Bunch of Haymarket Press books currently 40% off, including
Elite Capture - How the powerful took over identity politics (and everything else) by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
Struggle Makes Us Human - Learning from movements for socialism by Frank Barat and Vijay Prashad
Whose Story Is This? by Rebecca Solnit
Haymarket Books for $10 (or less!)
Check out these recent Haymarket Books releases that you may have missed, each currently available for under $10. Through a substantive engagement with the global Black radical tradition and a critical understanding of racial capitalism, Táíwò identifies the process by which a radical concept can be stripped of its political substance and liberatory potential by becoming the victim of elite capture—deployed by political, social, and economic elites in the service of their own interests. A meditation on freedom making in the academy for women scholars of color. An essential collection of Teen Vogue contributions on climate justice that makes an urgent argument for intersectional activism. The Combahee River Collective, a path-breaking group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important organizations to develop out of the antiracist and women’s liberation movements of the 1960s and 70s. In this collection of essays and interviews edited by activist-scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, founding members of the organization and contemporary activists reflect on the legacy of its contributions to Black feminism and its impact on today’s struggles. In this urgent and incisive collection of new interviews bookended by two new essays, Marc Lamont Hill critically examines the “pre-existing conditions” that have led us to this moment of crisis and upheaval, guiding us through both the perils and possibilities, and helping us imagine an abolitionist future. As isolated individuals, debtors have little influence. But as a bloc, we can leverage our debts and devise new tactics to challenge the corporate creditor class and help win reparative, universal public goods. This is a powerful guide to action for people in debt. An incisive and inspiring call to look beyond capitalism to chart a road map for a planet ravaged by pandemics, climate crisis, and wars. As a play and book, The Billboard is a cultural force that treats abortion as more than pro-life or pro-choice. Unheard Voices of the Pandemic reveals through first-person narratives what happened the year the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the United States. Rifqa is Palestinian poet Mohammed El-Kurd’s ode to his late grandmother, and to the Palestinian struggle for liberation. ‘Jerusalem is ours.’ There Are Trans People Here is a testament to the healing power of community and the beauty of trans people, history, and culture. Writer and actor Wallace Shawn's probing, honest, and self-critical take on civilization and its discontents. A newly updated and expanded primer for 21st-century democratic socialists from acclaimed scholars Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin, with Stephen Maher. Olivier Besancenot and Michael Löwy offer a deeply informed, and eminently enjoyable, imagined history of what might have been if Karl Marx and his eldest daughter, Jenny, had travelled to Paris during the heady weeks of the Paris Commune. An evocative, affecting play on the horrors of mass incarceration written collaboratively by prisoners who have experienced it first-hand. New feminist essays for the #MeToo era from the international best-selling author of Men Explain Things to Me. Electric Arches is an imaginative exploration of Black girlhood and womanhood through poetry, visual art, and narrative prose. Organized alphabetically as a lexicon, Keywords explores the history and common usage of major terms in the everyday language of capitalism. From its founding, the United States has been a nation made by wars. Through incisive analysis and characteristic wit, Tom Engelhardt ponders whether in this century, its citizenry and government will be unmade by them. In Songlands, the stand alone finale to the Splinterlands trilogy, a poet and an AI launch a secret mission to rebuild the international community. Bestselling author Rebecca Solnit reminds us that activism has changed the world in remarkable ways. Activist, teacher, author and icon of the Black Power movement Angela Davis talks Ferguson, Palestine, and prison abolition. In this rich dialogue on surveillance, empire, and power, Arundhati Roy and John Cusack describe meeting NSA whistleblower Ed Snowden in Moscow. 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.” In this collection of essays from 1969 to 2013, many in book form for the first time, Noam Chomsky examines the nature of state power, from the ideologies driving the Cold War to the War on Terror, and reintroduces the moral and legal questions that all too often go unheeded. At a time when fascism was a new and little-understood phenomenon, German Marxist Clara Zetkin’s work proposed a sweeping plan for the unification of all victims of capitalism in an ideological and political campaign against the fascist danger. Capitalism is killing the planet, and the preservation of a natural environment favorable to human life requires a radical alternative. In this new collection of essays, long time revolutionary and environmental activist Michael Löwy offers a vision of ecosocialist transformation. Long after its outbreak, the revolution remains the defining moment in Mexico’s modern history. Yet the debate over its legacy continues to this day. In a comprehensible style, aimed at students and general readers, The Mexican Revolution recounts the revolution’s main events, sorts through its internal conflicts, and asks whether or not its leaders achieved their goals. For more reading inspiration, continue to a round-up of our favorite reading lists...
