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Tending to Our Wounds
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Haunted by Slavery
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Paul Frölich: In the Radical Camp
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Fake Work
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Loving in the War Years
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Mama Phife Represents
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Waiting in the Wings
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The John Carlos Story
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Worth Fighting For
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Song for a Hard-Hit People
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Witness to the German Revolution
by Victor Serge -
The Party
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Long Shot
by Rory Fanning and Craig Hodges -
Stardust to Stardust: Reflections on Living and Dying
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I Am Troy Davis
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The 1905 Russian Revolution
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Reading Revolution
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Reminiscences of Lenin
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Her Word Is Bond
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Witness
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Victor Serge
Victor Serge (1889-1947) is best known as a novelist – with two of his works recently republished...
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Mark Naison
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Bill Ayers
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Flint Taylor
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Revolutionary Lives: A Reading List
We've put together a reading list of biographies, memoirs, and collected letters and essays that provide indispensable introductions to some of history's most inspiring figures.
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Michael Bennett: Black Lives Matter
An excerpt from Super Bowl Champion Michael Bennett's memoir-manifesto, Things That Make White People Uncomfortable.
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Meet the 2025 Writing Freedom Fellows
Haymarket Books and the Mellon Foundation are honored to welcome the second cohort of the Writing Freedom Fellowship—a program created to recognize, support, and elevate the voices of emerging and established writers who are impacted by the carceral system and are working in genres spanning poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction.
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Meet the 2026 Writing Freedom Fellows
Haymarket Books and the Mellon Foundation are proud to introduce the third cohort of the Writing Freedom Fellowship, recognizing twenty emerging, mid-career, and established poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers whose lives and work have been impacted by the carceral system.
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Unforgetting: Family, Migration, Gangs, Borders, and Revolution
Roberto Lovato and Mike Davis in conversation about violence, migration, and the possibility of revolution.
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Haymarket at Socialism 2025!
A reading list of books written by some of the many thinkers, writers, and activists who will be speaking at Socialism 2025!
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Meet the 2024 Writing Freedom Fellows
Haymarket Books and the Mellon Foundation are thrilled to announce the inaugural cohort of the Writing Freedom Fellowship, an opportunity to support emerging and established poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers impacted by carceral systems. writing-freedom.org/
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The Russian Revolution at 100
In commemoration of the 100 year anniversary of the Russian Revolution, Haymarket Books has compiled a list of essential books for those interested in learning the lessons of the first successful workers' revolution.
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Class War Reading List
In celebration of May Day and the radical history of the working class, we’ve put together this Class War Reading List. All of these books are 40% Off until the end of May!
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Haymarket Books by Black Women, for Liberation
Browse a reading list of books by Black women who are engaged in the work of history-making, radical imagining, and movement building. All of these books are currently 40% off, as part of our Black History Month sale.
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The Game is Not a Game: Books on Sports and Struggle
A Haymarket reading list about radical sports history and the impact activist athletes have had on politics and sports culture.
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Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
Eddie Glaude Jr. and Cornel West discuss the enduring legacy of James Baldwin and lessons from his work for confronting racism today.
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Solidarity: Defending Activism Within and Beyond the University
Join us in solidarity with Garrett Felber for a discussion about defending anti-racist and abolitionist organizing in academia.
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Flash Sale: 60% Off select titles!
Flash Sale: 60% Off some of our favorite books for a limited time only!
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“We’re putting out books that speak to the current moment.”
Haymarket Books has always prided itself on being a mission-driven press, rather than one that focuses on the commercial viability of its acquisitions.
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Victor Serge, The Unconquered
William Giraldi for The Baffler
Some writers are destined to have two deaths—the first in life, and the second in memory. The lucky ones can be resurrected from that second death by cultural circumstance and the aid of overseeing angels, irked by injustice, believing these Lazaruses should be helped from their tombs. In 2004, Susan Sontag opened her essay “Unextinguished” with this query, much to the present case: “How to explain the obscurity of one of the most compelling of twentieth-century ethical and literary heroes, Victor Serge?”
