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TEXT MESSAGES
Or How I Found Myself Time Travelling

Yassin “Narcy” Alsalman

Haymarket Books (Spring 2020)

Trade Paper • ISBN-13:9781642591507 • US $16.00 • 6 in x 9 in • 150 pgs.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Text Messages is the first multi-genre collection by Montreal-based Iraqi hip-hop artist, activist, and professor Yassin “Narcy” Alsalman. Composed entirely on a smartphone during air travel and married to artwork from comrades, Narcy’s writing speaks of the existential crises experienced by diasporic children of war before and during imperialism in the age of the Internet.

Narcy’s verses span the space between hip-hop and manifesto, portraying a crumbling, end-stage capitalist society, visions for a new reality, and exposes the myth of multiculturalism in post-9/11 North America. The wordsmith hollows and transmogrifies the grotesque excess of the West by juxtaposing McLife with images of death, destruction, and trauma in the East.

From the depths of apathetic consumerism arises a voice of spiritual self-realization that explodes the misrepresented, mythical monolith of Islam in the West and with the rubble builds healing through intelligent resistance and radical love.

“Young boys and girls trapped in Walmarts— our consumer interim camps. A family-friendly, discounted freedom. You don’t see what the Internet can’t. Not our land or home. Not your mans or holmes. Not your towers or domes. Not your power or drones.”

PRAISE:

“Yassin ‘Narcy’ Alsalman is a one-of-a-kind artist. He is transcendental, he is pop, he is the Muslim, he is the poet. Through his questioning of the tides of time, and the world’s disregard of the Arab, he writes lyrics as anthem, providing a source material for a part of the world that is so often misunderstood and forgotten. This book is exciting in its futurity. It is punchy in its enthusiasm. I am grateful for this book’s aliveness.”

Fariha Róisín, author, How To Cure a Ghost

“Yassin Alsalman’s writing weaves through the epic struggles of people to get free, enduring and resisting brutality, dictatorship, war, and occupation. As a hip-hop artist, he was forged in the rubble of 9/11 and the ensuing war against Muslims, emerging as one of the most creative and sharp artists chronicling the crimes of the powerful and giving voice to people’s uprisings. Text Messages is a potent book rooted in the poetry and art of Alsalman’s Iraqi ancestors, translated in a global language for the urgency of the times in which we now live.”

Jeremy Scahill, co-founder of The Intercept and author of Blackwater and Dirty Wars

“Narcy’s voice cuts through the rubble piled high in the wake of Amerikkka’s ‘War on Terror,’ a true testament to hip-hop’s intersectional revolutionary power and an unapologetic representation of the Muslim world in the 21st century’s most ubiquitous art form.”

Vic Mensa

“Yassin Alsalman possesses one of the most important voices in the world, and Text Messages could not be more timely or more necessary of a read. On paper, this Muslim teacher who raps should not be a success, but because of the beauty of his words and the pureness of his heart, he wins despite the massive odds against him. Narcy makes me feel heard, he gives me life. I am proud to be his friend and his peer.”

Talib Kweli

Passion, pain, anger, hope, and swagger. Yassin is a man from the future. Narcy beautifully captures the chaotic multitudes of being a brown diaspora kid living through the war on terror in the technology age. Text Messages is an ambitious and bold time capsule capturing the insane times we’re living through. Poems, barbs, and bars — take a bow Yassin, you’ve made a classic.” 

Hasan Minhaj

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Real name Yassin Alsalman, Narcy is a musician, director, professor, writer, and actor. He teaches a hip-hop production class and a cultural study of rap and politics at Concordia University. He is the cofounder of WeAreTheMedium, a culture point for publishing, media, and the arts. He currently resides in Tiohtià:k, on unceded Indigenous lands, has his heart in the Arab world, and is grounded on planet Earth. Most importantly, he is a father of two.

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A BRIEF HISTORY OF COMMERCIAL CAPITALISM

Jairus Banaji

Haymarket Books (Summer 2020)

Trade Paper • ISBN-13:9781642591323 • US $19.95 • 5.5 in x 8 in • 200 pgs.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

The rise of capitalism to global dominance is still largely associated – by both laypeople and Marxist historians – with the industrial capitalism that made its decisive breakthrough in 18th century Britain. Jairus Banaji’s new work reaches back centuries and traverses vast distances to argue that this leap was preceded by a long era of distinct “commercial capitalism”, which reorganised labor and production on a world scale to a degree hitherto rarely appreciated.

Rather than a picture centred solely on Europe, we enter a diverse and vibrant world. Banaji reveals the cantons of Muslim merchants trading in Guangzhou since the eighth century, the 3,000 European traders recorded in Alexandria in 1216, the Genoese, Venetians and Spanish Jews battling for commercial dominance of Constantinople and later Istanbul. We are left with a rich and global portrait of a world constantly in motion, tied together and increasingly dominated by a pre-industrial capitalism. The rise of Europe to world domination, in this view, has nothing to do with any unique genius, but rather a distinct fusion of commercial capitalism with state power.

PRAISE:

Praise for Theory as History

“From the impact of slavery, the rise of the poor taking control, and the role of other philosophies and faiths impacting the discussion, Theory as History is a unique way to discuss history, economics, and the people behind it, a core addition to any community library history collection.”

Midwest Book Review

“The great merit of this volume is that it establishes an approach for [the debates about the nature and origin of capitalism] that is deeply theoretical, but at the same time refreshingly unhampered by the kind of doctrinaire attachment to a perceived (and often misread) orthodoxy that plagued so much of “historical materialism” for the past century. It is scholarly, without being purely academic … Banaji’s book deserves to be read and debated as one of the starting points for a new wave of Marxist historiography, still in the process of liberating itself from the ghost of its formalist past.” ”

Pepijn Brandon, International Socialism

“Banaji’s seemingly idiosyncratic but in fact highly sophisticated and original approach to historical analysis provides not only a welcome stimulus and a challenge for scholars today, but also will give them plenty to think about for many years to come.” ”

Marcel van der Linden, research director of the International Institute of Social History

Theory as History is a book written at the summit of a lifetime’s engagement with issues of Marxist theory and practice … Banaji’s work demonstrates that no aspect of human history is irrelevant to the present. His scholarship shows immense skill, depth and range … [proving] it is not the Marxist method that has been at fault, but the dominance of non-Marxist theory and method in the minds of Marxist.”

Counterfire

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Jairus Banaji spent most of his academic life at Oxford. He has been a Research Associate in the Department of Development Studies, SOAS, University of London, for the past several years. He is the author of Agrarian Change in Late Antiquity (Oxford, 2007), Theory as History (Haymarket Books, 2011) — for which he won the prestigious Isaac and Tamara Deutsche Memorial Prize — and numerous other volumes and articles.

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THE AUSTRIAN REVOLUTION

Otto Bauer

Haymarket Books (Spring 2020)

Trade Paper • ISBN-13:9781642591620 • US $28.00• 6 in x 9 in • 500 pgs.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

This is the story of the decline and fall or an empire, a region devastated by war, and a world stage fundamentally transformed by the Russian Revolution. Bauer’s magisterial work — available in English for the first time in full — charts the evolution of three simultaneous, overlapping revolutionary waves: a national revolution for self-determination, which brought down imperial Austro-Hungary; a bourgeois revolution for parliamentary republics and universal suffrage; and a social revolution for workers’ control, factory councils, and industrial democracy.

The brief but crowning achievement of Red Vienna, alongside Bauer’s unique theorisation of an “integral socialism” — an attempted synthesis of revolutionary communism and social democracy — is a vital part of the left’s intellectual and historical heritage. Today, as movements once again struggle with questions of reform or revolution, political strategy, and state power, this is a crucial resource. Bauer tells the story of the Austrian Revolution with all the immediacy of a central participant, and all the insight of a brilliant and original theorist.

PRAISE:

“The revolution in Central Europe in 1918-21 was a giant event that came closer to changing world history than most of us realize. For English-speakers, this translation opens a challenging new window on the history of the Austrian workers’ council movement and the role of the Entente powers in the counter-revolution that followed. Published in 1923, it stands unique as an analysis of the revolution’s internal dynamics and the costs of defeat.”

Mike Davis

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Walter Baier, an economist in Vienna, was National Chairman of the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) from 1994 to 2006. He was an editor of the Austrian weekly Volksstimme and from 2007 has been Coordinator of the network transform!Europe, a network of 36 think tanks and educational organizations from 22 European countries, which as is recognized as the associated political foundation of the Party of the European Left (EL).

Otto Bauer (5 September 1881 4 July 1938) was the leading figure of the Austrian Social Democratic Workers Party. An early inspiration for the New Left and Eurocommunist movements in later decades, his theories of imperialism and the national question, as well as his practical work building a mass organization, made him a key figure in the First and Second Internationals.

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THINGS THAT MAKE WHITE PEOPLE UNCOMFORTABLE
Adapted for Young Adults

Michael Bennett and Dave Zirin

Haymarket Books (Fall 2019)

Hardback • ISBN-13:9781642590227 • US $21.95 • 8.5 in x 5.5 in • 170 pgs.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

With a new introduction from Michael Bennett, this adaptation of his bestselling book Things That Make White People Uncomfortable is specifically geared for 12-17 year olds and will appeal to students, teachers and librarians looking for a book that seamlessly connects politics, personal narratives and sports.

Michael Bennett is a Super Bowl Champion, a three-time Pro Bowl defensive end, a fearless activist, a feminist, an organizer, and a change maker. He’s also one of the most humorous athletes on the planet, and he wants to make you uncomfortable. Bennett adds his voice to discussions of racism and police violence, Black athletes and their relationship to powerful institutions like the NCAA and the NFL, the role of protest in history, and the responsibilities of athletes as role models to speak out against injustice. Following in the footsteps of activist-athletes from Muhammad Ali to Colin Kaepernick, Bennett demonstrates his outspoken leadership both on and off the field.

Written with award-winning sportswriter and author Dave Zirin, this is a sports book for young people who want to make a difference, a memoir, and a book as hilarious and engaging as it is illuminating.

PRAISE:

Praise for Things That Make White People Uncomfortable:

“Michael Bennett is an agent of change.”

The New York Times

“A shockingly honest take on sports and politics.”

The Stranger

“This book is a courageous and compassionate story of a great athlete and grand human being full of deep care for his fellow citizens! Don’t miss it!”

Cornel West
“It would be easy for Michael Bennett to remain silent, to play in the NFL and make his mark through accomplishments on the field. Instead Michael has chosen to use his voice and his platform to fight injustice.”

Senator Bernie Sanders

“There is a tradition of athletes who understand that sports is a way to reach people and change the world. I am proud and humbled to be recognized as part of that tradition. I believe that Michael Bennett’s name deserves mention alongside the best of us. This book doesn’t only explain the roots of Michael Bennett’s courage. It will inspire the people who read it to conquer their fears and fight for what’s right.”

Dr. John Carlos, 1968 Olympic medalist

“I was going to say this is the most courageous books on race written by an athlete in my lifetime, but I actually think this is one of the most courageous books on race and racism in America that has ever been written by anyone. It’s that good and that important.”

Shaun King, columnist for The Intercept and writer-in-residence for Harvard Law School’s Fair Punishment Project

“There is a revolution underway inside professional sports and Michael Bennett is at ground zero. In this revelatory book, he puts everything on the line to share the reasons, strategy, pain and deep thought behind this historic uprising. And he invites us into a vision of justice and liberation that is simply irresistible. This book is pure fire.”

Naomi Klein

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

Michael Bennett is a three-time Pro Bowler, Pro Bowl MVP, Super Bowl Champion, and two-time NFC Champion. He has gained international recognition for his public support for the Black Lives Matter Movement, women’s rights, and other social justice causes. In 2017, he was named one of the 100 Most Influential African Americans by The Root, was the Seattle Seahawks nominee for the NFL’s Walter Payton Man of the Year award, and was honored along with his brother Martellus with a BET Shine a Light award for exceptional service. He is the cofounder with Pele Bennett of The Bennett Foundation, which educates underserved children and communities through free, accessible programming. He has held free camps and health clinics in Seattle, in his hometown of Houston, in his current offseason home, Honolulu, and in South Dakota on the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe. He donates all of his endorsement money and the proceeds from his jersey sales to fund health and education projects for poor and underserved youth and minority communities, and recently expanded his reach globally to support STEM programming in Africa. He is the proud father of three daughters, Peyton, Blake, and Ollie.

Martellus Bennett is a Super Bowl champion, NFL Pro Bowler, children’s book author, and younger brother to Michael Bennett. His first children’s book, Hey A. J., It’s Saturday, was released in 2016 through his own company, The Imagination Agency

Named one of the “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Our World” by the Utne Reader, Dave Zirin is the author of ten books on the intersection of sports and politics. He also writes on this subject for the Nation magazine, their first sports writer in 150 years of existence. Zirin is also the host of the “Edge of Sports Podcast” and “The Collision with Etan Thomas and Dave Zirin” on WPFW in Washington DC.

OTHER TITLES BY DAVE ZIRIN:

Brazil’s Dance with the Devil: The World Cup, The Olympics, and the Fight for Democracy (Updated Edition)

Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics, and Promise of Sports

What’s My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States

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RX APPALACHIA
Stories of Treatment and Survival in Rural Kentucky

Lesly-Marie Buer

Haymarket Books (May 2020)

Trade Paper • ISBN-13:9781642591231 • US $22.95 • 5.5 in x 8.5 in • 220 pgs.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Using the narratives of women who use(d) drugs, this account challenges popular understandings of Appalachia spread by such pundits as JD Vance by documenting how women, families, and communities cope with generational systems of oppression. Prescription opioids are associated with rising rates of overdose deaths and hepatitis C and HIV infection in the US, including in rural Central Appalachia. Yet there is a dearth of studies examining rural opioid use. RX Appalachia explores the gendered inequalities that situate women’s encounters with substance abuse treatment as well as additional state interventions targeted at women who use drugs in one of the most impoverished regions in the US.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Lesly-Marie Buer is an activist and public health practitioner at Positively Living/Choice Health Network in Knoxville, Tennessee. Her work on substance use A harm reduction has appeared in such publications as Boston Review, the Journal of Appalachian Studies, and North American Dialogue.

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DYING FOR AN IPHONE
Apple, Foxconn, and The Lives of China’s Workers

Jenny Chan, Ngai Pun, and Mark Selden

Haymarket Books (Summer 2020)

Trade Paper • ISBN-13:9781642591248 • US $19.95 • 6 in x 9 in • 225 pgs.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Suicides, excessive overtime, and hostility and violence on the factory floor in China. Drawing on vivid testimonies from rural migrant workers, student interns, managers and trade union staff, Dying for an iPhone is a devastating expose of two of the world’s most powerful companies: Foxconn and Apple.

As the leading manufacturer of iPhones, iPads, and Kindles, and employing one million workers in China alone, Taiwanese-invested Foxconn’s drive to dominate global electronics manufacturing has aligned perfectly with China’s goal of becoming the world leader in technology. This book reveals the human cost of that ambition and what our demands for the newest and best technology means for workers.

Foxconn workers have repeatedly demonstrated their power to strike at key nodes of transnational production, challenge management and the Chinese state, and confront global tech behemoths. Dying for an iPhone allows us to assess the impact of global capitalism’s deepening crisis on workers.’ 

PRAISE:

‘Takes us to the dark side of Apple’

Le Monde Diplomatique – Books of the Month

Dying for an iPhone is an absolutely necessary read for anyone seeking to understand the realities of modern-day capitalism. Contrary to the mythology of Silicon Valley, this carefully researched book explains why companies like Apple owe their success more to exploitation than to innovation’

Wendy Liu, author of Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism

Dying for an iPhone takes readers deep inside the dark Satanic mills of Foxconn’s industrial empire. Drawing on the words of the workers themselves, the book offers an invaluable portrait of the Chinese working class as it pumps blood (sometimes literally) into the productive heart of world capitalism’

Ben Tarnoff, co-founder of Logic Magazine

‘Critical, accessible, and rigorously researched, this book offers the most comprehensive analysis of Foxconn, the world’s largest electronics factory: its bleak landscape, dire consequences, and inspiring efforts to change it for the better’

Jack Linchuan Qiu, author of Goodbye iSlave: A Manifesto for Digital Abolition

‘A sobering investigation into the human, social and environmental costs of producing the devices we have come to rely on, a process in which both corporations and we, the consumers, are complicit’

Nick Holdstock, author of Chasing the Chinese Dream

‘A deep dive into exploitation and labour struggle in the world of high-tech electronics manufacturing in China during the past decade. Dying for an iPhone is an expose of the human suffering behind the brands. Everyone should read this’

Hsiao-Hung Pai, Taiwanese journalist

‘Deeply researched, comprehensively annotated and fuelled by anger’

Mike Cormack, South China Morning Post

‘An invaluable resource for anyone wishing to explore the abuses inherent in labour practices, both in China and in tech supply lines’

Oliver Farry, Irish Times

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

Jenny Chan is Assistant Professor of Sociology at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She is also the Vice President of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee on Labour Movements. Her recent articles have been published widely in Current SociologyModern ChinaRural China, and many other journals and edited volumes.

Mark Selden is Senior Research Associate in the East Asia Program at Cornell University. He is editor of the online Asia-Pacific Journal. His books include China in Revolution: The Yenan Way RevisitedThe Political Economy of Chinese Development; and The Cambridge History of Communism.

Pun Ngai is Professor of Sociology at The University of Hong Kong. She is author of Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace and Migrant Labor in China.

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LATINEXT
The BreakBeat Poets Vol 4

Edited by Felicia Chavez, Jose Olivarez, and Willie Perdomo

Haymarket Books (April 2020)

Trade Paper • ISBN-13:9781642591293 • US $19.95 • 6 in x 9 in • 225 pgs.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

In the dynamic tradition of the BreakBeat Poets anthologies, The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext celebrates the embodied narratives of Latinidad. Poets speak from an array of nationalities, genders, sexualities, races, and writing styles, staking a claim to our cultural and civic space. Like Hip- Hop, we honor what was, what is, and what’s next.

OTHER TITLES IN THIS SERIES:

The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop

Black Girl Magic: The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2

Halal If You Hear Me: The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 3

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

Felicia Rose Chavez is a native New Mexican with an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Iowa. An award-winning educator, Felicia is currently at work on The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize The Creative Classroom, forthcoming from Haymarket Books.

José Olivarez is the son of Mexican immigrants. His debut book of poems, Citizen Illegal, was a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Award and won the 2018 Chicago Review of Books Poetry Prize.

Willie Perdomo is an Afro-Caribbean Nuyorican from East Harlem.  He is the author of The Crazy Bunch, The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Smoking Lovely, winner of the PEN Open Book Award; and Where a Nickel Costs a Dime, a finalist for the Poetry Society of America Norma Farber First Book Award. He teaches at Phillips Exeter Academy.

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CAGED

New Jersey Prison Theater Cooperative

Introductions by Chris Hedges and Boris Franklin

Haymarket Books (Winter 2020)

Hardcover • ISBN-13:9781642590241 • US $16 • 5 in x 7 in • 80 pgs.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

This poignant play, written by current and formerly incarcerated authors, uses gripping truths and soulful dialogue to reveal the human cost of America’s for-profit justice system. The story follows Omar, pulled back into the prison system after trying to lift his family out of poverty, who struggles to maintain a sense of humanity while fighting to keep his loved ones close.

According to NJ.com, “From institutionalized racism to addiction to the prison-industrial complex, this is a play about a great many large, pressing social challenges, but at its core it is a play about one family and its struggles to remain united as their world steadily crumbles. Impactful, warm, and unrelenting, this play that began as an experiment turns out to be an excellent examination of the human cost of a harsh and inhospitable world.”

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

The New Jersey Prison Theater Cooperative is a committee that includes not only the 28 formerly incarcerated participants but also six theater professionals, who worked on the script’s development.

Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, Truthdig columnist and host of the Emmy Award–winning RT America show On Contact. He is the author of the bestsellers American Fascists and Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, and was a National Book Critics Circle finalist for War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. His most recent book is America: the Farewell Tour published in 2018. He teaches in college credit courses in prisons in New Jersey.

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THE BROTHER YOU CHOOSE:
Paul Coates and Eddie Conway Talk About Life, Politics, and The Revolution

By Susie Day
Afterword by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Haymarket Books (September 1, 2020)

Trade Paper • ISBN-13:9781642591545 • US $16.95 • 5.5 in x 7.25 in • 180 pgs.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

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 didn’t know Eddie well – the little he knew, he didn’t much like. But Paul was dead certain that Eddie’s charges were bogus. He vowed never to leave Eddie – and in so doing, changed the course of both their lives. For over forty-three years, as he raised a family and started a business, Paul visited Eddie in prison, often taking his kids with him. He and Eddie shared their lives and worked together on dozens of legal campaigns in hopes of gaining Eddie’s release. Paul’s founding of the Black Classic Press in 1978 was originally a way to get books to Eddie in prison. When, in 2014, Eddie finally walked out onto the streets of Baltimore, Paul Coates was there to greet him. Today, these two men remain rock-solid comrades and friends – each, the other’s chosen brother.

