Pluto Press

Pluto Press is a British independent book publisher based in London and is distributed in the United States by University of Chicago Press, an international academic publishing company. It has been "active for 40 years and independent since 1979."

Pluto Press publishes "progressive critical thinking across politics and the social sciences, with an emphasis on the fields of Politics, Current Affairs, International Studies. Middle East Studies, Political Theory, Media Studies, Anthropology, Development."

It has published works by Karl Marx, Frantz Fanon, Noam Chomsky, Bell Hooks, Edward Said, Augusto Boal, Vandana Shiva, Susan George, Ilan Pappé, Nick Robins, Graham Turner, Alastair Crooke, Gabriel Kolko, Hamid Dabashi, Tommy McKearney, Amal Saad-Ghorayeb, Syed Saleem Shahzad, David Cronin, John Holloway, Euclid Tsakalotos and Jonathan Cook.

History: 1969-87

Pluto Press was set up in London by Richard Kuper in 1969 to support and promote political debate and activism. Its left-wing agenda stemmed from its early association with the International Socialists, which broadened to a wider revolutionary left in 1972 when Nina and Michael Kidron joined. Anne Benewick and Ric Sissons joined soon after, and the team eventually reached 16 in number. Publishing extensively in the areas of movement history, race politics, Ireland, feminism and sexual politics, early successes included Sheila Rowbotham’s Hidden from History: 300 years of women’s oppression and the fight against it. and Patrick Kinnersley’s Hazards of Work.