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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 24/09/2026
Open up a new world. Let’s read together. New art by Margaret Vail Palmquist
Graphic says "Haymarket Books; Books for changing the world." 
A book is open like a door, and two figures emerge; one holding what appears to be a torch.
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 23/09/2026
LIVE NOW! Reading The Mexican Revolution Week 2 Join this hybrid political education collaboration between Haymarket Books and @abolitionschool.bsky.social Stream here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLvN...
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 18/09/2026
Oakland! Join Angela Davis, Sarah Haley, @keeanga.bsky.social, and Ula Y. Taylor for a conversation about the history and future of Black feminism. Monday, September 28 at the Kaiser Center for the Arts, w/ @hammerandhope.bsky.social Get tickets: www.haymarketbooks.org/events/825-h...
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 16/09/2026
Secret Clubs + Power Boys Join @devintoshea.bsky.social, Jasper Craven, and @robertskvarla.bsky.social as they discuss secret societies, never-ending wars, and the ruling elite. Tuesday, September 22 at 5 PM ET RSVP: events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...
Secret Clubs + Power Boys: A Discussion on Veiled Prophets and Military Cartels

Devin Thomas O’Shea

Jasper Craven

Robert Skvarla

Tue Sep 22, 2026 5:00 PM
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 15/09/2026
Why the artist must take sides @saulwilliams.bsky.social
“Some artists believe they have no place discussing politics, or, at least, politics beyond their scope. 

Yet a live-streamed genocide should bring everything into question. A question that becomes: What role can you play? What is within your power to help bring it to an end?”
Saul Williams, Songs My Mother Taught Me: Why The Artist Must Take Sides
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 10/09/2026
Chicago! Will we see you at Printer’s Row Lit Fest this weekend?
A wide shot of a tent full of books at Printer's Row Lit Fest in Chicago; the tent says "Haymarket Books" and there are two "Haymarket Books" banners on visible on the tables.
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 01/09/2026
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (@keeanga.bsky.social) recommends three books every radical should read
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 30/08/2026
Remembering Fred Hampton born Aug. 30, 1948, assassinated Dec. 4, 1969 by Chicago police and the FBI
Fred Hampton speaks
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 25/08/2026
Devin Thomas O’Shea (@devintoshea.bsky.social), author of The Veiled Prophet, recommends three books every radical should read
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 25/08/2026
“Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.” Howard Zinn was born August 24, 1922 in Brooklyn
Howard Zinn sits in his office in front of a shelf full of books and a sign that says "Strike!"
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 21/08/2026
This weekend only! All Haymarket Books are 40% OFF!
end of summer sale
Take 40% off all Haymarket Books until August 24th
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 12/08/2026
Ruthie Wilson Gilmore recommends three books every radical should read
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 15/07/2026
Tending to Our Wounds Join @jacobinoire.bsky.social and Edwidge Danticat as they reflect on the impacts of colonialism, slavery and racism, and the lives formed in resistance to them. Thursday, August 13th at 2 PM ET / 7 PM BST RSVP: events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...
Tending to Our Wounds: Edna Bonhomme in Conversation with Edwidge Danticat

 Thu Aug 13, 2026 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM EDT
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 13/07/2026
BROOKLYN! Join Elizabeth Hinton and @skippedhistory.bsky.social as they discuss Dogma, an essay from in the upcoming anthology "Harm + Punishment: Incarcerated Writers on Violence and the US Prison" Wed, Jul 22 at 6:30 PM ET 📍 Center for Brooklyn History RSVP: www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cbh...
An Unfinished Revolution:
Dialogues on Freedom and Democracy with Elizabeth Hinton