When Eddie and Paul met in the Baltimore Panther Party, they were in their early twenties. They are now into their seventies. This book is a record of their lives and their relationship, told in their own voices. Paul and Eddie talk about their individual stories, their work, their politics, and their immeasurable bond.

PRAISE:

“A landmark book for anyone who wants to understand the deep connectivity of Black America.  It provides a ringside seat to the bruising fight for Civil Rights with two men, Eddie Conway and Paul Coates, as they provide necessary lessons on politics, change, community and enduring bonds.  Their journey together and their hard-earned insights span nearly fifty years of seismic change in America. It’s a lesson in loyalty, commitment under fire, and what we can all do to make America keep its promise.”

Walter Mosley

“The Brother You Choose is a powerful addition to the rich collection of Panther autobiographies. Former political prisoner Eddie Conway and Black Classic Press founder Paul Coates have worked with radical journalist Susie Day to craft a beautiful dialogue about their life trajectories through the military, the Baltimore chapter of the Black Panther Party, the prison system and the ongoing struggle for Black Liberation. Their narrative moves the BPP’s center of gravity from the Oakland leadership to explore the very different dynamics in the East Coast in which the Panthers emerged from dense black communities in cities like New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore. There is so much to be learned here about the BPP, the Black Liberation Army, the effects of state repression and the role of political education and publishing in the fight for freedom. I have read all of the Panther autobiographies and this is one of my favorites. The Brother You Chose is an ideal book to assign to undergraduates as well as for the larger reading public. Its elegant structure and powerful content speak directly to moment we face as the urban uprisings against state violence sweep cities across the US.”

Donna Murch, author of Living for the City: Education, Migration and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California

“Too often unheard above the sirens, the desperate gasping for breath, is the consistent language of love, of tenderness, of support between men. In this powerful offering, Paul Coates and Eddie Marshall Conway speak to us of the brutal harm visited upon Black people and they speak to us of revolution and freedom. But woven masterfully throughout the conversations shared is a life-giving narrative that recalls the history of a people who walked as much as 100 miles barefoot to find their families when slavery came to its bloodsoaked close. Brother You Choose, like the men who tell it, is a national treasure.”

asha bandele, author of The Prisoner’s Wife

The Brother You Choose encompasses all that is embodied in the soul of Gwendolyn Brooks’ words when she writes: “we are each others harvest; we are each others business; we are each others magnitude and bond.” This unique friendship (i.e., brotherhood) born under the early idealism of the Black Panther Party within its stated goals and objectives bring smiles to one who has also struggled on the same streets as Paul Coates and Eddie Conway. Susie Day has provided us with an insight into two lives that have survived and developed within the deadly American history that challenges us daily. The relationship that develops between the pages of these brothers’ lives is reflective of true heart and soul. The inimitable brotherhood chronicled here can only be measured by the depth of one’s own sense of grace and humanity. Over a span of fifty years, Paul Coates and Marshall “Eddie” Conway have remained “rock-solid comrades” and extended family in the Black Empowerment struggle. Their friendship exemplified the early promise of the BPP and its core meaning as articulated in the Ten-Point Program illustrated through Day’s poignant account of racial injustice, resistance and unyielding solidarity.”

Haki R. Madhubuti, Poet, Founder of Third World Press/Third World Press Foundation, author of Taught By Women

“Susie Day and the men who share their stories with her, Conway and Coates, have produced a jewel of oral history. Put it alongside Studs Terkel’s Working. Here are voices intimate, every-day, world historical, all at once. Here is life — the texture of thought, work, commitment, love: “Just that simple. Just that complicated.” It is a personal/political history that is deep, and funny, and tragic, and radically astute. And it is absolutely necessary. Here is a book that will not wear out.    

JoAnn Wypijewski, author What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About #MeToo: Essays on Sex, Authority & the Mess of Life

“Beautifully edited and narrated by Susie Day, The Brother You Choose allows us to eavesdrop on a humor-filled, heartwarming conversation between Eddie Conway and Paul Coates, whose love for each other and for their people carried them through revolutionary struggles and decades of wrongful imprisonment. An engaging read, these deeply personal perspectives on a common journey toward Black liberation encapsulate a history critical to movement-building today.”

Natsu Taylor Saito, author of Settler Colonialism, Race, and the Law: Why Structural Racism Persists

“By turns touching, enraging, moving, tough, and tender, always riveting and ultimately inspiring, The Brother You Choose underscores the essential truth embodied in Che Guevara’s observation that “the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love.”

Ward Churchill, author of Wielding Words Like Weapons

“My beloved comrade brothers, Eddie Conway & Paul Coates both connected together like Siamese twins for over forty-three years both with unflinching self determination and unconditional brotherly love and appreciation for the others humanity. Eddie’s confined in maximum security prison(s) while Paul navigates minimum security the world we all live in informing and educating the world to “FREE EDDIE CONWAY. What an amazing story of triumph over a system of wicked injustice behavior.”

Emory Douglas, Revolutionary Artist & Minister of Culture, Black Panther Party 1967-1981

“With a dramatist’s eye and a radical’s heart, Susie Day has crafted a conversation between two titans about fighting the good fight, enduring the hard stuff, and living to tell about it. The Brother You Choose is smart, endearing, funny and inspiring. Paul Coates and Eddie Conway reflect on commitment to the world and to each other. Pull up a chair and have a listen.”

Dan Berger, author of Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing on the Civil Rights Era

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Susie Day began listening to people in prison at the DC Jail, where she interviewed four women charged with the 1985 bombing of the U.S. Capitol. She lives in Manhattan with her partner (and Capitol-bomber), Laura Whitehorn.

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BERKELEY
The Student Revolt

Hal Draper

Introduction by Mario Savio

Haymarket Books (Summer 2020). Audio rights only

Trade Paper • ISBN-13:9781642591255 • US $22.00 • 6 in x 9 in • 280 pgs.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Cliché as it may seem to be, just about every major political issue taken up in this book from 1964 has once again become a major motivating force for contemporary activists. From Campus Free Speech fights to mounting tuition costs, the issues tackled by the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, and covered in this book have a growing audience. This, combined with the historical significance of Draper’s participant account, is sure to make this book an important point of reference for contemporary activists.

PRAISE:

“We live in an era in which it is becoming more and more difficult to learn from the lessons of history, especially from a history filled with the spirit of civic engagement, revolt, and a seething desire to struggle over institutions such as higher education, which are crucial to a democracy. Berkeley: The Student Revolt speaks to a moment in history alive with the spirit of student revolt, outrage over the corporatization and militarization of the university, and deeply aware of the connection between the crisis of the university and its relationship to the crisis of society. This book is both inspiring and informative, moving in its depiction of civil rights, the struggle for academic freedom, the necessity of free speech as a mode of dissent, the refusal to accept the university as a ‘knowledge industry,’ and the need to give voice to the students themselves. Berkeley: The Student Revolt speaks to both a language of not only critique, the visceral language of protest, but also to a merging of struggle and hope that can serve as invaluable resource for future generations.

Henry Giroux

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:


The late Hal Draper is the author of the five-volume study of Karl Marx’s Theory of Revolution (Monthly Review Press) as well as War and Revolution: Lenin and the Myth of Revolutionary Defeatism (Humanities Press) and Berkeley: The New Student Revolt (Grove Press.) He was also a prominent socialist journalist and editor of the journal Labor Action from 1948-1958.

Mario Savio was one of the most famous leaders of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement.

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SOCIALISM FROM BELOW

Hal Draper

Haymarket Books (May, 2019). World audio rights only.

Paper • ISBN-13:9781608467921 • 220 pgs.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

In exploring the question: “What do we mean by socialism?,” Hal Draper argues genuine liberation can be won only through self-emancipation.

This reprint of a classic text by American Marxist Hal Draper outlines the important distinction between socialists who looked for some outside authority that would hand down liberation and socialism from above and those who saw the key to transforming society in the struggle of ordinary people from below for their own self-emancipation.

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1919

Eve L. Ewing

Haymarket Books (Spring 2019)

Trade Paper • ISBN-13:9781608465989• US $16 • 5.5 in x 8.5 in • 96 pgs.

Winner, Black Caucus of the American Library Association’s Best Poetry Book of 2019

NPR Books of the Year, 2019
O Magazine Best Books by Women of Summer 2019
Chicago Tribune 25 hot books of summer 2019
The Millions
 Must-Read Poetry of June 2019
LitHub Most Anticipated Reads of Summer 2019
Buzzfeed 29 Summer Books To Get Excited About
Chicago Review of Books Best New Books of June 2019

ABOUT THE BOOK:

The Chicago Race Riot of 1919, the most intense of the riots that comprised the “Red Summer” of violence across the nation’s cities, has shaped the last century but is unfamiliar or altogether unknown to many people today.

In 1919, her second collection of poems, Eve L. Ewing explores the story of this event—which lasted eight days and resulted in thirty-eight deaths and almost five hundred injuries— through poems recounting the stories of everyday people trying to survive and thrive in the city. Ewing uses speculative and Afrofuturist lenses to recast history, illuminating the thin line between the past and the present.

PRAISE:

“Ewing’s poems give voice to those whose historical memory was drawn in dispossession and often informed by the biblical themes of exodus and deliverance. I recommend 1919 because it holds a mirror up to America, to Chicago: a city where the fault lines of American history tremble underfoot, where the promise of America is betrayed by its past.”

NPR

“The genre-busting poet/scholar behind Electric Arches and Ghosts in the Schoolyard combines assiduously researched facts and bracing lyricism in this elegiac exploration of the 1919 Chicago race riot and the “summer-song folk” who were its human cost.”

O Magazine

“Eve Ewing is a poet of limitless possibility. She seems to get sharper and more daring with each book.”

Poetry Magazine “The Zora Neale Hurston of her generation.”

“Eve Ewing’s 1919 is a window into the mental and emotional lives of Black Americans in a Chicago, in an America, where time beckons oppressively. Exodus and deliverance to a promised land? The eternal return of racist violence? Time lends haunted hope. Maybe circular time, the eternal return, could cease and turn linear, toward exodus and deliverance. 1919 places readers in the minds and bodies of Black Chicagoans, Black Americans, and asks readers to see what has been, and what could be.”

Vice

“A truly rare cultural phenomenon: an artist who not only holds up a mirror to society, but makes herself a catalyst to change it.”

Chicago Tribune

“Ewing is a writer of great depth, reverence, and enthusiasm, one of the city’s greatest critics and champions…Her repertoire and curiosity are without boundary. She is Chicago’s true mayor; a young, charismatic guardian of the city’s possibility and spirit, who is goading us to do more and do better.”

The Cut

“These clarion and haunting poems—some psalm-like, others percussive, even concussive, all technically brilliant and sure to galvanize adults and teens alike—incisively and resoundingly evoke the promise and betrayal of the Great Migration and the everyday struggles of Chicago’s Black community against vicious and violent racism. The riot a century ago, Ewing writes, ‘left an indelible mark on the city,’ which she gracefully, imaginatively, and searingly illuminates with hope for a more just future.”

Booklist

“A mixture of grand voices, hushed laments, and ardent dreams, 1919 resurrects forgotten history.”

The Millions, “Must-Read Poetry of June”

“Following the publication of Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side, respected writer and scholar Eve L. Ewing homes in on another critical moment in the city’s history: the Chicago Race Riot of 1919. In a new series of poems, she delves into this little-known event — lasting eight days and resulting in 38 deaths and nearly 500 injuries — and its reverberations over the last century.”

Chicago Tribune “25 Hot Books of Summer ”

“Dr. Eve L. Ewing’s third book and second poetry collection explores the “Red Summer” of 1919 and specifically the Chicago Race Riot. Centered on the inner lives of Black individuals, real and/or imaginary (who’s to say?), in 1919 Chicago, the poems in 1919 ask how far we’ve come, and question ideas of progress and of thriving and surviving. On the centenary of the Red Summer, in an America hardly less violent and anti-black, Ewing wields a kaleidoscopic Afrofuturist style to illuminate a crucial piece of history and to imagine a path forward.”

LitHub, “Most Anticipated Summer Reads”

“Ewing blends past, present, and future, imagining the stories of those who lived through the riot and beyond, and inquiring into its lasting consequences.”

Buzzfeed, “29 Summer Books To Get Excited About”

“These poems are crafted and tense, inventive and full of energy.”

The Rumpus May Poetry Book Club

OTHER TITLES BY THIS AUTHOR:

Electric Arches

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Eve L. Ewing is the author of 1919, the Ironheart series, Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side, and Electric Arches. She is a professor at the University of Chicago

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ELECTRIC ARCHES

Eve L. Ewing

Haymarket Books (Fall 2017)

Paper • ISBN-13: 9781608468560 • US $16.00 • 120 pgs.

Longlisted for The Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize in poetry and fiction

Winner: Best Poetry book, 2017 Chicago Review of Books Awards

Winner: 2018 Alex Award  

Winner: Norma Farber First Book Award, 2018, from the Poetry Society of America

Featured in Poets & Writers (Jan/Feb 2018) “Ten Poets Who Will Change the World,”  Buzzfeed‘s “The 13 Best Poetry Books of 2017,” and Chicago Tribune’s “10 Best of 2017.”

WATCH: Women to Watch: An Interview with Eve Ewing (Newsweek. 1/25/2018)

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Electric Arches is an imaginative exploration of Black girlhood and womanhood through poetry, visual art, and narrative prose.

Blending stark realism with the surreal and fantastic, Eve L. Ewing’s narrative takes us from the streets of 1990s Chicago to an unspecified future, deftly navigating the boundaries of space, time, and reality. Ewing imagines familiar figures in magical circumstances—blues legend Koko Taylor is a tall-tale hero; LeBron James travels through time and encounters his teenage self. She identifies everyday objects—hair moisturizer, a spiral notebook—as precious icons.

Her visual art is spare, playful, and poignant—a cereal box decoder ring that allows the wearer to understand what Black girls are saying; a teacher’s angry, subversive message scrawled on the chalkboard. Electric Arches invites fresh conversations about race, gender, the city, identity, and the joy and pain of growing up.

PRAISE:

“Striking and visionary… a stunning debut.”

Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

“Her language is conversational, her verse lulling the reader into territory that feels immediately familiar, even when it isn’t.”

Paris Review, Staff Pick

“Sociologist Eve L. Ewing’s debut poetry collection moves fluidly among scholarship, teaching, writing and visual art. In Electric Arches, she constructs an understanding of how forces like white supremacy, disinvestment in public education and migration twist around one another and around the lives of people living in places like Chicago. Ewing takes readers through those ideas with a precision that is both beautiful and deeply uncomfortable. She creates scenes that feel acutely intimate and then, through imagination or belief, asks the reader to step beyond that reality. Together, her poems are a profound act of love for family, a city and its children.”

NPR, Best Books of 2017

“Electric Arches lightened my heart. And so I’m honored, and also extremely glad, to congratulate Eve L. Ewing for imagining and writing a truly wonderful first book.”

Poetry Society of America

“The spirit of this collection soars.”

Roxane Gay, Goodreads

“A poet/sociologist/artist/schoolteacher, Eve L. Ewing has a special talent for finding the art in her life. The Chicago native’s debut volume is a singular blend of poetry, narrative and visual art, but its biggest accomplishment is in establishing Ewing as a truly rare cultural phenomenon: an artist who not only holds up a mirror to society, but makes herself a catalyst to change it.”

Chicago Tribune, “Best Books of 2017”

“Filled with meditations on race, gender, identity, and all kinds of coming-of-age struggle and joy, Electric Arches explores black girlhood and womanhood, and you’ll definitely want it in your TBR pile this season”

Bustle

“Exquisite”

Ava Duvernay

“A remarkable debut…while reading, I found myself continually thinking, I had no idea you could make poetry do that, followed by, Thank God she has done this.”

Tracy K. Smith, US Poet Laureate and bestselling author

“Eve L. Ewing’s collection Electric Arches melds poetry and prose, magic realism and memory, in an exploration of what it’s like to grow up as a black woman in America. Ewing brings the Chicago of her childhood to life, but also envisions the future (taking readers to an alien invasion!). Imaginative and magnetic, Electric Arches feels as lush as life itself while also offering insight into identity and growing up, and reads like a love letter to Chicago that shows the magic that was always there.”

Buzzfeed, “The 13 Best Poetry Books of 2017”

“The Chicago-based writer, artist and scholar shook up the literary world with her imaginative debut, Electric Arches, which explores black womanhood. Hailed as a “renaissance woman” by the Chicago Tribune, Ewing’s passions are numerous and varied, with a particular bend toward social justice.”

Newsweek

“Somehow Ewing has created a collection that is at once formally spectacular and grounded enough to ask readers the two most important questions in art: Will you stop to remember and imagine with me and will you help me change the world with memory and imagination?”

Guernica

“Ewing is a writer of great depth, reverence, and enthusiasm, one of the city’s greatest critics and champions…Her repertoire and curiosity are without boundary. She is Chicago’s true mayor; a young, charismatic guardian of the city’s possibility and spirit, who is goading us to do more and do better.”

The Cut

Electric Arches is a complicated love letter to Chicago… a reminder that magic is made of asphalt and chain-link fences, the lives we painfully live in our childhoods where imagination offers us bodily escape.”

The Millions

“Eve Ewing defies simple categorization: she’s a writer, an artist, an educator, a Twitter celebrity and a Harvard-trained sociologist. Her new book, “Electric Arches,” showcases all of the above.”

Public Radio International

“I love you [Eve Ewing], you’re so good at articulating and simplifying the important part.”

Chance the Rapper

“Spellbinding… these poems will change you for the better. They will make you whole.”

Well Read Black Girl

“A groundbreaking collection of poetry, short fiction, and art from one of Chicago’s cultural icons… Electric Arches will go down as one of the best and most iconic poetry books about Chicago…ever. You have never seen Chicago this way before, and regardless of where you live, it’ll change your perspective.”

Chicago Review of Books

“Homegrown hero Eve Ewing is the artist and educator that Chicago needs right now.”

WGN

“A powerful revelation.”

Brightest Young Things

“Ewing illuminates difficult truths with a type of grace that enthralls and informs.”

Fortune

“Eve Ewing is one of Chicago’s most visible cultural icons.”

Chicago Magazine

“Eve L. Ewing tries to imagine a way out of this mess with poetry and prose.”

Newcity

“An intimate look at the changing Chicago landscape.”

The Lily (Washington Post)

“Again and again reading Eve Ewing’s Electric Arches, I felt some blooming in my body, or some flock of herons batting into the air in my body, which I think was indicating something like joy at witnessing the imagination at work in these poems, the imagination borne of rigorous attention coupled with critical love. Thankfully, there’s a word for all that: tenderness. And the joy is that we learn tenderness by witnessing it. Which is to say, and it’s not too much to say, this book is one of the maps to our survival.”

Ross Gay, author of Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

“Of course she had me at Koko Taylor. She had me again at shea butter and Ron Artest and especially at an eerily intriguing fur suit. This is an effusive celebration of black girlhood in all its muted but relentless sparkle, a tenacious exploration of all its lives, the wide-aloud witnessing of a born storyteller slicing her two-wheeler through the streets of a broken and boisterous city. You won’t believe this is Eve Ewing’s first book. It’s that assured, that crafted. Ever heard Koko Taylor’s guttural growl, the lyric that floors you like a backhand slap? It’s that too.”

Patricia Smith, poet

“Reading Eve L. Ewing’s Electric Arches is such an awakening and active experience— this book time travels, makes myth, immerses, paints, opens pathways. This is a living and breathing document, memoir and map, guidebook and scroll. ‘Recall this,’ writes Ewing in ‘Shea Butter Manifesto,’ both as invitation and as spellbinding command. I’m awestruck by the rigor and intimacy of this book, by its insistent love for both black past and black future. Ewing leaves no unnamed ritual uncovered, no implicit idiom uncelebrated. This book is a gift, a visual and lyrical offering to be treasured as gospel.”

Morgan Parker, author of There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé

“I didn’t think it was possible for one book to contain work and worlds that would be loved by eight year olds and eighty year olds, junior high school dropouts and emeritus English professors. I didn’t think it was possible for one book to contain the emotional sweat of Chicago, Dorchester and Yazoo City, Mississippi. I didn’t think it was possible for one book to make us smell the residue of classroom erasers, empty White Castle bags and wet wondrous balls of Black girl hair clinging to the bottoms of bathtubs. With Electric Arches, Eve Ewing has written a book I thought was un-write-able. The book is as precise as it is ambitious, pulling equally on shared memories and individual imagination. Every page feels like a beginning and end, an invitation and conclusion, but never in that order. Somehow Eve Ewing created a book that is at once formally spectacular and grounded enough to ask readers the two most important questions in art: will you stop to remember with me and will you help me change the world with that memory. Electric Arches is alive.”

