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Key titles for collective learning!

At Haymarket, our mission is to publish books that contribute to struggles for social and economic justice. We strive to make our books a vibrant and organic part of social movements and the education and development of a critical, engaged, and internationalist Left.

To that end, we work with a wide range of organizations and groups that use our titles in their political education and organizing work, and we’ve compiled a list of key titles for organizers below. 

Many of these books also have associated supplementary resources available to support discussion groups—listed below, where available. Be sure to check back here regularly, as we hope to add more resources soon!

A sharp, funny, and engaging introduction to socialist ideas, movements, and solutions for a world in crisis.

You can download a free discussion guide for Socialism...Seriously here, and watch and share a discussion about the themes of the book here.

What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe.

You can purchase or download the Let This Radicalize You workbook here, download a free discussion guide here, and watch and share discussions about the themes of the book here and here.

Drawing from over twenty years of activism on local and national levels, this striking book offers an organizer’s perspective on the intersections of immigrant rights, racial justice, and prison abolition.

You can download a free discussion guide for Unbuild Walls here, and you can watch and share a discussion about the themes of the book here.

A vital anthology exploring the intersections between caregiving and abolition.

You can watch and share a discussion about the themes of the book here.

Perfect Victims is an urgent affirmation of the Palestinian condition of resistance and refusal―an ode to the steadfastness of a nation.

You can watch and share a discussion about the themes of the book here.

A collection of interviews with some of the world’s leading progressive thinkers on the movement for Palestinian liberation and its connections to struggles for justice across the globe.

You can watch and share a discussion about the themes of the book here.

A pathbreaking book about world history, global justice, and the climate crisis—featuring a new preface by the author.

You can watch and share a discussion about the themes of the book here.

From two co-founders of the largest tenants union in the country, this deeply reported account of the resurgent tenant movement centers poor and working-class people who are fighting back, staying put, and remaking the city in the process. 

You can watch and share a discussion about the themes of the book here.

The definitive introduction to history’s most influential and controversial political document, updated for a new generation of readers.

You can watch and share a discussion about the themes of the book here.

Drawing on years of labor activism and study of labor history, Joe Burns outlines the key set of ideas common to class struggle unionism and shows how these ideas can create a more militant, democratic and fighting labor movement.

You can download a free discussion guide for Class Struggle Unionism here, and watch and share a discussion about the themes of the book here.

Abolition. Feminism. Now. is a celebration of freedom work, a movement genealogy, a call to action, and a challenge to those who think of abolition and feminism as separate—even incompatible—political projects.

You can download a free discussion guide for Abolition. Feminism. Now. here, and watch and share a discussion about the themes of the book here.

A beautifully-written, broadly accessible, and forthright argument for a solution to the migration crisis: open the gates.

You can watch and share a discussion about the themes of the book here.

In the face of relentless attacks on antiracist education, a much-needed reckoning with the roots of this latest wave of censorship and an urgent call to action to defend education.

Economist Rob Larson combines wit, righteous anger, and clear-eyed analysis as he dissects the lifestyle, moral bankruptcy, and stupidly large sums of money hoarded by the disgustingly wealthy.

You can atch and share a discussion about the themes of the book here.

“This brilliant book is the best analysis we have of the #BlackLivesMatter moment of the long struggle for freedom in America. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor has emerged as the most sophisticated and courageous radical intellectual of her generation.” —Dr. Cornel West

You can download a free discussion guide for From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation here, and watch and share a discussion about the themes of the book here.

An incisive guide to abolitionist strategy, and a love letter to the movement that made this moment possible.

You can download a free discussion guide for How to Abolish Prisons here, and watch and share a discussion about the themes of the book here.

Edited by Colin Kaepernick, Robin D. G. Kelley, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Our History Has Always Been Contraband brings together canonical texts and authors in Black Studies, including those excised from or not included in the AP curriculum.

You can download a free discussion guide for Our History Has Always Been Contraband here, and watch and share a discussion about the themes of the book here.

Through a substantive engagement with the global Black radical tradition and a critical understanding of racial capitalism, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò identifies the process by which a radical concept can be stripped of its political substance and liberatory potential by becoming the victim of elite capture—deployed by political, social, and economic elites in the service of their own interests.

You can watch and share a discussion about the themes of the book here.

As isolated individuals, debtors have little influence. But as a bloc, we can leverage our debts and devise new tactics to challenge the corporate creditor class and help win reparative, universal public goods. Individually, our debts overwhelm us. But together, our debts can make us powerful.

You can watch and share a discussion about the themes of the book here.

In this volume, groundbreaking writer and activist Marta Russell’s various essays are brought together in one place in order to provide a useful and expansive resource to those interested in better understanding the ways in which the modern phenomenon of disability is shaped by capitalist economic and social relations.

If you're interested in starting a reading group with a Haymarket title and would like to learn more about the discounts we have available for bulk purchases, please write to us at [email protected], subject line: political education.

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