Caracol Books

What an absolute pleasure it was to have Adam at Caracol for our first event. Thanks to everyone that came, listened, participated in conversation and joined us at the pub afterwards.

Lots more to come.

We're now a donation point for .edit.nr3 vegan foodbank. You can drop in food item donations (see 2nd image) or pennies for the cash tin during our opening hours - Thurs - Sunday.

Very excited to have two more brilliant additions to events happening at Caracol. Booking info in bio.

1. The Power of Love & The Love of Power

What do the relationships between parent and child, therapist and patient, guru and disciple, adept and initiate, teacher and student, sub and dom, beloved and lover, despot and subject all have in common? and how do they differ? When does the presence of power become an abuse of power? and can it be undone? In this talk Timmy Davis will use psychoanalysis and philosophy to explore the place of power in life and transformation.

2. Think Out of the Tongue: A Creative Translation Worksop

Did you know that you can translate a text before you can speak the language? Or even better, that you can translate to learn that language?

In this workshop we will step aside the learn-then-translate model, and we will go straight into the fun. We will be translating a poem from another language to explore the creative pathways to language learning and prismatic reading. The aim of this workshop is to see how one single text can open up multiple possibilities to translation, and how this openness can be an exciting way of learning a new language.

Two brand new releases from now in stock.

- THEY WILL BEAT THE MEMORY OUT OF US

In the face of ecological crisis, police repression and white supremacy, there is an apparent lack of options for effective resistance. Here, Peter Gelderloos brings to life some of the conflictive and subversive events of the last couple of decades in a radical new criticism of nonviolence.

The book weaves history, vignettes, interviews and personal reflections to show how our movements suffer from an inability to pass on lessons learned from one generation to the next.

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- RED THREADS

The red flag: there is no symbol, perhaps other than the crucifix and the crescent moon, that so many people have lived and died for. A standard of hope and resistance to millions, and of terror and tyranny to many. But why is the red flag red? How did it come to represent the workers against the propertied class? And how did it travel the world?

From its martial beginnings in Rome and France, to the raising of a blood stained flag at the Merthyr Rising and the arrival of the red flag at the Paris Commune; from the jungles of north-eastern India to the factories of Cuba; Red Threads explores how this symbol of working class power first came to be held aloft in the hands of revolutionaries; who raises it today; and its meaning for the future.

Thanks for all of the support during our first month of being open. It's been amazing to see so many of you come through our door. Caracol is really beginning to feel like the space we hoped it would be.

But we will still need your support and here are some easy ways you can do so!

(Links in bio for becoming a supporter)

We've got some copies of DOPE on the counter, all money goes to EAT soup kitchen. £3 a copy.

Our 2nd hand section has been really popular, so we're always looking to replenish our supply. If you've got any old books kicking around and you're having a clear out then donating them to us is a great way to support the project.

Hello! Terribly empty shelves... Can your work/school/café/shop/event help us out?! Drop us a message here or email [email protected] if you are able to help ❤️

We're now open Thursday - Sunday. We're a month in and very excited to be extending our opening days already.

Thanks to everyone who's come by and visited us, bought books or stopped in for a chat. If you've not been yet, now you have extra days to do so.

See you soon x

📣 Our first event in the new space (woo!) - Weds 25th September. Save the date!

We'll be joined by author Adam Greenfield to hear him speak about his new book Lifehouse.

Start time and free booking info to be announced soon.
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In this book Adam Greenfield, author of Radical Technologies, recovers lessons from the Black Panther survival programs, the astonishingly effective Occupy Sandy disaster-relief effort and the solidarity networks of crisis-era Greece, as well as municipalist Spain and autonomous Rojava, to show how practices of mutual care and local power can help shelter us from a future that often feels like it has no place for us or the values we cherish.

More new titles added to our ever-growing collection.

- THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO GRAPHIC NOVEL

- FREEDOM SHALL PREVAIL

- CALIBAN AND THE WITCH

- WOMEN LIFE FREEDOM

- THE ORIGIN OF THE FAMILY, PRIVATE PROPERTY AND THE STATE

- OCEAN OF SOUND: AMBIENT SOUND AND RADICAL LISTENING IN THE AGE OF COMMUNICATION

- THE CONDITION OF THE WORKING CLASS IN ENGLAND

- NOMADOLOGY: THE WAR MACHINE

Open a little extra this week. We'll be open this afternoon, all day Fri all day Sat and then Sunday afternoon. See you soon x

A few new titles from

📚 THE LEFT IN CHINA: A POLITICAL CARTOGRAPHY

📚 A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE GERMAN REVOLUTION

📚 A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

📚 A COLLECTION OF RANTER WRITINGS: SPIRITUAL LIBERTY AND SEXUAL FREEDOM IN THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION

New books!