Wednesday, July 22, 2026
6:30 - 8PM
Center for Brooklyn History
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 27/06/2026
Shout out to librarians, front line defenders of the freedom to read! If you’re in Chicago for ALA, come by and see us. We’re in booth 2234
A Haymarket Books booth at the American Library Association conference in Chicago, with many Haymarket book covers facing out.
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 25/06/2026
Robin D.G. Kelley recommends three books every radical should read
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 23/06/2026
Thanks for the love, @harvardbookstore.bsky.social! ❤️
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 19/06/2026
Join the Haymarket Book Club! 📚 Join this month and start your subscription with one or more of these 📚 www.haymarketbooks.org/pg/book-club
When We Are Kin by Kyle T. Mays
Revolutionary Forgiveness by D. K. Renton
Femmephilia by Sophie Lewis
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 13/06/2026
And we’ve got the bumper stickers
Bumper sticker reads: Let me merge! I'm late to my capital Vol. 1 reading group
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 13/06/2026
We’re here at Labor Notes!
A table set up with lots of Haymarket Books for sale at the Labor Notes conference in Chicago!
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 26/05/2026
Join Robin D.G. Kelley, Geo Maher, Walter Riley, and Jesse Strauss to celebrate a new book that chronicles the lessons from the Black freedom struggle and more. With @abolitionschool.bsky.social and @politicaleducation.bsky.social. RSVP: events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...
Civil Rights and Structural Attacks: Conversations with Walter Riley

Sunday, June 21 at 2PM ET/ 11AM PT
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 22/05/2026
New book! The Conviction Machine: Prosecutors, Politicians, and Police Violence in Chicago by Flint Taylor www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2733-t...
The Conviction Machine: Prosecutors, Politicians, and Police Violence in Chicago by Flint Taylor
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 21/05/2026
From the Free Speech Movement to the Factory Floor: A Collective History of the International Socialists by Andrew Stone Higgins documents the overlooked history and lasting influence of the International Socialists through the words of its members. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2618-f...
From the Free Speech Movement to the Factory Floor: A Collective History of the International Socialists by Andrew Stone Higgins documents the overlooked history and lasting influence of the International Socialists through the words of its members.
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 21/05/2026
Unions of Our Own: Eight Building Blocks to Change Work and the World by @dgorganize.bsky.social is an actionable, inviting, and confidence-boosting philosophy on how to tackle problems in your workplace and win. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2724-u...
Unions of Our Own: Eight Building Blocks to Change Work and the World by Daniel Gross is an actionable, inviting, and confidence-boosting philosophy on how to tackle problems in your workplace and win.
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 21/05/2026
Revolutions of Our Times: An Internationalist Manifesto by The Peoples Want is an urgent declaration that advances an internationalism from below focused on people and movements as agents of our collective liberation www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2732-r...
Revolutions of Our Times: An Internationalist Manifesto by @the_peoples_want is an urgent declaration that advances an internationalism from below focused on people and movements as agents of our collective liberation

Unions of Our Own: Eight Building Blocks to Change Work and the World by Daniel Gross is an actionable, inviting, and confidence-boosting philosophy on how to tackle problems in your workplace and win.

From the Free Speech Movement to the Factory Floor: A Collective History of the International Socialists by Andrew Stone Higgins documents the overlooked history and lasting influence of the International Socialists through the words of its members.
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 21/05/2026
Join the Haymarket Book Club! 📚 Join in May and start your subscription with one or more of these www.haymarketbooks.org/pg/book-club
Revolutions of Our Times: An Internationalist Manifesto by @the_peoples_want is an urgent declaration that advances an internationalism from below focused on people and movements as agents of our collective liberation

Unions of Our Own: Eight Building Blocks to Change Work and the World by Daniel Gross is an actionable, inviting, and confidence-boosting philosophy on how to tackle problems in your workplace and win.

