The coronavirus crisis, like all others, is felt unevenly. Those at the receiving end of exploitation and oppression under conditions of capitalist normality also bear the brunt of social, economic, and health impacts of the virus.
Haymarket Books is determined to offer a political response to the crisis, believing that our mission to support struggles for social and economic justice is more vital than ever. In collaboration with our authors and a range of partners, we are organizing an ongoing series of events to allow us to respond both to the coronavirus crisis itself, and to maintain our collective political, cultural, and social life in a manner that fosters struggle, solidarity, and debate.
While all of our online events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our continuing to do this work.
Sign up for our scheduled events below and subscribe to our Youtube channel to make sure you don't miss future events.
Upcoming Events:
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Jan 22, 5:00pm EST |
The Fight for the Future: Organizing the Tech Industry with Timnit Gebru and more | RSVP here |
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Jan 28, 7:00pm EST |
The Path Forward: Pandemic Policing or Protection with Marc Lamont Hill and more | RSVP here |
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Feb 1, 3:00pm EST |
No Human Being is Illegal: Organizing for a World Without Borders | RSVP here |
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Feb 3, 7:30pm EST |
Black Lives Matter at School: California Edition | RSVP here |
Past Events:
| March 26 |
How to Beat Coronavirus Capitalism: Naomi Klein, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, and Astra Taylor |
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| March 31 |
Capitalism is the Disease: Mike Davis |
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| April 9 |
After Bernie—Amidst Pandemic: Naomi Klein, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Astra Taylor, and Dr. Victoria Dooley |
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| April 14 |
BOOK LAUNCH Choice Words: Writers on Abortion |
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| April 16 |
COVID-19, Decarceration, and Abolition: Ruthie Wilson Gilmore with Naomi Murakawa |
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| April 19 |
BOOK LAUNCH Too Much Midnight: Krista Franklin with Mahogany L. Browne and more |
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| April 22 |
Remaking Schools in the Time of Coronavirus: Jesse Hagopian, Wayne Au, and Noliwe Rooks |
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| April 23 |
The Pandemic is a Portal: Arundhati Roy with Imani Perry |
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| April 28 |
BOOK LAUNCH The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext |
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| April 29 |
Microbes & Macroeconomics: Understanding the Pandemic and the Global Slump with David McNally and Hadas Thier |
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May 1 |
A Working-Class Vision for the Future: May Day with Stacy Davis Gates, Sara Nelson, and Sarah Jaffe |
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| May 1 |
MAYDAY MAYDAY: A Homemade Poetry Reading hosted by Aja Monet |
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May 5 |
Intersectionality Matters: Kimberlé Crenshaw with Janine Jackson |
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May 7 |
Ali to Lebron: The Long Walk Towards Freedom with Scoop Jackson and Dave Zirin |
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May 12 |
The Left was Right: Radical Politics and Labor Militancy 1945-2020 with John Nichols and Toni Gilpin |
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May 14 |
What a School Means: Eve L. Ewing with Jen Johnson |
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May 15 |
Free Palestine: A Homemade Poetry Reading hosted by Aja Monet |
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May 19 |
A Global Green New Deal: Into the Portal, Leave No One Behind with Arundhati Roy and Naomi Klein |
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May 19 |
Abolish ICE is Not Just a Slogan: Immigrant Justice in the Age of Coronavirus with John Washington and Justin Akers Chacón |
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May 20 |
The BreakBeat Poets Live! (Chapter 1) Hosted by Kevin Coval and Idris Goodwin |
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May 21 |
Mutual Aid: Building Communities of Care During Crisis and Beyond with Mariame Kaba and more |
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May 26 |
Tech Won't Save Us: Silicon Valley and the Coronavirus Crisis with Rob Larson and Nicole Aschoff |
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May 29 |
The New Authoritarians and COVID-19 with David Renton and Sita Balani |
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June 1 |
Homemade: An Online Poetry Reading for the People with Aja Monet |
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June 2 |
What Happened to the Great American Logistics Machine? A Conversation with Joe Allen |
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June 3 |
Indigenous Resistance Against Oil Pipelines During a Pandemic with Nick Estes and Kim Tallbear |
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June 3 |
The BreakBeat Poets Live! (Chapter 2) Hosted by Kevin Coval and Idris Goodwin |
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June 8 |
The Fire This Time: The New Uprising Against Racism and Police Violence with Marc Lamont Hill and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor |
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June 10 |
Craig Hodges Will Have This Dance hosted by Dave Zirin |
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June 11 |
