red books day

For the last six years, different people across the world have participated in Red Books Day, strengthening leftist culture and ideas which prioritize life, the human being and the collective.

Literacy gives us the power to build a collective life – it allows us to see our history with clarity, be critical of our present, and demand the impossible of the future.

Reading and popular literacy programmes have played an important role in revolutionary processes, from the Mexican, Chinese, and Russian revolutions in the early twentieth century to today.

Take a trip through our creation of revolutionary portraits, reclaiming archives, marking history, and amplifying legacies of struggle and hope for future generations.

Our latest bulletin reflects on Maruki’s impactful Hiroshima Panels, urging remembrance and action. The power of images to compel us to feel is a poignant point amid campus protests, highlighting art’s role in fostering internationalism.

Amidst the genocide against Palestinians and the war in Congo, human beings cling to hope. Saleem, in Rafah, dreams beyond the present, of Red Books Day and a brighter future.

On 21 February 1848, Marx and Engels published The Communist Manifesto. Today, 21 February is commemorated by thousands across the world as Red Books Day, when people read their favourite red books in public places.…