Kiese Laymon, author of Long Division

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 Rumpus

OTHER TITLES BY THIS AUTHOR:

1919

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Eve L. Ewing is the author of 1919, the Ironheart series, Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side, and Electric Arches. She is a professor at the University of Chicago

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BUILD YOURSELF A BOAT

Camonghne Felix

Haymarket Books (Summer 2019)

Trade Paper • ISBN-13:9781608466115• US $16 • 5.5 in x 8.5 in • 96 pgs.

2019 National Book Award Longlist

PEN America 2020 Awards, Open Book Award Shortlist

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Survival is just the beginning. After survival, there must be something else, something freeing that we conjure when speak our dreams and hurts aloud. Build Yourself a Boat, an innovative work by award-winning poet Camonghne Felix, explores the political and philosophical concept of post-survival, redefining our relationship to generational trauma.

Composed of threaded narratives, and a focused attention on recollection through agency and form, Build Yourself A Boat redefines the language of collective trauma, individual trauma and our approach to the lyric of the trauma. The body is not a site for revelatory shame. Assembly of self is not voyeur. This is not a collage of hurt. This is about what grows through the wreckage. This is a look at what might come next and a diagram of the waters that birth us. A look at what floats, and what, ultimately, sustains.

PRAISE

“…if Ms. Felix is any guide, I have high hopes for what the poetic can achieve as it intersects more explicitly with American politics. These days, we need all the inventive language for both political horror and political hope that we can get.”

Alissa Quart, The New York Times

“Excellent poems about trauma, self-harm, race, and womanhood. The poems that experiment with form are really interesting. I love how the footnotes and the final piece come together.”

Roxane Gay, Goodreads

“Camonghne Felix’s debut poetry collection, Build Yourself a Boat, is about the trauma and pain of black womanhood. Felix explores what it means, politically to be a black woman in a world of Trump and personally, exploring the ways heartbreak and other points of pain change a person and their body. Build Yourself a Boat was exactly what I needed to read, and revisit, this season as men decided what women should do with their bodies and as I learned to manage heartbreak.”

Electric Literature

“Centering on black, female identity, Camonghne Felix’s Build Yourself a Boat is an exquisite and thoughtful collection that should be on everyone’s TBR.”

Bustle

“Camonghne Felix uses profound language to explore the policing of the Black body, and Build Yourself a Boat bridges the gap between artistry and the world of politics, connecting Black womanhood and Felix’s coming of age in New York City.”

Blavity

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Camonghne Felix is a poet, political strategist, media junkie and cultural worker. She received an M.A. in Arts Politics from NYU, an MFA from Bard College, and has received Fellowships from Cave Canem, Callaloo and Poets House. A Pushcart Prize nominee, she is the author of the chapbook Yolk, and was listed by Black Youth Project as a “Black Girl From the Future You Should Know.”

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TOO MUCH MIDNIGHT

Krista Franklin

Haymarket Books (Spring 2020)

Hardcover • ISBN-13:9781642591309 • US $40.00 • 10 in x 9 in • 120 pgs.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Krista Franklin draws on Pan African histories, Black Surrealism, Afrofuturism, pop culture, art history, and the historical and present-day micro-to-macro violence inflicted upon Black people and other people of color, working to forge imaginative spaces for radical possibilities and visions of liberation. 

Featuring 45 poems, 40 artworks, an author statement and an interview, Too Much Midnight chronicles the intersections between art and life, art and writing, the historical and the speculative, cultural and personal identity, the magical and the mundane.

PRAISE:

“Celebrating the possibilities for extrasensory powers to resist oppressive narratives and change the minds of a society, Franklin reorders ritual and constructs fantasies.”

Matt Morris, Artforum

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Krista Franklin is a writer and visual artist whose work has appeared in PoetryThe OffingBlack CameraCopper NickelCallalooBOMB MagazineEncyclopediaVol. F-K and L-Z, and the anthologies The End of Chiraq: A Literary MixtapeThe BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop and Gathering Ground. Her chapbook of poems, Study of Love & Black Body, was published by Willow Books in 2012.

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BLACK POWER AFTERLIVES
The Enduring Significance of the Black Panther Party

Diane Fujino and Matef Harmachis

Haymarket Books (29 September, 2020)

Trade Paper • ISBN-13:9781642591262 • US $26.95 • 6 in x 9 in • 450 pgs.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

A powerful and wide-ranging collection examining the persistent impact of the Black Panther Party on subsequent liberation struggles.

The first book to comprehensively examine how the Black Panther Party has directly shaped the practices and ideas that have animated grassroots activism in the decades since its decline, Black Power Afterlives represents a major scholarly achievement as well as an important resource for today’s activists. Through its focus on the enduring impact of the Black Panther Party, this volume expands the historiography of Black Power studies beyond the 1960s-70s and serves as a bridge between studies of the Black Panther Party during its organizational existence and studies of present-day Black activism, allowing today’s readers and organizers to situate themselves in a long lineage of liberation movements.


PRAISE:

“Fujino and Harmachis show us that history is never done. It runs like a river, sometimes rushing, sometimes meandering, but always moving.”

Mumia Abu-Jamal, author of We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party

“Deftly side stepping well-trod ground, authors trace how the Panthers’ international engagements, artistic practices, ideological frameworks and community organizing have continued to influence new generations of activists. By locating the Panthers’ richest legacies in the work of students, poor Black folks and Black queer feminists and in the sustained commitment of political prisoners, it reminds readers of the transformative possibilities of struggle.”

Robyn C. Spencer, author of The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panthers Party in Oakland

Black Power Afterlives gives us concrete insights into the continuing significance of the Black Panthers without the common iconization and stereotypes. Through carefully chosen writings and interviews we are reminded of the transformative power of movements and real people that envision a far more just and equitable future for humanity and the planet.”

Claude Marks, director, The Freedom Archives

“The vivid, engaging, and compelling testimonies that Diane C. Fujino and Matef Harmachis have collected in Black Power Afterlives offer unparalleled insights about the origins, evolution, and continuing influence and impact of the Black Panther Party. This is an indispensable book, one that demonstrates how oppositional social movement organizations fuel future struggles long after they seem to have departed from the scene.”

George Lipsitz, author of How Racism Takes Place

“Tender and determined, these meditations on the enduring afterlives of the Black Panther Party illuminate the incandescent dreams of freedom joining one revolutionary generation to another. The essays and conversations—on art and prison, ecology and the spirit—focus on the lessons rank-and-file Panthers have to offer today’s rank and file. They remind us of the eternal dedication and determination required of us all.”

Dan Berger, author of Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era

Black Power Afterlives shares important insights about the Black Panther Party and radical activism. Examining an inheritance that bridges two centuries, it explores mobilizations against poverty, exploitation, imprisonment, violence and war. Fred Hampton’s Rainbow Coalitions sought to wrest victories from police in order to secure “Power to the People.”  With prescience, Hampton warned that he would not die slipping on icy Chicago streets, and that we either organize with radical intent or forget him. Black Power Afterlives remembers Fred and the sacrifices of those who fought and fight for their communities—especially political prisoners. Recognizing the need to free them all, and our communities, Black Power Afterlives builds an archive and a foundation for continued struggles.”

Joy James, author of Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics

“There are more stories of the deep and continuing legacy of the Black Panthers than can be contained in any one book, but Black Panther Afterlives does a good job at beginning to fill the gap. Editors Fujino and Harmachis present us with a must-read book, essential to a true understanding of the positive ways in which Panther politics can and do enrich our lives today.”

Matt Meyer, secretary-general, International Peace Research Association; co-editor and author, Look for Me in the Whirlwind: From the Panther 21 to 21st Century Revolutions

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

Diane C. Fujino is professor of Asian American Studies and former director of the Center for Black Studies Research at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the author or editor of several books.

Matef Harmachis is a social scientist teaching high school, a former journalist, and a long-time activist working in pan-African and Third World decolonization solidarity, education, labor, and political prisoner liberation movements.

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THE LONG DEEP GRUDGE
A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor, and Class War in the American Heartland

Toni Gilpin

Haymarket Books (January 2020)

Trade Paper • ISBN-13: 9781642590333 • US $24.95 • 6 in x 9 in • 425 pgs.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

A powerful account of the epic clash between corporate greed and militant workers in the American heartland.

This rich history details the bitter, deep-rooted conflict between industrial behemoth International Harvester and the uniquely radical Farm Equipment Workers union. The Long Deep Grudge makes clear that class warfare has been, and remains, integral to the American experience, providing up-close-and-personal and long-view perspectives from both sides of the battle lines.

International Harvester – and the McCormick family that largely controlled it – garnered a reputation for bare-knuckled union-busting in the 1880s, but in the 20th century also pioneered sophisticated union-avoidance techniques that have since become standard corporate practice. On the other side, the militant Farm Equipment Workers (FE), whose leaders were connected to the Communist Party, mounted a vociferous challenge to the cooperative ethos that came to define the American labor movement after World War II.

This evocative account, stretching back to the nineteenth century and carried through to the present, reads like a novel. Biographical sketches of McCormick family members, union officials and rank-and-file workers are woven into the narrative, along with anarchists, jazz musicians, Wall Street financiers, civil rights crusaders, and mob lawyers. It touches on pivotal moments and movements as wide-ranging as the Haymarket “riot,” the Flint sit-down strikes, the Memorial Day Massacre, the McCarthy-era anti-communist purges, and America’s late 20th-century industrial decline.

Both Harvester and the FE are now gone, but this largely forgotten clash helps explain the crisis of yawning inequality now facing US workers, and provides alternative models from the past that can instruct and inspire those engaged in radical, working class struggles today.

PRAISE:

The Long Deep Grudge is a timely reminder of the power of our vision of militant unionism and the importance of left-wing ideas to that vision.“

UE News

“Given IH’s economic and political power, it’s amazing that the FE accomplished what it did in its short lifetime. Instead of mourning its demise, though, we should celebrate its legacy and rekindle its spirit. Reading The Long Deep Grudge is a good way to start. Read it with some friends.”

Labor Notes

“A useful labor history that could spark renewed interest in unions at a time when “activists are back at the drawing board.”

Kirkus Reviews

“A capitalist family dynasty, a radical union, and a revolution in how and where work gets done- Toni Gilpin’s The Long Deep Grudge is a detailed chronicle of one of the most active battlefronts in our ever-evolving class war.”

John Sayles

“Toni Gilpin’s The Long Deep Grudge is a remarkable accomplishment, which succeeds on multiple levels.  The definitive history of an important but largely forgotten labor organization and its heroic struggles with an icon of industrial capitalism, this book is also a compelling and deeply moving reflection on the tragic history of radical industrial unionism in Twentieth Century America.  It is essential reading for anyone who truly wishes to understand the history of labor and class struggle in this country.”

Ahmed A. White, author, The Last Great Strike: Little Steel, the CIO, and the Struggle for Labor Rights in New Deal America

“In The Long Deep Grudge, Toni Gilpin does more than simply excavate the story of a largely forgotten Midwestern union with a small but vibrant heyday more than six decades ago. This highly readable history contains important insights for those concerned with revitalizing a more activist-oriented labor movement to overcome the stark economic inequalities surrounding us today. This saga of the Farm Equipment Workers’ victories over major industrialists in 1940s Chicago and Louisville offers a vivid reminder that in a nation built on racial capitalism, the hard work of bridging long-standing racial divides and of promoting black leadership is vital to successful organizing to improve working people’s lives.  Unions work best, Gilpin’s work illustrates, when they inspire their members to push past the norms around them to advance a passionate shared vision for a fairer workplace. Highly recommended.”

Catherine Fosl, Director, Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research

“Toni Gilpin brings us a vivid story of greed, revenge, and the search for justice. It’s about the McCormick family, whose passionate anti-unionism helped to bring us the Haymarket tragedy, and the multiple generations of workers who refused to forget, and finally took them on. This is a riveting labor history drama that will stir your soul. Farm Equipment workers in the 1930s reawakened the spirit of resistance, providing a model for thinking about how to get power, and how to think and act with a radical vision. They refused to concede to corporations the structuring of the workplace or the economy; they connected union rights with civil rights; and they learned how to create an effective strike. From Chicago to Louisville, Kentucky, they built an interracial coalition and defied the corporate attempt to defeat unionism through corporate decentralization. The FE fashioned a class war unionism, and for a time it seemed they would prevail. We know the costs of the red-baiting that purged this union’s legacy: today ten tiers of wages are considered normal, and the McCormick’s strategy of divide and conquer is considered normal. So there is much to learn here about how radical solidarity was created in an earlier time.”

Rosemary Feurer, author, Radical Unionism in the Midwest

The Long Deep Grudge takes labor history to the barricades, where a small union deeply committed to class struggle on the job squares off against a corporate giant determined to enforce managerial prerogatives. This epic tale is also an entirely human-scale drama that brings to life multiple generations of radical labor leaders, rank-and-file workers, captains of industry, and public officials dedicated to the defense of private wealth. Though they won quite a few battles, the story’s s chief protagonists—communist organizers who founded the Farm Equipment Workers and unionized International Harvester when even John L. Lewis thought it couldn’t be done—ultimately lost the war, for reasons that go a long way to explain why the U.S. labor movement is so much weaker now than in was in the FE’s heyday. That labor liberals’ capitulation to anticommunism ultimately weakened unions comes across loud and clear, as does the folly of dependence on labor-management cooperation as opposed to the FE’s maxim that “a strong picket line is the best negotiator.” More important, the FE’s history teaches by example that a union can punch far above its weight when members stand ready to come out swinging, not only because they’re angry at the boss but also for love of one another and an organization that truly belongs to them. For that alone, The Long Deep Grudge ought to be required reading for every labor activist in the United States.”

Priscilla Murolo, co-author, From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: An Illustrated History of Labor in the United States

“We need unions like the Farm Equipment Workers (FE), Toni Gilpin proves emphatically in her study of this left-led Midwest once-powerhouse. She shows the direct line between union leaders’ rock-hard belief that “management has no right to exist” and the way FE members organized to defend themselves, constantly, on the shop floor—with many thrilling tales of class struggle in the flesh. Without FE leaders’ socialist politics, the union could well have gone the way of its rival, the United Auto Workers, on a short path to a belief in “management’s rights” and therefore an acceptance of speed-up—and outsourcing, plant closings, and a bureaucratic grievance procedure instead of quickie strikes. No wonder the rank and file loved that union.”

Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes

The Long Deep Grudge is a thoroughly researched work of history that reads like a great novel. In telling the story of how International Harvester workers confronted the corporation which exploited them, Toni Gilpin makes a compelling case that the aggressive shop-floor struggle conducted by rank-and-file FE members was inextricably connected to the left-wing views of their union’s leadership. Everyone who wants to build a more militant labor movement, that can improve working people’s lives on the job and in their community, should read this book.”

Carl Rosen, General President, United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America (UE)

The Long Deep Grudge is the gripping tale of another Heartland—a Midwest filled with militant workers who took on one of the world’s largest corporations and, for a time, won dignity, high wages, and power on the job. It is the story of the kind of radicalism that comes from fighting a corporate giant like International Harvester. Union stalwarts like Gilpin’s father fought not to improve the company’s productivity, but “to claw back as much corporate wealth as possible.” Told with vigor and wry humor, The Long Deep Grudge has lesson’s for trade unionists, radicals, and anyone struggling for a better world in the here and now.”

Tobias Higbie, faculty chair Labor Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

“Combining the expertise of a historian, detailed eye of a journalist, and flair of a novelist, Toni Gilpin breathes life into an important and fascinating story that, in lesser hands, could be as dull as dishwater. Gilpin aspires to tell no less a story that the epic battle between a corporate behemoth and the working-class radicals who—for decades—fought it tooth and nail. The plucky, interracial, leftist Farm Equipment workers union that sought to wrest control of the shop floor from the owners and managers of International Harvester is the story of America.”

Peter Cole, author, Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area

“In this highly resonant study of the farm equipment workers, Toni Gilpin reminds 21st century labor partisans of how a militant, democratic and multicultural union won power and improved the lives of thousands—and why corporate and political elites came to fear the example it set for the rest of the working-class. We need a revival of industrial unionism in the Midwest and elsewhere. Her book helps tell us how to do it.”

Nelson Lichtenstein, Director, Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Toni Gilpin is a labor historian, activist and writer. She is a co-author of On Strike for Respect: The Clerical and Technical Workers’ Strike at Yale University, and is the recipient of the 2018 Debra Bernhardt Award for Labor Journalism.

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NEOLIBERALISM’S WAR ON HIGHER EDUCATION
Second Edition

Henry A. Giroux

Haymarket Books (Fall 2019)

Paper • ISBN-13: 9781642590371 • US $19.00

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Renowned scholar and cultural critic Henry A. Giroux exposes the corporate forces at play in higher education and charts a clear-minded and inspired course of action out of the shadows of market-driven policy. Championing the youth around the globe who have dared to resist the bartering of their future, he calls upon public intellectuals—as well as all people concerned about the future of democracy—to speak out and defend the university as a site of critical learning and democratic promise.

In this updated edition, Giroux puts all of this into the context of the Trump era, arguing that education remains a key battleground in the fight against authoritarianism.

PRAISE:

“No one has been better than Henry Giroux at analyzing the many ways in which neoliberalism, with its vicious and predatory excesses, has damaged the American economy and undermined its democratic processes. Now, as Giroux brilliantly explains, it is threatening one of the nation’s proudest and most important achievements — its system of higher education. This is a book that is both terrifying and essential.”

Bob Herbert, Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos, and former Op-Ed columnist for the New York Times

“Henry Giroux remains the critical voice of a generation. In this devastating portrayal of the neoliberal assault on the education system, he show with clarity, precision and ethical care the real consequences of the commodification of intellectualism. Indeed, more than revealing the contours of this most violent of intellectual landscapes, Giroux dares us to reevaluate the significance of public pedagogy as integral to any viable notion of democratic participation and social responsibility. Anybody who is remotely interested in the plight of future generations must read this book.”

Dr. Brad Evans, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies (SPAIS), University of Bristol

“Henry Giroux is one of our most important public intellectuals.”

David H. Price, Professor of Anthropology, St. Martin’s University

“Professor Giroux has focused his keen intellect on the hostile corporate takeover of higher education in North America. His work, meticulously researched, provides examples from popular culture to public intellectuals to demonstrate the hostility of neoliberalism to democracy, critical thinking and the academy. He is relentless in his defense of a society that requires its citizenry to place its cultural, political and economic institutions in context so they can be interrogated and held truly accountable. We are fortunate to have such a prolific writer and deep thinker to challenge us all.”

Karen Lewis, president, Chicago Teachers Union

“Henry Giroux has been the most consistent and outspoken defender and promoter of the life-prospects and human dignity of which young generations were robbed or which they were prevented to recognize as their birth rights.”

Zygmut Bauman

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Henry A. Giroux currently holds the McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the English and Cultural Studies Department and is the Paulo Freire Distinguished Scholar in Critical Pedagogy. In 2002, he was named as one of the top fifty educational thinkers of the modern period in Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education: From Piaget to the Present as part of Routledge’s Key Guides Publication Series.

In 2007, he was named by the Toronto Star as one of the “12 Canadians Changing the Way We Think. “His most recent books include: Neoliberalism’s War on Higher Education (Haymarket 2014), The Violence of Organized Forgetting (City Lights 2014),Dangerous Thinking in the Age of the New Authoritarianism (Routledge, 2015), America’s Addiction to Terrorism (Monthly Review Press, 2016), America at War with Itself (City Lights, 2017), The Public in Peril (Routledge, 2018), American Nightmare: Facing the Challenge of Fascism (City Lights, 2018), and his forthcoming, The Terror of the Unforeseen (Los Angeles Review of books, in press). Giroux is also a member of Truthout’s Board of Directors. His web site is .henryagiroux.com.

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HOMEWRECKERS
How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks, and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes and Demolished the American Dream

Aaron Glantz

Custom House (Fall 2018)

Hardcover • ISBN-13: 9780062869531 • US 27.99 • 432 pgs.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

In the spirit of Evicted, Bait and Switch, and The Big Short, a shocking, heart-wrenching investigation into America’s housing crisis and the modern-day robber barons who are making a fortune off the backs of the disenfranchised working and middle class—among them, Donald Trump and his inner circle.

Two years before the housing market collapsed in 2008, Donald Trump looked forward to a crash: “I sort of hope that happens because then people like me would go in and buy,” he said. But our future president wasn’t alone. While millions of Americans suffered financial loss, tycoons pounced to heartlessly seize thousands of homes—their profiteering made even easier because, as prize-winning investigative reporter Aaron Glantz reveals in Homewreckers, they often used taxpayer money—and the Obama administration’s promise to cover their losses.

