Best Haymarket Books Podcasts (2025)

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Haymarket Presents: Malcolm Harris on What's Left 1:27:02

1M ago1:27:02

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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 change is the unifying crisis of our time. But the s…

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Who's Afraid of Gender? Judith Butler in Conversation with Lisa Wedeen 1:18:44

1M ago1:18:44

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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 “gender” that have become central to right-wing move…

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Disposable: America's Contempt for the Underclass 56:47

1M ago56:47

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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 York magazine senior writer Sarah Jones exposes the …

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How MAGA is Winning Hearts & Minds Among the Progressive Base 1:10:28

1M ago1:10:28

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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 color, and other parts of the progressive base? How do…

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Criminalization: the Core of Authoritarianism, Fascism, and Resistance 1:32:52

1M ago1:32:52

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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 criminalization - a political process that extends beyond …

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Trump's Hammer, Our Hope: An Emergency Town Hall 1:23:41

1M ago1:23:41

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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 current Trump administration, it has remained crucial …

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The Gate of Memory: Poems by Descendants of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration 1:24:00

1M ago1:24:00

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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 Goulding, Michael Ishii, Mia Ayumi Malhotra, Emily Mitam…

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Reconsidering Reparations 1:15:17

2M ago1:15:17

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Join Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò for a conversation with Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson to celebrate the release of the new paperback edition of Reconsidering Reparations. A clear, new case for reparations as a “constructive,” future-oriented project that responds to the weight of history’s injustices with the equitable distribution of benefits and burdens. Centu…

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Blood in the Face: White Nationalism from the Birth of a Nation to the Age of Trump 1:18:42

2M ago1:18:42

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Join Rick Perlstein, Jean Casella, and David Neiwert as they discuss the updated edition of Blood in the Face by James Ridgeway. In 1990, Blood in the Face: The Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, Nazi Skinheads, and the Rise of a New White Culture was the first book to uncover the contours, beliefs, leaders, and wider influence of the American racist far…

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Abolitionist Social Work in Unsettling Times 1:23:28

2M ago1:23:28

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Join editors and contributors of Abolish Social Work (As We Know It) and Abolition and Social Work for a discussion about the intersections of abolitionist politics and principles and social work. Pick up a copy of Abolish Social Work (As We Know it) here: https://btlbooks.com/book/abolish-social-work Pick up a copy of Abolition and Social Work her…

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Surviving State Violence: The Case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui and Incarceration in Women’s Prisons 1:28:23

2M ago1:28:23

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Dr. Aafia Siddiqui is a Pakistani-Muslim woman who is currently serving an unjust 86-year sentence at the only federal medical prison in the United States, FMC Carswell, notoriously known as the “Hospital of Horrors.” For Aafia and countless others at the Hospital of Horrors, their punishment goes beyond captivity, and mirrors a pattern of abuse an…

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Metastasis: The Rise of the Cancer-Industrial Complex and the Horizons of Care 1:22:00

2M ago1:22:00

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Join Nafis Hasan and Tayyaba Jiwani in conversation on the rise of the Cancer-Industrial Complex and how to center our efforts to combat cancer on the basis of care. Organized by Common Notions, Jamhoor, Science for the People, and Haymarket Books. More than fifty years after the declaration of the War on Cancer, we are nowhere closer to victory. T…

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Skyscraper Jails: The Abolitionist Fight Against Jail Expansion in New York City 1:28:40

2M ago1:28:40

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Join Zhandarka Kurti, Jarrod Shanahan, and Dylan Rodríguez for a damning account of mass incarceration that reveals how powerful nonprofits and "progressives" used the language of social movements to build new jails. In Skyscraper Jails, scholars and organizers Jarrod Shanahan and Zhandarka Kurti detail how progressive forces in New York City appro…

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Palestine in a World on Fire w/ Ilan Pappé, Katherine Natanel, and Laleh Khalili 1:28:47

2M ago1:28:47

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Join Ilan Pappé, Katherine Natanel, and Laleh Khalili as they connect the struggle for Palestinian liberation to various liberatory movements around the world. As more and more people align themselves with the Palestinian people, Palestine in a World on Fire provides the global perspective and analysis needed to inform how we forge ahead on this pa…

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Black Studies and the Fight Against Fascism 1:32:15

2M ago1:32:15

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Join us Robin D.G. Kelley, Barbara Ransby, Davarian Baldwin, Robyn Spencer-Antoine, Johanna Fernández, and Sarah Haley for a discussion on the fight to defend Black studies in the face of ongoing fascist attacks against education. Speakers: Davarian Baldwin is a leading urbanist, historian, and cultural critic. Baldwin is the author of In the Shado…

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Responding to Repression: Executive Orders, Resistance, and Rights 1:20:02

