Haymarket Books Live

In the midst of loss and death and suffering, our charge is to figure out what freedom really means—and how we take steps to get there. ———————————————— Join Marc Lamont Hill, phillip agnew, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor for an urgent conversation about the ongoing struggle for freedom in the wake of the 2020 election. The uprising of 2020 marked a new phase in the unfolding Movement for Black Lives...

The 2020 US election may be the biggest crisis of bourgeois democracy since the defeat of Black Reconstruction. The past several years and weeks have been rich in lessons about the nature of the US state and its electoral system. Issues that the panelists will discuss include: the ongoing far right threat and the changing character of the Republican Party; the nature of the Democratic Party and wh...

Marx is often accused of what has been called a Promethean vision of human social organisation, namely that human beings, using their superior brains, knowledge and technical prowess, can and should impose their will on the rest of the planet or what is called ‘nature’ – for better or worse. On the 200th anniversary of his birth, Engels too must be saved from the same charge. Actually, Engels was...

For the first HM online panel this year, please join us for a discussion of David McNally's book: 'Blood and Money: War, Slavery, Finance'. 'In most accounts of the origins of money we are offered pleasant tales in which it arises to the mutual benefit of all parties as a result of barter. In this groundbreaking study David McNally reveals the true story of money’s origins and development as one o...

Join Critical Resistance and the AbolitionNOW coalition for the final session in their series of virtual teach-in's. ———————————————— The prison industrial complex (PIC) is sold as a solution that you turn to for all of your problems but in reality communities need specific solutions that are tailored and not carceral. This panel will explore what safety actually means and a vision for keeping com...

Join leading ecosocialist authors and activists Andreas Malm and Thea Riofrancos for a discussion of how to stop the climate crisis. ---------------------------------------------------- From annual ‘once a centuries’ fires, to ‘storms to end all storms’ making landfall every hurricane season, the signs that capitalist climate change represents a civilizational threat have never been more ominously...

Join independent artists Narcy and Lowkey for a wide-ranging conversation celebrating the release of Narcy’s debut book Text Messages. ---------------------------------------------------- Independent hip-hop artists Narcy and Lowkey on art, technology, empire, and the struggle to survive the end of consumer capitalism. ---------------------------------------------------- Text Messages is the first...

The second in a series of Critical Conversations organized by Study and Struggle discussing prison abolition and immigrant justice. ————————————————————— The Study and Struggle program is the first phase of an ongoing project to organize against incarceration and criminalization in Mississippi through four months of political education and community building. Our Critical Conversations webinar ser...

Authors Richard Seymour and Wendy Liu discuss how our social-media generated addiction to writing is ruining our lives, and what we can do to escape its vicious cycles. ---------------------------------------------------- What is the Twittering Machine? An addiction-machine organized around the first ever mass, open-air, collective writing experiment. A microcelebrity-farm, where the only incentiv...

Join Chicago education justice organizers for a conversation about winning Black liberation in our classrooms, our communities and beyond. ———————————————— In recent years, Chicago-area parents, teachers, and youth have built successful grassroots campaigns to win reforms, challenge the priorities of city officials, and capture local elected offices. Educational justice and Black Liberation cannot...

Join Critical Resistance and the AbolitionNOW coalition for the fourth in their series of virtual teach-in's. ———————————————— During this session, we’ll take a deeper dive into the US imperialist project and its impacts. We’ll discuss resistance movements, transformative solidarity, and the fight for abolition————————————————————— Speakers: Lara Kiswani - Arab Resource and Organizing Center Nicol...

Join grassroots advocates for a conversation on ending the crisis of violence against Indigenous women and girls. In the United States, more than 4 in 5 Indigenous women have experienced violence, and more than 1 in 2 have experienced sexual violence. On some US reservations, Indigenous women are murdered at ten times the national rate. In Canada, Indigenous women are six times more likely to be m...

Key worker organizers from the videogames industry draw lessons from their struggle, all while collectively playing through Fall Guys. ———————————————— Since the beginning of 2018 there has been a wave of worker organizing in the videogames industry. While there is a longer history of resistance and struggle among game workers, the last two years have been the most visible and connected examples s...

