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Haymarket Books Live
by Haymarket Audio
Haymarket Books Live is a regular online series of urgent political discussions, book launches, organizer roundtables, poetry jams, and more, hosted by Haymarket Books. The podcast features recordings of our livestreamed video event series.Haymarket Books is a radical, independent, nonprofit book publisher based in Chicago.
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We Are Each Other's Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities
Join editors and contributors of We Are Each Other's Liberation, a major anthology that illuminates historical and contemporary solidarities between Black and Asian feminists. A collaborative project between Black Women Radicals and the Asian American Feminist Collective, We Are Each Other's...
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Ukraine’s Anti-Imperialist Struggle
February 24th marked the fourth anniversary of Russia’s imperialist invasion of Ukraine. Right now, it is bombing the country’s energy system, cutting off heat and electricity for millions in the depths of a bitterly cold winter. At the same time, the Trump administration is trying to bully…
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From the Free Speech Movement to the Factory Floor
Join us for a discussion between author Andrew Stone Higgins and historian Nelson Lichtenstein on the new book From the Free Speech Movement to the Factory Floor: A Collective History of the International Socialists. Founded at UC Berkeley in 1964 as a radical civil rights group, lit the spark of...
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Haymarket Presents: Thea Riofrancos on Extraction
Join us for this Haymarket Presents speakers series event, with Thea Riofrancos and activist-historian Gabriel Winant for a conversation on Riofrancos’s new book, Extraction. Co-sponsored by Pilsen Community Books. From the Los Angeles wildfires at the start of last year, to Trump’s recent...
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Stop the War Now!: Against the US and Israel's Wars on Iran and Lebanon
The devastating US-Israeli war on Iran and Israel's war on Lebanon show no signs of ending soon. What is behind the attacks and how can we organize to oppose them without supporting the Iranian theocracy? Join Tempest Magazine and Haymarket Books for this important discussion. Speakers: Manijeh...
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One Day Longer, One Day Stronger: How Minnesota's Labor Movement is Resisting ICE
“When a seed is ready to sprout, and when the conditions are right, nothing can stop it.” –Ricardo Levins Morales In the last few months, Minnesota has not only made headlines, but history. The resistance to ICE atrocities has been fueled by working class collective action and care. There is much...
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Venezuela in Crisis: US Imperialism, Maduro, and the Neoliberal Turn
Join four left Venezuelan voices for an urgent discussion of the neocolonial US intervention and kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro on January 3 and its aftermath. The event will examine the evolution of the Bolivarian process and its neoliberal turn under Maduro, along with the weakening of the social...
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Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border
Join Harsha Walia, Silky Shah, and Beatrice Adler-Bolton of Death Panel for an urgent discussion on the brutal enforcement of immigration policing in Minneapolis and beyond, and why resistance calls for the abolition of much more than ICE. With at least 6 people dying in immigration detention in...
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Harry Haywood's Negro Liberation
Join Dr. Rebecca Hall and Kyle T. Mays as they discuss and celebrate the new edition of Negro Liberation, a major work in the Black Communist tradition by worker-intellectual Harry Haywood. In 1948, Harry Haywood, a leading member of the Communist Party USA, published Negro Liberation, a...
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What Justice on a Burning Planet? The Left and the Climate Emergency
It's clear, at this late hour of the climate crisis, that nothing short of revolution in some form can salvage the possibility of global justice. It's equally clear that a mere climate or climate-justice movement can't do this alone. What's required is not simply a more powerful "climate left"…
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Engineered Conflict: Structural Violence and the Future of Black Life in Chicago
Join David Omotoso Stovall and Tara Betts as they discuss Stovall's latest book Engineered Conflict: Structural Violence and the Future of Black Life in Chicago. Marginalized communities often become understandably preoccupied with a city’s structured attempt to deem them disposable, making it...
