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Writer, historian, and activist REBECCA SOLNIT is the author of more than twenty
books on feminism, Western and Indigenous history, popular power, social change
and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster, including Call Them by
Their True Names (Winner of the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction), Men Explain
Things to Me, The Mother of All Questions, Hope in the Dark, and Cinderella Liberator
(all from Haymarket Books). A product of the California public education system
from kindergarten to graduate school, she is a columnist at the Guardian.
MICHAEL BENNETT is a three-time Pro Bowler, Pro Bowl MVP, Super Bowl
Champion, and two-time NFC Champion. He has gained international rec-
ognition for his public support for the Black Lives Matter movement, wom-
en’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 excep-
tional service. He is the cofounder with Pele Bennett of the Bennett Foun-
dation, 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 with the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe.
DAVE ZIRIN is the sports editor for the Nation and the author of several books,
most recently Jim Brown: Last Man Standing.
“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 peo-
ple 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 book on race written by an ath-
lete 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, author of No Is Not Enough
We meet landmen and roustabouts and public officials and drug dealers, we drill and frack
and go hunting for elk and slaughter rodents and spend a night dealing blackjack. People
with various outlooks and agendas are drawn into the economic feeding frenzy, hoping for
big profit and minimal collateral damage. The novel posits that the Wild West is not trapped
in a bygone era, but is resurrected any time there is crazy money to be made, the law over-
whelmed, and way too many men living in one place.
JOHN SAYLES works as a fiction writer, screenwriter, actor, and feature film di-
rector. His novel Union Dues (1978) was nominated for the National Book
Award and the National Critics’ Circle Award. He has written over a hundred
screenplays and was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original
Screenplay. He has directed eighteen feature films, with another, I Passed This
Way, currently in progress. His films Matewan and Lone Star, as well as his pre-
vious novel A Moment in the Sun, are often used for instruction in history and
American studies courses. Yellow Earth is his fifth novel.
STACEYANN CHIN is a full-time artist. A resident of New York City and a Jamai-
can national, she has been an “out poet and political activist” since 1998. From
the Nuyorican Poets’ Cafe to one-woman shows Off-Broadway to acting in
Julie Taymor’s Across the Universe and performing in both the stage and film ver-
sions of Howard Zinn’s Voices of a People’s History of the United States, to starring
in the Tony-nominated Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam on Broadway, Chin
credits the long list of “things she has done” to her grandmother’s hard-working
history and the pain of her mother’s absence.
“Chicago-based poet and educator Kevin Coval has one of the strongest and
most long-standing literary visions in the city.”
—Chicago Tribune
“Kevin Coval made me understand what it is to be a poet, what it is to be an
artist, and what it is to serve the people.”
—Chance the Rapper
KEVIN COVAL is the author of A People’s History of Chicago among other books. He is
the founder and editor of Haymarket’s BreakBeat Poets series, artistic director of
Young Chicago Authors, which won a MacArthur Award in 2016, and founder of
Louder Than a Bomb: The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival, the world’s largest youth
poetry festival. He is the recipient of the 2019 Gwendolyn Brooks Youth Advocacy
Award, the 2018 Studs Terkel Award & the 2017 John Peter Altgeld Freedom of
Speech Award. He cohosts the podcast The Cornerstore on WGN Radio.
IDRIS GOODWIN uses the written and spoken word to incite and inspire. An
award-winning writer/performer who coined the term “break beat poet,” Good-
win is the author of the Pushcart–nominated essay and poetry collection These
Are The Breaks. He’s the author of several publications with Haymarket Books
including Inauguration (cowritten with Nico Wilkinson), winner of the 2017
Literary Arts Award from the Pikes Peak Arts Council, Human Highlight: Ode
to Dominique Wilkins, and the controversial play This Is Modern Art both cowrit-
ten with Kevin Coval. His poetry has been featured on HBO Def Poetry, Ses-
ame Street, NPR, BBC Radio, and the Discovery Channel. An accomplished
playwright, his widely produced stage plays include And In This Corner: Cassius
Clay, How We Got On, and Hype Man: A Break Beat Play. Idris and his family live
in Louisville, Kentucky, where he is the producing artistic director of Stage One,
a professional theater company for young audiences.