2M ago1:20:02

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Join PARCEO and Haymarket Books for a discussion with organizers, educators, & social justice lawyers addressing the moment we are in Speakers: Moderator: Nyle Fort, a minister, organizer, and scholar, is currently an Assistant Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University. Lara Kiswani is the Executive Director …

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Ukraine’s Fight for Self-Determination: Three Years of Resistance Against Russian Imperialism 1:29:25

2M ago1:29:25

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February 24th marks the third anniversary of Russia’s imperialist invasion of Ukraine. Ever since, the Ukrainian state and its working people have resisted and fought for their self-determination. While they received support from the US and Europe, it came with a price tag of debt and neoliberal restructuring, and now the new Trump administration h…

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Mastering the Universe: The Obscene Wealth of the Ruling Class, What They Do with Their Money, and Why You Should Hate Them Even More 1:32:21

2M ago1:32:21

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Join economist Rob Larson, and Real News Network editor-in-chief Max Alvarez for a dissection of the lifestyle, moral bankruptcy, and stupidly large sums of money hoarded by the billionaire class. The fact that we live in one of the most unequal societies in the history of the world was already common knowledge before the richest man in the world a…

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Social Work, Racial Capitalism and the Struggle for Abolition 1:31:32

2M ago1:31:32

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Join the Network to Advance Abolition in Social Work in collaboration with Haymarket Books for a conversation about the intersections and entanglements of social work and racial capitalism, and how they can shape struggles for abolition. This will be the first in a two part series geared towards the social work community deepening our understanding…

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Charity, Control, or Solidarity? Reclaiming "Care" as Revolutionary Praxis 1:27:16

2M ago1:27:16

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We often talk about the various ways in which the state, nonprofits, and service providers coopt abolitionist demands for "care" to justify their own repressive and reformist agendas. But even within leftist spaces, we think about care work in terms of survival, not in terms of ensuring that marginalized communities can actually thrive. So there is…

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Protecting Journalism against Rising Fascist and Ethnonationalist Threats 1:06:10

2M ago1:06:10

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International journalist and author Rula Jebreal is currently facing criminal prosecution in Italy for her tweets re PM Meloni’s weaponization of language from the Nazi’s great replacement conspiracy theory, as well as her tweet about Fabio Rampelli’s involvement in a fascist rally (Rampelli is vice president of Italy’s parliament, and a mentor of …

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LA Burning: Capitalism, Climate Change, and Resistance 1:29:25

2M ago1:29:25

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A combustible combination of capitalist development, climate change, and neoliberal policies transformed normal patterns of wind and fire into an inferno that has laid waste to whole sections of LA. This human made disaster has had devastating impacts particularly on the city’s multiracial working class. Join this Spectre Live event to discuss the …

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I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like 1:27:39

2M ago1:27:39

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Join Rebecca Carroll in conversation with Donika Kelly and Chanda Prescod-Weinstein as they discuss and celebrate the newly imagined edition of I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like. The first edition of I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like, published in 1994, remains an essential text for readers of Black feminist literature in all genres. Featuring …

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Not Your Rescue Project: Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice 1:33:39

2M ago1:33:39

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Join longtime organizers and authors Chanelle Gallant and Elene Lam in conversation with Harsha Walia on ways to deepen solidarity with migrant sex workers. In Not Your Rescue Project: Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice, long-time organizers Chanelle Gallant and Elene Lam deftly expose the harms of criminalization in the name of “anti-traffic…

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We Grow The World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition 1:32:10

2M ago1:32:10

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Join Dorothy Roberts, Harsha Walia, Kim Wilson, and Maya Schenwar for a virtual book launch and conversation on caregiving, abolition, and hope amid chaos! As we await a second Trump presidency, it's easy to feel frozen -- as if any action we take can't possibly be enough, and may be futile. Now is a moment to bring in the stories of folks who are …

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Solidarity Is the Political Version of Love: Lessons from Jewish Anti-Zionist Organizing 1:03:05

2M ago1:03:05

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Join Rebecca Vilkomerson, Rabbi Alissa Wise, Omar Barghouti, Nyle Fort and Stefanie Fox as they discuss the new book Solidarity Is the Political Version of Love: Lessons from Jewish Anti-Zionist Organizing The book asks What does the politics of solidarity look like in practice, and how can left-wing organizations grow—in numbers and power—while re…

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Country Queers 54:19

2M ago54:19

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Join Rae Garringer and special guests Neema Avashia, Kijana West, and David Rodriguez for a virtual launch and celebration of Country Queers: A Love Letter. Part photo book, part memoir, part oral history project, this volume paints a vivid portrait of queer and trans experiences in rural areas and small towns across the US. After years as a DIY, m…

