Haymarket Books: 222 books
by Eve L. Ewing
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
Electric Arches is an imaginative exploration of black girlhood and womanhood through poetry, visual art, and narrative prose. Blending stark realism with the fantastical, Ewing takes us from the streets of Chicago to an alien arrival in an unspecified future, deftly navigating boundaries of space, time, and reality with delight and flexibility.
The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 3
Halal If You Hear Me
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
We live in an Islamophobic world, where Muslim people are constantly under attack, and must prove their innocence when they’ve not even committed a crime. We also live in a world of rigid gender roles and gender violence, where women, gender non-conforming and trans people are victims of violence,...
by José Olivarez
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
“Citizen Illegal is right on time, bringing both empathy and searing critique to the fore as a nation debates the very humanity of the people who built it.” —Eve Ewing, author of Electric Arches
In this stunning debut, poet José Olivarez explores the stories, contradictions, joys, and...
by Leon Trotsky
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
During the first two months of 1917 Russia was still a Romanov monarchy. Eight months later the Bolsheviks stood at the helm. They were little known to anybody when the year began, and their leaders were still under indictment for state treason when they came to power. You will not find another...
No Is Not Enough
Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
A road map to resistance in the Trump era from internationally acclaimed activist and bestselling author Naomi Klein.
"This book is a toolkit to help understand how we arrived at this surreal political moment, how to keep it from getting a lot worse, and how, if we keep our heads, we can flip...
People Wasn't Made to Burn
A True Story of Housing, Race, and Murder in Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
A unique study of civil rights struggle in the North in the 1940s
A long-hidden story not previously written about
A sympathetic story as jobs, housing, and economic stability become scarce
Ben Shahn, an artist of the Social Realism art movement important in the U.S. during the...
This Is Not A Test
A New Narrative on Race, Class, and Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
The conversation about turning around failing schools is in the national spotlight, and that spotlight is often focused on schools that black and brown children attend. Certain proposals to improve urban schools generate lots of headlines: expanding charter schools, funding school vouchers, using...
China on Strike
Narratives of Workers' Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
China has been the fastest growing major economy in the world for three decades. It is also home to some of the largest, most incendiary, and most underreported labor struggles of our time. China on Strike, the first English-language book of its kind, provides an intimate and revealing window into...
The Civil Wars in U.S. Labor
Birth of a New Workers' Movement or Death Throes of the Old?
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
The bureau of labor statistics reports that in 2008 there were 16.1 million union members in the United States; 2.2 million are represented by the Service Employees' Industrial Union (SEIU)
Written by a long time labor leader with first hand insights into the topic
The economic crisis...
Doing History from the Bottom Up
On E.P. Thompson, Howard Zinn, and Rebuilding the Labor Movement from Below
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
In the 1960s historians on both sides of the Atlantic began to challenge the assumptions of their colleagues and push for an understanding of history "from below." In this collection, Staughton Lynd, himself one of the pioneers of this approach, laments the passing of fellow luminaries David...
The Silenced Majority
Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Amy Goodman, is a multiple New York Times bestselling author.
She is the best-known voice of independent media today; her radio and television program Democracy Now! is broadcast on over 800 stations nationwide.
She tours extensively and draws a massive audience wherever she goes.
Her blog is read by hundreds of thousands of people.
by Amy Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Amy Goodman is the best-known voice of independent media today; her radio and television program Democracy Now! is broadcast on over 500 stations nationwide. These punchy, lively columns concentrate Goodman's skill of "going where the silence is" and telling the stories the major media usually...
Kivalina
A Climate Change Story
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
This story is a tragedy, and not just because of what’s happening to the people of Kivalina. It’s a tragedy because it’s unnecessary, the product, as the author shows, of calculation, deception, manipulation, and greed in some of the biggest and richest companies on earth.”
-Bill McKibben,...
Lineages of Revolt
Issues of Contemporary Capitalism in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
While the outcomes of the tumultuous uprisings that continue to transfix the Arab world remain uncertain, the root causes of rebellion persist. Drawing upon extensive empirical research, Lineages of Revolt tracks the major shifts in the region’s political economy over recent decades. In this illuminating...