Haymarket Books

Spotted in Chicago

What are you reading this weekend?

Now available! Our History Has Always Been Contraband

In Defense of Black Studies 📚

Edited by Colin Kaepernick, Robin D. G. Kelley, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Get it in paperback or as a FREE ebook:
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2154-our-history-has-always-been-contraband

Let all the empires crumble

ALL Haymarket Books are 40% off through August 31st! ✊🏿✊🏽✊🏾

FREE ebook: Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1520-can-t-pay-won-t-pay

Haymarket Books is proud to present RISE UP AND READ, a Common Read program for the many.

Our inaugural selection, for summer 2023, will be Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba. https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/490-rise-up-and-read-chicago

April is National Poetry Month. In celebration of poetry’s vital necessity, we put together a list of poetry books that contain stories of resistance, sorrow, solidarity and hope in our struggles to change the world. https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/70-poetry-is-not-a-luxury-it-is-a-vital-necessity-of-our-existence

The chasm splitting apart Israeli society is about who gets control of the Zionist regime—over the strategy of domination, not the domination itself. https://www.thenation.com/article/world/israel-protests-supreme-court-palestinians/

“I can only sustain myself as a socialist if I keep reminding myself just how absurd capitalism is.” https://www.dsausa.org/democratic-left/socialist-humor-is-not-an-oxymoron/

Haymarket Books, Kaepernick Publishing to Co-Publish Anthology Defending Black Studies
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/91646-haymarket-books-kaepernick-publishing-co-publishing-anthology-defending-black-studies.html

Some news! 👀

We’re working with Kaepernick Publishing to publish OUR HISTORY HAS ALWAYS BEEN CONTRABAND, a new book in defense of Black studies, edited by Robin D. G. Kelley, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, and Colin Kaepernick, with support from Marguerite Casey Foundation.

Coming this spring.

Audre Lorde was born February 18, 1934 in Harlem.

Organizers are Fighting Ron DeSantis's Educational Bans with Free Books https://www.teenvogue.com/story/fighting-desantis-bans-free-books

What are you reading this weekend?

Community initiatives like these are becoming even more important, as those in power start to recognize the threats that the people present. This is the time to enact these sorts of initiatives, and we’re lucky that our kids have resources like Haymarket to grow and learn in spite of the odds stacked against them.

https://www.themarysue.com/indie-publisher-steps-up-to-combat-government-erasure-of-black-history/

Twitter finally performing like a Tesla 🔥