A Stronger Desire to Live: PEN Prison Writing Awards Live Release Event |
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June 12 |
On the Road with Abolition: Assessing Our Steps Along the Way with Project NIA |
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June 13 |
Celebrating Juneteenth with Critical Resistance: An Abolitionist Perspective on Movements for Black Liberation |
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June 15 |
This Is An Uprising: A Conversation on Art, Politics, and Revolution with Boots Riley and Noname |
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June 15 |
Homemade: An Online Poetry Event for the People with Aja Monet |
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June 16 |
Covid-19, Bolsonaro, and Resistance in Brazil |
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June 16 |
#SayHerName Charleena Lyles: Police Murder and the Uprising for Black Lives with Michael Bennett and more |
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June 17 |
Appalachia and the Health of the Nation with Lesly-Marie Buer, Ash-lee Woodard Henderson, and Barbara Ellen Smith |
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June 17 |
The BreakBeat Poets Live! Chapter 3 hosted by José Olivarez and Willie Perdomo |
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June 18 |
Raising AntiRacist Kids: Ibram X. Kendi with Derecka Purnell |
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June 20 |
The Roots and Nature of the Syrian Revolution with Anand Gopal, Loubna Mrie, and Yasser Munif |
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June 22 |
Abolish Silicon Valley with Rob Larson and Wendy Liu |
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June 23 |
Abolitionist Teaching and the Future of Our Schools with Brian Jones, Bettina Love, and more |
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June 25 |
Abolition Can't Wait: An Online Teach-in with #8toAbolition |
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July 1 |
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and its Urgent Lessons for Our Own with Eddie Glaude Jr. and Cornel West |
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July 2 |
Abolish Policing, Not Just the Police with Mariame Kaba, Maya Schenwar, and Victoria Law |
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July 4 |
Socialism 2020: Virtual Conference |
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July 8 |
Policing Without the Police: Race, Technology, and the New Jim Code with Ruha Benjamin and Dorothy Roberts |
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July 9 |
The Struggle for Police-Free Schools and an Equitable, Safe Re-Opening |
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July 14 |
The End of Zionism: Thoughts and Next Steps |
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July 22 |
The BreakBeat Poets Live! Chapter 4, hosted by Nate Marshall |
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July 25 |
Syria and the Second Wave of Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa |
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July 29 |
Racism is a Public Health Crisis: Building Racial Justice in Healthcare and Schools |
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July 30 |
Book Launch: The Tragedy of American Science with Cliff Conner and Sarah Lazare |
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August 4 |
The Artistry of Black Organizing in the 21st Century |
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August 5 |
Voices from the Front Line: Health Care Workers on the Fight Against Covid-19 |
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August 11 |
#Asians for Abolition |
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August 13 |
Yanis Varoufakis with Daniel Denvir |
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August 19 |
Black LatiNext: A BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4 Book Release |
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August 20 |
The Struggle for Abolition: From the US to Palestine |
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August 21 |
Crisis and Uprising in Lebanon: The Roots of the Explosion |
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August 26 |
Marx Was Right: Economics for the 99% |
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August 27 |
Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm |
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Sept 1 |
Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction with Arundhati Roy and Nick Estes |
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Sept 1 |
Study and Struggle: Abolition as Study and Deconstructing Racial Capitalism |
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Sept 2 |
Unforgetting: Family, Migration, Gangs, Borders, and Revolution in the Americas |
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Sept 8 |
When We Fight: Voices from the 2019 Los Angeles Teachers' Strike |
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Sept 9 |
A Sunrise Movement Teach-in: Fighting Racism, Ending Inequality, and Winning the Green New Deal |
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Sept 13 |
Attica Means Fight Back! The Liberatory Vision for Labor of the Attica Uprising |
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Sept 23 |
Can't Pay, Won't Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition |
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Sept 29 |
Study and Struggle: Abolition, Intersectionality, Care |
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Sept 30 |
Black Power Afterlives: From the Black Panther Party to Black Lives Matter |
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Oct 1 |
Imani Perry on “Breathe: A Letter to my Sons” |
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Oct 1 |
Black and Indigenous Liberation through Abolition | Watch here |
