Bristol Transformed 2024 Festival Reading List

Following the festival, here is our suggested reading list. Session organisers have recommended these for anyone who's interested in learning more.

Disaster Risk Planning

• prepare.campaign.gov.uk
• 2021, Tim Lang, Feeding Britain: Our Food Problems and How to Fix Them, Pelican Books

Take Action with ACORN

• Wade Rathke, Nuts and Bolts. The ACORN fundamentals of organising,
• www.livingrent.org/

Abolishing Landlordism

• 2024, Isaac Rose, The Rentier City: Manchester and the Making of the Neoliberal Metropolis, Repeater Books
• 2024, Nick Bano, Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis, Verso books

Everything is Terrible - Was It Always?

• 2009, Andy Beckett, When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the 70s, Faber & Faber

Who Are the Terrorists?

• Leon Trotsky, Terrorism & Communism

SpyCops - Interview and Q&A with Tom Fowler

• Website: spycops.co.uk
• Spycops podcasts covering key issues
• 2022, Alison, Belinda, Helen Steel, Lisa & Naomi, Deep Deception, Ebury Press/Penguin
• Kate's story, Police Spies Out of Lives

Introduction to Radical Economics

• 2014, Ha Joon Chang, Economics, a Users Guide, Penguin Books Ltd (Pelican)
• 2018, Hadas Thier, A People’s Guide to Capitalism, Haymarket Books
• 2017, Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to my Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism, Vintage
• 2024, Grace Blakeley Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom, Bloomsbury
• 2022, Eric Williams, Slavery and Capitalism, Penguin Books

Economics of Global inequality

• Pettis and Klein, Trade Wars are Class Wars
• Nicholas Shaxson, Treasure Islands
• Panitch and Gidin, The Making of Global Capitalism
• Kojo Karam, Uncommon Wealth
• Jason Hickel, The Divide
• Dani Rodrik, The Globalisation Paradox
• Costas Lapavitsas, The State of Capitalism
• Branco Milànovic, Global Inequality
• Michael Hudson, Super Imperialism
• 2017, Jason Hickel, The Divide, Penguin
• 2016, Branco Milanovic, Global Inequality, Harvard University Press
• 2023, Costas Lapavitsas, The State of Capitalism, Verso Books

Rosa Luxemburg - Socialism or Barbarism?

• Socialism or barbarism: the selected writings of Rosa Luxemburg, Get Political
• 2015, Kate Evans, Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg
• Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, The Life of Rosa Luxemburg
• 1986, Rosa Luxemburg, Film

Land, Anti-Communism, and the CIA - Guatemala 70 Years on

• Piero Gleijeses, Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution And The United States, 1944-1954
• Mario Vargas Llosa, Harsh Times
• Revolutionary Left Radio, Proles of the Round Table