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What We Saw in Chicago: Lessons from the CBP Surge
Join us for a conversation with local organizers about how our community pushed back against attacks on our neighbors from federal border patrol agents last fall. Over the course of several months, more than 250 Border Patrol agents were flown into Illinois to assist ICE in carrying out…
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War in the Caribbean: US Imperialism and the New Monroe Doctrine
The US military build up in the Caribbean and its aggression towards Venezuela are part of the Trump regime’s strategy of renewed American dominance and interventionism in the Western Hemisphere. Join Center for Political Education, W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition & Reconstruction…
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Stanford 11 on Trial: Defending the Student Movement for Palestine
As the new year begins, the student movement for Palestine is facing its first felony trial for a 2024 demonstration at Stanford University. If convicted of the felonies brought against them, the Stanford 11 face the possibility of over three years in prison and over $300,000 in restitution to...
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Neoliberalism, Fascism, and the Order of Capital: Spectre Issue 12 Launch
How do we understand the new authoritarianism that has emerged in the context of global instabilities, trade wars, imperial rivalries, and political polarization? Is neoliberalism being replaced by authoritarianism or welded to it? Join Clara Mattei and David McNally for a discussion of these...
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Haymarket Poetry Presents: Daniella Toosie-Watson on What We Do with God
Join Daniella Toosie-Watson, E. Hughes, and Hanif Abdurraqib for a launch and celebration of Toosie-Watson’s debut poetry collection, What We Do With God. Daniella Toosie-Watson’s debut poetry collection meditates on the politics of mental health, pleasure, and the natural world. In this book…
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Challenging Governance Through Punishment and the Politics of Solidarity
For more than two decades, the movement to end mass incarceration has sought to challenge policing, criminalization and incarceration as harmful institutions. Amongst the harms perpetrated by these carceral systems is the punishment paradigm, a term that signifies the hegemonic power of…
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How to End Family Policing
Join us for a virtual book launch of How to End Family Policing: From Outrage to Action, a much-needed intervention arguing that the systems that claim to protect children make them—and our communities—less safe. Based on decades of experience, organizing, and research, How to End Family Policing...
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Fire in Every Direction: Tareq Baconi in conversation with Bill Ayers
Join Tareq Baconi in conversation with Bill Ayers about his new book Fire in Every Direction, a memoir of political and queer awakening, of impossible love amidst generations of displacement, and what it means to return home. One of LitHub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025, Fire in Every Direction...
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How Can Unions Defend Worker Power Against Trump 2.0?
Join Haymarket Books, Labor Notes, and the American Prospect for a discussion of how to build labor's power in the Trump era. With an emboldened Trump in the White House for a second term, the ground has shifted dramatically for unions. The labor movement, like many institutions, is scrambling to...
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The Founding of the Red Trade Union International: Book Launch and Discussion
Join Haymarket Books and Historical Materialism for a launch and discussion of The Founding of the Red Trade Union International. In 1921 revolutionary trade-union leaders from across the world met to found the Red Trade Union International, representing millions of workers. The gathering brought...
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Communism, Abolition, States, and the Future of the Left
Join authors David Camfield and brian bean as they discuss a historical approach to abolition, the state, and how our side can build a genuinely liberatory alternative to capitalism. Increasingly, people are responding to the contemporary crises underwritten by capitalism by exploring the…
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Speak Out! Tom Alter, MAGA McCarthyism, and the Fight for Free Speech
The U.S. is experiencing one of the largest waves of political repression in its history. Academics, socialists, leftists, intellectuals, Palestinians, Muslims, labor organizers, trans people, queer folks, migrants, immigrants, people of color, the disabled, the working-class, the poor are all...
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Read this When Things Fall Apart
Join Kelly Hayes in conversation with Shane Burley, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Atena O. Danner as they discuss the launch of Read this When Things Fall Apart, bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times. In social movements, some heartbreaks…
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After Savagery: Gaza, Genocide, and the Illusion of Western Civilization
Join us as author Hamid Dabashi will be in conversation with Muhannad Ayyash as the two discuss Dabashi's latest book, After Savagery As the death toll in Gaza continues to rise, what remains of the theories we use to understand our world? Join Hamid Dabashi and Dr. Muhannad Ayyash as they…
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Displaced in Gaza: Stories from the Gaza Genocide
Join us for a virutal book launch of Displaced in Gaza, A powerful collection of testimonies from Palestinians facing genocide and displacement with hope and resistance. Displaced in Gaza aims to raise global awareness of how violent displacement has impacted the lives of Palestinians—students,...
