"Rich women have rarely done their own dishes, cared for their own children, or even fucked their own husbands.”
A polite titter ripples among the 13 or so people gathered at a book club on a Thursday evening in London.
A YouTube video beamed onto the wall with a projector, called “What the f**k is social reproduction?” by communist organisation Plan C, isn't your usual nibbles ‘n' Neapolitan Novels book club fare. But this isn't your usual book club.
With meetings in pubs, people's flats, bookshops, libraries and university campuses – like this grungy meeting room at the University of London's SOAS, just off Russell Square – a group of publishers are reviving an anti-fascist tradition that flourished in 1930s Britain.
Pioneered by the left-wing publisher Victor Gollancz in 1936, the Left Book Club was created to educate and energise left-wing readers in the face of burgeoning fascism. (After the Nazi-Soviet pact in 1939, the club tried to distance itself from its Communist roots.)
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