Grass Roots Books

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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.^{[1][verification needed]}

Grass Roots was a member of the Federation of Radical Bookshops^[2] 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.