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Founded in London in 1969 by Richard Kuper, out of the radical politics of the late 1960s — the movement against the Vietnam War, student radicalism, second-wave feminism and militant workers' organisations. An independent radical publisher, it helped relaunch the Left Book Club in 2015 and remains active.

Years
1969–present
Location
London, United Kingdom
Languages
English
Website
https://www.plutobooks.com/
Authority records
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Sources
Pluto Press — Pluto's history; Wikipedia — Pluto Press

Backlist

39301960197019801990200020102020Founded 19691970: 5 titles1971: 18 titles1972: 10 titles1973: 13 titles1974: 18 titles1975: 26 titles1976: 22 titles1977: 33 titles1978: 46 titles1979: 28 titles1980: 31 titles1981: 31 titles1982: 44 titles1983: 75 titles1984: 60 titles1985: 68 titles1986: 52 titles1987: 48 titles1988: 31 titles1989: 58 titles1990: 49 titles1991: 43 titles1992: 56 titles1993: 46 titles1994: 57 titles1995: 76 titles1996: 75 titles1997: 73 titles1998: 100 titles1999: 83 titles2000: 109 titles2001: 123 titles2002: 90 titles2003: 98 titles2004: 105 titles2005: 93 titles2006: 79 titles2007: 96 titles2008: 71 titles2009: 71 titles2010: 393 titles2011: 104 titles2012: 88 titles2013: 77 titles2014: 76 titles2015: 85 titles2016: 67 titles2017: 81 titles2018: 81 titles2019: 84 titles2020: 75 titles2021: 87 titles2022: 82 titles2023: 51 titles2024: 59 titles2025: 53 titles2026: 23 titles
Titles of Pluto Press by year: 3,876 dated titles, 1970–2026, most in 2010 (393); 124 undated. Lines mark founded 1969.
The figures by decade
DecadeTitles
1970s219
1980s498
1990s658
2000s935
2010s1,136
2020s430
YearTitleAuthor(s)Language
1970Antonio Gramsci✓ — An Introduction to His ThoughtAlberto PozzoliniEnglish
1970Party and Class✓Free — EssaysTony CliffEnglish
1970Principles of CommunismFreeFriedrich EngelsEnglish, German
1970The Employers' Offensive✓ — Productivity Deals and How to Fight ThemTony CliffEnglish
1970The Struggle in the North✓Michael FarrellEnglish
1971Antonio Gramsci — An Introduction to His ThoughtAlberto PozzoliniNot recorded
1971Communism and the Family✓FreeAlexandra KollontaiEnglish
1971Lenin's Moscow✓Alfred RosmerEnglish
1971Lenins MoscowAlfred Rosmer & Ian H. BirchallEnglish
1971Marxism and Freedom, from 1776 Until Today✓ — Including a New Chapter Cultural Revolution or Maoist Reaction?Raya DunayevskayaEnglish
1971Marxism and the Sociology of Trade Unionism✓Richard HymanEnglish
1971Party and Class✓Free — EssaysTony CliffEnglish
1971Principles of Communism✓FreeFriedrich EngelsEnglish
1971Sociology of Development and Underdevelopment of Sociology✓Andre Gunder FrankEnglish
1971Stalinism and the Origins of the International Socialists✓ — Some Documents—English
1971The Class Nature of Israeli Society✓Haim HanegbiEnglish
1971The Fight Against Racialism✓
Left in Britain (Microfiche) -- Pt. 2, No.135-136
Mike CaffoorEnglish
1971The Fourth International, Stalinism and the Origins of the International Socialists✓ — Some Documents—English
1971The Meaning of Marxism✓FreeDuncan HallasEnglish
1971The Struggle for Bangla Desh✓Nigel HarrisEnglish
1971The Struggle for Socialism✓
Left in Britain (Microfiche) -- Pt. 2, No.136
—English
1971Three Essays on Marxism✓Karl KorschEnglish
1971Unemployment & How to Fight It✓
Left in Britain (Microfiche) -- Pt. 2, No.135