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2016 highlights: 25% off for UK customers
25% off some of our 2016 highlights for UK customers until the end of December. Just in time for Christmas!
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Haymarket Books for Latinx Liberation
In celebration of the radical, intersectional histories of struggles for Latinx Liberation, we're offering 40% off all the books on our Latinx Liberation Reading List. Get a free Ebook (where available) and free shipping on orders over $25 inside the US and £20 inside the UK.
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Economics for the 99%: A Reading List
A reading list of books dealing with economic theory and history geared toward anyone interested in understanding how capitalism works—in order to replace it. All of these books are currently 30% Off.
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Publishing Under Quarantine
This is a difficult time for authors to release new books. Please consider picking up these important new releases and helping us spread the word!
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Happy Holidays! 40% OFF ALL Haymarket Books
Our Holiday Sale is here early this year! ALL Haymarket Books are 40% Off through Friday, January 2nd!
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Stonewall was a Riot: a Pride Month Reading List
A reading list of books about queer and trans politics, history, and liberation. For the month of June, we’re glad to offer 40% Off the Haymarket titles on this list!
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Craig Hodges Will Have This Dance
Craig Hodges and Dave Zirin discuss The Last Dance, Michael Jordan and how it feels to be blackballed by the NBA.
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Racial Capitalism: A Reading List
A reading list on the historical development and dynamics of racial capitalism, as well as examples of resistance.
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Haunted by Slavery
May 13, 2021
Online Teach-in
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Haymarket Presents: Song for a Hard-Hit People: A Memoir of Antiracist Solidarity from a Coal Miner's Daughter
June 10, 2026
Haymarket House and Online
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Writing Freedom 2025 Fellows Reading
April 1, 2026
Online
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Writing Freedom 2024 Fellows Reading
March 24, 2026
Online
United States -
Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future Without Police & Prisons
November 1, 2023
Online
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Abolition for the People: Movement for a Future Without Police & Prisons
December 11, 2023
Online
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Abolition for the People: Movement for a Future Without Police & Prisons
March 28, 2024
Online
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Like A Hammer: Poets on Mass Incarceration
March 7, 2025
Haymarket House
Chicago, IL -
4/2 NYC: Michael Bennett with Dave Zirin
April 2, 2018
The New School Tishman Auditorium
New York, NYSuper Bowl Champion and three-time Pro Bowler Michael Bennett is an outspoken proponent for...
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4/4 Washington DC: Michael Bennett with Dave Zirin
April 4, 2018
UDC Theater of the Arts
Washington, DCSuper Bowl Champion and three-time Pro Bowler Michael Bennett is an outspoken proponent for...
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Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
July 1, 2020
Online Teach-in
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Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
July 1, 2020 - July 2, 2020
Online Teach-in
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Unforgetting: Family, Migration, Gangs, Borders, and Revolution
September 2, 2020
Online Teach-in
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Unforgetting: Family, Migration, Gangs, Borders, and Revolution
September 2, 2020
Online Teach-in
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Solidarity: Defending Activism Within and Beyond the University
December 22, 2020
Online Teach-in
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Solidarity: Defending Activism Within and Beyond the University
December 22, 2020
Online Teach-in
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Going for Broke: Living on the Edge in the World's Richest Country
November 8, 2023
Online
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Chasing Freedom: Coming of Age at the End of Empire with Simukai Chigudu
April 1, 2026
Haymarket House
Chicago, IL -
Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Book Event with Zayd Ayers Dohrn
May 21, 2026
Haymarket House
Chicago, IL -
Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm
August 27, 2020
Online Teach-in
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Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm
August 27, 2020 - August 28, 2020
Online Teach-in
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No Middle Ground: Southern White Women and the Fight Against Racism
December 7, 2020
Online Teach-in
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No Middle Ground: Southern White Women and the Fight Against Racism
December 7, 2020 - December 8, 2020
Online Teach-in
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BreakBeat Poets Live Presents: Mama Phife Represents!
January 7, 2021
Live-stream
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