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We The Gathered Heat: Asian American and Pacific Islander Poetry, Performance, and Spoken Word 1:18:46

2M ago1:18:46

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Join Bao Phi, Terisa Siagatonu, George Abraham, David Mura, Saba Keramati and other special guests for a live celebration of their poetry anthology We The Gathered Heat: Asian American and Pacific Islander Poetry, Performance, and Spoken Word. A rich anthology featuring some of the brightest voices in contemporary poetry who challenge, expand, and …

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Visualizing Palestine with Linda Sarsour, Noura Erakat, Yosra El Gazzar, and Aline Batarseh 1:22:49

2M ago1:22:49

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Join Linda Sarsour, Noura Erakat, Yosra El Gazzar, and Aline Batarseh as they discuss Visualizing Palestine: A Chronicle of Colonialism and the Struggle for Liberation, Edited by Jessica Anderson, Aline Batarseh, and Yosra El Gazzar and Created by Visualizing Palestine. The book is a striking collection of more than 200 full-color infographics is a…

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Set the Earth on Fire: The Great Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902 and the Birth of the Police 1:29:59

2M ago1:29:59

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Join David Correia, Kim Kelly and Judah Schept as the discuss Corriea’s latest book, Set the Earth on Fire: The Great Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902 and the Birth of the Police. The book is an eye-opening account of the Great Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902, showing how the strike—and the violent backlash that ensued—reveal the genesis of modern pol…

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Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence 1:25:16

3M ago1:25:16

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Join Mizue Aizeki, Matt Mahmoudi, Harsha Walia, Migrants Organise and Books Against Borders in this virtual discussion of Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence on September 12, 2024, at 7pm UK time. This event will also act as the launch for a new, in-person reading group for organisers in London, starting September 18th Our current moment…

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From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire 1:15:32

3M ago1:15:32

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Join Haymarket Books and In These Times for a book talk on From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire, with author Sarah Jaffe. This event will take place at Haymarket House, and will also be live-streamed on our YouTube channel. Our era is one of significant and substantial loss, yet we barely have time to acknowledge it. The losses r…

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Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat 1:32:47

3M ago1:32:47

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Join us for a discussion of how to maintain hope in the face of despair, with Hannah Proctor and Sarah Jaffe. In the struggle for a better world, setbacks are inevitable. Defeat can feel overwhelming at times, but it has to be endured. How then do the people on the front line keep going? In her new book Burnout, Hannah Proctor answers that question…

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Nazar Boy 1:03:11

3M ago1:03:11

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Join Tarik Dobbs with special guests Julian Randall, I.S. Jones and Katana Smith, in celebration of his debut poetry collection Nazar Boy. From one of the most imaginative and radical voices in contemporary poetry, a debut collection of fierce tenderness, political acuity, and powerful lyricism. Tarik Dobbs’s work explores surveillance, queerness, …

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The Corporate Coup In Global Context w/ Naomi Klein, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Astra Taylor, Chenjerai Kumanyika 1:57:31

3M ago1:57:31

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Join Naomi Klein, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Astra Taylor, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor for an emergency town hall on the accelerating corporate dominance of our lives and societies.From Elon Musk’s hostile takeover of core government functions, to the Trump family's vision for remaking Gaza into another Dubai, we are witnessing the extension of corporate…

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Perfect Victims with Mohammed El Kurd & Robin D.G. Kelley 1:10:03

3M ago1:10:03

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Join Mohammed El-Kurd and Robin D.G. Kelley for a virtual conversation to launch Mohammed’s new book Perfect Victims.Perfect Victims is an urgent affirmation of the Palestinian condition of resistance and refusal―an ode to the steadfastness of a nation.Palestine is a microcosm of the world: on fire, stubborn, fragmented, dignified. While a settler …

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Beyond the Ballot: The Left in a Time of Polycrisis 1:37:25

7M ago1:37:25

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A special conversation with Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, and Chenjerai KumanyikaPresented by Hammer & Hope magazine, Haymarket Books and Marguerite Casey Foundation.The Left is at a critical juncture in the United States—and globally.We confront multiple simultaneous threats, from rising militarism, to profound ecological dis…

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Digressions #1: Dan Denvir in conversation with China Miéville 1:24:50

1+ y ago1:24:50

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Introducing Digressions, a virtual reading group organized by the Dig and Haymarket Books. This first session took place on August 3, 2023.Every session of Digressions will take place three to four weeks after its guest appears on the Dig, and will be broadcast live. A list of suggested readings—including a discount code for any recommended book(s)…

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Palestine 1492: Settler-Colonialism, Solidarity, & Resistance 1:30:54