From the Free Speech Movement to the Factory Floor: A Collective History of the International Socialists by Andrew Stone Higgins documents the overlooked history and lasting influence of the International Socialists through the words of its members.
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 10/05/2026
Abolitionist John Brown was born May 9, 1800.
John Brown
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 06/05/2026
COVER REVEAL 📚 How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention by @jwashing.bsky.social Releasing July 21st wherever good books are sold (or borrowed). Available for pre-order now.
How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention by John Washington
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 05/05/2026
Happy birthday, Karl Marx!
Karl Marx
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 02/05/2026
This year, we‘re celebrating 25 years of publishing books for changing the world! 🌻 We’re so grateful to @ollycostello.bsky.social for this beautiful new illustration. Another world is possible if we fight for it.
An illustration featuring an open book, flowers, bees, and a butterfly. The text reads "Books for Changing the World; Haymarket Books; Celebrating 25 years"
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 01/05/2026
Happy May Day! Our office is closed today; we’ll see you in the streets!
Anthropomorphic bread and roses walking hand in hand, holding aloft a banner that reads "We Want it All" 
The bottom says: Haymarket Books, Est. 2001, Chicago IL
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 30/04/2026
Chicago! We’re thrilled to be hosting @democracynow.org’s Amy Goodman at the @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social for a special screening of the new documentary “Steal this story, please!” Friday, May 8 at 7:30 PM Get tickets: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...
Steal this story please film poster
Chicago IL
Opens May 8 at Music Box Theatre
Friday, May 8 at 7:30 pm 
Q&A with 
Film. participant Amy Goodman and director Carl Deal
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 27/04/2026
We’ve got some new stickers for you
Four stickers:
Dark blue bumper sticker reads "what are you reading this weekend," with a Haymarket logo
Red bumper sticker says "Let me merge! I'm late to my capital Vol. 1 reading group"
White square sticker features anthropomorphic Bread and Roses holding hands, marching with a banner that says " We Want It All," beneath them it says "Haymarket Books, Est. 2001, Chicago IL"
Square sticker featuring a cartoon of a kneeling person hand-making tortillas, and says "Chinga La Migra, Chicago"
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 23/04/2026
Strike Power in the University Join @long-haul-mag.bsky.social for its inaugural digital panel, as union members will discuss the lessons and experiences accumulated through strikes they've helped lead in recent years. Tues, April 28 at 5 PM ET RSVP: events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...
Long-Haul Presents: Strike Power in the University

Tue Apr 28 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM EDT at YouTube
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 17/04/2026
Friends don’t let friends buy bootlegged Haymarket gear on the internet.
A scam account shares a link to an unauthorized t-shirt reproduction of a Haymarket Books graphic linked above. Haymarket Books responds: "Please don't do this."
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 17/04/2026
We want it all New design collab with @harebrained.bsky.social
An anthropomorphic piece of sliced bread and a bunch of red roses smiling, walking hand-in-hand. The slice of bread carries a red banner that says "We Want It All"

Beneath the image it says 
Haymarket Books
Est. 2001, Chicago IL
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 14/04/2026
The Mouse has a secret...
Book cover for The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World by Vicky Osterweil
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 13/04/2026
In the Imperial Crosshairs Join us for this discussion of Trump’s war and its catastrophic consequences for the people of Iran and Ukraine. Thursday, April 16 at 2 PM ET RSVP: events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...
In the Imperial Crosshairs: Trump’s War and its Consequences for the People of Iran and Ukraine

Speakers:

Frieda Afary

Taras Bilous 

Alexandra Zapolskaya 

Ashley Smith 

Thu Apr 16, 2026 2:00 PM
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 01/04/2026
Gil Scott-Heron was born April 1, 1949 in Chicago.
Gil Scott-Heron
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 01/04/2026
Read more poetry.
A large stack of Haymarket poetry books, a list of which is linked in the threaded post below.
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 25/03/2026
From the Free Speech Movement to the Factory Floor Join author Andrew Stone Higgins and historian @nelsonlichtenstein.bsky.social as they discuss the history of the International Socialist movement in the 1960's-70's. Tuesday, March 31 at 5:30 PM ET RSVP: events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...
From the Free Speech Movement to the Factory Floor: A Collective History of the International Socialists

Join us for a discussion between author Andrew Stone Higgins and historian Nelson Lichtenstein

 Tue Mar 31, 2026 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM EDT
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 20/03/2026
One Day Longer, One Day Stronger Hear from union leaders & rank-and-filers who've been active on the frontlines and behind the scenes about how Minnesota's labor movement is resisting ICE. W/ @workdaymagazine.bsky.social. Tues, March 24 5:30 PM ET RSVP: events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...
One Day Longer, One Day Stronger: How Minnesota's Labor Movement is Resisting ICE

Paul Kirk-Davidoff - Twin Cities Labor Report

Chelsie Glaubitz Gabiou - Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation

Feben Ghilagaber - UNITE-HERE 17

This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books and Workday Magazine. 