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Oct 6 |
How We Go Home: Voices from Indigenous North America | RSVP here |
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Oct 7 |
Trump’s Shock Election Politics - And How To Fight What He Does Next: Naomi Klein with Johann Hari | RSVP here |
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Oct 8 |
The Brother You Choose: Life, Politics, and Revolution after the Panthers |
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Oct 13 |
Their Democracy and Ours: Angela Davis with Astra Taylor | Watch here |
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Oct 14 |
Utopia from the Ashes: A Teach-in on Building the Future We Deserve | Watch here |
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Oct 14 |
The BreakBeat Poets Live! Chapter 5, hosted by Kevin Coval | Watch here |
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Oct 15 |
Straight out of Confinement: #DefundPolice, #FreeThemAll and #AbolitionNow | Watch here |
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Oct 16 |
The Work of Videogames: Reflections on Game Worker Organizing |
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Oct 19 |
Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls |
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Oct 20 |
Surviving Autocracy: Masha Gessen with Anand Giridharadas |
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Oct 22 |
Locating Abolition Within the Fight Against Imperialism |
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Oct 22 |
Organizing for Educational Justice, Chicago Style: Ballots, Books, and Beyond | Watch here |
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Oct 26 |
The Twittering Machine: Richard Seymour and Wendy Liu in Conversation | Watch here |
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Oct 27 |
Study and Struggle: Deconstructing Settler Colonialism and Borders | Watch here |
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Oct 29 |
The Virus, the Climate, the Alternative: Ecosocialist Solutions to Capitalist Crises |
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Oct 29 |
Text Messages: Creating Worlds with Words ft. Narcy and Lowkey | Watch here |
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Oct 29 |
Building Abolition Now!: Planting Seeds, Growing Abolitionist Futures | Watch here |
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Nov 6 |
Where Do We Go From Here? Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on Election 2020 | Watch here |
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Nov 9 |
We Still Here: Marc Lamont Hill, philip agnew, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor | Watch here |
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Nov 11 |
We Need A Collective Response to the Collective Dilemmas of Our Time: David Harvey with Amna Akbar | Watch here |
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Nov 12 |
Notes from the Twilight: Meditations on Crisis, Catastrophe, and Genocide moderated by Robin D.G. Kelley | Watch here |
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Nov 5-15 |
Survival Pending Revolution: Historical Materialism in a Pandemic Age |
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Nov 17 |
Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle Over Black Lung Disease | Watch here |
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Nov 18 |
Internationalism from Below: Thailand, Nigeria, Belarus |
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Nov 20 |
Fighting State Murder: Racism, the Police, and the Death Penalty |
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Nov 23 |
The Neoliberal University: How to Defend Education, Programs, and Jobs |
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Dec 1 |
Study and Struggle: Movement Building and Transnational Freedom Struggles |
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Dec 2 |
Black Lives Matter at School: An Uprising for Educational Justice |
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Dec 3 |
Wallace Shawn and Rachel Kushner: A Conversation |
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Dec 5 |
Teachers on Strike are Still Teaching: Union Power & the Fight for Democracy |
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Dec 7 |
No Middle Ground: White Women and the Fight Against Racism |
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Dec 8 |
On Edward Said: Remembrance of Things Past |
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Dec 9 |
Palestine: A Socialist Introduction |
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Dec 12 |
People Get Ready: A One-Day Convening co-sponsored by the Center for Political Education and Haymarket Books | Watch here |
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Dec 15 |
Public Money and Racial Justice | Watch here |
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Dec 16 |
Police Violence from the Black Panthers to Attica | Watch here |
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Dec 22 |
Solidarity: Defending Activism Within and Beyond the University |
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Jan 7 |
BreakBeat Poets Live Presents: Mama Phife Represents! |
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Jan 12 |
Black Mothering as Poetic Archive: Cheryl Boyce-Taylor & Alexis Pauline Gumbs |
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Jan 12 |
Fighting Fascism and the Far Right: Brendan O'Connor & Jay Caspian Kang | Watch here |
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Jan 13 |
Black Lives Matter at School: Philadelphia Edition | Watch here |
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Jan 15 |
African Politics Today: What Progressives Need to Know |
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Jan 21 |
The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: Felicia Rose Chavez & Kiese Laymon | Watch here |