Chris HarmanEnglish
1972An Open Letter to the PartyJ. KuronEnglish
1972Concorde✓ — Ten Years and a Billion Pounds Later, Chris and Liz EdwardsChris EdwardsEnglish
1972Direct action✓Free — An outline of workshop and social organisationWilliam GallacherNot recorded
1972Preparing for Power✓ — A Critical Study of the History of the British Working-Class MovementJohn Thomas MurphyEnglish
1972Reprints in labour history✓—Not recorded
1972Rosa Luxemburg✓ — Ideas in actionPaul Frölich & Joanna HoornwegGerman
1972Rosa Luxemburg✓ — Ideals in ActionPaul Frölich & Joanna HoornwegEnglish
1972Rosa Luxemburg; Ideas in Action✓Paul FrölichEnglish
1972The Meaning of Marxism✓ — A Study Guide
Left in Britain (Microfiche) -- Pt. 2, No.137
Richard KuperEnglish
1972What a Compulsory 8 Hour Working Day Means to the Workers✓
Reprints in Labour History; 2
Tom Mann & Richard HymanEnglish
1973Big Red DiaryDavid WidgeryEnglish
1973Here to Stay, Here to Fight: A "Race Today" Anthology—English
1973Hidden from History✓ — 300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight Against ItSheila RowbothamEnglish
1973James Connolly✓Free — Selected WritingsJames ConnollyEnglish
1973John Maclean✓Nan MiltonEnglish
1973Marxism and the Sociology of Trade Unionism✓Richard HymanEnglish
1973Party and Class✓FreeTony CliffEnglish
1973The Emancipation of Women✓ — The Rise and Decline of the Women's Movement in German Social Democracy 1863 - 1933Werner ThönnessenEnglish
1973The Hazards of Work - How to Fight Them✓
Workers' Handbook -- No. 1
Patrick KinnerslyEnglish
1973The Miners' Next Step✓ — Being a Suggested Scheme for the Reorganisation of the Federation
Reprints in Labour History; 4
R. Merfyn JonesEnglish
1973The Miners' Next Step Being a Suggested Scheme for the Reorganization of the Federation✓Unofficial Reform Committee.*English
1973The Philosophy of Art of Karl Marx✓Michail Aleksandrovič LifšicEnglish
1973Turkey: Torture and Political Persecution✓Jane CousinsEnglish
1974Big Red Diary✓—English
1974Bureaucracy and Revolution in Eastern Europe✓Chris HarmanEnglish
1974Capitalism and Theory✓Michael KidronEnglish
1974Chile, the Gorillas Are Amongst US✓Helios PrietoEnglish
1974David Beecham's Rates for the Job, 1974✓David BeechamEnglish
1974Female Transport✓Steve GoochEnglish
1974Hidden from History✓ — 300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight Against ItSheila RowbothamEnglish
1974Marxism Versus Sociology✓ — A Guide to ReadingMartin ShawEnglish
1974Mayakovsky and His Circle✓Viktor Borisovič Šklovskij & Lily FeilerEnglish
1974Political Undercurrents in Soviet Economic Debates✓ — From Bukharin to the Modern ReformersMoshe LewinEnglish
1974SocialismWilliam Morris & E. Belfort BaxNot recorded
1974State Capitalism in Russia✓FreeTony CliffEnglish
1974The Balham Group✓ — How British Trotskyism BeganReginald GrovesEnglish
1974The Bolsheviks and the October Revolution✓ — Minutes of the Central Committee of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) August 1917-February 1918Rossijskaâ social-demokratičeskaâ rabočaâ partiâEnglish
1974The Hazards of Work✓ — How to Fight Them
Workers' Handbook; 1
Patrick KinnerslyEnglish
1974The Hazards of Work and How to Fight Them (Workers' Handbook)Patrick KinnerslyEnglish
1974The Origins of the International Socialists✓ — Versch. Beitr—English
1974Workers Against the Monolith✓ — The Communist Parties Since 1943Ian H. BirchallEnglish
