The Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing is a British

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presented for the best

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book published each year, with "radical book" defined as one that is "informed by

socialist Socialism is an economic ideology, economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse Economic system, economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership. It describes ...

anarchist Anarchism is a political philosophy and Political movement, movement that seeks to abolish all institutions that perpetuate authority, coercion, or Social hierarchy, hierarchy, primarily targeting the state (polity), state and capitalism. A ...

environmental Environment most often refers to: __NOTOC__ * Natural environment, referring respectively to all living and non-living things occurring naturally and the physical and biological factors along with their chemical interactions that affect an organism ...

feminist Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideology, ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social gender equality, equality of the sexes. Feminism holds the position that modern soci ...

and

anti-racist Anti-racism encompasses a range of ideas and political actions which are meant to counter racial prejudice, systemic racism, and the oppression of specific racial groups. Anti-racism is usually structured around conscious efforts and delibera ...

concerns"Bread and Roses Award
official website. – in other words, ideologically left books. The award believes itself to be the UK's only left-wing book prize. Books must be written, or largely written by authors or editors normally living in the UK, or international books available for purchase in the UK. Winning authors receive . The Bread and Roses Award is sponsored by the Alliance of Radical Booksellers and has no corporate sponsorship.Alliance of Radical Booksellers
official website. ''Bread and Roses'' is a phrase from the Bread and Roses strike of 1912 among textile workers in

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Bread and Roses "Bread and Roses" is a political slogan associated with women's suffrage and the labor movement, as well as an associated poem and song. It originated in a speech given by American women's suffrage activist Helen Todd; a line in that speech ab ...

" – commemorating the event, the strikers supposedly struck "for bread, and for roses too." The inaugural prize was announced 1 May 2012, on

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, at the Bread and Roses pub in

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Winners and shortlists

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*{{Official website, https://breadandrosesprize.wordpress.com/ Awards established in 2012 2012 establishments in the United Kingdom British non-fiction literary awards Left-wing politics in the United Kingdom Political book awards Socialism in the United Kingdom Anarchism in the United Kingdom Environmentalism in the United Kingdom Feminism in the United Kingdom Anti-racism in the United Kingdom