MANIFESTO PRESS (manifestopress.coop) was founded 12 years ago as a non-profit design, publishing and distribution service to the labour, peace and solidarity movements.

Fifty books have been published, commissioned by Manifesto itself, in collaboration with trade union and solidarity movements and others as a service to organisations and authors who needed production and marketing assistance.

Publishing partners include the RMT, Cuba Solidarity Campaign, NUT, the Venezuelan embassy, Derby Trades Council, the International Brigade Memorial Trust, Rete di Comunisti, Communist Review, Marx Memorial Library, Connolly Association, the Communist Party and its History Group, Socialist Educational Association and the Education for Tomorrow collective.

Two of Mercia McDermott’s books have been translated: her biography of Dimtr Blagoev, Lone Red Poppy, was launched at a mass rally in Sofia, reminiscences of her life and work in Bulgaria Once Upon a Time in Bulgaria have been  published in Paris and a Bulgarian edition is planned.

US Interventions in Latin America, produced with the Venezuelan embassy, was later distributed free in digital form as is Building an Economy for the People, edited by Jonathan White, which anticipated Labour's 2017 manifesto.

Manifesto introduced reasoned argument into the Brexit debate with EU Deconstructed and a challenging contribution from the Italian inspirers of the Italian Eurostop movement PIGS Awakening.

State Monopoly Capitalism — by Andreas Wehr, Beate Landefeld and Gretchen Binus — was translated from German and Peter Latham’s The State and Local Government deepened understanding of the modern state.

To Robert Griffiths’s Killing No Murder on the 1911 rail strike (in collaboration with the RMT), Granite and Honey, the biography of Phil Piratin Communist MP, and Marx’s Das Kapital and Capitalism Today (with Kevin Marsh) was added his biography of SO Davies MP,  Reddest of the Reds.

Manifesto’s Labour Lives series also included Vintage Red, the autobiography of Hackney council leader John Kotz and most recently Born to Campaign, the inspiring autobiography of Rita Weiss edited by her daughter Rita Weiss.

Andrew Murray’s The Imperial Controversy challenged right-wing empire apologists, his Stop the War and its Critics found a wide readership as the campaigning coalition came under attack and his Empire and Ukraine deconstructs imperialism’s designs on the region.

This year John Ellison’s Censorship Overruled, an alternative history of 1918, put imperialism in the spotlight while the October Revolution was marked with R Page Arnot’s The impact of the Russian Revolution on Britain and John Foster’s The Councils of Action 1920 and the British Labour Movement’s Defence of Soviet Russia.

Following Phil Katz’s Thinking Hands, The Long Weekend and Freedom from Tyranny we have scheduled his new biography of Tom Mann. Red Lives, A Centenary of Socialism and a new edition of Mary Davis’s Women and Class and David Horsley’s timely The Political Life and Times of Claudia Jones marked the party's centenary.

Desmond Greaves’s classic The Life and Times of James Connolly, edited by Anthony Coughlan was published in collaboration with Connolly Books of Dublin and the Connolly Association.

New titles are in development on trade union organising, on Marx, work and the 21st century, the autobiography of Morning Star industrial correspondent Roy Jones and the writings of Marxist art historian Hans Hess.

Manifesto’s latest initiative is Recycled Classics where a constantly renewed stock of left-wing books, pamphlets and ephemera can be found. Donations of legacy books are very welcome.

After a disruptive Covid period Manifesto has moved to a more efficient order fulfilment system. Its co-operative status allows for an expansion of its network and new opportunities exist for volunteers to help with distribution and sales, promotion and marketing and publicity and promotion.

Manifesto's new website is http://manifestopress.coop. Nick Wright is chair of the Manifesto Press co-operative.