1975A Revolutionary Socialist Manifesto✓Jacek KurońEnglish, Polish
1975Big Red Diary✓Christine JacksonEnglish
1975Building the Party✓
Lenin / Tony Cliff; Vol. 1
Tony CliffEnglish
1975Khamsin✓ — Revue Des Socialistes Révolutionnaires du Proch-Orient—English
1975Kilroy Is Here✓Gordon WillisEnglish
1975Lenin✓Tony CliffEnglish
1975Lenin's Last Struggle✓Moshe LewinEnglish
1975Lenin's Last Struggle / Moshe Lewin; Translated from the French by a. M. Sheridan-SmithMoshe LewinEnglish
October 1975Little GirlsElena Gianini BelottiNot recorded
1975Marxism and Freedom, from 1776 Until Today✓Raya DunayevskayaEnglish
1975Marxism and Social Science✓ — The Roots of Social KnowledgeMartin ShawEnglish
1975Marxism and the Sociology of Trade Unionism✓Richard HymanEnglish
1975-01-21Mayakovsky and His CircleLily FeilerEnglish, Russian
1975Political Undercurrents in Soviet Economic Debates✓ — From Bukharin to the Modern ReformersMoshe LewinEnglish
1975Proletarian Order✓ — Antonio Gramsci, Factory Councils and the Origins of Italian Communism, 1911-1921Gwyn A. WilliamsEnglish
1975Racism and Black Resistance in Britain✓Robert Samuel MooreEnglish
1975The Crisis. Social Contract of Socialism✓Tony CliffEnglish
1975The Frontier of Control✓ — A Study in British Workshop PoliticsCarter GoodrichEnglish
1975The Monument✓ — The Story of the Socialist Party of Great BritainRobert BarltropEnglish
1975The Motor Show✓
Pluto Plays
Steve GoochEnglish
1975The Occupation of the Factories✓ — Italy 1920Paolo SprianoEnglish
1975The Strange Case of Victor Grayson✓Reginald GrovesEnglish
1975Them and Us in Literature✓Paul O'FlinnEnglish
1975Trade Unions and Revolution✓ — The Industrial Politics of the Early British Communist PartyJames HintonEnglish
1975Will Wat, If Not, Wat Will?✓
Pluto Plays
Steve GoochEnglish
1975Your Employers' Profits✓
Workers' Handbook; No. 2
Christopher HirdEnglish
1976Abortion in Demand✓Victoria GreenwoodEnglish
1976All Power to the Soviets✓
Lenin / Tony Cliff; Vol. 2
Tony CliffEnglish
1976Althusser's Marxism✓Alex CallinicosEnglish
1976Big Red Diary✓Christine JacksonEnglish
1976Big Red Joke Book✓Gregor BentonEnglish
1976British Syndicalism 1900-1914✓ — Myths and RealitiesBob Holton & R. J. HoltonEnglish
1976British Syndicalism 1990-1914✓ — Myths and RealitiesBob HoltonEnglish
1976Capitalism, the Family and Personal Life✓Eli ZaretskyEnglish
1976Cartoons for the Cause — Designs and Verses for the Socialist and Labour Movement, 1886-1896Walter Crane & Marx Memorial Library StaffEnglish
1976Chibaro✓ — African Mine Labour in Southern Rhodesia, 1900-1933Charles Van OnselenEnglish
1976Communist Politics in Britain✓ — The CPGB from Its Origins to the Second World WarHugo DewarEnglish
1976Complaints and Disorders — The Sexual Politics of SicknessBarbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre EnglishEnglish
1976Crimes of the Powerful✓ — Marxism, Crime, and DevianceFrank PearceEnglish
1976Fortunate ManJohn Berger & Jean MohrEnglish
1976Gramsci's Marxism✓
Ideas in Progress
Carl BoggsEnglish
1976History Workshop✓ — A Journal of Socialist and Feminist Historians—English
1976Jack London✓ — The Man, the Writer, the RebelRobert BarltropEnglish
1976Lenin✓ — All Power to the SovietsTony CliffEnglish
1976Northern Ireland the Orange State✓Michael FarrellEnglish
1976Raids and Reconstructions✓ — Essays on Politics, Crime and CultureHans Magnus EnzensbergerEnglish