1+ y ago1:30:54

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Please join Linda Quiquivix, William C. Anderson, & Mohamed Abdou for a round table conversation on "Palestine 1492: Settler-colonialism, Solidarity & Resistance." They will situate Palestine transnationally in relation to 1492, & discuss admirable acts of solidarity by activists and organizers as well as common pitfalls within leftist social movem…

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Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt 1:47:00

1+ y ago1:47:00

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This roundtable will celebrate the much-anticipated publication of Orisanmi Burton’s first book, Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt. Order a copy of "Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt" from Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/a/1039/9780520396326SpeakersJa…

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The Limitless Heart: A Conversation with Cheryl Boyce-Taylor & Glenis Redmond 1:17:01

1+ y ago1:17:01

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Come celebrate the launch of Cheryl Boyce-Taylor’s collected poems The Limitless Heart.Encompassing the breadth of Cheryl Boyce-Taylor’s astounding career, The Limitless Heart is a time capsule of the boundless love, care, grief, and fortitude that make her work so stirring.With deep empathy, thoughtfulness, charisma, and lyricism, Boyce-Taylor’s w…

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Naomi Klein and Vincent Bevins in Conversation 1:33:42

1+ y ago1:33:42

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Join us for a conversation between Vincent Bevins and Naomi Klein on what their recent books—"If We Burn" and "Doppelganger"—can teach us about our political moment.Over the course of the past ten years mass protests of unprecedented scale swept across the entire globe. From the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia, to the eruption of rebellions in the…

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Medical Debt and Racial Justice 1:03:21

1+ y ago1:03:21

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Join us for a conversation between Luke Messac and Kenyon Farrow on medical debt and racial justice. This event took place on November 16, 2023.Ruth Wilson Gilmore said, “Debt robs. But debt also disciplines…Today, while the imperial imperatives might be different, the role of debt is the same—to compel consent through the coercion of debt.” One of…

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Going for Broke: Living on the Edge in the World's Richest Country 1:27:36

1+ y ago1:27:36

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Join Haymarket Books and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project for a conversation celebrating the launch of the anthology Going for Broke. Join Alissa Quart in conversation with Alex Miller, Annabelle Gurwitch, Katha Pollitt and Ray Suarez, to celebrate the launch of the anthology Going for Broke, a collaboration between Haymarket Books and the E…

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Reform, Revolution, and Opportunism: Debates in the Second International 1:29:21

1+ y ago1:29:21

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Join Mike Taber, David McNally, Anne McShane, & Tom Alter for a discussion about the Second International’s strengths, weaknesses, & legacy. This event took place on October 26, 2023.At its height, the Second (Socialist) International (1889-1914) represented the majority of organized workers in the world, with the stated revolutionary aim of overth…

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Chicago Conversations, Part 1: Building and Wielding Left Political Power 1:22:44

1+ y ago1:22:44

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Join us for a livestream from Haymarket House: the first of a four-part public discussion series focused on Chicago’s left political landscape and movement!This event took place on October 25, 2023.We’re kicking off our Chicago Conversations series with a discussion about building & wielding left political power.Chicago’s robust left social movemen…

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A Conversation w/ Barbara Smith on Writing & the Politics of Black Feminism 1:26:25

1+ y ago1:26:25

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Join Barbara Smith,Tamika Middleton, Haley Pessin and Jaimee A. Swift as they discuss historical & contemporary issues Black feminists face.This event took place on October 18, 2023.To celebrate the fortieth anniversary of Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology Barbara Smith, Tamika Middleton, Haley Pessin, and Jaimee A. Swift will discuss the hist…

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Revolutionary Defeat and the Future of Struggle in Syria —and Beyond 1:09:31

1+ y ago1:09:31

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Join us for the live stream of a conversation with Syrian writer & former political prisoner Yassin al-Haj Saleh moderated by Wendy Pearlman & Danny Postel. Broadcasting from Haymarket House. This event took place on October 17, 2023.Join us for the livestream of a conversation with Yassin al-Haj Saleh, the leading intellectual voice of the Syrian …

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The Work and Us: A Survey of Incarcerated People on Prison Labor 52:15

1+ y ago52:15

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Over the course of the past year, The Work and Us has been conducting surveys of incarcerated people to find out what they're thinking about prison labor, extraction, and freedom. In this conversation scholar-activist Ruth Wilson Gilmore and currently incarcerated organizer Stevie Wilson discuss some of the results, and what they mean for the strug…

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Defend Mutual Aid: Pushing back against attempts to criminalize solidarity 1:25:55

1+ y ago1:25:55

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Join Dean Spade & organizers from Atlanta as they discuss how to protect our communities against recent threats to mutual aid & solidarity efforts.This event took place on August 17, 2023.In the last year, we’ve seen attempts to criminalize mutual aid become more common as an authoritarian tactic. The recent attacks on mutual aid organizers of the …

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