SAVE THE DATE for our April 28th webinar, which will cover how activists are adapting their strategies in a context of rapid change. Registration link to follow.

Thanks to CBC Books for naming "Blood on the Snow: The Tragedy at Reesor Siding" by Jacques Poirier and Christian Quesnel one of their "must-read comics titles publishing this spring"! You can pre-order now at btlbooks.com/book/blood-o... www.cbc.ca/books/12-can... @christianquesnel.bsky.social

Independent Palestinian publishers suspect that Amazon Ads is blocking titles, limiting visibility and suppressing books on Palestine amid censorship concerns www.newarab.com/features/ama...

On this day in 1872, the Toronto Printers' Strike began. Workers were hoping to get a nine-hour workday. Three weeks after the strike began, a rally was attended by 10,000 supporters. While the strike failed, it did lead to a bill to legalize trade unions in Canada.

Read an excerpt from MOBILIZING DATA FOR JUSTICE: A GUIDE TO ACTIVISM IN THE DIGITAL AGE (@btlbooks.com) by Chris Hurl, Elena Rowan, Marius Senneville, and Kevin Walby. Find it right here on Open Book! #AmReading #Nonfiction #SocialJustice #Tech open-book.ca/News/Read-an...

Women's History Month is EVERY month! Check out these new books on women's lives and women's history. @ecwpress.bsky.social @dundurnpress.bsky.social @heritagehouse.bsky.social @btlbooks.com @boulderbooks.bsky.social 49thshelf.com/Lists/Member... #WomensHistoryMonth #WomensHistory

Kevin Walby and Chris Hurl discuss their new book, Mobilizing Data for Justice, on the Social Sleuth podcast.

Happy book birthday to Mobilizing Data for Justice: A Guide to Activism in the Digital Age! Drawing on interviews with more than 50 data activists around the world, this book provides the inspiration that activists need for social justice struggles today. btlbooks.com/book/mobiliz...

Don't miss out! 20% off sitewide sale ends tonight. Explore some of our favourite feminist titles now: btlbooks.com/blog/view/fe...

Happy release day to Working for Nothing: A Wages for Housework Anthology! Edited by Louise Toupin, this text includes essays by Silvia Federici, Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Selma James, and more. Learn more and order your copy today, for 20% off until March 12: lnkd.in/gVjvSTSH

Check out this excerpt from Working for Nothing: A Wages for Housework Anthology by Louise Toupin @btlbooks.com 49thshelf.com/Blog/2026/03... #WomensMonth #CanLit

Join @peggynash.bsky.social and the Toronto Workers' History Project for this wonderful event next week! via Zoom btlbooks.com/events/view/...

Congratulations to @kdubin.bsky.social, finalist for the 2025 Wilson Prize! wilson.humanities.mcmaster.ca/news/2025-wi...

On building feminist anti-war solidarity: a feminist futures reading list in honour of International Women's Day. btlbooks.com/blog/view/fe...

Why These Iranian-Canadians Strongly Oppose U.S.-Israeli Aggression “This war is a war of power, a war of resource and land grab, and it is nothing about democracy.” www.readthemaple.com/why-these-ir...

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Harvesting Freedom (by Gabriel Allahdua with Edward Dunsworth, @btlbooks.com) & Redundancies and Potentials (by @domsdickey.bsky.social, @neonhemlock.bsky.social). See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #BlackHistoryMonth #bookish #booklovers

What We Carry: Winter 2026 is here – a seasonal book list tracing stories of migration, movement, and ancestral memory. @arsenalpulp.bsky.social @btlbooks.com @scribnerbooks.bsky.social @mawenzihouse.bsky.social @harpercollinsca.bsky.social @houseofanansi.bsky.social 49thshelf.com/Blog/2026/02...

"Feminism and Palestinian Liberation Go Hand in Hand" an excerpt by Nada Elia now out now in @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/feminism-and... @haymarketbooks.org

A necessary report on the situation in Cuba right now as the US blockade continues; by @kdubin.bsky.social rabble.ca/politics/us-...

Very excited to announce that our book "Mobilizing Data for Justice" is now available for pre-order with @btlbooks.com. We interviewed a bunch of folks about how they engage with data in social justice struggles and we share some of their strategies here.

Mobilizing Data for Justice: A Guide to Activism in the Digital Age by Chris Hurl, Elena Rowan, Marius Senneville and Kevin Walby Now printed! @btlbooks.com is a social movement press founded in 1977, and they publish a lot of awesome books. Please check BTL out. btlbooks.com/book/mobiliz...

A new season of books from Between the Lines! Learn more: btlbooks.com/blog/view/co...

Discover books on Black history, liberation and struggle from Between the Lines: btlbooks.com/blog/view/bl...

Find us at Rock Paper Scissor at the Art Gallery of Guelph on Feb 23 from 11 am to 4 pm: artgalleryofguelph.ca/event/rock-p...

Tune into this interview with Nada Elia, the author of Palestine and Feminist Liberation: btlbooks.com/blog/view/a-...