1976The Emancipation of Women✓ — The Rise and Decline of the Women's Movement in German Social DemocracyWerner Thönnessen & Joris de BresEnglish
1976The Protestants of Ulster✓Geoffrey BellEnglish
1977A New World for Women✓ — Stella Browne, Socialist FeministSheila RowbothamEnglish
1977Address to Trades' UnionsCouncil of the Socialist League StaffEnglish
1977Big Red Diary✓—English
1977Big Red Songbook✓Mal CollinsEnglish
1977Catching Them Young✓ — Political Ideas in Childrens FictionBob DixonEnglish
1977Catching Them Young Volume 1 Sex Race and Class in Childrens Fiction
Catching Them Young
Bob DixonNot recorded
1977Class Struggle in the First French Republic✓ — Bourgeois and Bras Nus 1793-1795Daniel GuérinEnglish
1977Femininity as Alienation✓ — Women and the Family in Marxism and PsychoanalysisAnn ForemanEnglish
1977Fish in the Sea✓ — A Play
Pluto Plays
John McGrathEnglish
1977Generals' Strike — 20 DrawingsAndrew TurnerEnglish
1977Grand National Holiday, and Congress of the Productive ClassesWilliam BenbowEnglish
1977Hamburg at the Barricades✓ — And Other Writings on Weimar GermanyLarisa ReĭsnerEnglish
1977Hidden from History✓ — 300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight Against It
Pluto Classic
Sheila RowbothamEnglish
1977Inside German Communism✓ — Memoirs of Party Life in the Weimar RepublicRosa Leviné-MeyerEnglish
1977Italian Road to Socialism — An InterviewE. J. Hobsbawm, Giorgio Napolitano, John McKay Cammett & Victoria DeGraziaEnglish
1977John S. Clarke✓ — Parliamentarian, Poet, Lion-TamerRaymond ChallinorEnglish
1977Little Red Hen✓
Pluto Plays
John McGrathEnglish
1977Marxism and Social Science✓ — The Roots of Social KnowledgeMartin ShawEnglish
1977Poems and Ballads✓Wolf BiermannEnglish
1977Political Ideas in Children's Fiction✓
Catching Them Young / Bob Dixon; 2
Bob DixonEnglish
1977Russians of Ross-Shire, or, Massacre of the Rosses in Strathcarron, Ross-Shire — By Policemen, When Serving the Tenants in Strathcarron with Summonses of Removal in March LastDonald RossEnglish
1977Sex, Race and Class in Children's Fiction✓
Catching Them Young / Bob Dixon; 1
Bob DixonEnglish
1977Socialism and the New Life✓ — The Personal and Sexual Politics of Edward Carpenter and Havelock EllisSheila RowbothamEnglish
1977Southern Africa After Soweto✓Alex CallinicosEnglish
1977The Anti-SamuelsonMarc LinderEnglish
1977The History of the Russian Revolution✓Free — Translated from the Russian by Max EastmanLeon TrotskyEnglish
1977The Local State✓ — Management of Cities and PeopleCynthia CockburnEnglish
1977The Making of Marx's 'Capital'✓ — Vol. 1Roman RozdolskiEnglish
1977The Non-stop Connolly Show✓ — A Dramatic Cycle of Continuous Struggle in Six Parts
Pluto Plays
Margaretta D'Arcy & John ArdenEnglish
1977Useful Work v Useless ToilWilliam MorrisEnglish
1977Wallraff✓ — The undesirable journalistGünter WallraffGerman
1977Wolf Biermann✓ — Poems and BalladsWolf BiermannEnglish
1977Wolf Biermann, poems and ballads✓Wolf BiermannGerman
1978"The Boy Looked at Johnny"✓ — The Obituary of Rock and RollJulie BurchillEnglish
1978André Breton and the First Principles of Surrealism✓ — A Companion Volume to What Is Surrealism?: Selected Writings of André BretonFranklin RosemontEnglish
1978Apricots & Thermidor✓ — Two Plays
Pluto Short Plays
Trevor R. GriffithsEnglish
1978Art History and Class Struggle✓Nicos HadjinicolaouEnglish
1978Ashes✓ — A Play
Pluto Plays
David RudkinEnglish
1978Ball Boys✓
Pluto Short Plays