In Homewreckers, Glantz recounts the transformation of straightforward lending into a morass of slivered and combined mortgage “products” that could be bought and sold, accompanied by a shift in priorities and a loosening of regulations and laws that made it good business to lend money to those who wouldn’t be able to repay. Among the men who laughed their way to the bank: Trump cabinet members Steve Mnuchin and Wilbur Ross, Trump pal and confidant Tom Barrack, and billionaire Republican cash cow Steve Schwarzman. Homewreckers also brilliantly weaves together the stories of those most ravaged by the housing crisis. The result is an eye-opening expose of the greed that decimated millions and enriched a gluttonous few.

PRAISE:

“Can’t recommend this joint enough…Aaron Glantz does a great job moving through the jungle of jargon. But most importantly he implicitly raises a question that has been quietly dogging me for years: What does it mean to tell your children that their success is ultimately a matter of discipline, education, hard work, and citizenship, and then see that those factors have almost no power to explain the (financial) success of the Titans of America, that in fact, fortune, greed and malice really have won. Sorry state of things. These guys made billions by turning homeowners (disproportionately black) into renters. And then they went into government. This is an illuminating and discomfiting read.”

Ta-Nehisi Coates

“With prose that is as plainspoken as it is propulsive, Glantz explains how homeownership propelled the American Dream until 1986 only to fall, one financial scheme at a time, at the hands of billionaire money-grabbers and the failing regulators and gutless politicians who enable them.”

Beth Macy, author of Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

“In case there was ever any doubt that the world of high finance affects American households, Aaron Glantz lays it to rest in this gripping narrative of how the foreclosure machine became a grand mechanism to convert America’s historic wealth building asset—its homes—into a commodity for financiers.”

Sarah Bloom Raskin, former deputy secretary of the US Treasury and former governor of the Federal Reserve Board

“An eye-opening account of how a cast of characters from Wall Street to Hollywood enriched themselves at the expense of American families. Glantz weaves together personal stories, historical context, and sharp and insightful analysis of how financiers created predatory products that wreaked devastation on the US economy and… countless families.”

Mehrsa Baradaran, professor of law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law

“Glantz, through exemplary journalism, reveals the new corporate landlords’ relationship to Donald Trump and their exploitation of loopholes in public policy, in combination with the endless resources of greedy bankers, to transform the 2008 foreclosure crisis into predatory renting schemes and cash in on widespread housing insecurity.”

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, author of Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership

“In this remarkable book, Aaron Glantz provides a well-researched, highly readable look at one of the nation’s most underreported stories…a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the Great Recession and the role of the voracious financial interests who would go on to put Donald Trump in the White House.”

Gwenda Blair, author of The Trumps: Three Generations of Builders and a President

“This is a story that needs to be told, and Glantz tells it beautifully. Homewreckers reads like a novel, but it carries an important message: We must never let this happen again.”

Alan S. Blinder, Gordon S. Rentscher Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University, former member of the Council of Economic Advisers, Vice Chairman of the Board of the Federal Reserve System

“A tale of greed and corruption…A solid, useful exploration of a system that ‘needs substantial, systemic change.’”

Kirkus Reviews

“[A] cogent, infuriating exposé… lucid prose and impressive research make this an essential account of an under-the-radar housing crisis.”

Publishers Weekly

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Aaron Glantz is a Peabody Award-winning investigative reporter who produces journalism with impact. His work has sparked more than a dozen Congressional hearings, the signing of new laws, and criminal probes by the DEA, FBI, Pentagon and Federal Trade Commission. Because of his reporting, 500,000 fewer U.S. military veterans face long waits for disability compensation, while 100,000 fewer veterans are prescribed highly addictive narcotics by the government. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, NBC Nightly News, Good Morning America and the PBS NewsHour, where he has twice been nominated for a national Emmy Award.

A senior reporter at Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting and a recent JSK Fellow at Stanford University, Glantz’s previous books include How America Lost, The War Comes Home: Washington’s Battle Against America’s Veterans, and Winter Solider: Iraq and Afghanistan: Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupations, which he coauthored with Iraq Veterans Against the War.

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IN THE RED CORNER
The Marxism of José Carlos Mariátegui

Mike Gonzalez

Haymarket Books (Summer 2018, world English rights)

Trade Paper • ISBN-13: 9781608469154 • US $19 • 8.5 in x 5.5 in • 200 pgs.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

The first English-language biography of one of Latin America’s most important, innovative, and enduringly relevant Marxist thinkers.

José Carlos Mariátegui (1894–1930) is widely recognized across Latin America as one of the most important and innovative Marxist thinkers of the twentieth century. Yet his life and work are largely unknown to the English-speaking world. In this gripping political biography—the first written in English—Mike Gonzalez introduces readers to the inspiring life and thought of the Peruvian socialist.

As one of the first modern thinkers to discuss what Marxism has to offer, and to learn from, the struggles of Indigenous peoples, his ideas have an immediate relevance in the context of Standing Rock and other native-led fights challenging pipelines across North America

PRAISE:

“José Carlos Mariátegui was the most important and original Latin American revolutionary socialist writing in the 1920s, yet his work is too little known in the rest of the world. Reviled by the Stalinists at the time of his death, his insights into the revolutionary potential of indigenous Andean peasant cultures are assuming a new relevance in the early 21st century. Mike Gonzalez’s fine study brings the man and his life-work into sharp focus.”

Colin Barker

“It used to be said that Mariategui was the Latin American Gramsci. But today, from a perspective defined by postcolonialism, it might be more pertinent to think of Gramsci as the European Mariategui. Mike Gonzalez’s new book offers a vividly detailed, eminently readable account of Mariategui’s life and times, with special attention to the formation of his unique form of Marxism. Gonzalez argues that Mariategui remains crucially relevant to the development of forms of struggle and resistance in the Americas within the new framework of globalization.”

John Beverley, University of Pittsburgh, author of Latin America after 9/11

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Mike Gonzalez is Emeritus Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Glasgow. He is the co-editor of Arms and the People (Pluto, 2012) and author of Hugo Chavez: Socialist for the Twenty-first Century  (Pluto, 2014).

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CAN I KICK IT?

Idris Goodwin

Haymarket Books (Fall 2019)

Paper • ISBN-13: 9781642590272 • US $16.00 • 5.5 x 8.5 in • 100 pgs.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Award-winning poet and playwright Idris Goodwin interrogates and remixes our cultural past in order to make sense of our present and potential futures.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Idris Goodwin is an award-winning playwright, director, orator and educator. He is the Producing Artistic Director of Stage One Family Theater in Louisville, KY for which he penned the widely produced And In This Corner: Cassius Clay. Other widely produced plays include: How We Got On, This Is Modern Art co-written with Kevin Coval, Bars and Measures, The Raid, and Hype Man: a break beat play.

His The Way The Mountain Moved was commissioned and produced as part of Oregon Shakespeare’s American Revolutions series. He has work produced by or developed with The Actor’s Theater of Louisville, Steppenwolf Theater, The Kennedy Center, The Denver Center for The Performing Arts, Cleveland Playhouse, Seattle Children’s Theater, Nashville Children’s Theater, Boulder Ensemble Theater, TheaterWorks, Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor Program, La Jolla Playhouse, The Eugene O’Neill Center, The Lark Playwriting Center and New Harmony Project. He’s received support from the NEA, The Ford, Mellon and Edgerton Foundation, and is the recipient of InterAct Theater’s 20/20 Prize and The Playwrights’ Center’s Mcknight Fellowship. Idris is a member of The Dramatists Guild and serves on the boards of TYA/USA and The Children’s Theatre Foundation of America.

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APOCALYPSE CHOW
A Junk-Food Loving Chef Explains How America Created the Most Revolutionary Food System in History

By Arun Gupta

The New Press (English in North America, Fall 2024)

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Taste is something we create, not just physically experience

Food writer, French-trained chef, and Doritos lover Arun Gupta’s first book, Apocalypse Chow—a book that aims to put taste, pleasure, and sensuality back into the politics, economics, and science of food; challenges the myth that junk food is addictive; and figures out why bitter-tasting kale turned into a rock-star vegetable and Korean tacos are the quintessential America dish and how the hamburger craze is connected to September 11.

Why do we eat what we eat? This question is at the root of our relationship to food. We live in an era of bounty that few humans could imagine a century ago. Most of us have ready access to supermarkets, health-food stores, specialty food shops, restaurants, delis, and fast-food outlets. Thanks to waves of immigration and the rise of “foodie” culture, food and cuisines from Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, Middle East, and Europe are now commonplace.

Over millennia, humans have discovered some 50,000 different species of plants that are edible. Applying our ingenuity we’ve bred single species of tomato, apple, and wheat into hundreds of varietals. Whereas hunter-gatherer societies usually ate a hundred or more different types of plants to compensate for scarcity, humans have never had it as good as today. We can pop into a run-of-the-mill supermarket and forage from 38,000 food and beverage items.

Yet our diets are more limited than ever. A dozen or so plant species account for more than 90 percent of our energy intake from plants which are most of what we eat. When we go food shopping our baskets are stuffed with products derived from corn, wheat, soy, beet sugar, potatoes, tomatoes, rice, onions, apples, lettuce, bananas, oranges, and carrots, in addition to meat, dairy, and seafood. The human diet was once based on diversity of plant and animal life. Now we have diversity of branded products.

Pleasure and taste are political. Through the market, food companies shape our notions of desire, pleasure, and taste. Big food not only impoverishes our health, work, and the environment, it robs us of much greater pleasures and tastes that already exist, but mostly on the margins of our food culture. When writers tell us junk food is addictive, it reinforces the idea that it’s tastier and more pleasurable than any other food. It also means we end up believing that food can be healthy or it can be tasty-but not both. The way the market has monopolized our pleasure and taste is a significant but unacknowledged reason why we eat so much industrial food despite the drawbacks. Changing it is not the matter of individual solutions. It’s like expecting that with the right type of training and encouragement a penguin can learn how to fly. If we truly want to have new ways of producing, distributing, and consuming food, we need to evolve new social systems.

The food industry’s sophisticated techniques have thwarted nearly all attempts at reform. Creating a new food culture is no mean feat. We need to alter the food environment to alter food habits. Food policies and regulations are just the first step, however. If we want to create a healthy, sustainable, and worker-friendly food culture, then we need to address how we organize work, education, and transportation, and how we conceive of community, public space, and the commons. Most important, we need food systems where tasty food is pleasurable.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Arun Gupta is an investigative reporter who has written for the Guardian, the Daily Beast, the InterceptThe Washington Post, and other publications. He is a graduate of the French Culinary Institute, cooked professionally in New York City, and is author of the forthcoming, Apocalypse Chow: A Junk-Food Loving Chef Explains How America Created the Most Revolutionary Food System in History (The New Press). Read all of Arun’s writings on Substack,

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THE GAME IS NOT A GAME
The Power, Protest and Politics of American Sports

Robert ‘Scoop” Jackson

Haymarket Books (March 17, 2020)

Trade Paper • ISBN-13: 9781642590968 • 180 pgs.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Part theory, part op-ed, The Game is Not a Game, is an affecting, sobering and unflinching examination of the good and evil of the sports industry. Both liberating and provocative, Jackson explores the role sports play in American society and also the hypocritical standards, which the athletes that play them are often judged. 

The Game is Not a Game is not intended to be a “safe space.” It breaks the typical sports literary format and rules, challenging accepted ideology, and pushing the comfort zones and boundaries of mainstream sports media. Chapters explore “America’s Miseducation of LeBron James;” “The Disrespect of Serena Williams’ G.O.A.T.ness;” the duplicity of the NFL with the plight of Colin Kaepernick; the cultural bias of analytics; the power of social activism verses the power and politics of professional sports ownership− from the perspective of a writer considered one of the leading voices of social, political and racial activism in sports media

PRAISE:

“Jackson’s work is not about scores; rather, he stresses that sports are a self-contained microcosm of society at large. A thought-provoking, unfailingly insightful book.” 

Booklist

“Only the legendary sports writer Robert “Scoop” Jackson could write The Game is Not a Game — a book that bristles with bracing and brutal insights that take no tea for the fever and offer no discount on truth or justice. Because he is a master of deep theory (who else could translate Michele Foucault’s notion that power doesn’t just hibernate in places of legitimacy but breaks out everywhere between all folk and situations), because he flings street vernacular like a grammatical drug dealer, because he is a savant of the history of sports in America, this book is an instant classic that reckons with the factors that make sports possible, and at the same time wrestles with the forces that make protest in sports necessary. The Game is Not a Game is intersectional cultural analysis at its best!” 

Michael Eric Dyson 

“Candid, riveting, informative — yet not surprising at all. This is Scoop Jackson we’re talking about, so I expected nothing less. If you care about the sports industry……..if you value a true, authentic, perspective on the world of sports — and about its participants — you’ve come to the right place. This is a treat for anyone who loves sports.” 

Stephen A. Smith

“To do this work of…talking candidly about race and sports, you have to realize that it’s supposed to get a little messy.” In a conversation with the author, journalist Jemele Hill hits on just the thing that makes The Game Is Not A Game so special: Scoop Jackson is never afraid to get messy. Jackson doesn’t avoid the static, he steps into it, pushing even the most woke minds to dig deeper into and think more honestly about issues of race, gender and politics. From the NCAA to LeBron James, Serena Williams to Colin Kaepernick, Jackson uses the biggest headlines of our day to reveal that the power of sports to change the world can only be realized if the powers that run sports allow it.” 

Sarah Spain, ESPN

“I’ve long said that Scoop Jackson is the Coltrane of the sports page. With The Game is Not a Game he takes his skillset to a level few sportswriters – or any writers – can match. Scoop is that rarest of commodities: an original voice.” 

Dave Zirin, The Nation

“This is the book we’ve been expecting from Scoop Jackson, one of the most insightful sports journalists of our generation. With humor and brutal honesty, Scoop pulls the covers off the sports industry and the blinders off those who enable its hypocrisy.” 

William C. Rhoden. The Undefeated, author, Forty Million Dollar Slaves

“Scoop’s contribution to sports journalism in the last three decades is unparalleled, and incomparable. This leap into critical literature is not only welcomed, but crucial …” 

Bobbito Garcia, author/filmmaker

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THE END OF ICE
Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption

Dahr Jamail

The New Press (December, 2018)

Hardcover • ISBN-13: 9781620972342 • 256 pgs.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

After nearly a decade overseas as a war reporter, the acclaimed journalist Dahr Jamail returned to America to renew his passion for mountaineering, only to find that the slopes he had once climbed have been irrevocably changed by climate disruption. In response, Jamail embarks on a journey to the geographical front lines of this crisis—from Alaska to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, via the Amazon rainforest—in order to discover the consequences to nature and to humans of the loss of ice.

In The End of Ice, we follow Jamail as he scales Denali, the highest peak in North America, dives in the warm crystal waters of the Pacific only to find ghostly coral reefs, and explores the tundra of St. Paul Island where he meets the last subsistence seal hunters of the Bering Sea and witnesses its melting glaciers. Accompanied by climate scientists and people whose families have fished, farmed, and lived in the areas he visits for centuries, Jamail begins to accept the fact that Earth, most likely, is in a hospice situation. Ironically, this allows him to renew his passion for the planet’s wild places, cherishing Earth in a way he has never been able to before.

Like no other book, The End of Ice offers a firsthand chronicle—including photographs throughout of Jamail on his journey across the world—of the catastrophic reality of our situation and the incalculable necessity of relishing this vulnerable, fragile planet while we still can.

PRAISE:

“Assiduously researched, profoundly affecting, and filled with vivid evocations of the natural world. Jamail’s deep love of nature blazes through his crisp, elegant prose, and he ably illuminates less-discussed aspects of climate disruption…A passionate, emotional ode to the wonders of our dying planet and to those who, hopelessly or not, dedicate their lives to trying to save it.”

Kirkus Reviews

“In a sane world The End of Ice would be the end of lame excuses that climate change is too abstract to get worked up about. From the Arctic to the Amazon, from doomed Miami to the Great Barrier Reef, Dahr Jamail brings every frontier in our on-going calamity into close focus. The losses are tangible. And so is the grief. This is more than a good book. It is a wise one.”

William DuBuys, author of A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest and The Last Unicorn: A Search for One of Earth’s Rarest Creatures

OTHER BOOKS BY THIS AUTHOR:

Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Reporter in Occupied Iraq

The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Dahr Jamail, a Truthout staff reporter, is the author of Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq. Jamail has reported from the Middle East over the last ten years, and he has won the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism. He lives in Washington State.

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BLACK QUEER HOE

Britteney Black Rose Kapri

Foreword by Danez Smith

Haymarket Books (Fall 2018)

Paper • ISBN-13:9781608469529• US $16 • 5.5 in x 8.5 in• 55 pgs.

Shortlisted for the 2018 Chicago Review of Books Awards in poetry. Winners announced December 8, 2018

ABOUT THE BOOK:

A refreshing, unapologetic intervention into ongoing conversations about the line between sexual freedom and sexual exploitation.

Women’s sexuality is used as a weapon against them. In this stunning debut, Britteney Black Rose Kapri lends her unmistakable voice to fraught questions of identity, sexuality, reclamation, and power, in a world that refuses Black Queer women permission to define their own lives and boundaries.

PRAISE:

“A deft exploration of sexuality and pleasure with a refreshing and much-needed candidness.”

Teen Vogue

“As mesmerizing as a spell or a psalm, Kapri’s stanzas are undeniably and refreshingly bold. Black Queer Hoe is the feminist gospel that so many have been waiting for.”

Signature Reads

“This brazen debut is good medicine and a needed shout in the world. Black Queer Hoe makes it clear Britteney Black Rose Kapri is a poet we must pay attention to, taking up the reigns of many spoken word and literary ancestors and charging forward into poetics unafraid to be ratchet and bare.”

Danez Smith, from the foreword

“Britteney Black Rose Kapri’s voice and perspective are super unique. Her poetry is like the confessionalism of SZA meets the badassness of Cardi B.”

Jamila Woods, editor of The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

Britteney Black Rose Kapri is a Chicago performance poet and playwright. Currently she is an alumna turned Teaching Artist Fellow at Young Chicago Authors. She is also contributer for Black Nerd Problems and Pink Door Retreat Fellow. She is a 2015 Rona Jaffe Writers Award Recipient.

Danez Smith is a Black, queer, poz writer & performer from St. Paul, MN. Danez is the author of Don’t Call Us Dead, a finalist for the National Book Award, and [insert] boy, winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award & the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry.

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CAPITALISM AND THEORY
Selected Writings of Michael Kidron

Michael Kidron, edited by Richard Kuper

Haymarket Books (Summer 2018, world English rights)

Trade Paper • ISBN-13:9781608469253• $22 • 7 in x 5 in • 260 pgs.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

An inspiring speaker and brilliantly sophisticated theorist, Michael Kidron was a leading figure in the International Socialist tradition from the 1950s until his death in 2003. Never satisfied with merely restating the assumed tenets of Marxism, Kidron insisted that theory must evolve alongside a changing world. This undoctrinaire commitment to theoretical openness was also evident in Kidron’s period as an editor with Pluto Press in the 1970s and 1980s, when the publisher became a crucial forum for developing socialist ideas and bringing them to a wider audience.

This collection includes a number of Kidron’s most important essays: “Reform and Revolution” offers a critique of postwar social democracy, written several decades before its collapse into neoliberalism; “The Permanent Arms Economy” succinctly lays out what is perhaps Kidron’s best-known theoretical contribution; “Black Reformism” both provides an analysis of the imperialism of Kidron’s day, and attacks the then-common assumption that Third World revolutions opened a road to world socialism. In recognition of Kidron’s commitment to constantly re-examining theory, this volume also includes his 1977 essay ‘Two Insights Don’t Make a Theory’, in which he criticises and updates his own earlier work in light of historical developments.

Edited and introduced by Richard Kuper, who worked alongside Kidron at Pluto, this volume is the best introduction to one of the most original Marxist thinkers of recent times.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

Michael Kidron (1930-2003) was a founding member of the International Socialism group, which later became the Socialist Workers Party. His sophistication and originality as a thinker were evident both in his own writings—including Western Capitalism Since the War, Capitalism and Theory, and the acclaimed The State of the World Atlas— and in his editorship of Socialist Review, International Socialism, and at Pluto Press.

Richard Kuper worked alongside Kidron for many years as an editor at Pluto Press.

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NO IS NOT ENOUGH:
Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need

Naomi Klein

Haymarket Books (June, 2017)

Trade Paper • ISBN-13: 9781608468904 • US$16.95 • 270 pgs.

