Groundwork Books Collective

Left Wing Activist in me LOVES THIS PLACE!
I can get a book that will enlighten me on everyone of my passions from technologies role in providing free quality universal education to the necessity of concentrating america’s global hegemony in a peaceful instead of militant manner.
Never left this place upset. Built up my Chomsky collection thanks to them. Ya’ll stay in business and educate those square UCSD kids!!!

Other than being a political bookstore that offers books that you would be hard pressed to find at any other store, they’re actually a material example of what a lot of their literature talks about.
Groundworks is a worker’s collective which means that it is a horizontal egalitarian association of workers where each worker is their own boss. They’re actually trying to realize a better workplace and each dollar spent here goes directly to the workers and to the community.
I come here as often as I can to buy my books in order to support the collective and what it stands for and is striving for. You’d have a hard time finding many places like this anywhere.
This is also an awesome community center and I often find myself coming here to lounge on one of their nice couches. They also host movie nights where they show political documentaries, hold discussions, and provide free food.
I would definitely recommend that people check this place out for your next book buy.

«Oooh it’s too political for me!» Wah wah. Get over it and get your backwards arse to this little bookstore and support one of our few student-​run businesses. (Unless you’re really into giving all of your money to Regents who really own all of our souls…)
You don’t have to be an anarchist/​socialist/​communist/​revolutionary/​etc. to drop by and see what this place has to offer, just buy your book free of harassment from those pesky little snitches of loss prevention like they have at the mini Wal-​Mart, I mean, Bookstore, I assure you, no one will make you buy any propaganda (Although I must say, they got some good shit.)
They also got Slingshot planners and even if I don’t identify as anarchist, I must say, I love those slingshots, they got those cool little designs (people put time into that shit), a menstrual calendar, and how to say «I am an anarchist» in 4 different languages! (among other things).

Don’t you feel compelled (under penalty of death) to burn Bush’s portrait in effigagy when you’re at this store? If not that, then to start a antelope-​worshipping political organization?
I feel weird in there. It’s political and civil rights taken to the extreme. I could only wonder what would happen to you if you came in there with a Republican sticker.
I just want to buy my damn book. I don’t want any stupid political stickers nor a flyer for some government-​bashing protest.

i know they screw up class orders all the time, but you gotta support this little critical, liberal, socialist alcove on an otherwise conservative, corporate, apolitical (head in the sand) campus. their selection is great, and i appreciate when my seminar instructors order the class books here – i much prefer giving my money to groundwork than that horrifying price center bookstore.