David EdgarEnglish
1978Big Red Diary 1979✓—English
1978Catching Them Young✓Bob DixonEnglish
1978Catching Them Young 1✓ — Sex, Race and Class in Children's FictionBob DixonEnglish
1978Crimes of the Powerful✓ — Marxism, Crime and DevianceFrank PearceEnglish
1978Critical Theory of the Family✓Mark PosterEnglish
1978Ecotopia✓ — A Novel About Ecology, People and Politics in 1999Ernest CallenbachEnglish
1978Ectopia✓ — A Novel About Ecology, People and Politics in 1999Ernest CallenbachEnglish
1978Feminity as Alienation✓ — Women and the family in marxism and psychoanalysisAnn ForemanGerman
1978Gramsci's Marxism✓Carl Boggs & Antonio GramsciEnglish
1978Harry McShane✓ — No Mean FighterHarry McShaneEnglish
1978Jack London✓ — The Man, the Writer, the RebelRobert BarltropEnglish
1978-01-01Lenin✓ — Revolution BeseigedTony CliffEnglish
1978Light Shining in Buckinghamshire✓ — A Play
Pluto Plays
Caryl ChurchillEnglish
1978Marxism and the Party✓John MolyneuxEnglish
1978Marxist Economics for Socialists✓ — A Critique of ReformismJohn HarrisonEnglish
1978Pannekoek and Gorter's Marxism✓Anton Pannekoek & Herman GorterEnglish
1978Pannekoek and Gorter's Marxism✓—German
1978Pulling a Fast One✓ — What the Brewers Have Done to Your BeerRoger ProtzEnglish
1978Revolution Besieged✓
Lenin / Tony Cliff; Vol. 3
Tony CliffEnglish
1978Rights at Work✓ — A Workers' Guide to Employment Law
Workers' Handbooks
Jeremy McMullenEnglish
1978Southern Africa After Soweto✓Alex CallinicosEnglish
1978Sport, a Prison of Measured Time — EssaysJean-Marie BrohmEnglish
1978The Cherry Orchard✓Anton Pavlovich Chekhov & Trevor GriffithsEnglish
1978The Desctruction of Nature in the Soviet Union✓Boris KomarovEnglish
1978The Destruction of Nature in the Soviet Union✓Boris KomarovEnglish
1978The Local State✓ — Management of Cities and PeopleCynthia CockburnEnglish
1978The Lorenzaccio Story✓
Pluto Plays
Paul ThompsonEnglish
1978The Non-stop Connolly Show✓ — A Dramatic Cycle of Continuous Struggle in Six Parts
Pluto Plays
Margaretta D'Arcy & John ArdenEnglish
1978The Politics of Nuclear Power✓David ElliottEnglish
1978The Prostestants of Ulster✓Geoffrey BellNot recorded
1978The State, Capital and Economic Policy✓Suzanne de BrunhoffEnglish
1978The Women Pirates — Ann Bonney and Mary Read
Pluto Plays
Steve GoochEnglish
1978Traps✓
Pluto Plays
Caryl ChurchillEnglish
1978Trouble with the Law✓ — The Release Bust BookRelease (Organization)English
December 1978Undesirable JournalistsGünter WallraffEnglish
1978Wallraff, the Undesirable Journalist✓Günter WallraffEnglish
1978We Can't Pay? We Won't Pay!✓
Pluto Plays
Dario FoEnglish
1978What Is Surrealism?✓ — Selected Writings [of] André BretonAndré BretonEnglish
1978Women in the Arab World✓
Khamsin; 6
Yolla Polity ShararaEnglish
1978Yobbo Nowt✓
Pluto Plays
John McGrathEnglish
1979A Greenish Man✓
Pluto Short Plays
Snoo WilsonEnglish
1979Bloom of the Diamond Stone✓
Pluto Plays
Wilson John HaireEnglish
1979Cloud Nine✓ — A PlayCaryl ChurchillEnglish
1979Confessions of a Socialist✓
Pluto Short Plays
CAST (Group)English
1979Demystifying Social Statistics✓John IrvineEnglish
1979For Her Own Good✓ — 150 Years of the Experts' Advice to WomenBarbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre EnglishEnglish
1979Indignant Heart✓ — Testimony of a Black American WorkerCharles DenbyEnglish
1979Lenin✓ — Bolsheviks and World RevolutionTony CliffEnglish
1979Lenin: A Biography—English