#NoIsNotEnough // www.noisnotenough.org/

New York Times bestseller, and longlist nominee in the 2017 National Book Awards for nonfiction.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

“This is one attempt to uncover how we got to this surreal political moment. It is also an attempt to predict how, under cover of shocks and crises, it could get a lot worse. And it’s a plan for how, if we keep our heads, we might just be able to ip the script and arrive at a radically better future.” 
– Naomi Klein, from the introduction

Donald Trump’s takeover of the White House is a dangerous escalation in a world of cascading crises. His reckless agenda—including a corporate coup in government, aggressive scapegoating and warmongering, and sweeping aside climate science to set off a fossil fuel frenzy—will generate waves of disasters and shocks to the economy, national security, and the environment.

Acclaimed journalist, activist, and bestselling author Naomi Klein has spent two decades studying political shocks, climate change, and “brand bullies.” From this unique perspective, she argues that Trump is not an aberration but a logical extension of the worst, most dangerous trends of the past half-century—the very conditions that have unleashed a rising tide of white nationalism the world over. It is not enough, she tells us, to merely resist, to say “no.” Our historical moment demands more: a credible and inspiring “yes,” a roadmap to reclaiming the populist ground from those who would divide us—one that sets a bold course for winning the fair and caring world we want and need.

This timely, urgent book from one of our most influential thinkers offers a bracing positive shock of its own, helping us understand just how we got here, and how we can, collectively, come together and heal.

PRAISE:

“This year’s most immediately useful political book.”

Publishers Weekly, “Best Books of 2017”

“In No Is Not Enough, Naomi Klein anatomizes the roots of Trump in the already dystopian world of corporate-ruled America and predicts the ]’end run around democracy”. A clear and readable guide to action, if it is action you are contemplating.”

Paul Mason, The Guardian

“The desire to radically challenge capitalism is widespread and growing. Klein’s new book is an important contribution to that project.”

Jacobin

“An ordinary person’s guide to hope. Read this book.”

Arundhati Roy

“A genuine page-turner—highly engaging and provocative.”

Michelle Alexander, author, The New Jim Crow

“Naomi Klein is one of the few revolutionary public intellectuals of great integrity and vision.”

Cornel West

“Essential and gripping . . . this is the book to read.”

Bill McKibben, author, Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist

“Incites us brilliantly to stiffen our lip, to overcome . . . and to interweave our No with a programmatic Yes.”

Yanis Varoufakis, former Finance Minister of Greece

“Urgent, timely, and necessary”

Noam Chomsky

“Who better than Naomi to make sense of this madness, and help us find a way out? This book is a top-of-the-stack summer must-read.”

Michael Stipe

“An urgent intervention . . . a critical contribution to the developing opposition to Trump and the economic disorder that produced him.”

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, author, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

“A compelling book we all need to read and act on . . . an essential handbook for all people, especially young people.”

Danny Glover

“[A] brilliant and layered analysis applied with lightning precision, and a compelling vision of the Yes to come.”

Eve Ensler

“Naomi Klein constructs a common story that allows us to withstand the effects of being shocked. We can act upon that, with intelligence and happiness, to recover our world and the use of adjectives.”

Gael García Bernal

Ceaselessly illuminating, daring, and indispensable. As accessible as it is brilliant . . . essential.”

Owen Jones, author, The Establishment: And How They Get Away with It  

“Klein is an essential voice for our time. No is Not Enough is her reaction to the Trump presidency and her cry to oppose it. Drawing on her own personal experiences, Klein encourages resistance, not just refusal. An intense, probing analysis that asks how we got here, and now what?”

Rough Trade, Books of the Year

OTHER TITLES BY THIS AUTHOR:

How to Change Everything: A Handbook for Young Climate and Justice Warriors  (with Rebecca Stefoff)

On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal

The Battle For Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, columnist, and author of the New York Times and international bestsellers The Shock Doctrine, No Logo, This Changes Everything, No Is Not Enough, and On Fire. A Senior Correspondent for The Intercept, reporter for Rolling Stone, and contributor for both The Nation and The Guardian, Klein is a member of faculty at the University of British Columbia’s Department of Geography and the inaugural Faculty of Arts Chair in Climate Justice at the Centre for Climate Justice. She is co-founder of the climate justice organization The Leap. Her books have been translated into more than thirty languages. Her most recent book, with Rebecca Stefoff, is How to Change Everything: A Young Human’s Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other.

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ON FIRE
The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal

Naomi Klein

Simon & Schuster (September 2019)

Hardcover • ISBN-13: 9781982129910 • US $27.00 • 320 pgs.

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ABOUT THE BOOK:

Twenty years after No Logo, and five years after This Changes EverythingOn Fire explains how the bold ideas and action within the Green New Deal could avert climate catastrophe and be a blueprint for a just and thriving society.

Naomi Klein’s seventh book, On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal gathers for the first time Naomi’s impassioned reporting from the frontlines of climate breakdown, and pairs it with new material on the high stakes of what we choose to do next.

Published in hardcover in the USUK and Canada in 2019, it was an instant New York Times bestseller and was serialized in The Guardian UK and in the Covering Climate Now news syndicate worldwide. Naomi completed a multi-country book in 2019/early 2020.  The paperback was released in 2020 with a new foreword written during the Covid-19 Pandemic.

Jane Fonda said, “I didn’t know this [book] would change my life.  It told me what I had to do, and it motivated me to do it.”

Watch the Emmy nominated viral video “Message from the Future” produced by Naomi about the Green New Deal, co-written and narrated by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

For more than a decade, Naomi Klein has documented the movement of the climate crisis from future threat to a burning emergency.  She has been among the first to make the case for what is now called the Green New Deal – a vision for transforming our economies to battle climate breakdown and rampant inequality at the same time. In our era of rising seas and rising hate, she argues that only this kind of bold, roots-up action has a chance of rousing us to fight for our lives while there is still time.

On Fire’s long-form essays, based on her extensive research and reporting, show Klein at her most prophetic and philosophical, investigating the climate crisis not only as a profound political challenge but as a spiritual and imaginative one as well. Delving into the clash between ecological time and our culture of “perpetual now”; the soaring history of rapid human change in the face of grave threats; rising white supremacy and fortressed borders as a form of “climate barbarism” and more, this is a rousing call to transformation – and a dire warning about what awaits if we fail to act.

With dispatches from the ghostly Great Barrier Reef to the smoke-choked skies of the Pacific Northwest, to post-hurricane Puerto Rico, to a Vatican waking up to the case for radical change, recognizing that we will rise to the existential challenge of climate change only if we are willing to transform the systems that produced this crisis — On Fire captures the burning urgency of the climate crisis, as well as the fiery energy of a global movement demanding a catalytic Green New Deal.

PRAISE:

“If I were a rich man, I’d buy 245 million copies of Naomi Klein’s On Fire and hand-deliver them to every eligible voter in America…because it makes a strong case for tackling the climate crisis as not just an urgent undertaking, but an inspiring one.”

Jeff Goodell, The New York Times

“It’s an urgent book that never surrenders hope, committed to the idea that we can act and insistent that we must. Klein’s message could not be more timely, because the time for action is now.”

Cory Doctorow,  Los Angeles Times

.”..she sets out her argument with a precision that matches her passion….This is a scorching volume for a heated time. The fire next time, it turns out, is now.”

Boston Globe

“Naomi Klein is the intellectual godmother of the Green New Deal —which just happens to be the most important idea in the world right now”

Bill McKibben

“Naomi Klein’s work has always moved and guided me. She is the great chronicler of our age of climate emergency, an inspirer of generations.”

Greta Thunbergclimate activist

“A critically important thought-leader in these perilous times, a necessary voice as a courageous movement of movements rises from the ashes.”

Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow 

“Naomi is like a great doctor—she can diagnose problems nobody else sees.”

Alfonso Cuarón, Academy Award-winning director of Roma

“Naomi Klein applies her fine, fierce and meticulous mind to the greatest, most urgent questions of our times. . . . I count her among the most inspirational political thinkers in the world today.”

Arundhati Roy, Man Booker Prize-winng author of The God of Small Things

“Naomi Klein is a precious gift: every time I read her words, my heart leaps from sadness and anger to action. She takes us deep, down to the roots of what is wrong—and then up, up to a height from which we can see what must be done. Everything we love is at stake now: these writings are our best and brightest hope.”

Emma Thompson

“The greatest theorist of climate change.”

Amitav Ghosh, author of The Hungry Tide

“Masterful. . .What separates Klein from many other advocates for a Green New Deal is her balanced combination of idealism and politics-based realism. . .Another important addition to the literature on the most essential issue of our day.”

Kirkus Reviews

Klein’s passion for action reflects the political, social, and scientific gridlock that makes such sweeping, transformational legislation imperative. Her zeal and eloquence will inspire, engage, and motivate those who are concerned about the planet’s future to become even more involved in taking any and all possible steps to curb or reverse further disruption and destruction.”

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“For a quarter century, now, Naomi Klein has been an outspoken and fearless voice on that which late-stage hyper-capitalism has wrought upon the world: income inequality, overreaching corporate power, for-profit empire building and, of course, the consequent climate crisis. Honestly, we don’t deserve her, and looking back at her seven books one can’t help but think of Cassandra, her warnings ever accurate yet unheeded… with her eighth book, On Fire, Klein collects her longform writing on the climate crisis—from the dying Great Barrier Reef to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico—and somehow manages to strike a hopeful note as she calls for a radical commitment to the Green New Deal, the kind of collective mobilization that saved us from the brink in WWII, and might be our only hope now.”

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OTHER TITLES BY THIS AUTHOR:

How to Change Everything: A Handbook for Young Climate and Justice Warriors  (with Rebecca Stefoff)

No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need

The Battle For Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, columnist, and author of the New York Times and international bestsellers The Shock Doctrine, No Logo, This Changes Everything, No Is Not Enough, and On Fire. A Senior Correspondent for The Intercept, reporter for Rolling Stone, and contributor for both The Nation and The Guardian, Klein is a member of faculty at the University of British Columbia’s Department of Geography and the inaugural Faculty of Arts Chair in Climate Justice at the Centre for Climate Justice. She is co-founder of the climate justice organization The Leap. Her books have been translated into more than thirty languages. Her most recent book, with Rebecca Stefoff, is How to Change Everything: A Young Human’s Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other.

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THE BATTLE FOR PARADISE
Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists

Naomi Klein 

Haymarket Books (June 2018)

Trade Paper • ISBN-13: 9781608463572 • US$9.95 • 96 pgs.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

In the rubble of Hurricane Maria, Puerto Ricans and ultrarich “Puertopians” are locked in a pitched struggle over how to remake the island. In this vital and startling investigation, bestselling author and activist Naomi Klein uncovers how the forces of shock politics and disaster capitalism seek to undermine the nation’s radical, resilient vision for a “just recovery.”

All royalties from the sale of this book in English and Spanish go directly to JunteGente, a gathering of Puerto Rican organizations resisting disaster capitalism and advancing a fair and healthy recovery for their island. For more information, visit http://juntegente.org/.

PRAISE:

“We are in a fight for our lives. Hurricanes Irma and María unmasked the colonialism we face in Puerto Rico, and the inequality it fosters, creating a fierce humanitarian crisis. Now we must find a path forward to equality and sustainability, a path driven by communities, not investors. And this book explains, with careful and unbiased reporting, only the efforts of our community activists can answer the paramount question: What type of society do we want to become and who is Puerto Rico for?”

Carmen Yulín Cruz, Mayor of San Juan

“Naomi Klein concisely reveals to us what Puerto Rico has faced, shock after shock, before Hurricane Maria and after it and also the voices of people who believe and build a future for Puerto Rico from the strength of their communities.”

Ana Irma Rivera Lassén, feminist, human rights activist, former president of the Puerto Rico Bar Association

“Like so many of my generation, I’ve been a reader of Naomi Klein’s since the late 90s, always finding something to learn from her rigorous reporting and thoughtful analysis. There’s no-one better to tell the story of Hurricane Maria and its global significance than Naomi. In the face of speculation, exploitation and climate crisis, this book calls on us to recognize Puerto Rico’s struggle for democracy, justice, and human life itself, as our own.”

Ada Colau, Mayor of Barcelona, Spain

“What ‘shocks’ in this work is the resilient spirit del pueblo boricuá. They become the metaphor, the meaning and the maker of possiblity.  And one is left immeasurably hopeful.”

Cherríe Moraga, Las Maestras Center for Chicana Indigenous Thought & Art Practice, UCSB

“A gripping and timely account of  classic ‘shock doctrine’ being perpetrated in Puerto Rico. Naomi Klein chronicles the extraordinary grassroots resistance  by the Puerto Rican people against neoliberal privatization and Wall Street greed in the aftermath of the island’s financial meltdown, of hurricane devastation, and of Washington’s imposition of an outside control board over the most important U.S. colony.”

Juan González, co-host of Democracy Now! and author of Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America.

“Against the rampant greed of disaster capitalism, only radical solidarity can provide the way forward for Puerto Rico. To build it, our approach must be grounded in uncovering and combating the strategies that have been developed to deprive an entire nation of its human rights and its ability to defend itself. Klein’s work does precisely this, inspiring a unified vision to create the Puerto Rico we need.”

Amárilis Pagán Jiménez

OTHER TITLES BY THIS AUTHOR:

No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need

On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, columnist, and author of the New York Times and international bestsellers The Shock Doctrine, No Logo, This Changes Everything, No Is Not Enough, and On Fire. A Senior Correspondent for The Intercept, reporter for Rolling Stone, and contributor for both The Nation and The Guardian, Klein is a member of faculty at the University of British Columbia’s Department of Geography and the inaugural Faculty of Arts Chair in Climate Justice at the Centre for Climate Justice. She is co-founder of the climate justice organization The Leap. Her books have been translated into more than thirty languages. Her most recent book, with Rebecca Stefoff, is How to Change Everything: A Young Human’s Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other.

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BIT TYRANTS
The Political Economy of Silicon Valley

Rob Larson

Haymarket Books (February 2020)

Trade Paper • ISBN-13: 9781642590319 • US $17.95 • 5.5 in x 8.5 in • 214 pgs.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

This is the first comprehensive book from a radical left perspective on the rising power of the Silicon Valley tech sector, and above all the five dominant empires of Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Amazon. An ocean of liberal ass-kissery dominates analysis of these giants, along with some right-wing scorn for their less-than-arch-conservative vetting of News Feed sources and Google Search algorithms.

Every day we grow more dependent on our phones and apps to do our chores, our jobs, and our socializing. And every quarter the enormous corporate giants of Big Tech take over more sectors of the economy. With the growing reliance on this industry it’s time crack the code of the economic dynamics that drive these companies to become near-monopolies very early, and the unique forms of “platform power” each once possesses.

As Silicon Valley rises to become co-dominant with Wall Street in the halls of corporate power, this book playfully dissects the tech monopolies with humor and a plan to secure our privacy and expand our freedom—socializing the Big Tech platforms.

PRAISE:

“Highly informed, lively and readable, this is a badly needed study of the giant high tech corporations that increasingly dominate the means of work and social interaction, amass and scrutinize the details of our lives, seek to shape attitudes and behavior, and like the great virtual monopolies of the past both rely on state power and heavily influence it. Beyond exposing the nature of this awesome and threatening system, Larson goes on to outline how it can, and should, be brought under popular control. A most valuable contribution to understanding and guide to action.”

Noam Chomsky

“Bit Tyrants is an important primer to an age spinning out of control.”

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OTHER TITLES BY THIS AUTHOR:

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

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Rob Larson is Professor of Economics at Tacoma Community College and author of Bleakonomics and Capitalism vs. Freedom from Zero Books. He writes for a variety of venues including Jacobin, In These Times, Current Affairs and Dollars & Sense.

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A SHORT HISTORY OF THE U.S. WORKING CLASS
From Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century

By Paul Le Blanc
Illustrations by Mike Alewitz
Haymarket Books (March 2016)
Paper • ISBN-13: 9781608466252 • US $17 • 205 pages

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Noting that standard accounts of US history often pay little attention to the working class, labor historian Paul Le Blanc presents a colorful, fact-filled history that concentrates on the struggles and achievements of that often-neglected laboring majority. Employing a blend of economic, social, and political history, Le Blanc shows how important labor issues have been and continue to be in the forging of our nation’s history. Within a broad analytical framework he highlights issues of class, gender, race, and ethnicity, and includes the views of key figures of US labor, including Cesar Chavez, Eugene V. Debs, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Samuel Gompers, Woody Guthrie, “Big Bill” Haywood, Langston Hughes, Mary “Mother” Jones, Martin Luther King Jr., George Meany, A. Philip Randolph, and Carl Sandburg.

In addition to the main narrative, a bibliographical essay directs readers to classic works and cutting-edge scholarship in the field of US labor history as well as to relevant fiction, poetry, and films for further exploration or study. The book’s substantial glossary offers clear definitions and thought-provoking mini-essays for almost two hundred terms, from the most basic to the most complex and technical.

PRAISE:

“[An] exceptional book…not just for scholars or even for students, but for the working class. Such books are rare.”

Labor Notes

“Le Blanc displays a radical optimism throughout his book. . . . Paul Le Blanc’s book is a good teacher; it is our duty to see to it that the right students read it.”

Monthly Review

“Although most books that consider the ‘working class’ are usually devoted to studying or portraying the poor, Le Blanc’s book takes a much broader view. For Le Blanc, working class and labor are synonymous. His aim is to make the history of labor in the U.S. more accessible to students and the general reader. He succeeds by outlining major events in the history of the US, then showing the role of labor in shaping them or describing their impact on labor. Le Blanc’s primer not only informs but should also prove to be a helpful resource.”

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Paul Le Blanc is author of a number of widely-read studies, including Lenin and the Revolutionary Party, and Marx, Lenin and the Revolutionary Experience. With Michael Yates he has written the widely-acclaimed A Freedom Budget for All Americans. He co-edited a selection of Leon Trotsky’s Writings in Exile.

OTHER TITLES BY THIS AUTHOR:

Black Liberation and the American Dream: The Struggle for Racial and Economic Justice

From Marx to Gramsci: A Reader in Revolutionary Marxist Politics

Left Americana

Lenin and the Revolutionary Party

Leon Trotsky and the Organizational Principles of the Revolutionary Party

The Passion of Rosa Luxemburg

Revolutionary Studies: Theory, History, People

Trotskyism in the United States: Historical Essays and Reconsiderations

Unfinished Leninism: The Rise and Return of Revolutionary Doctrine

 

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AFTERSHOCKS OF DISASTER
Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm

Edited by Marisol LeBrón and Yarimar Bonilla

Haymarket Books (Fall 2019)

Paper • ISBN-13: 9781642590302 • US $17.00 • 5.5 in x 8.5 in • 170 pgs.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

An in-depth look at Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria and the pre-existing crisis that conditioned this historic disaster.

The concept of aftershocks is often used in the context of earthquakes to describe the jolts felt after the initial quake, but truly no disaster is ever a singular event. This volume documents the many shocks that Puerto Ricans endured before, during, and after Hurricane Maria. Bringing together scholars, activists, artists, and journalists, Aftershocks of Disaster examines not just the effects of the wind and rain, but also the impact of what followed: state failure, social abandonment, capitalization on human misery, and the collective trauma produced by a botched federal response

PRAISE:

“In this gripping collection of essays, poems and photos,  Aftershocks of Disaster captures both the roots of Puerto Rico’s current crisis in its continuing colonial status and the determination of the island’s people to persevere and forge a better future.”

Juan González, author of Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America, and co-host of Democracy Now!

“Broad in scope, passionate, and urgent, Aftershocks is a necessary anthology of Puerto Ricans telling the story not just of Maria but of resistance to colonialism, austerity and disaster capitalism.”

Molly Crabapple

“Hurricane Maria was a major disaster. It is also, potentially, a transformative event. The contributors to this powerful volume explain how big structural forces – climate change, colonialism, corruption, and capitalism – contributed to the devastation, but they also chart a radical path forward, towards a more just and sustainable world.”

Eric Klinenberg, author of Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life

“For those of us who were forced out of Puerto Rico and who watched the hurricane from outside, this book provides beautiful and painful clarity about how we got here and the struggles behind our survival.”

Rossana Rodríguez Sánchez, Boricua Activist, artist and Chicago Council member

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

Yarimar Bonilla is a political anthropologist, professor, and contributing writer to the New York Times. Both an accomplished scholar and a prominent public intellectual, Yarimar is a leading voice on questions of Caribbean and Latinx politics. She is a regular columnist in the Puerto Rican newspaper El Nuevo Día and a frequent contributor to publications such as The Washington Post, The Nation, and The New Yorker. Bonilla is a professor in the Effron Center for the Study of America at Princeton University. Her website is https://yarimarbonilla.com.

Marisol LeBrón is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research and teaching focus on social inequality, policing, violence, and protest. She is the author of Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico, which examines the growth of punitive governance in contemporary Puerto Rico.

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SO REAL IT HURTS

Lydia Lunch

Introduction by Anthony Bourdain

Seven Stories Press (July 2019, world English rights)

Paper • ISBN-13: 9781609809430 • US $15.95 • 112 pgs.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

So Real It Hurts is the perfect title for this collection. It’s a mission statement. A few bleeding slices straight from the butcher shop. A sampler from an enormous archive of work that will, no doubt, be pored over by grad students, book lovers, film historians, music nerds and straight-up perverts a hundred years from now.”