 Tue Mar 24, 2026 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM EDT
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 12/03/2026
Congratulations, @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social! 💐 THE BEGINNING COMES AFTER THE END is officially a New York Times bestseller in its first week of publication Thanks to everyone who pre-ordered or picked up a copy this week.
Books / Best Sellers
Paperback Nonfiction
10 NEW THIS WEEK
The Beginning Comes After the End
by Rebecca Solnit / Haymarket
Solnit describes changes in several facets of society that have occurred over the last seven decades.
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 09/03/2026
The Beginning Comes After The End Don’t miss @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social in conversation with @billmckibben.bsky.social, hosted by @thirdactorg.bsky.social Tuesday, March 10 at 7:00 pm ET RSVP to attend: actionnetwork.org/events/topic...
Book Cover: 
The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change
Rebecca Solnit
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 05/03/2026
Reno! @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social will be discussing her new book The Beginning Comes After the End on Friday, March 13th, hosted with The Radical Cat and Third Act Nevada RSVP to attend: theradicalcat.square.site/product/marc...
Rebecca Solnit is coming to Reno!! In collab with Third Act Nevada, Rad Cat is bringing the legendary author and activist to you! This will be a big event, so we are hosting it off-site at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship down on 780 Del Monte Lane. Solnit will read from her upcoming book, The Beginning Comes After the End (more info below), and discuss politics, organizing and the all long, winding paths we take on the road to a better world. Tickets are on a $5-$10 sliding scale, as well as a $22 ticket + book bundle option. Our priority is to make this event accessible to everyone - no one will be turned away for lack of funds, but attendance is limited due to capacity considerations! Please email us at events@theradicalcat.com if you would like to attend but cannot swing the ticket fee :)
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 05/03/2026
Rosa Luxemburg was born March 5, 1871.
Rosa Luxemburg’s mug shot
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 02/03/2026
“Weaving together archive, memoir, political speeches, and ethnography, this book is a more than worthy portrait of the Young Lords and their influence in Chicago.“ chireviewofbooks.com/2026/03/02/1...
The Young Lords Speak: Building Revolution on the Streets of Chicago
Edited by Jacqueline Lazú
Foreword by José “Cha Cha” Jiménez
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 17/02/2026
Ukraine’s Anti-Imperialist Struggle Join us for a webinar discussing the fourth anniversary of Russia’s imperialist invasion of Ukraine. With @ukrainesolidus.bsky.social. Monday, February 23 at 1:15 PM ET RSVP: events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...
Ukraine’s Anti-Imperialist Struggle

Artem Chapeye, Tanya Vyhovsky, and Denys Bondar

This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books and Ukraine Solidarity Network

Mon Feb 23, 2026 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM EST
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 14/02/2026
Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in February, 1818. He later chose to celebrate his birthday on February 14th.
Frederick Douglass
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 13/02/2026
NYC! Check out this incredible lineup hosted by @brianjoneseducator.bsky.social and Voices of a People's History at @lincolncenter.bsky.social Thursday, February 19th; Tickets are FREE! www.lincolncenter.org/series/linco...
Black History Is For Everyone
This February performance of Voices of a People's History takes its inspiration from the new book Black History Is for Everyone, written by New York Public Library educator Brian Jones. Black History challenges our understanding of race, nation, and the stories we tell about who we are. Understanding it challenges our assumptions, helps us see larger forces at work, and gives us glimpses of alternate futures. Featuring Haley Pessin, Jordan Mahome, Kelly "GreenLight" Thomas, Mahogany L. Browne, Margaret Odette, Martha Redbone, Aaron Whitby, Regine Jean Louis, and Ty Jones; narrated by Brian Jones.
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