Haymarket Books: 222 books

A leading light of the anti-colonial revolts of the 1960s and '70s, Frantz Fanon also prophetically explored the dangers of post-colonial power. Voices of Liberation: Frantz Fanon is a rich exploration of Fanon's life and times, combining interviews with those who fought alongside him with selections...

Syria's dictator Bashar al-Assad and his junta regime have slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Syrians in the name of fighting terrorism. Former political prisoner, and current refugee, Yassin al-Haj Saleh exposes the lies that enable Assad to continue on his reign of terror as well as the complicity of both Russia and the US in atrocities endured by Syrians.

Offers a detailed view of the organizational and strategic challenges of a long strike under difficult conditions Provides a better understanding of the complex relationship between the Mexican women strikers and the Teamsters union, which had long ignored them but was finally compelled to...

E’mon Lauren’s poems take artifacts, language, and ephemera from life on Chicago’s Southside and Westside to create a manifesto of survival and growth. These poems from Chicago’s first Youth Poet Laureate grapple with sexism, racism, love, and class with a style that announces Lauren as a...

Highly Commended for the Carnegie Medal Shortlisted for the Children's Book Award Red Sky in the Morning is the only of Laird's many YA novels to be taken from her life experience, with the character of Ben based on her younger brother Alastair, born with congenital hydrocephalus

Capitalism is killing the planet, and the preservation of a natural environment favorable to human life requires a radical alternative. In this new collection of essays, long time revolutionary and environmental activist Michael Löwy offers a vision of ecosocialist transformation. This vision combines...

In Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an Analogy, eighteen scholars of Africa and its diaspora reflect on the similarities and differences between apartheid-era South Africa and contemporary Israel, with an eye to strengthening and broadening today’s movement for justice in Palestine.

In this sharply polemical account, Leon Trotsky draws up a balance sheet of the world's first successful workers' revolution. Written primarily for members of the newly created Communist International, Trotsky focuses on the specific role played by the Bolshevik Party in leading Russian workers to victory.

In this wide-ranging and insightful work, Soma Marik defends the legacy of the Bolshevik Revolution, arguing against many of its detractors that the early communist regime was centrally concerned with both the liberation of women and the expansion of democracy. Soma Marik teaches Women's Studies and History at Jadavpur University.

-- The struggle for marriage equality across the U.S., most recently in California, has expanded the space for discussion of gay and lesbian rights and sexual equality in the U.S. -- Gender studies and queer theory courses within academia offer a space in which different ideas of sexuality are discussed and debated

Reviews scholarship and controversies on Trotsky's thoughts on political organization Explores relevance of Trotsky ideas for the twenty-first century Clearly written, sympathetic yet balances, fully documented

In the revolutionary tradition, the name of Louis Blanqui is either remembered with derision or as a noble failure. Yet during his lifetime, Blanqui was a towering figure of revolutionary courage and commitment as he organized nearly a half-dozen failed revolutionary conspiracies and spent half of his life in jail. This is Blanqui's story.

Provides an analysis of institutional racism and inequality in the U.S. with a focus on institutions for which are often paid less attention by scholars and activists. There are no other works which analyze the child welfare system historically or in its current composition, specifically as...

A recent Pew research reports says that 43 % of 18-29 year-olds and 33% of or 30-49 year-olds react positively to the word "socialism." The 2008 economic crisis has caused many Americans to seek an alternative to to capitalism. Many introductions to socialism are dry and bland. Danny's...