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Britain / 5 November 2015
The fightback starts here – radical books are flying off shelves
by Lamiat Sabin
Morning Star
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SALES of radical books have shot up, propelled Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour leadership win, according to leading London left-wing bookstore Bookmarks.

More copies of Karl Marx’s Capital were sold in the last month than during the whole of last year at the shop in Bloomsbury, manager Angela Butcher said yesterday.

A Rebel’s Guide to Marx by Mike Gonzalez has also sold out.

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