Join Critical Resistance and the AbolitionNOW coalition for the third in their series of virtual teach-in's. ———————————————— A panel of experts will connect the dots between imprisonment and jail expansion in the movement to defund policing and how all of these pieces tie into the larger movement towards abolition. ————————————————————— Speakers: Marlene Ramos - Critical Resistance Member William...

A virtual teach-in featuring movements leaders who came together to launch the short film, Message from the Future II: The Years of Repair. Watch the film here: https://theintercept.com/2020/10/01/naomi-klein-message-from-future-covid/ ---------------------------------------------------- What if 2020 was an historic turning point, where the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic and global uprisings aga...

The BreakBeat Poets Live! is a virtual, multi-generational showcase of some of the illest writers on the planet rock. Each chapter features writers and performers who are part of the Haymarket Books family. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our continuing to do this important work. Penelope Alegria is the 2019 Chic...

Join Paul Coates, Eddie Conway and Susie Day as they talk about life, politics, and the revolution. ---------------------------------------------------- In 1971, Eddie Conway, Lieutenant of Security for the Baltimore chapter of the Black Panther Party, was convicted of murdering a police officer and sentenced to life plus thirty years behind bars. Paul Coates was a community worker at the time and...

Naomi Klein in conversation with Johann Hari about to fight back against Trump's shock politics — and for a fundamentally different world. ———————————————— In the face of a global pandemic, we are once again seeing politicians, from President Trump to Jair Bolsonaro and beyond, using shock doctrine tactics to seize power for themselves and push through policies that systematically deepen inequalit...

Join these Indigenous women for a conversation about their contemporary struggles to protect Native lands and lives. ---------------------------------------------------- Celebrate the book launch of How We Go Home: Voices from Indigenous North America, a new book edited by Sara Sinclair from Haymarket Books and Voice of Witness, with a roundtable conversation about Indigenous sovereignty today. Ho...

Award-winning author Imani Perry talks with Jaimee A. Swift from Black Women Radicals about her new book Breathe: A Letter to my Sons. Breathe: A Letter to My Sons, new from Imani Perry, explores the terror, grace, and beauty of coming of age as a Black person in contemporary America and what it means to parent our children in a persistently unjust world. Emotionally raw and deeply reflective, Ima...

Join the AbolitionNOW Network for a teach-in on the connections between the struggle for Black and Indigenous liberation and abolition. A workshop on the relationship between settler colonialism, racial capitalism, and imperialism that ties the threads of Black and Indigenous resistance through abolition of the PIC. ———————————————— Speakers: Lou Cornum - The Red Nation Mohamed Shehk - Critical Re...

Emory Douglas, Mary Hooks, Yoel Haile, and Diane Fujino discuss the enduring impact, and multiple meanings, of the Black Panther Party in the context of the movement for Black lives, allowing today’s organizers and readers to situate themselves in the long lineage of the Black Radical Tradition. Today’s Movement for Black Lives is building a radically transformative struggle that demands structura...

The second in a series of Critical Conversations organized by Study and Struggle discussing prison abolition and immigrant justice. ———————————————— The Study and Struggle program is the first phase of an ongoing project to organize against incarceration and criminalization in Mississippi through four months of political education and community building. Our Critical Conversations webinar series,...

Astra Taylor, Hannah Appel and Chenjerai Kumanyika discuss the urgent new book: Can't Pay, Won't Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition by the Debt Collective. The book is a powerful guide to action for people in debt. ---------------------------------------------------- Debtors have been mocked, scolded and lied to for decades. We have been told that it is perfectly normal to...

A discussion in commemoration of Attica Day about its continued significance and the movement demanding prisoner labor rights. —————————————————————————— The forced labor of incarcerated people is a vestige of slavery still protected by the 13th Amendment today. On September 9th, 1971, nearly 1,300 men incarcerated at the Attica Correctional Facility led an insurrection against the prison — an ins...