Haymarket Books Live

Celebrate May Day with a discussion from leading labor voices Sara Nelson, Stacy Davis Gates, and Sarah Jaffe about how we can build a radical working class response to the current crisis. What is our vision as the working class for a different future, one free from exploitation and corporate greed, and how do we organize to win it? May Day, international workers' day, is a time to honor and celeb...

Join us for a discussion on the state of the global economy with activist economists David McNally and Hadas Thier. As the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to unfold across the world it has become increasingly obvious that we’ve only seen the first wave of shocks it will send through the global economy before things “return to normal.” Each week brings a new and completely unprecedented t...

Editors José Olivarez and Willie Perdomo will be joined by special guests Diannely Antigua, Rigoberto González, Janel Pineda, and Raquel Salas Rivera, for an event to launch the new anthology The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext. In the dynamic tradition of the BreakBeat Poets anthology, The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext celebrates the embodied narratives of Latinidad. Poets speak from an array...

In her latest essay, “The Pandemic Is a Portal” — from her forthcoming Haymarket Books publication Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction. — Arundhati Roy writes: What is this thing that has happened to us? It’s a virus, yes. In and of itself it holds no moral brief. But it is definitely more than a virus. Some believe it’s God’s way of bringing us to our senses. Others that it’s a Chinese conspiracy to...

Three leading voices in the struggle for education justice (Jesse Hagopian, Wayne Au, and Noliwe Rooks) discuss the remaking of public schools in the time of crisis. What has this crisis taught us about the role of public schools in society? What have we learned about what really matters in education during this time? When we re-open schools, what kind of education will we have, will we demand? Th...

Haymarket Books, Bowery Poetry, and The BreakBeat Poets present: Krista Franklin’s Too Much Midnight Krista Franklin will be joined by special guests Aricka Foreman, and avery r. young, for an event to launch her new book Too Much Midnight hosted by Mahogany L. Browne While this event is free for all to attend, we hope you’ll consider making a donation to support the work of these artists. All don...

How should abolitionists respond to the coronavirus pandemic? Join Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Naomi Murakawa for an urgent discussion of abolition and the pandemic. How can we achieve urgently needed decarceration for the millions of people caged in jails, prisons, and immigration detention centers? Abolitionism doesn’t just say no to police, prisons, border control, and the current punishment system...

Join us for the launch of Choice Words: Writers on Abortion, a landmark literary collection of essays, poems, and prose that are a testament to the profound political power of defying shame. Haymarket Books convenes a panel of contributors from this powerful volume for a conversation on the personal-political fight for abortion rights. With reading and discussions by: Annie Finch, poet and editor...

Join Naomi Klein, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Astra Taylor, and Hari Kondabolu for a discussion of what comes next after Bernie. The current crisis is laying bare the extreme injustices and inequalities of our economic and social system. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/6Gi5qGHRJ9c Buy books from Haymarket: haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks We a...

An online teach-in with renowned activist-scholar Mike Davis, author of numerous books, including The Monster at Our Door, In Praise of Barbarians, and the forthcoming Set the Night on Fire. Fifteen years ago, in his prescient book, The Monster At Our Door, Mike Davis warned that a viral catastrophe was being cooked up in the toxic vat built by the combined dangers of global capitalist production,...