Groundwork Books Collective

Specialties

A political collective and non-​profit book store that stocks radical, social justice, progressive and socialist literature. Groundwork is working toward social change to enable people to take control of their own lives.

Groundwork stocks books, zines, posters, shirts, textbooks, pins, postcards, and libros en Español in the following themes: Ecology, Anarchy, Critical Theory, Marxism, Philosophy, Political Comics, Political Economy, US Politics, Native American Studies, Afrian American Studies, Asian and Pacific Islander Studies, Chican@ Studies, African/​Asian/​European/​US/​Middle Eastern/​Latin American History, Ableism, Abuse & Survival, Animal Rights, Cultural Criticism, Drugs, Food Politics, Health, Justice & Law, Labor, Media, Poetry, Poverty, Queer Studies, Race Theory, Sexuality, Social Movements, Urban Studies, Feminist Theory, History/​Herstory, Women’s Health, Women’s Labor, Family, Youth, Social Science, and UCSD Faculty.

History

Established in 1968.

Groundwork Books is San Diego’s cooperatively managed book shop and volunteer workers collective that maintains books and resources to develop a theory and practice to provide the skills, both intellectual and practical, necessary for a nonhierarchical and non-​authoritarian system of social organization. Founded by Marxists in 1968 as a UCSD student group, we are a community resource for students, faculty, and activists as well as good mannered book geeks.