The IULP is a network that confronts the challenges of the market-driven desiccation of ideas with left books that amplify the voices of ordinary people.

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Formed in 2020, the International Union of Left Publishers emerged as a platform of left publishers to promote left books through Red Books Day (21 February), to defend left authors, publishers, and bookshops, and to develop a copyleft method of sharing books across our countries and languages.

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Red Books Day

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Red Books Day celebrates left books, their authors, and the people’s movements they ushered forward on 21 February 1848, the day Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published The Communist Manifesto.

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