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Haymarket Presents: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson on Theory of Water
Join us for the next event in the Haymarket Presents speakers series, as Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is joined by Uahikea Maile for a conversation on decolonial strategies that look to water as a catalyst for radical transformation. Co-sponsored by Pilsen Community Books In her powerful new book,...
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Ukraine in the Crosshairs of the Superpowers
A perilous situation faces Ukraine in the aftermath of the recent Trump-Putin summit, in which the partition of its land and people were proposed without a Ukrainian voice at the table. This panel will discuss the regional and global ramifications of Russia’s war of occupation and ways to...
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Lessons in International Solidarity: Learning from the Vietnamese Victory over US Imperialism Half a Century Ago
Join internationalist organizers discussing the lessons contemporary international solidarity movements can learn from past struggles against the Vietnam War and in support of Vietnamese liberation. View the A Luta Continua Zine Series: https://bit.ly/intlsolidarityzines Download the Solidarity…
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Pedagogies for Justice: a Conversation with Educators and Organizers
Join Haymarket Books and Parceo for a discussion on how our pedagogies can ground our organizing in collective struggles for justice. How do our pedagogies impact and help ground our organizing and the ways we can connect and build upon our collective struggles for justice? How do we learn (and...
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Learning to Live in the Dark: Virtual Book Talk
Join Wen Stephenson and Jane Hirshfield for a conversation on faith, humanism, and radical solidarity in the face of fascism and climate catastrophe - Wen Stephenson's new book, Learning to Live in the Dark is a collection of hard-hitting and deeply personal essays in which the Nation writer and...
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Against the New McCarthyism: Organizing Resistance in Higher Education
The Trump regime took advantage of the repression of the Palestine solidarity movement under the Biden administration to launch a full-scale assault on higher education. He has unleashed ICE on student activists, branded any dissent against Israel’s genocidal war “antisemitic,” bullied…
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When Silence Starves: An Evening of Literary Solidarity with Gaza
Join us for an evening of poetry and readings to raise money for vital mutual aid efforts in Gaza. As the zionist occupation - backed by the US, Britain and their allies - announces plans to openly ethnically cleanse and seize Gaza City, while forced starvation of Palestinians across Gaza rages…
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We Will Not Be Silenced: Embracing Palestinian liberation and Building Anti-Zionist Jewish Community
Join Global Jews for Palestine and Haymarket Books for a discussion on Palestinian liberation and building Anti-Zionist Jewish community. Mission Statement: We are Jews from many countries who are members of local, national and international networks and organizations. We are multi-ethnic and...
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Trouble! at Coal Creek
Join Austin Sauerbrei and Katey Lauer for a virtual launch of Trouble! at Coal Creek, a gripping graphic novel tells the story of the 1891 Coal Creek War. Told through the eyes of a young Welsh immigrant, Trouble! at Coal Creek is the epic story of a cross-racial struggle to abolish the system of...
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A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre
Join Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Garrett Felber for the virtual release event for the long-awaited biography of Martin Sostre—the revolutionary political prisoner who laid the foundation for contemporary abolitionist struggles and Black anarchism. Martin Sostre (1923–2015) was a Black Puerto Rican…
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No Cop City, No Cop World
Join the editors of No Cop City, No Cop World for a panel discussion on the fight for police abolition and for a livable planet for all. The Stop Cop City movement is a decentralized effort to stop the construction of a $120 million police training facility and the destruction of 170 acres of the...