—Anthony Bourdain, from the Introduction

Through personal essays, interviews, and poetic verse, punk musician and cultural icon Lydia Lunch claws and rakes at the reader’s conscience in this powerful, uninhibited feminist collection. Oscillating between provocative celebrations of her own defiant nature and nearly tender ruminations on the debilitating effects of poverty, abuse, and environmental pollution, along with a visceral revenge fantasy against misogynistic men, Lydia Lunch presents her exploits without apology, daring the reader to judge her while she details the traumas and trials that have shaped her into the legendary figure she’s become.

Inserted between these biting personal essays, Lunch’s thoughtful cultural insights convey a widely-shared desire to forestall inevitable cultural amnesia and solidify a legacy for her predecessors and peers. Her interview with Hubert Selby Jr. and profile of Herbert Hunke, her short unromanticized histories of No Wave and of the late Sixties, and her scathing examination of the monetization of counterculture (thanks, Vivienne Westwood!) all serve to reinforce the notion that, while it may appear that there are no more heroes, we are actually just looking for heroes in the wrong places. The worthy idols of the past have been obscured by more profitable historical narratives, but Lunch challenges us to dig deeper.

So Real It Hurts pulls the reader into a world that is entirely hers—one in which she exacts vengeance against predators with an enviable ease and exerts an almost-sexual dominance over authority, never permitting those with power to hold on to it too tightly.

PRAISE:

“Lunch holds nothing back, providing rebellious, raunchy personal stories, scorching perspectives on the notion of mandatory motherhood, a purging glimpse at the nightmare of insomnia, and other themes. Amid these punchy personal revelations, the author layers honed essays with a broader scope. . . [It] seethes with the kind of urgency that reflects Lunch at her strongest. Lunch fans will enjoy her unleashed musings and the healthy rage that abound in these fierce essays.”

Kirkus Reviews

So Real It Hurts proves that more than 40 years into her career, [Lydia Lunch]’s lost none of her blistering anger and astringent eloquence. . . This slim collection of potent essays, profane rants and astute cultural critiques sometimes reads like the writings of a hypnotic Beat poet. . . they are confrontational, confessional, electrifying and unforgettable.”

Shelf Awareness

“Lunch’s work is defiant, thrilling and unflinching. Her latest release, So Real It Hurts, is just so: an anthology of new and established writings that include everything from violent feminist revenge fantasies to diatribes on pollution and politics (and yes, Trump) in the Anthropocene epoch. . . [Her] sense of humour is dark, delightful and revelatory.”

The Guardian

“Lydia Lunch’s new book is a feminist snapshot of our times…A feminist-anarchist manifesto that documents and critiques the modern age with a caustic, deliciously poisonous humor.”

i-D

“The collection is personal, it’s political, it’s self-indulgent, it’s empathic, it’s wise, its funny. It’s totally Lydia.”

The Pittsburgh Current

“Her prose is incantatorya point is made, made again, sharpened, and stabbed. She delivers dark sermons of death, perversity, and need with relish. . . So Real It Hurtsmakes it obvious that Lunch has always been more than a heckler. She is a journalist at heart, a documentarian of the darkest impulses, unafraid to catalogue ugliness, to be ugly, and to mock.”

Vol. 1 Brooklyn

“Lunch most definitely still works her dark magic via humour, horror and healing. . . It’s a full-on predatory psychic attack.”

Dazed

“Lydia Lunch is a leg­end unlike any oth­er. The per­for­mance artist, writer and musi­cian is a fire­work unto her­self. . . she has an uncan­ny abil­i­ty to fuse words togeth­er like bul­lets. She doesn’t hold back. She’s the author of over ten books and she’s now releas­ing So Real It Hurts, a col­lec­tion of essays pub­lished with Sev­en Sto­ries Press, which includes 20 essays from diaris­tic rants to polit­i­cal scribes, with an intro­duc­tion writ­ten by Antho­ny Bourdain.”

The Face

“Calling the writing of Lydia Lunch ‘transgressive fiction’ falls way short of effectively categorizing the brutal, raw, obscene and honest words she bleeds. She has created her own genre of nonfiction and at present is its sole inhabitant.”

Michael Imperioli, actor and author of The Perfume Burned His Eyes

“Lydia Lunch’s utterly sane visionary madness goes right to the rotten core.”

Mark Cunningham, musician (Mars and Blood Quartet)

“Do read Charlotte Richardson Andrews’s interview with Lydia Lunch, in The Guardian. It may get you to order Lunch’s new collection of essays and other written material, ‘So Real It Hurts.”

The New York Times

“Her excoriating, confrontational writing and spoken word performances remain determinedly counter-cultural, never straying far from the anti-lineage of Céline, Burroughs, Bukowski and Selby Jr. ”

The Quietus

PRAISE FOR THE AUTHOR

“Lydia Lunch is an American icon.”

Austin American-Statesman

“One of the 10 most influential performers of the 90’s.”

Boston Phoenix

“Miss Lunch was always an effective vocal performer. But rock has grown complacent again— even the underground rock that has borrowed so much from Miss Lunch’s various bands over the years. Perhaps it’s time for her to administer it a few more rude shocks.”

Robert Palmer, New York Times

“Lunch has defined the underground music and art scene for over thirty years. Predictable only in her unpredictability, she has exploited every creative outlet at her disposal, from film to books, photography to poetry.”

SF Weekly

“Lydia Lunch is one of your dumb-ass country’s greatest fucking commentators, period. Lydia, I totally salute you!’

Everett True, The Stranger

“Before Marilyn Manson, before Courtney Love and before all the MTV lightweights made rage and controversy mere cheap commodities, there was punk poet queen of extremities Lydia Lunch…and her volatile narratives on life, death and all the bits in between. Unmissable.”

Angela Lewis, The Independent (UK)

“On Queen of Siam, Lydia Lunch . . . surprises her fans and a legion of japing nonbelievers by delivering a record that covers all the bases so well that it’s beyond words like calculated . . . Lunch stays busy by proving she can ‘sing’ (for those who care about such irrelevancies) and conjuring up memories of various grotesques like Peggy Lee, Nancy Sinatra, Petula Clark and Marlene Dietrich (though camp she ain’t). Lunch’s lyrics, while sometimes suffused with Catholic guilt, recognize the absurdity of that guilt’s flagellant trappings. Lydia Lunch isn’t sleazy, and sports a sense of humor about her persona and her music that collects increments of charm through successive cuts. Queen of Siam is a class act all the way.”

Lester Bangs, Rolling Stone

OTHER TITLES BY THIS AUTHOR:

Paradoxia: A Predator’s Diary

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Hailed by Time Out as “one of the greatest New York performers of all time,” Lydia Lunch defies categorization. Few contemporary artists have forged a unique and varied artistic vision as successfully, or forcibly, during her long and notorious career.

Since bursting onto the late 1970s New York City music scene at the age of 16 with her band Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Lunch has released over two hundred music recordings, either as a solo artist, in collaborations, or as guest artist. The poster-girl for the Whitney Museum of Art’s Underground Film Festival, she has appeared in more than fifty films, including the infamous, gut-wrenching films of director Richard Kern, with whom she worked in the 1980s. As a writer, she has published numerous works of literature, such as her 2007 novel Paradoxia (Akashic), which has been translated into 12 languages.

Lunch continues to record and tour the world with numerous music and spoken word projects, film work, and art exhibitions, and is the subject of “Lydia Lunch: The War is Never Over,” a forthcoming feature documentary by acclaimed underground filmmaker Beth B.

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BLOOD AND MONEY
War, Slavery, and the State

David McNally

Haymarket Books (28 April, 2020)

Trade Paper • ISBN-13:9781642591330 • US $20.00 • 6 in x 9 in • 320 pgs.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

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 of violence and human bondage. Money’s emergence and its transformation are shown to be intimately connected to the buying and selling of slaves and the waging of war. Blood and Money demonstrates the ways that money has “internalized” its violent origins, making clear that it has become a concentrated force of social power and domination. Where Adam Smith observed that monetary wealth represents “command over labor,” this paradigm shifting book amends his view to define money as comprising the command over persons and their bodies.

PRAISE:

“This fascinating and informative study, rich in novel insights, treats money not as an abstraction from its social base but as deeply embedded in its essential functions and origins in brutal violence and harsh oppression.”

Noam Chomsky

McNally builds a powerful, richly documented argument that unchecked capitalism prioritizes greed and violence over compassion….[T]his searing academic treatise makes a convincing case.” 

Publishers Weekly

“David McNally’s new book makes an important contribution to the growing critical literature on such basic components of contemporary capitalism as markets and money. His historical perspective makes the contribution especially insightful.” 

Richard D. Wolff, author, Democracy at Work

Blood and Money is an ambitious and challenging account of the nexus between money, war, slavery and, eventually, capitalism—across vast swathes of history. At the heart of the book lies a crucial argument about the pivotal role of war finance in the emergence of modern banking, carefully laid out both in McNally’s superlative chapter on the early decades of the Bank of England and in the condensed and fascinating synopsis of American capitalism with which the study concludes. These chapters alone should make the book indispensable reading for anyone seriously interested in the longer-term sources of modern capitalism as we know it today

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

David McNally is the Cullen Distinguished Professor of History and Business at the University of Houston (UH) and Director of the Center for the Study of Capitalism. He is the author of Monsters of the Market, as well as six other books.

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ON NEW TERRAIN
How Capital Reshaped the Battleground of Class War

Kim Moody

Haymarket Books (November 2018)

Paper • ISBN-13: 9781608468461 • US $18.00 • 240 pgs.

Shortlisted for the 2018 Deutscher Memorial Prize

 

ABOUT THE BOOK:

An insightful and timely analysis of how global economic restructuring will impact workers’ struggles in the U.S.

Activist, scholar, and labor journalist Kim Moody analyzes how changes in global capitalism have altered both the composition of the working class and the economic and political ground on which it struggles. From the logistics revolution to the unprecedented concentration of business and wealth in the hands a shrinking few, Moody examines the impact of this new economic terrain on potential working class resistance movements.

PRAISE

“The best recent work on the history and the contemporary promise of the move from Ford to Tesco is Kim Moody’s On New Terrain: How Capital is Reshaping the Battleground of Class War.”

Red Pepper

On New Terrain makes a convincing case for revolutionary politics, not on the basis of hope and conjecture, but concrete evidence and history. Read this book, discuss it with others and follow through on its conclusions.”

Socialist Worker

“This is a detailed and provocative study of how capital has changed since the 1980s and its effects on the working class and political parties in the USA and across the world.”

Scottish Left Review

“Despite the election of Trump and the rise of the alt-right, the huge support for Bernie Sanders’ campaign for the 2016 Democratic Presidential nomination, the Black Lives Matter movement and the wave of teachers’ strikes show that there is plenty of anger among US workers. Moody’s welcome and important book shows that they still have the power to resist and how socialists can build a mass movement of opposition to neoliberalism in its heartland.”

International Socialism

OTHER BOOKS BY THIS AUTHOR:

In Solidarity: Essays on Working-Class Organization and Strategy in the United States

Tramps and Trade Union Travellers: Internal Migration and Organized Labor in Gilded Age America, 1870-1900

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Kim Moody was a founder of Labor Notes and author of several books on the U.S. labor movement, including In Solidarity: Essays on Working-Class Organization in the United States (Haymarket Books, 2014) and U.S. Labor in Trouble and Transition (Verso, 2007). He has a PhD from the University of Nottingham.

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TRAMPS AND TRADE UNION TRAVELERS
Internal Migration and Organized Labor in Gilded Age America, 1870-1900

Kim Moody

Haymarket Books (Summer 2019)

Trade Paper • ISBN-13:9781608467556 • US $22 • 5.5 in x 8.5 in • 330 pgs.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Why is there no independent labor party in the United States? While many would assert “American exceptionalist” arguments, which point to lackluster class-consciousness among American workers as the problem, Moody uses archival research to argue that despite divisions, workers in the Gilded Age had strong traditions of class consciousness and political radicalism. He contends that internal migration during the late 1800’s created instability in organizations of workers and that over time, this has undermined the ability to build an independent labor political party.

PRAISE:

“This terrific book by Kim Moody offers an entirely original take on the primordial question of why American labor was virtually unique in failing to build its own political party. But there’s much more: in investigating labor migration and the ‘tramp’ phenomenon in the Gilded Age, he discovers fascinating parallels with today’s struggles of immigrant workers.”

Mike Davis, author, Prisoners of the American Dream

“Kim Moody’ s Tramps and Trade Union Travelers is a seminal contribution to the ongoing discussion of the absence of independent working class politics in the US. Moody’s analysis goes beyond the factors that are usually cited to explain US working class formation– racial, ethnic and gender divisions—that existed in most capitalist societies. Instead, Moody roots the specific trajectory of labor politics in the US in the specific form of capitalist development in the US—the continental expansion of a thoroughly capitalist agro-industrial frontier in the antebellum period. The constant geographic mobility of both capital and labor in gilded age America becomes the key to explaining ‘why the US working class is different.'”

Charles Post, author of The American Road to Capitalism: Studies in Class Structure, Economic Development and Political Conflict, c. 1620-1877

“Kim Moody takes apart ‘American exceptionalism’ to show that the 19th century U.S. working class produced no labor party not because of a deficit of class consciousness. There was plenty of that, as shown in the plethora of strikes. Nor was it because American workers had it too good, or could homestead out West, or could rise into the middle class. Rather, it’s because their constant movement from job to job and state to state, generated by the instabilities of capitalism, made it difficult to build unions that lasted long enough and were strong enough to also construct working class political institutions. It’s sobering reading in this time of mass worldwide migration and precarious work.”

Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes

“In this richly-detailed analysis, Kim Moody highlights how American workers in the Gilded Age were perpetually on the move — by necessity, not by choice — a reality that destabilized early trade unions and undermined political initiatives. So, Moody stresses, it was not some exceptional lack of working class consciousness that explains why no labor party arose in the United States in that earlier era, but rather a set of organizational challenges posed by the specifics of nineteenth century capitalist development on the vast American landscape. Moody’s meticulous study, therefore, should be of vital interest not only to historians but to activists seeking to promote independent political activity generated by and for the working class today.”

Toni Gilpin, author of The Long Deep Grudge: A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor, and Class War in the American Heartland

OTHER TITLES BY THIS AUTHOR:

In Solidarity: Essays on Working-Class Organization and Strategy in the United States

On New Terrain: How Capital Reshaped the Battleground of Class War

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Kim Moody was a founder of Labor Notes and author of several books on the U.S. labor movement, including On New Terrain: How Capitalism is Reshaping the Battleground of Class War (Haymarket Books, 2017), In Solidarity: Essays on Working-Class Organization in the United States (Haymarket Books, 2014) and U.S. Labor in Trouble and Transition (Verso, 2007). He has a PhD from the University of Nottingham.

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FUTURE HISTORIES
What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology

Lizzie O’Shea

Verso Books (May, 2019)

Paper • ISBN-13: 9781788734301 • 5.5 in x 8.2 in • 240 pgs.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

A highly engaging tour through progressive history in the service of emancipating our digital tomorrow.

When we talk about technology we always talk about tomorrow and the future — which makes it hard to figure out how to even get there. In Future Histories, public interest lawyer and digital specialist Lizzie O’Shea argues that we need to stop looking forward and start looking backwards. Weaving together histories of computing and progressive social movements with modern theories of the mind, society, and self, O’Shea constructs a “usable past” that can help us determine our digital future.

What, she asks, can the Paris Commune tell us about earlier experiments in sharing resources–like the Internet–in common? How can Frantz Fanon’s theories of anti colonial self-determination help us build digital world in which everyone can participate equally? Can debates over equal digital access be helped by American revolutionary Tom Paine’s theories of democratic, economic redistribution? What can indigenous land struggles teach us about stewarding our digital climate? And, how is Elon Musk not a future visionary but a steampunk throwback to Victorian-era technological utopians?

In engaging, sparkling prose, O’Shea shows us how very human our understanding of technology is, and how when we draw on the resources of the past, we can see the potential for struggle, for liberation, for art and poetry in our technological present. Future Histories is for all of us–makers, coders, hacktivists, Facebook-users, self-styled Luddites–who find ourselves in a brave new world.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Lizzie O’Shea is a lawyer, writer, and broadcaster. An experienced lawyer in Australia and internationally, specializing in human rights and Aboriginal rights in Australia, she has represented refugees, activists, and people targeted by national security legislation. O’Shea is regularly featured on national television programs and radio to comment on law, digital technology, corporate responsibility, and human rights, and her writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, and The Sydney Morning Health, among others. An experienced lawyer in Australia and internationally, specializing in human rights and Aboriginal rights in Australia, O’Shea has represented refugees, activists, and people targeted by national security legislation. She holds degrees from the University of Melbourne and an Masters in Law from Columbia University, specializing in corporate responsibility and digital technology, and sits on the boards of numerous non-profit community organizations, including Digital Rights Watch Australia.

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CITIZEN ILLEGAL

José Olivarez

Haymarket Books (July 2018)

Paper • ISBN-13:9781608469543• US $16 • 5.5 in x 8.5 in• 69 pgs.

Finalist, 2019 PEN/Jean Stein Award 

Winner, Chicago Review of Books Award for Best Poetry Book of 2018 

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Citizen Illegal is a revealing portrait of life as a first generation immigrant, a celebration of Chicano joy, a shout against erasure, and a vibrant re-imagining of Mexican American life.

In this stunning debut, poet José Olivarez explores the stories, contradictions, joys, and sorrows that embody life in the spaces between Mexico and America. He paints vivid portraits of good kids, bad kids, families clinging to hope, life after the steel mills, gentrifying barrios, and everything in between. Drawing on the rich traditions of Latinx and Chicago writers like Sandra Cisneros and Gwendolyn Brooks, Olivarez creates a home out of life in the in-between. Combining wry humor with potent emotional force, Olivarez takes on complex issues of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and immigration using an everyday language that invites the reader in. Olivarez has a unique voice that makes him a poet to watch.

PRAISE:

“Olivarez steps into the ‘inbetween’ standing between Mexico and America in these compelling, emotional poems. Written with humor and sincerity, each page looks at immigration, race, gender and class, and how it’s all playing out amid the polarizing relationship between America, Mexico and those who inhabit both.”

Newsweek, “Best Books of 2019 So Far”

“The son of Mexican immigrants, Olivarez celebrates his Mexican-American identity and examines how those two sides conflict in a striking collection of poems.”

USA Today

“José Olivarez’s indispensable debut poetry collection, Citizen Illegal, is a boisterous, empathetic, funny-yet-serious (but not self-serious) celebratory ode to Chicanx life in the contemporary United States.”

Chicago Tribune

“This striking collection of poems is a testament to art’s power to shine a light on the beauty and nuance of family life and the plight of oppressed populations.”

NPR, “Best Books of 2018”

“José Olivarez’s work shines a spotlight on the often-overlooked stories of Mexican-Americans in the Midwest. This identity is illustrated throughout Citizen Illegal in all of its complexities—the connections between Mexican-Americans and labor and the all too familiar feeling of being ni de aqui, ni de alla (not from here, nor there).”

Remezcla

“A high-octane take on the rhythms and contradictions of life as a first-generation child of Mexican parents.”

Booklist

“Incredible… Olivarez gives us the poem as incantation, using language to transcend the limits of social constructions and the physical, temporal world.”

The Rumpus

“A book of poems by Mexican American poet José Olivarez, ties together memory, experience, and humanity. This collection makes the reader sit with the idea of nationhood, assimilation, and how white people are granted immediate access to privileges denied to people of color, regardless of citizenship or immigration status.”

Yes! Magazine

Citizen Illegal is not only a commentary on timely and complicated  issues of race, immigration, and ethnicity, but also a celebration, a journey toward a self and a family identity that is grounded not merely in geography but in the veined map of the heart.”

Rhino Poetry

“Poets like José Olivarez, a son of Mexican immigrants, are vital to keeping this nation from tearing apart—if only we could get Citizen Illegal, his debut collection, into the hands of the anti-immigrant crowd.”

Foreword Reviews

“A poet never arrives ahead or behind schedule, but rather at just the right moment. Through his masterful demonstration of control over the pen, Olivarez has established himself as not only a voice to be reckoned with and mindful of, but also one that deserves to be respected.”

Cultural Weekly

“In this collection of poems, Olivarez traces the lines between the country of his parents’ birth and the Mexican-American communities that have formed an integral part of Chicago’s identity. With equal measures of playfulness and razor-sharp critique, he writes of ‘gentefication,’ an imagined process in which the city’s neighborhoods are returned unto the hands that wrought them.

