big questions that socialists and trade unionists are asking.

We provide bookstalls at events across the country, from the Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Festival to the Durham Miners’ Gala, to trade union conferences and on major demonstrations. We provide books for workplace readers’ groups and for trade union education courses.

We send books across the world and offer a full mail order service. If you can’t find the book you’re looking for, please get in touch. We can order most books published in the UK by the following working day.

The massive anti-union booksellers like Amazon can offer the sorts of discounts smaller shops cannot match. But they do this by attacking their own workers, avoiding corporation tax and squeezing authors and publishers. That’s not how we operate. And the major booksellers cannot match the guidance and expertise that our unionised staff provide.