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Why Bad Governments Happen to Good People
One year after the nightmare of Election Night, it’s easy to still feel shock at how a moral monstrosity came to occupy the world’s most powerful office. Danny Katch, author of the new book Why Bad Governments Happen to Good People, looks back at the election that gave us Donald Trump.
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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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Environmental Justice Reading List
A reading list of books dealing with climate crisis and the global fight for environmental justice.
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Where Do We Go From Here? Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor & Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
On Friday, November 6th, Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor joined Haymarket's Anthony Arnove for a conversation about next steps for the struggle in the aftermath of the 2020 election and the ongoing crisis. Here, we present a transcript of their discussion.
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Insurrection as Art: the Legacy of Blanqui
The recently released Communist Insurgent tells the life story of French revolutionary Louis-Auguste Blanqui, and with it the history of a period of extraordinary social and political upheaval. Haymarket Books interviewed the author, Doug Enaa Greene, to understand the relevance of an often maligned or neglected figure. We publish this interview to mark the anniversary of Blanqui's death on 1 January 1881.
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Abolish Policing, Not Just the Police
A discussion on abolishing the police and policing with Mariame Kaba, Maya Schenwar, and Victoria Law.
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"Nothing Happened as Expected": Reflections on the French Elections
Haymarket Books interviews Clément Petitjean, a contributor to the recently published Europe in Revolt, for a critical perspective on the recent French election.
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What (Really) Happened
Danny Katch, author of Why Bad Governments Happen to Good People, explains what separates his book from the 1,000,000 other books that are being written about the 2016 election.
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Radical Organizing in the Depression Era
"...the train of developments that connects changes in social conditions to a changed consciousness is not simple. People, including ordinary people, harbor somewhere in their memories the building blocks of different and contradictory interpretations of what it is that is happening to them, of who should be blamed, and what can be done about it..."
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Danny Katch: Their Money or Your Life
“To take coronavirus seriously is to treat what is normally a perhaps abstract socialist ideal, that a society is only as strong as its most vulnerable members, as a matter of immediate epidemiological fact.”
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Haymarket at Socialism 2022!
A reading list of books written by some of the many thinkers, writers, and activists who will be speaking at Socialism 2022, all 40% Off as part of our Summer of Struggle sale!
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“Some people call us heroes”
The Watsonville Canning strike of 1985-87 was a dramatic show of the power of women workers, whose struggle became a rallying point for the Chicano movement.
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Organizing for Justice: an Interview with Jewish Voice for Peace
Jewish Voice for Peace: "Love and respect for Jewish people is not in contradiction with vehement objections to the repressive policies of the State of Israel. A 'love of Israel' is not and has never been a good way to measure antisemitism." -
Haymarket Books by Black Women, for Liberation
Here we present 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.
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The New Authoritarians vs. COVID-19
An excerpt from David Renton's The New Authoritarians, a guide to understanding and combatting the rise of the right across the world.
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Mike Davis on Trump’s America
Behind the bluster, what does Donald Trump’s presidency actually represent? Mike Davis—a world renowned American scholar, and author of several books—was interviewed by Seán Mitchell for Rebel, about the state of Trump’s America.
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Neil Davidson: 1957–2020
Haymarket Books are deeply saddened by the death of Neil Davidson, one of the most important Marxist thinkers of his generation, a true working class intellectual, and a socialist who fought with extraordinary energy for a better world. Here, we gather a selection of tributes.
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Queer Anti-Capitalism
In Warped: Gay Normality and Queer Anti-Capitalism, Peter Drucker shows how the successive 'same-sex formations' of the past century and a half have led both to the emergence of today's 'homonormativity' and 'homonationalism' and to ongoing queer resistance.
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A Vision of the Future We Want
"No Is Not Enough is essential reading for anyone serious about resisting the current regime and building the new world. It’s our book and should be read by everyone." –Eve Ensler
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Howard Zinn: In Defense of Civil Disobedience
An excerpt from Howard Zinn's powerful and still relevant 1968 book, Disobedience and Democracy.
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Stomping Out Injustice: Innocent on Death Row
July 13, 2021
Online Teach-in
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Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics
March 3, 2021
Online Teach-in
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Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics
March 3, 2021
Online Teach-in