Eve Ewing, Publishers Weekly

Citizen Illegal is a fearless, instrumental, honest collection of poetry. In other words, the book is fire.  Skilled, tender, funny, yet undecorated, Olivarez’s poetry navigates the razor sharp duality and utter contradiction of citizenship. These poems helps us carry the weight of biases, the absurdity of our prejudices; they help us seek documentation for our humanity which cannot, by any means, be dictated by policy makers. Let it be said that these poems are also love poems. Olivarez chooses to use his voice, sometimes brutal, sometimes bloody and blistered, to confront our monstrosity, yet he never shies away from love, even when he exposes the lies we keep in order to live. Keep an eye out for José Olivarez: he might be the poet you need when it’s time to cross a line, destruct borders, and still come out on the other side with your dreams intact.”

Willie Perdomo, The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon

Citizen Illegal is a stunning piece of artwork from beginning to end. A vivid journey on José’s real life experiences which open-heartedly allows you to discover many of the things people don’t often talk about: love, anxiety, fear, and hopefulness. This book is inspirational and culturally rich, giving you all types of feelings with first hand insight on what it feels like to be Latino. Poets like José and books like Citizen Illegal are essential to our community.”

Luis Carranza, poet & member of Young Chicago Authors 2017 Bomb Squad

“When I read this book, I can hear José reading these poems out loud to me, into a microphone, in conversation. There is not one time that I read his collection that I didn’t cry. I cried of joy, of sadness, of just seeing and feeling the printed celebration and exploration of what it means to be a first-generation Mexican-American. If and when I need to be reminded of the love I have for being a first generation Mexican American, I am able to turn to these moments in this collection: a neighborhood in which we can be as open and loud and soft as we want to be. In this neighborhood, I can also find all the deafening shame and heart- breaking fear my family and I have tried to hide. José pulls this love and this family and these secrets onto a platform we, as a community, can celebrate, acknowledge, laugh, and cry juntitos. Muchísimas gracias a José por siendo tan valiente y integro. Llevaré estas poemas conmigo por siempre.”

Vicky Peralta, poet & member of Young Chicago Authors 2017 Bomb Squad

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Por Siempre

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

José Olivarez is the son of Mexican immigrants. His debut book of poems, Citizen Illegal, was a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Award and won the 2018 Chicago Review of Books Poetry Prize.

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THE SOCIALIST CHALLENGE TODAY
SYRIZA, Sanders, Corbyn

Edited by Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin

Haymarket Books (Spring 2020) Audio rights only.

Trade Paper • ISBN-13:9781642591286 • US $14.95 • 5 in x 8 in • 100 pgs.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

With the historic parties of the left and center-left largely discredited amidst neoliberalism’s multiple economic, ecological, and migration crises, political space has opened up for the far right and its ultra-nationalist, racist, sexist and homophobic agendas. Yet it has also restored some credibility to the socialist case for transcending capitalism altogether.

Amidst a significant shift from “protest” to “politics” on the contemporary left, Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin provide an essential historical, theoretical, and critical perspective for understanding the potential as well as the limits of three important recent phenomena: the Sanders electoral insurgency in the USA; the Syriza experience in Greece; and Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party in the UK.

Presenting a powerful argument for transcending earlier social democratic and communist practices, Panitch and Gindin stress the need for renewing working-class politics through new kinds of socialist parties. Most important, they insist, will be to foster the development of strategic and practical capacities to democratically transform state structures so as to render them fit for realizing collective democracy, social equality, sustainable ecology and human solidarity. This is the central challenge for democratic socialists today.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

Leo Panitch is a Senior Scholar and Emeritus Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science at York University in Toronto, Canada. Editor of the annual Socialist Register for over three decades, his book (with Sam Gindin), The Making of American Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire (Verso Books, 2012), was awarded the Deutscher Book Prize in the UK and the Davidson Book Prize in Canada. 

Sam Gindin was the Research Director of the Canadian Autoworkers (now UNIFOR) from 1974-2000. Over the next decade he was the Packer Chair in Social Justice at York University. He is the co-author, with Leo Panitch, of The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire (Verso Books, 2012).

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CAPITALISM, TECHNOLOGY, LABOR
Socialist Register Reader Vol. 2

Edited by Leo Panitch, Greg Albo, and Alan Zuege

Haymarket Books (Fall 2018)

Trade Paper • ISBN-13:9781642591347 • US $24.00 • 360pp

ABOUT THE BOOK:

As we enter what some term the “fourth industrial revolution” and both mainstream commentators and the left grapple with the implications of rapid technological development, this volume is a timely and crucial resource for those looking to build a political strategy attentive to sweeping changes in how we produce goods and live our lives.

The Socialist Register has been at the forefront of intellectual enquiry and strategic debate on the left for five decades. This expertly curated collection analyzes technological innovation against the backdrop of the recurrent crises and forms of class struggle distinctive to capitalism.

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THE UNITED STATES, SOUTHEAST ASIA, AND HISTORICAL MEMORY

Edited by Mark Pavlick

Haymarket Books (June 2019, world English rights)

Trade Paper • ISBN-13: 9781608463237 • US $22 • 5 1/4 in x 8 1/2 in • 450 pgs.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

This book sheds crucial new light on the epochal US interventions in Southeast Asia after World War II. Antiwar activist Fred Branfman describes the tragic lives of Laotian peasants under US bombing. Cambodia scholar Ben Kiernan and colleague Owen Taylor illuminate the course of Cambodian history after unprecedented US bombing. The book also includes classic works by Noam Chomsky, Nick Turse, and Edward Herman

PRAISE

Extremely important and pertinent…. The importance of the historical events and arguments made in this book cannot be overstated; the government of the United States waged war against the three countries of Indochina for years, even though none had harmed the United States or were vital to American security or geopolitical interests. In the course of those wars, massive atrocities were committed, undoubtedly war crimes. The United States has never taken responsibility for those actions nor has it punished the criminals who committed these acts…  Moreover, the extent of these atrocities have been kept from the American public and the lack of historical awareness of these events prevents Americans from learning important lessons about how their government acts in their names and precludes learning important lessons to prevent any other occurrences such as these.”

Critical Asian Studies.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Mark Pavlick is an independent editor. He was active in the U.S. movement against the Indochina wars in volunteer work with the Indochina Mobile Education Project and the Indochina Resource Center in Washington, D.C.

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TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD

John Reed

Haymarket Books (Summer 2019, world audio rights)

Trade Paper • ISBN-13:9781642590029 • 448 pgs.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

A new edition of John Reed’s classic eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution, 100 years since its first publication.

Ten Days That Shook the World is an undisputed classic of political reportage. A stunning first-hand account overflowing with urgency and immediacy, Reed’s masterpiece lives and breathes the streets, meeting halls, posters and pamphlets of the revolution he witnessed. Like no other work, it places the reader shoulder to shoulder with the people’s militias, factory committees, propagandists and crowds which thronged St Petersburg’s squares to protest, celebrate, and strike. Rather than a coup orchestrated by a select few, the revolution here emerges in all its true energy, chaos, and creativity as a mass struggle from below for liberation, equality, and socialism.

A hundred years after its initial publication,  Ten Days That Shook the World remains an unparalleled account of one of the twentieth century’s most seminal events.

PRAISE:

“From its opening page, Ten Days has a tempo and a voice that sets it apart, in an era when reportage as a genre was still in its infancy.”

Robert McCrumThe Guardian

“Rises above every other contemporary record for its literary power, its penetration, its command of detail…[ Ten Days That Shook the World] remembered when all others are forgotten.”

George F. Kennan

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

John Reed (1887–1920) was an author, journalist, and activist.

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BLOOD IN THE FACE
White Nationalism from the Birth of a Nation to the Age of Trump
Completely Revised and Updated Edition

James Ridgeway
With Katie Rose Quandt and Jean Casella

Haymarket Books (24 January 2023)

Paper • ISBN-13:: 9781608469680 • US $16.95 • 5.5 in x 8.5 in • 230 pgs.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

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 right movement. It told their story from the inside out, complete with interviews, recruiting pamphlets, cartoons, rants, sermons, threats, police reports, and more. The accompanying analysis by veteran investigative reporter James Ridgeway detailed the movement ‘s volatile history and its expansion beginning in the 1980s, insisting that the groups making up this “fringe” culture were too powerful–and too much a part of American culture–to be ignored or dismissed.

When the book ‘s prescience about the dangers of the racist far-right became manifest in the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995, a second edition of Blood in the Face was released with a new introduction charting the rise of the Militia Movement to which Timothy McVeigh and his co-conspirators were connected. Since then, both the book and the documentary film that accompanied its release (also titled Blood in the Face), have earned cult followings.

In the past 25 years, Ridgeway ‘s final warning–that the “fringe was becoming part of the fabric” of American politics and culture, have come to chilling fruition in the rise of the Tea Party, the racist backlash against the presidency of Barack Obama, the resurgence of anti-immigrant Nativism, the growth of racist far-right media, and the election of Donald Trump with the thunderous support of white nationalists.

 
 

PRAISE:

“[A] guidebook through the nether regions of the racist universe.”

New York Times

“Ridgeway is a skilled guide through the bewildering and amorphous network of racists, radical tax resisters, skinheads, Nazis and Klansmen that composes what he terms ‘an organized and, at times, violent, new far-right movement.'”

Los Angeles Times

“[A] comprehensive view of racist politics in the United States (with some reference to Western European politics).”

Library Journal

“With startling detail, this volume sets forth the violent histories of such organizations as the Ku Klux Klan, founded in 1866 by six former Confederate soldiers; the John Birch Society, an anti civil rights group masquerading as an anti Communist force; and the Posse Comitatus, whose members gather in posses to “protect” the white race from the scourge of Jews, blacks and other minorities. Examining their influence on the political climate of the U.S., Ridgeway profiles such leaders as David Dukes, the former head of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in Louisiana who ran for the Senate in 1990. Readers may feel overwhelmed by the amount of information this fascinating book imparts…”

Publisher’s Weekly

“Clear and comprehensive.”

Kirkus

“Paints a worrying picture of groups and ideologies that inspire Dylann Roof.”

The Guardian

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

James Ridgeway (1936–2021) was senior Washington correspondent for Mother Jones, and co-editor of Solitary Watch. A veteran investigative reporter and the author of 16 books, he has written for the Village Voice, the Nation, the New Republic, Ramparts, and the Wall Street Journal, among others. He was a Soros Justice Media Fellow.

Jean Casella is a co director of Solitary Watch. She is coeditor, with James Ridgeway and Sarah Shourd, of Hell Is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement.

Katie Rose Quandt is a writer and editor at Solitary Watch. Her work has appeared in Slate, Mother Jones, The Village Voice, The Appeal, The Nation, Vice, and In These Times.

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INTO THE TEMPEST
Essays on the New Global Capitalism

William Robinson

Foreword by Walden Bello

Haymarket Books (February 2019)

Paper • ISBN-13:9781608469666 • US $21.95 • 5.5 in x 8.5 in • 330 pgs.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

“This is an indispensable guide to globalization and the resistance to it by an indispensable thinker.”
—Walden Bello, from the Foreword

In this critical new work, sociologist William I. Robinson offers an engaging and accessible introduction to his theory of global capitalism. He applies this theory to a wide range of contemporary topics, among them, globalization, the transnational capitalist class, immigrant justice, educational reform, labor and anti-racist struggles, policing, Trumpism, the resurgence of a neo-fascist right, and the rise of a global police state.

Taken as a whole, these ten essays provide an urgently needed perspective for those who want to understand the backdrop to today’s headlines. Sure to spark debate, this is a timely contribution to a renewal of critical social science and Marxist theory for the new century. It is an indispensable tool for social justice advocates and scholars in these times of global crisis and transformation.

PRAISE:

“Robinson has by now accumulated an extraordinary mix of knowledges about global capitalism. Having worked in very diverse areas of the world, he brings to it a kind of wisdom, and this enables the reader to grasp the breadth of instances  of the global in today’s world.”

Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, author of Expulsions

“Know your enemy and know yourself…’ is how the iconic Sun-tzu  began his famous command.  William Robinson offers those engaged in the struggle against global capitalism a remarkable and compelling insight and framework in order to both understand our opponents as well as better grasp the strengths and weaknesses of the oppressed and dispossessed.  This is the book for which I have been waiting and I could not put it down.”

Bill Fletcher, Jr., former president of TransAfrica Forum; coauthor of Solidarity Divided and author of They’re Bankrupting Us: And Twenty Other Myths About Unions

“William Robinson’s Into the Tempest is a timely account of global gentrification. While most scholars concentrate on the city, Professor Robinson covers its global impact that has resulted in environmental destruction, social inequalities, and displacement of billions of people around the world. This has led to forced mass migrations. As in the case of micro gentrification society is entering the final stages of inequality accelerating a global collapse of modern civilization. Few realize that the state after gentrification is a Blade Runner world – a dystopian society devoid of human emotion and a collective historical memory.”

Rodolfo F. Acuña, Professor Emeritus, Chicana/o Studies Department, California State University Northridge

“William Robinson’s Into the Tempest is a collection of his essays on the emergence of a global police state and the nature of 21st century Fascism.  It applies a trenchant structural analysis of the world-system with a Gramscian effort to theorize and mobilize liberatory social movements that challenge the reactionary forces emerging during the contemporary period of crisis. Robinson is the one of the best macrosociologists of his generation. His comparative and temporally deep perspective drives a synthesis of the global capitalism and world-system perspectives in a way that allows us to see through the fog of globalization.”

Chris Chase-Dunn, Sociology, University of California-Riverside

“This book is a treasury of big-picture insight from our leading theorist of the emerging system of global capitalism. Robinson’s project – to understand the political economy in order to change it–stands as the preeminent successor to Marx’s project from an earlier epoch. For readers perplexed about our changing world and apprehensive about its future, here is your primer and call to action.”

Paul Raskin, author of Journey to Earthland

“Robinson’s brilliant and courageous research has culminated in this pathfinding work of political reconnaissance that traces capitalism’s virulent history, exposes its contradictions, locates its capacity to reorganize and digitally reconfigure itself as the fulcrum upon which the survival of the transnational ruling elite rests, and presents an alternative social logic and transgressive strategies for transcending the proliferation of injustices wrought by the existing social order. A masterpiece!”

Peter McLaren, Distinguished Professor in Critical Studies, Chapman University; Chair Professor, Northeast Normal University, China

Into the Tempest challenges us to look at the big picture, to examine without blinders the dramatic changes that have re-shaped 21st century capitalism and led to a true crisis of human civilization. Without flinching, it goes on to present theoretical and political analyses that help inform our quest for strategic clarity as we fight for a different world.”

Max Elbaum, author of Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

William I. Robinson is professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He worked for a decade prior to entering academia as an investigative journalist in Central America and has lectured widely at universities around the world on the topics of the global economy, international politics, and contemporary world affairs. Among his many award-winning books are: Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity (2014), Latin America and Global Capitalism (2008), and A Theory of Global Capitalism (2004).

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CAPITALISM & DISABILITY
Essays by Marta Russell

Marta Russell. Edited by Keith Rosenthal

Haymarket Books (Summer 2019)

Trade Paper • ISBN-13: 9781608466863 • US $19.95 • 5.5 in x 8.5 in • 280 pgs.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Spread out over many years and many different publications, the late author and activist Marta Russell wrote a number of groundbreaking and insightful essays on the nature of disability and oppression under capitalism. In this volume, Russell’s various essays are brought together in one place in order to provide a useful and expansive resource to those interested in better understanding the ways in which the modern phenomenon of disability is shaped by capitalist economic and social relations.

The essays range in analysis from the theoretical to the topical, including but not limited to: the emergence of disability as a “human category” rooted in the rise of industrial capitalism and the transformation of the conditions of work, family, and society corresponding thereto; a critique of the shortcomings of a purely “civil rights approach” to addressing the persistence of disability oppression in the economic sphere, with a particular focus on the legacy of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990; an examination of the changing position of disabled people within the overall system of capitalist production utilizing the Marxist economic concepts of the reserve army of the unemployed, the labor theory of value, and the exploitation of wage-labor; the effects of neoliberal capitalist policies on the living conditions and social position of disabled people as it pertains to welfare, income assistance, health care, and other social security programs; imperialism and war as a factor in the further oppression and immiseration of disabled people within the United States and globally; and the need to build unity against the divisive tendencies which hide the common economic interest shared between disabled people and the often highly-exploited direct care workers who provide services to the former.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

Marta Russell (December 20, 1951 – December 15, 2013) was an American writer and disability rights activist. She was involved with disability rights organizations such as ADAPT and Not Dead Yet, and engaged in protests against economic oppression, war, and racial discrimination. Her writings have earned the praise of such disability theorists as Vic Finkelstein and Mike Oliver who pioneered the social model of disability. Politically, Russell was heavily influenced by intellectuals such as Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Frances Moore Lappé, Angela Davis, and Karl Marx. Her writings have appeared in both academic and activist sources such as the Journal of Disability Policy Studies, Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law, New Mobility, Socialist Register, and Monthly Review. In 1994 she produced an award-winning documentary, “Disabled and the Cost of Saying ‘I Do’,” on the structural injustices faced by couples with disabilities. Her 1998 book, Beyond Ramps: Disability at the End of the Social Contract, analyzed the relationship between ableism, Social Darwinism, and economic austerity in the era of neoliberal capitalism.

Keith Rosenthal is a socialist writer and activist. He is a frequent contributor to the International Socialist Review magazine on the topics of disability, capitalism, and revolution.

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ON THE ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES
Young Readers’ Edition

Rebecca Stefoff, adapted from the work of Charles Darwin

Atheneum (October 2018)

Paper • ISBN-13:9781481462495 • US $25.99 • 176 pgs.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Charles Darwin’s groundbreaking On the Origin of Species is now available in an accessible, illustrated edition for young readers that includes an introduction, glossary, modern insight and information, and more!

Charles Darwin’s famous theory of natural selection shook the world of science to its core, challenging centuries of orthodox beliefs about life itself. Darwin’s boundary-shattering treatise was captured in On the Origin of Species, originally published in 1859, a groundbreaking and detailed study on ecological interrelatedness, the complexity of animal and plant life, and the realities of evolution.

This Young Reader’s Edition makes Darwin’s cornerstone of modern science accessible to readers of all ages. Meticulously curated to honor Darwin’s original text, this compelling edition also provides contemporary insight, photographs, illustrations, and more. This adaptation is a must-have for any reader with a curious mind and the desire to explore one of the most influential books of our time.

PRAISE:

“This attractive, oversize adaptation of Charles Darwin’s classic work of science has been shortened, updated, and streamlined for clarity and readability. Stefoff’s introduction provides biographical detail about Darwin and how the naturalist’s excursions on the HMS Beagle were instrumental to his theory’s development. She also describes the fundamental concepts behind Darwin’s “Big Idea” as well as its significant controversy. Vocabulary words appear in bold throughout the text, while sidebars and supplemental sections delve into related topics: myths and misinterpretations of evolution; how modern research has deepened scientific understanding of evolutionary processes; and the concept of “artificial selection” as it applies to modern dogs. Bright photographs and illustrations of plants, animals, and habitats provide an expansive and inviting visual element. With valuable modifications and enhancements, Stefoff preserves the richness of Darwin’s content for contemporary young readers.”

Publishers Weekly

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Rebecca Stefoff has devoted her career to writing nonfiction books for young readers. She has adapted a number of landmark works in history and science. Visit her website here: http://rebeccastefoff.com/

RIGHTS INFORMATION:

For all languages and territories, please contact Taryn Fagerness at Taryn Fagerness Agency.

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A MOMENT ON THE CLOCK OF THE WORLD

The Foundry Theatre

Edited by Melanie Joseph and David Bruin

Haymarket Books (Fall 2019)

Trade Paper • ISBN-13:9781642590296  • US $20.00 • 5.5 in x 8.5 in • 220 pgs.

READ: Cornel West on the Revolutionary Politics of the Foundry Theatre

ABOUT THE BOOK:

A Moment on the Clock of the World is a “mixtape” of artists, public intellectuals, community organizers and activists, journalists, and cultural theorists around the complexities of making lives of meaning in and with the world—in particular at the intersection of art and social justice.

This book captures a moment on the eternal continuum of such inquiry. It is inspired by the twenty-four years of public inquiry pursued by the award-winning Foundry Theatre whose critically- acclaimed productions and public dialogues have featured some of the most innovative artists and thinkers of the past quarter century: Claudia Rankine, Taylor Mac, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Naomi Klein, Cornel West, Grace Lee Boggs, and Barbara Ehrenreich, to name but a few.

PRAISE:

“This beautiful volume, celebrating the uncompromising vision of New York’s Foundry Theatre, reminds us that the impossible is possible through creative courage and the conviction of one’s deepest principles.”

Los Angeles Times

“The Foundry Theatre is the great exemplar of artistic excellence, political courage, and visionary hope of American theatre in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.”