TALKING TO ARCHITECTS
Colin Ward

LENIN AS PHILOSOPHER
Anton Pannekoek

DEEPING IT: COLONIALISM, CULTURE & CRIMINALISATION OF UK DRILL
Adele Oliver

ANARCHIST ECOUNTERS: RUSSIA IN REVOLUTION
Various authors

THE MAGNETTI WORKERS COMMITTEE
Emilio Mentasti

SLOW DOWN: HOW DEGROWTH COMMUNISM CAN SAVE THE EARTH
Kohei Saito

A DEVILISH KIND OF COURAGE: ANARCHISTS, ALIENS & THE SIEGE OF SIDNEY STREET
Andrew Whitehead

CHROMOPHOBIA
David Batchelor

OCCUPATION CULTURE: ART+SQUATTING IN THE CITY FROM BELOW
Alan M. Moore

CONSUMED: COLONIALISM, CLIMATE CHANGE & CONSUMERISM
Aja Barber

MAD WORLD: THE POLITICS OF MENTAL HEALTH
Michael Frazer-Carroll

THE DAWN OF EVERYTHING: A NEW HISTORY OF HUMANITY
David Graeber and David Wengrow

WE HAD TO REMOVE THIS POST
Hannah Bervoets

Back open from tomorrow for the rest of the week
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You're in for a treat! Very excited that these titles from Rab-Rab Press arrived from Helsinki today.

THE SUGAR AND THE HUNGER

The first English language translation of Robert Linhart’s The Sugar and the Hunger, originally published in 1980 is an indispensable factographic inquiry into modern hunger.

Widely acclaimed for his engaged social analyses of proletariat and peasant struggles around the world, Linhart’s inquiry into the sugar regions of North-Eastern Brazil, juxtaposes heterogeneous traits of the impoverished workers’ stories into a vivid cinematic montage.
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ULTRA RED: A JOURNAL OF MILITANT SOUND INQUIRY VOL 1

For their thirtieth anniversary, Ultra-red, the international sound art and popular education collective is releasing the first volume of ULTRA-RED: A Journal of Militant Sound Inquiry, investigating movement-based listening practices that take the forms of militant inquiry and political education.

In the words of Ultra-red, “No movement without listening!”
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FREE JAZZ COMMUNISM

The fourth (silver) edition of Free Jazz Communism with the reprint of the entire script of Archie Shepp’s play The Communist (Junebug Graduates Tonight: A Jazz Allegory) is out!

Free Jazz Communism actualises the concert of Archie Shepp–Bill Dixon Quartet at the 8th World Festival of Youth and Students in Helsinki 1962.
Edited by Sezgin Boynik and Taneli Viitahuhta, the book contextualizes the politics of free jazz music in light of global decolonisation movements, anti-war activism, structures of racial capitalism, and forms of avant-garde music.
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BIE BAO VOLUME 5

The bie bao series is dedicated to militant zaum investigations of Ilya Zdanevich - Iliazd (1894-1975). Zdanevich was a poet, designer, typographer, theoretician, and publisher who developed a new philosophy and methodology from zaum (trans-sense) experiments.
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RAB-RAB ISSUE 5

The fifth issue of Rab-Rab: Journal of Political and Formal Inquiries in Art includes stories about nation traitors, fierce masses, socialist women struggles, love-forms, psychedelic counter-revolutionaries, workers unions, Brecht fiddlers, jazz surrealism, Soviet trains, and anti-fascism.

Caracol is open for business. A new radical bookshop and meeting space for Norwich. New and 2nd hand radical reading, drinks, comfortable seating and events.

A week to go until our Fundraiser Party. Bag yourself a ticket while you can.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/caracol-fundraiser-party-tickets-733622985097?aff=oddtdtcreator

Double trouble next Sunday 30th.

Join us for our next pop-up radical bookshop 12-6, and for a film screening from 6:30pm. Both at OUTPOST gallery.

We will be screening 'Comunismo Futuro' - you can book a free place here www.norwichoutpost.org/rsvp

There's even a bar! See you next week 💖