Chicago's oldest independent progressive bookstore and meeting center was founded in 1972. Owned and operated by a not-for-profit collective, the bookstore is completely volunteer-run. New World has a large selection of left-wing books, T-shirts, buttons, posters, post cards, bumper stickers, magazines, newspapers and music. Books cover topics from "A" to Zinn: anarchism, anti-racism, African-American history, economics, environmentalism, feminism, geo-politics, labor struggles, Leftist history, Marxism, philosophy, Socialism, sociology and more.