Spartacus Books is a non-profit, volunteer and collectively run bookstore and resource centre in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Spartacus sells new and used books, zines, comics, magazines, CDs, videos, T-shirts, patches, pins, posters and cards.

[citation needed] It is usually described as a radical bookstore,[2] and among its sections are anarchism, women studies, LGBTQ literature,[3] poetry, indigenous studies and indigenous literature, activist organizing, socialist theory, history, ecology, zines and chapbooks from local writers/artists, a section of non-specialized used books, plus DVD rentals.

[4][5][6] However, due to the increasing cost of real estate in Vancouver, the store was forced to move again to 684 East Hastings Street.

[8][9] Spartacus Books was originally started at Simon Fraser University by Roger Perkins, who worked at the SFU bookstore.

It was initially called the Spartacus Socialist Education Society, however over the years it has become a meeting place for people of divergent political views.

By the time the fire was put out, the entire building had gone up in flames and Spartacus Books had lost all of its inventory as well as materials detailing the history of the store.

[12] Fundraising for Spartacus Books came in the way of numerous donations, and the efforts of the collective and supporters over the years between April 2004 and November 2005.

Spartacus Books is a bookstore that is run by a collective which operates on a horizontal consensus decision making structure.

Groups that have used the space for meetings throughout the years include the Spartacus Book Club, the anarchistic free school movement, Vancouver Indymedia, cooperative housing, the Vancouver Esperanto group, Under the Volcano Festival, G8 and G20 protests and the local chapter of Industrial Workers of the World.