Frontlines Press is a project of the Labor/Community Strategy Center. Our goal is to build an independent Left press to generate books in direct support of rebuilding antiracist and anti-imperialist social movements. We pay great attention to Black, Latine, Asian/Pacific Islander communities, as well as the encouragement of antiracist white traditions, and seek out working class readers—especially “the opinion leaders of the oppressed”—who love to read but cannot be reached through traditional book distribution mechanisms.
Through months of writing and editing, we are able to produce booksquite fast and bring them to frontline organizers.
Today, the transcendent character, integrity, and intelligence of Black people, that should be celebrated, is attacked and defamed by the white Settler State. Our books are a vote of confidence in the Black community of which we are part of. With a particular focus on young, gifted, and Black readers, we honor of many of the greatest revolutionaries through our curation; Nina Simone and Lorraine Hansberry—W.E.B Du Bois, Toni Cade Babara, Paul Robeson, Assata Shakur and Malcolm X.
Read, read, read! The slave owners made teaching an Enslaved African to read punishable by fines, prison, or floggings. Enslaved Black people caught reading were subject to any level of punishment by white enslavers. Frederick Douglas taught himself to read and write and wrote books and agitation that inspired the abolitionists including enslaved Africans.
Frontlines Press is in the tradition of reading as an act of insurgency and uprising.