Check out this new article by Nada Elia — the author of Palestine and Feminist Liberation — in The New Arab on whether Mayor Zohran Mamdani can stay true to his pro-Palestine politics now that he’s in office. Read the full article here: www.newarab.com/opinion/can-...

Another year has come and gone! Thank you to our communities, for the support that sustains us. To justice and abundance in the year ahead, from Turtle Island to Palestine, and beyond. PS: BTL's office will be closed Dec 24, 2025 until Jan 1, 2026. See you in the new year!

Just want to say thanks to my publisher BTL and to everyone who agreed to be interviewed for my book as well as the OHS awards committee.

#OtD 19 Dec 1996 it was announced that water charges introduced in Dublin in 1994 would be scrapped following massive non-payment campaign. Over half of residents refused to pay and resisted cut-offs stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9079...

Congratulations to Dr. Steven High. The Left in Power: Bob Rae’s NDP and the Working Class has won the Ontario Historical Society’s 2025 Best Scholarly Book Award: ontariohistoricalsociety.ca/wp-content/u...

🚨 Last day of our FLASH SALE! 📚 30% off on all our books via our webstore. ⏰ Shop now until December 11, 2025 at 11:59 pm EST. 🔗 btlbooks.com

My publisher only publishes social justice focused works. So, if you want to get a copy of my book from a rad place, buy it directly from them now while it's hella on sale!

📚 FLASH SALE! 📚 🚨 30% off on all our books via our webstore. ⏰ Shop now until December 11, 2025 at 11:59 pm EST: www.btlbooks.com

Join A Space Gallery and Between the Lines for the closing reception of the Gaza Biennale T'karonto and the book launch of Palestine and Feminist Liberation: www.eventbrite.ca/e/gaza-bienn...

#ReadPalestine week (Nov 29-Dec 5) Read. Resist. Rise up. -> publishersforpalestine.org @pubforpalestine.bsky.social @plutopress.bsky.social @orbooks.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.org @saqibooks.bsky.social

Congratulations to John-Henry Harter and Mark Leier, co-authors of Roles of Resistance! Their books won the 2025 Creative Expression Award from the United Association of Labour Education. Learn more about the book today: btlbooks.com/book/roles-o...

On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, BTL invite readers to take a revolutionary stance against gender-based violence; challenge the ways we understand trauma and resilience; and go toe-to-toe with institutional power. @julieslalonde.bsky.social

Have you got your Radical Reader’s Holiday Bundle yet?🤔 It's just $110 for four vital books. ✊ Support leftist independent publishing and shop local this holiday season. This offer is only available until November 30, 2025. 🔗https://btlbooks.com/bundles/view/radical-reader-holiday-bundle

National Housing Day reading! Another great one from @btlbooks.com💜🩷

On a new episode of @broadbent.bsky.social's 🌅PERSPECTIVES🌅 host @peggynash.bsky.social sits down with co-author Julie White to talk about their new @btlbooks.com release 'Women United Stories of Women’s Struggles for Equality in the Canadian Auto Workers Union' perspectivesjournal.ca/women-united/

On Nov. 13, @btlbooks.com launched Women United by @peggynash.bsky.social and Julie White. Joined by Tricia Wilson of @unifor.org, they shared untold stories of women leaders in the CAW. Listen to the full event recording on Activists Make History: perspectivesjournal.ca/women-united/

Join A Space Gallery and Between the Lines for the closing reception of the Gaza Biennale T'karonto and the book launch of Palestine and Feminist Liberation: www.eventbrite.ca/e/gaza-bienn...

Today!

On November 19, 1915, legendary labour activist Joe Hill was executed by firing squad–“murdered by the capitalist class”–in Sugar House Prison in Utah. Before his death, Hill wrote to his comrade Big Bill Haywood: “Don’t waste any time in mourning. Organize.” btlbooks.com/book/joe-hill

What We Carry is our newest column tracing stories of migration, movement + ancestral memory from authors who write across intersections of identity, borders, cultures + generations. @ecwpress.bsky.social @playcanpress.bsky.social @btlbooks.com @arsenalpulp.bsky.social 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/11...

We just had a wonderful conversation about WHEN THE PINE NEEDLES FALL by Ellen Gabriel & @seancarleton.bsky.social in a Canadian & Indigenous Studies course at Trent. I think it was all the more special, because our seminar room was not far from where the two of them first met. @btlbooks.com

Out Now! Palestine and Feminist Liberation by Nada Elia 🍉 btlbooks.com/book/palesti...

NEW RELEASE FROM @btlbooks.com: Women United by @peggynash.bsky.social Based on the firsthand stories of dozens of women leaders in the Canadian Auto Workers, Women United examines what workplaces were like for pioneering women in the labour movement. Order your copy: btlbooks.com/book/wo...

Bundle up with these radical reads. ❄️ Get your holiday shopping done early this year with the Radical Reader’s Holiday Bundle. Shop now & learn more - special offer available until Nov 30: www.btlbooks.com/bundles.https://btlbooks.com/bundles/view/radical-reader-holiday-bundle

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