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Grass Roots Books was Manchester's radical bookshop from 1971 – 1990 selling left-wing, feminist, anti-racist, environmental and alternative books, newspapers, magazines, pamphlets and badges and providing a hub for information exchange.

Grass Roots became the largest UK radical bookshop outside London and for most of that time it was run as a worker co-operative using the Industrial Common Ownership Movement (ICOM) model rules with a changing membership of workers who ran the bookshop as a collective. A contemporary account of working in the bookshop was published in the Library Association publication Assistant Librarian.^[1] A history of the bookshop was published in the North West Labour History Journal (NWLHJ) in 2022 by Maggie Walker, Gay Jones, Fran Devine and Rick Seccombe^[2] and reprinted in issue 6 of the Radical Bookselling History Newsletter.^[3]

Grass Roots was a member of the Federation of Radical Bookshops^[4] a predecessor of the Radical Booksellers' Alliance. An archive of Grass Roots Books, including staff and customer recollections of its impact has been placed in the Manchester Archives.