Cornel West, (from the Foreword)

“These stunning essays, interviews, incantations, manifestations are by the best radical thinkers in the U.S. A.  This collection is a manifesto filled with bold ideas, magic and poetry, a living record of the best of what is still called the ‘un-American tradition’ in theater.  This is political and creative courage at its best and the voices inside this work are not only subversive but reach to the very root of why we make theater, why we keep coming back.  Best of all, this book wrenches apart neoliberal notions of what ‘resistance’ truly is, and redefines and reconstructs them from the root up. And the root is the only place where the radical still lives.  And there also lives The Foundry theater.”

Naomi Wallace

“The Foundry Theatre has quietly been responsible for some of the most artistically ambitious work seen in New York in recent years.”

The New York Times

“The Foundry has a long history of pushing plays beyond the boundaries of traditional theatre in terms of form, content, and location.”

Time Out

“The Foundry has long had the passion for mixing artistic rigor with social activism.”

The Brooklyn Rail

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

The Foundry is an ongoing performance of ideas — created by rigorous theatrical works, public dialogues and community engagement — that invites as many people as possible to consider what it means to be citizens of a world that we ourselves create.

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STALIN

Leon Trotsky

Haymarket Books (July 2019, world audio rights, except Europe, Ireland, UK)

Trade Paper • ISBN-13: 9781608467716 • 992 pgs.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

A work eighty years in the making, Leon Trotsky’s unfinished masterpiece: Stalin.

On 20th August 1940 Trotsky’s life was brutally ended when a Stalinist agent brought an ice pick crashing down on his head. Among the works left unfinished was the second part of his biography of Stalin.

Trotsky’s Stalin is unique in Marxist literature in that it attempts to explain some of the most decisive events of the 20th century, not just in terms of epoch-making economic and social transformations, but in the individual psychology of one of the protagonists in a great historical drama. It is a fascinating study of the way in which the peculiar character of an individual, his personal traits and psychology, interacts with great events.

How did it come about that Stalin, who began his political life as a revolutionary and a Bolshevik, ended as a tyrant and a monster? Was this something pre-ordained by genetic factors or childhood upbringing? Drawing on a mass of carefully assembled material from his personal archives and many other sources, Trotsky provides the answer to these questions.

In the present edition we have brought together all the material that was available from the Trotsky archives in English and supplemented it with additional material translated from Russian. It is the most complete version of the book that has ever been published.

PRAISE:

“A book on Stalin by Trotsky would be an event under any circumstances.”

Michael KarpovichThe New York Times

“Trotsky’s Stalin is sometimes brilliant and at all points highly informative and revealing”

Bertram D. Wolfe, The American Mercury

“Trotsky shows conclusively that Soviet historiography has become an arsenal of falsifications constructed to defend … Stalin’s regime”

Waldemar GurianThe American Historical Review

“As an historian and biographer, Trotsky treats facts, dates and quotations with almost pedantic conscientiousness.”

Isaac DeutscherTimes Literary Supplement

“Because of his intimate participation in the events which he describes, Trotsky’s writings are always historically important.”

Orville PrescottThe New York Times

“This book will take its place among the great Marxist classics not simply as a brilliant biography but as a powerful weapon in the struggle for the communist future of man.”

John G. WrightFourth International

“Like most of Trotsky’s writings, Stalin is a literary tour de force.”

Frederick L. SchumanThe Atlantic

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SAY IT FORWARD
A Guide to Social Justice Storytelling

Edited by Claire Kiefer and Cliff Mayotte

Haymarket Books (November 2018)

Paper • ISBN-13: 9781608469581• US $19.95 • 5.5 in x 8.5 in• 280 pgs.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Oral history is a universal form of storytelling. For many years, Voice of Witness has shared powerful stories of people impacted by injustice with a broad audience of readers. Say It Forward extends this work, offering a guide for social justice storytelling that outlines the critical methodology at the core of Voice of Witness’s evocative oral history collections. Field reports such as “OG Told Me” and “Tales of Tar Sands Resistance” candidly detail how to harness the power of personal narrative to expose larger issues of inequality.

PRAISE:

“Stories are humankind’s connective tissue, and Say It Forward reminds us the process through which we document a story is as important and powerful as the story itself.”

Lauren Markham, author of The Far Away Brothers

“Oral history changes lives. Claire Kiefer and Cliff Mayotte have made a profoundly clear, fluid, and accessible guide to doing your own oral histories, and teachers, students, and parents: I beg you to try it.”

Dave Eggers, Voice of Witness cofounder and author, The Monk of Mokha and What Is the What

Say It Forward is a useful guide for anyone new to recording the oral histories of vulnerable populations. Voice of Witness makes plain how to work with sensitivity, respect, and care.”

Danielle Jackson, cofounder, Bronx Documentary Center

OTHER TITLES IN THIS SERIES:

Six by Ten: Stories from Solitary

Solito, Solita: Crossing Borders with Youth Refugees from Central America

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

Voice of Witness (VOW) advances human rights by amplifying the voices of people impacted by injustice. Cofounded by author Dave Eggers, writer and educator Mimi Lok, and physician Lola Vollen, the work of VOW is driven by the transformative power of the story, and by a strong belief that an understanding of crucial issues is incomplete without deep listening and learning from people who have experienced injustice firsthand.

Cliff Mayotte is the Education Program Director with Voice of Witness. He previously edited The Power of the Story: The Voice of Witness Teachers Guide to Oral History published in 2013 by Voice of Witness and McSweeney’s.

Claire Kiefer is the author of Bear Witness, forthcoming from Big Pencil Press in Fall 2018. She is a Voice of Witness curriculum specialist.

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SIX BY TEN
Stories from Solitary

Edited by Taylor Pendergrass and Mateo Hoke

Haymarket Books (Fall 2018)

Paper • ISBN-13:9781608469567• US $17.95 • 5.5 in x 8.5 in• 320 pgs.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

An estimated 80,000 Americans are held in solitary confinement in prisons across the country. Solitary confinement, often in cells no bigger than 6 by 10 feet, means 24 hours per day with little or no meaningful human contact.

Six By Ten explores the mental, physical, and spiritual impacts of America’s widespread embrace of solitary confinement, as told through the first-person narratives of individuals subjected to solitary confinement, family members on the outside, and corrections officers. Each chapter presents a different individual’s story and probes how Americans from all over the country and all walks of life find themselves held in solitary for years or even decades at a time.

PRAISE:

“The stories stop you in your tracks, but the appendices help move progress forward with simplicity, depth, and hope, beginning with ten things anyone can do that are impactful and accessible. The educational pieces of the book give apt background on the history and usage of solitary confinement, allowing even those examining the practice for the first time to have a firm grasp of the situation. Six by Ten moves Americans to action for humanity and fairness in the criminal justice system.”

Foreword Reviews

“Deeply moving and profoundly unsettling.”

Heather Ann Thompson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy.

“A consistently eye-opening, urgent report on the use and misuse of prisoner isolation. ”

Kirkus Reviews

OTHER TITLES IN THIS SERIES:

Say it Forward: A Guide to Social Justice Storytelling

Solito, Solita: Crossing Borders with Youth Refugees from Central America

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

Voice of Witness (VOW) advances human rights by amplifying the voices of people impacted by injustice. Cofounded by author Dave Eggers, writer and educator Mimi Lok, and physician Lola Vollen, the work of VOW is driven by the transformative power of the story, and by a strong belief that an understanding of crucial issues is incomplete without deep listening and learning from people who have experienced injustice firsthand.

Mateo Hoke is writer, journalist, and coeditor of Palestine Speaks: Narratives of Life under Occupation. He studied journalism at the University of Colorado and the University of California-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

Taylor Pendergrass is an advocate and activist around ending mass incarceration and racial injustice in the criminal legal system. He currently works for the ACLU and lives in Denver, Colorado. He graduated from Duke University and the University of Colorado School of Law.

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SOLITO, SOLITA
Crossing Borders with Youth Refugees from Central America

Edited by Jonathan Freedman and Steven Mayers.

Haymarket Books (Spring 2019)

Trade Paper • ISBN-13:9781608466184 • US $19.95 • 5.5 in x 8.5 in • 320 pgs.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

A collection of oral histories told by the thousands of young people fleeing violence and poverty in Central America.

They are a mass migration of thousands, yet each on travels alone. Solito, Solita, (“Alone, Alone”), is a Voice of Witness collection of oral histories which tell the story of youth refugees fleeing their home countries and traveling for hundreds of miles seeking safety and protection in America.

These powerful narrators describe why they fled their homes, what happened on their dangerous journeys through Mexico, how they crossed the border, and their ongoing struggle to survive in the United States. In our era of fear, xenophobia, and outright lies, these stories amplify the powerful voices of immigrant youth. What can they teach us about abuse and abandonment, bravery and resilience, hypocrisy and hope? In fitful bursts or breathless revelations, they bring us into their hearts and onto streets filled with the lure of freedom and fraught with violence. From fending off kidnappers with knives and being locked in freezing holding cells to tearful reunions with parents, Solito, Solita’s evocative stories bring to light the authentic experiences of young people struggling for a better life across the border.

PRAISE:

“In this moving and expertly researched collection of 15 narratives, Mayers, a historian and professor, and Freedman, a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, offer readers oral histories told by some of the ‘thousands of children… trekking from Central America to El Norte’ and some of the mothers making the journey with their children…The authors end by urging readers to take political action to help migrants like those interviewed here. This work carries a harrowing message.”

Publishers Weekly

“A poignant, uncompromising addition to the growing literature on the plights of migrating asylum-seekers from Central America.”

Kirkus Reviews

“Intense testimonies that leave one shivering, astonished at the bravery of the human spirit.”

Sandra Cisneros, MacArthur Genius Grant recipient and author of The House on Mango Street

“Solito, Solita gives readers the rare chance to hear directly from young migrants who have risked everything for a better life on our side of the border. With unflinching clarity, they detail the violence they left behind, the fear and difficulties they face after arrival, and the hope and resiliency that carries them through it all. They have courageously shared these experiences with the idea that people like us might read their stories and be moved to action, and we owe it to them to do so.”

Francisco Cantú, author of The Line Becomes a River

“This book fills a crucial missing piece in today’s immigration debate.  Everyone who cares about immigration—and about migrants—should read it.”

Aviva Chomsky, professor at Salem State University and author of Undocumented

“Stories of war and exile, of migrations and survival—a most pertinent collection for our times, one that puts a human face on the greatest tragedy and humanitarian crises of our generation. This collection is a must read for politicians that demonize refugees and a call to action for everyone else.”

− Alejandro Murguia, San Francisco Poet Laureate Emeritus and Professor of Latina/ Latino Studies at San Francisco State University

“Immigration narratives are too often reduced to tropes, to statistics and numbers, to binary politics and manipulative rhetoric, but not so in this volume of stories. Solito, Solita reaches beyond and beneath the headlines, clearing the mess and the noise so that we can hear the voices that matter most in contemporary migration: those of young migrants themselves.”

Lauren Markham, author of Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life

“These raw voices pulse with heartbreak, resilience, hope and even joy, shining a light on the forces that compel young people to flee their homes in the Northern Triangle in search of safety and solace in the United States. A must read for today’s immigration debate.”

Sara Campos, co-director of the New American Story Project

“This is a thorough, compassionate, and necessary book that allows an unique set of voices – child refugees – to be heard. The framing of the narratives and the Introduction offer important information about the U.S. role in the proliferation of violence and corruption but the work remains focused on the crucial individual voices.”

Ariana Vigil, professor at UNC Chapel Hill

OTHER TITLES IN THIS SERIES:

Say it Forward: A Guide to Social Justice Storytelling

Six by Ten: Stories from Solitary

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

Voice of Witness (VOW) advances human rights by amplifying the voices of people impacted by injustice. Cofounded by author Dave Eggers, writer and educator Mimi Lok, and physician Lola Vollen, the work of VOW is driven by the transformative power of the story, and by a strong belief that an understanding of crucial issues is incomplete without deep listening and learning from people who have experienced injustice firsthand.

Steven Mayers is a writer, oral historian and Professor of English at the City College of San Francisco.

Jonathan Freedman is a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, author, and writing mentor at the City College of San Francisco. His novel, The Last Brazil of Benjamin East, (2014 Bright Lights Press) was critically acclaimed. He graduated from Columbia University, traveled overland from America to Bolivia, and lived in Brazil, Spain, Portugal, and Switzerland. He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Distinguished Editorial Writing for his prophetic editorials calling for immigration reform.

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Audio book:

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MARX AT THE ARCADE

Jamie Woodcock

Haymarket Books (Spring 2019)

Paper • ISBN-13:9781608467969 • US $18 • 6 in x 9 in • 180 pgs.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

In Marx at the Arcade, acclaimed researcher Jamie Woodcock delves into the hidden abode of the gaming industry, unravelling the vast networks of artists, software developers, and factory and logistics workers whose material and immaterial labor flows into the products we consume on a gargantuan scale. Along the way he analyzes the increasingly important role the gaming industry plays in contemporary capitalism, and the broader transformations of work and economy that it embodies.

PRAISE:

“An admirable contribution…a digestible compendium of the labor processes and conditions inside a notoriously opaque industry.”

The Outline

“Rejecting both fanboy boosterism and moralistic denunciations, Marx at the Arcade offers a refreshing approach to video games analysis. Woodcock never loses sight of the fact that the material conditions behind game production shapes the stories games tell and how they tell them, but does not reduce its analysis of the medium to these material conditions. The book highlights how it feels to actually play a game, what makes it fun, and why that participatory aspect matters when discussing what a game communicates as a cultural product.”

Jacobin

“Jamie Woodcock has written a book as fun and engrossing as any game. Not only does he bring a sharp Marxist analysis to the video games industry–in turn, he uses games to further our understanding of Marx. Whether you game or not, an indispensable book.”

Sarah Jaffe, author of Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt

“In his delightful Marx at the Arcade, Jamie Woodcock launches an urgently-needed workers’ inquiry into video and computer games—investigating both the work that goes into producing such games and  the play in which so many of us seek relief from constant work. Lucid, scholarly, energetic and itself playful, Marx at the Arcade sets a new frontier for radical political understanding of the digital game.”

Nick Dyer-Witheford

“Marx at the Arcade is an important, brilliant and timely read that reveals the oft-ignored lives of overworked and exploited game workers, as well as the rise of the global Game Workers Unite movement that is fighting for change. Placing games within the context of a wider cultural and political struggle, Woodcock makes a compelling case for combating the toxic and reactionary elements of games culture, and pushing games towards a more positive, radical role in the world.”

Karn Bianco, Games Workers Unite

“Combining the unalloyed enthusiasm of the gamer with the critical gaze of the historical materialist, Jamie Woodcock’s book cracks open the console to reveal the struggles over value, labour and the meaning of play that haunt the world of video games. Even readers who last played a video game in an arcade will gain much from this lucid and combative exploration of the industry that organizes the “free time” of countless millions.”

Alberto Toscano, Reader in Critical Theory, Goldsmiths, University of London, author of Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea

“In this highly readable, up-to-the-minute counter-guide to videogame work and play, Jamie Woodcock skillfully breaks play out of the “magic circle,” not only revealing capitalism’s shaping influence on digital game culture but also restoring a political perspective on games as a site of struggle. Whether revisiting game history, analyzing individual games, unpacking the distinctiveness of the game commodity, or reporting on the increasingly contested working conditions of game developers, Woodcock richly illustrates the use value of Marxian concepts to the critical study of game media.”

Greig de Peuter, co-author of Games of Empire: Global Capitalism and Video Games

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Jamie Woodcock is a sociologist of work, focusing on digital labour, the gig economy, and resistance. He is currently a fellow at the London School of Economics, and is the author of the award-winning Working the Phones (2016). He is on the editorial board of Historical Materialism and an editor of Notes from Below, an online journal of workers’ inquiry.

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BLACK GIRL MAGIC
The BreakBeat Poets: Volume 2

Edited by Jamila Woods, Mahogany L. Browne, and Idrissa Simmonds

Foreword by Patricia Smith

Haymarket Books (Spring 2018)

Paper • ISBN-13: 9781608468577 • US $19.95 • 230 pgs

 

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Poetry from the canon of hip-hop by Black women of the diaspora.

“How curious it be, the obsession with reviling and renaming the black girl. How staggering our resistance. How maddening our sublime propensity for magic—not a magic designed to pull us out of our own bodies to become ‘the other,’ but a magic that would help us know ourselves. And be glorified in the knowledge.

What you hold in your hands is not an anthology of verse, it is a manual of glorious sorcery. It’s page upon page upon page of stanza as incantation—crafted not to make black girls’ lives less impenetrable and lyrically palatable for the curious, but to revel in the chilling power of our weaponry. . . .

I relentlessly love my sisters. We have taken back the right to name ourselves. We have realized the unwavering strength in our hue, in our connections to each other, in stories that parallel and collide, in stanzas that all work toward revelation.”

—From the foreword by Patricia Smith

PRAISE:

“Insightful, inspiring, relatable, and sometimes even heartbreaking, Black Girl Magic encompasses the wealth, beauty, and range of Black women.”

LitHub

“Dense, entrancing, necessary works by more than sixty black women poets create a black-girl-centric world of their own…The book provides a well-rounded look at what it means to be a black woman and in the process serves as a platform for our voices and bodies, revealing our maneuvers through the world as deeply relevant to and deserving of literary space.”

Chicago Reader

“The poems in the collection, influenced by the rhythms, lyricism, and expressiveness of hip-hop music and culture, speak to the many dimensions of black womanhood.”

Poets & Writers

“This anthology celebrates the works of Black women from all corners of the diaspora, exploring themes of beauty, unapologetic blackness, intersectionality, self-definition, and more.”

Teen Vogue

Black Girl Magic features more than 60 writers using vivid imagery and crackling language to embrace their vulnerabilities and push against stereotypes that erase Black women’s lived experiences, instead honoring the richly variant forms and stories of Black womanhood… In a world that seems hell bent on the degradation of Black women and girls, hope can often seem like an unattainable luxury. Yet the beauty of Black Girl Magic lies in its defiance of that narrative pushed by patriarchal white supremacy.”

Broadly

“An enthralling, deep, beautiful and heartbreaking dive into the world of Black women. Black Girl Magic offers an insightful and necessary look at what it means to be black, resolute and have a platform to share it loud and proudly.”

Okayplayer

“One of the most important volumes of poetry in recent years.”

Dazed

“Written by and for black women, these poems disrupt myths and stereotypes and present expansive perspectives on black womanhood.”

Newcity

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Halal If You Hear Me

The Breakbeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

Poet and vocalist Jamila Woods was raised in Chicago, IL and graduated from Brown University, where she earned a BA in Africana Studies and Theatre & Performance Studies. Influenced by Lucille Clifton and Gwendolyn Brooks, much of her writing explores blackness, womanhood, and the city of Chicago.

Mahogany L. Browne is the Interim Executive Director of Urban Word NYC and Poetry Coordinator at St. Francis College. She holds fellowships from Agnes Gund, Air Serenbe, Cave Canem, Poets House, Mellon Research, and Rauschenberg. She is the author of Woke: A Young Poets Call to Justice, Woke Baby, Black Girl Magic, Kissing Caskets, and Dear Twitter, and a co-editor of The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Idrissa Simmonds is a fiction writer and poet. Her work has appeared in Black Renaissance Noire, The Caribbean Writer, Fourteen Hills Press, and elsewhere. She is the 2014 winner of the Crab Creek Review poetry contest, and a NYFA and Commonwealth Short Story Award Finalist.

 

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FIGHTING FASCISM
How to Struggle and How to Win

Clara Zetkin

Edited and introduced by Mike Taber and John Riddell

Haymarket Books (Fall 2017)

Paper • ISBN-13: 9781608468522 • US $11.95 • 130 pgs.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

The increased visibility of fascist and far-right organizations in the United States and elsewhere is sparking keen interest among a new generation. Important questions are posed: What is fascism? Why is it such a deadly threat? How can it be fought? How should it be fought?

In 1923, fascism was a new phenomenon, having come to power in Italy only the previous year. In the face of widespread uncertainty and confusion, German Marxist Clara Zetkin explained the nature of this new danger, proposing a sweeping plan for the unity of all victims of capitalism to counter the fascist threat.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

Clara Zetkin (1857-1933) was a German Marxist leader, and a close collaborator of Rosa Luxemburg. An advocate for women’s rights, she initiated the first International Women’s Day in 1911. In the decade after 1923 she sought to organize a united front of struggle against the rise of Nazism.

Mike Taber is a longtime socialist activist and editor. He has edited or prepared dozens of books on the history of the revolutionary and working-class movement, including books by Leon Trotsky, V. I. Lenin, Malcolm X, James P. Cannon, Che Guevara, and Maurice Bishop. He currently lives in Chicago.

John Riddell has translated and edited seven volumes of documents of the Communist movement in the era of the Russian revolution. Two further Brill volumes now in preparation will complete this ambitious project.

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