Haymarket Books: 222 books
Too Many People?
Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Taps interest in environmental issues following wide spread disappointment stemming from the recent string of Global Climate Change summits
Written in accessible language by experts on the science and social content of the topic
Interest in the subject has been spurred by Al Gore's An...
The BreakBeat Poets
New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Hip-Hop is the largest youth culture in the history of the planet rock. This is the first poetry anthology by and for the Hip-Hop generation.
It has produced generations of artists who have revolutionized their genre(s) by applying the aesthetic innovations of the culture. The BreakBeat Poets...
Education and Capitalism
Struggles for Learning and Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
A conservative, bipartisan consensus dominates the discussion about what’s wrong with our schools and how to fix them. It offers solutions” that scapegoat teachers, vilify unions, and impose a market mentality. But in each case, students lose. This book, written by teacher-activists, speaks back to that elite consensus and offers an alternative vision of learning for liberation.
How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America
Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Former South End Press title that has sold 7,100 copies
Book helps readers understand rising tension between African Americans and police in wake of Mike Brown and Eric Garner murders
The foreclosure, unemployment, and incarceration crisis in the US has disproportionately affected African...
by Ahmed Shawki
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Tie ins with Black History Month, February 2006 Ties ins with 40th anniversary of 1965 Voting Rights Act
Shadow Government
Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
This book is intended to ask— and attempt to answer— tough questions about the National Security State in the US and why the US government has sought to eliminate all notions of privacy
The author is a prominent National Security analyst, whose website receives over 7,000 hits per day....
How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions? (Abridged Edition)
(Abridged Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Praise for How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions?:
"I was frankly pole-axed by this magnificent book. Davidson resets the entire debate on the character of revolutions: bourgeois, democratic and socialist. He's sending me, at least, back to the library."-Mike Davis, author...
We Cannot Escape History
States and Revolutions
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Neil Davidson explores classic themes of nation, state, and revolution in this collection of essays. Ranging from the extent to which nationalism can be a component of led-wing politics to the difference between bourgeois and socialist revolutions, the book concludes with an extended discussion of the different meanings history has for conservatives, radicals, and Marxists.
Capitalism's Contradictions
Studies of Economic Thought Before and After Marx
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Collected and translated by Deutscher Prize-Winning Grossman biographer Rick Kuhn, assembles several of Henryk Grossman’s most important essays, and serves as an introduction to his project of recovering Marx. Grossman highlights distinctive features of Marx’s economic theory by contrasting it with the views of his forerunners, from Adam Smith to Sismondi.
In Solidarity
Essays on Working-Class Organization and Strategy in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
As the economic crisis continues to ravage the globe, increasing numbers are looking for alternatives to the market.
The Chicago Teachers Union, Walmart workers, Longshoreman on the West Coast, and many other labor struggles have recently broken out across the US. This has sent many searching...
African Struggles Today
Social Movements Since Independence
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2012
15,000 attended US Social Forum this year, part of a worldwide movement discussed in this book
World Cup has brought new interest in South African culture and politics
Growing BDS campaign against Israeli apartheid is bringing renewed interest in South African anti-Apartheid struggle
In Praise of Barbarians
Essays against Empire
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
This is the most accessible and wide-ranging Mike Davis book to date.
More Than a Score
The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
"Jesse Hagopian brought a rare moment of truth to the corporate-dominated Education Nation show when he spoke on behalf of his colleagues at Garfield High in Seattle. He instantly became the voice and face of the movement to stop pointless and punitive high-stakes testing."—Diane Ravitch,...
The Violent American Century
War and Terror Since World War II
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
World War II marked the apogee of industrialized total war.” Great powers savaged one another. Hostilities engulfed the globe. Mobilization extended to virtually every sector of every nation. Air war, including the terror bombing of civilians, emerged as a central strategy of the victorious Anglo-American...