• Internet seller of "radical" books
• Affiliated with Ramsey Clark's International Action Center

Launched in 1999, Leftbooks--the self-styled "people's resource" -- is a Los Angeles, California-based Internet seller of "radical" books. It is affiliated with Ramsey Clark's Marxist-Leninist International Action Center (IAC), and shares office space with the IAC in both its Los Angeles and New York branches. According to Deirdre Sinnott, the creator of the Leftbooks website and a co-Director of the IAC, Leftbooks caters to a leftist audience. "People have asked me if the name leftbooks.com stands for 'left-wing.' I say, you're damn right it does," Sinnott has said. The Leftbooks website further stresses that it was "created by and for activists involved in the struggles for social justice and against U.S. war and racism." As such, Leftbooks urges its customers to "get involved, get political and help spread progressive and alternative materials to your friends and family."

Leftbooks' mission is to sell books that it claims larger Internet sellers "refuse to stock." Among the titles in the Leftbooks catalog is the opening statement delivered by the late Yugoslav dictator Slobodan Milosevic in August of 2004, during his trial at The Hague. Milosevic used the speech to portray himself as the innocent victim of a joint U.S. and European plan to break up the former Yugoslavia. Sold under the title The Defense Speaks for History and the Future, the book features an introduction by Ramsey Clark. 

Also available at Leftbooks is a wide selection of writings by convicted murderers such as Leonard Peltier, responsible for the deaths of two FBI agents, and cop-killer and Black Panther activist Mumia Abu Jamal. Leftbooks carries writings by other Black Panther Party members as well, among them its onetime leader, Huey Newton, and an autobiography by Black Panther militant Assata Shakur (born Joanne Chesimard), who killed a New Jersey police officer in 1973 before fleeing to Cuba in 1979. (Leftbooks' promotional copy for the autobiography casts doubt on Shakur's guilt and identifies her merely as "someone targeted by the U.S. government.") Other far-left authors whose works are distributed Leftbooks include William Blum, Arundhati Roy, and Howard Zinn. Leftbooks also features nine books by or about Che Guevara, as well as several books by Fidel Castro. 

Leftbooks takes special pride in presenting the views of communist "revolutionary" movements, such as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a leftist terrorist faction. In 2000, for instance, Leftbooks distributed the English-language translation of FARC-EP Historical Outline, a FARC manifesto delineating its strategy to impose, by means of "armed struggle," communism on Colombia. Leftbooks creator Sinnott lauded the book as "[o]ne of the most important and hard to find," and praised its "programmatic documents" for offering an inspiring "vision of a new Colombia, without exploiters or exploited."

In the category of revolutionary literature, Leftbooks also sells how-to manuals for radical activists. Prominent among them is We Won't Go! The Truth on Military Recruiters & the Draft. Billed as a "guide to resistance," the book is "aimed at increasing recruiting problems by helping young people and their parents counter the lies of the recruiters," according to Leftbooks' description.

Leftbooks also sells books and videos produced by the International Action Center.