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America, América: A New History of the New World
The story of how the United States’ identity was formed is almost invariably told by looking east to Europe. In America, América Greg Grandin vividly demonstrates that the nation’s unique sense of itself was in fact forged facing south toward Latin America. In turn, Latin America developed its…
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Haymarket Presents: Silky Shah on Unbuild Walls
Join us for an event in the Haymarket Presents speakers series, as Silky Shah is joined by historian Charlotte E. Rosen for a conversation on Shah’s book, Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition. Co-sponsored by Organized Communities Against Deportations, Asian Americans Advancing...
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Heaven Looks Like Us: An Evening of Palestinian Poetry
Join editors and contributors to the new Palestinian poetry anthology Heaven Looks Like Us for a virtual reading in commemoration of Nakba Day. A love letter to Palestinian ancestors, their descendants, and their land, to all anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggles, to a history that will...
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Love in a F*cked Up World: Dean Spade in conversation with Eman Abdelhadi
Join Dean Spade and Eman Abdelhadi in conversation about Spade's new book Love in a F*cked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together. This event is cosponsored by Haymarket Books, Pilsen Community Books, and In These Times. More about the book: Lifelong activist and...
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The Sustainability Class vs Working-Class Environmentalism
We are currently witnessing the dismantling of environmental policies and a reversal of climate commitments on a large scale. But what kind of environmentalism do we really want, and for whom? Environmentalism is not about switching out plastic for paper straws, electric vehicles, carbon-neutral...
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Theory of Water with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Join Leanne Betasamosake Simpson for a conversation with Sarah Haley to celebrate the release of her new book Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead. In her powerful new book, Theory of Water, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson offers a radical rethinking of relationships between beings and...
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Haymarket Presents: Malcolm Harris on What's Left
In this inaugural event in the Haymarket Presents speakers series, best-selling author Malcolm Harris will be joined by activist-historian Gabriel Winant for a conversation on Harris’s new book, What’s Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis. Co-sponsored by Pilsen Community Books. Climate...
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Who's Afraid of Gender? Judith Butler in Conversation with Lisa Wedeen
Join Judith Butler and Lisa Wedeen for a bold and essential conversation of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politics around the world. Judith Butler, the groundbreaking thinker whose iconic book Gender Trouble redefined how we think about gender and sexuality, confronts the attacks on...
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Disposable: America's Contempt for the Underclass
Join Sarah Jones and Sarah Lazare in conversation around Jones' new book Disposable: America's Contempt for the Underclass. This event will take place at Haymarket House, and will also be live-streamed on our YouTube channel. In a compelling blend of personal narrative and in-depth reporting, New...
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How MAGA is Winning Hearts & Minds Among the Progressive Base
Join us for a conversation with Dr. Daniel HoSang and Micah English with a response from longtime organizer and strategist Gihan Perara, moderated and introduced by Dr. Carmen Rojas. How are conservative groups like Turning Point USA building new onramps to the right for young people, people of...
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Criminalization: the Core of Authoritarianism, Fascism, and Resistance
Criminalization is not only a primary tool to suppress dissent, silence opposition, and enforce policies that consolidate and enforce power - it is at the core of how Right wing, authoritarian and fascist agendas, movements, and regimes are enacted, legitimized, and entrenched. Interrupting...
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Trump's Hammer, Our Hope: An Emergency Town Hall
Join Naomi Klein, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Astra Taylor, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor for an emergency town hall on the continuing attacks on both marginalized communities and on free speech at the hands of the current administration. As events have continued to unfold at a blistering pace under the...
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The Gate of Memory: Poems by Descendants of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration
Join us as we celebrate the launch of The Gate of Memory: Poems by Descendants of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration edited by Brandon Shimoda and Brynn Saito. The event will begin with words from poet and concentration camp survivor Mitsuye Yamada followed by readings and conversation with Cathlin...
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Haymarket Books Live is a regular online series of urgent political discussions, book launches, organizer roundtables, poetry jams, and more, hosted by Haymarket Books. The podcast features recordings of our livestreamed video event series.Haymarket Books is a radical, independent, nonprofit book publisher based in Chicago.
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