A father and daughter’s love cannot be broken even when prison bars separate them. A
little girl who misses her father because he’s away in prison shares how her absence affects
different parts of her life. Her greatest excitement is the days when she gets to visit her be-
loved father. With gorgeous illustrations throughout, this book illuminates the heartaches
of dealing with missing a parent and shows that a little girl’s love can overcome her father’s
incarceration.
MARIAME KABA is an educator and organizer based in New York City. She has
been active in anti-criminalization and anti-violence movements for the past
thirty years. Mariame is the founder and director of Project NIA, a grassroots
organization with a long-term vision to end youth incarceration.
BRIA ROYAL is multidisciplinary artist from Chicago. She considers her anima-
tion, comics, paintings, and zines to be the result of a radical healing process
that she hopes others will benefit from seeing unfold. Much of her work cen-
ters on Black and Brown imaginations and womxnhood, femininity and gen-
der fluidity through a lens of ecofeminism, afrofuturism, and contemporary
mythology.
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 offi-
cials, and rank-and-filers are woven into the narrative, along with anarchists, jazz musicians,
Wall Street financiers, civil rights crusaders, and mob lawyers. It touches on pivotal mo-
ments 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
twentieth-century industrial decline.
Both Harvester and the FE are now gone, but this largely forgotten clash helps explain the
crisis of yawning inequality facing the US today, and provides alternative models from the
past that can instruct and inspire those engaged in working-class and radical struggles today.
For all their famed “disruption” of the economy, Big Tech CEOs re-
semble the robber barons of the past. 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. It’s time to crack the code on these near-monopolies.
Aftershocks of Disaster
Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm
Edited by Yarimar Bonilla and Marisol LeBrón
Caged
The New Jersey Prison Theater Cooperative
Introduction by Chris Hedges and Boris Franklin
THE NEW JERSEY PRISON THEATER COOPERATIVE is a committee that includes not only
the twenty-eight formerly incarcerated participants but also six theater professionals,
who worked on the script’s development.
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.
Jackson explores the liberating and provocative role sports play in Amer-
ican society and also the hypocritical standards by which the athletes
that play them are often judged. Chapters explore “America’s Miseduca-
tion of LeBron James,” “The Disrespect of Serena Williams,” the cultural bias of analytics, and the power of
social activism versus 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.
SCOOP JACKSON is a national senior writer for ESPN. He has covered issues of race,
culture, politics, and sports for various publications for over twenty-five years. He is the
former executive editor of XXL and Slam and former publisher of The Agenda.
Neoliberalism’s War
on Higher Education
Updated Edition
Henry A. Giroux
HENRY A. GIROUX holds the McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public
Interest in the English and Cultural Studies Department and is the Paulo Freire Dis-
tinguished Scholar in Critical Pedagogy. His books include: The Violence of Organized
Forgetting and The Terror of the Unforeseen.
Eugene V. Debs exploded upon the national scene in 1894 as the lead-
er of a sensational strike by his American Railway Union (ARU) against
the Pullman Parlor Car Company—a job stoppage which paralyzed the
country’s transportation network for nearly two weeks. On January 1,
1897, the polarizing public figure Debs declared his allegiance to international socialism, emerging
as the most widely recognized socialist in America. He would thereafter tour the country relentlessly,
speaking to large audiences and writing hundreds of articles on political and economic themes over the
ensuing three decades. Tim Davenport and David Walters have extracted the essential core of Debs’s
life work, illustrating his intellectual journey from conservative editor of the magazine of a racially seg-
regated railway brotherhood to his role as the public face and outstanding voice of social revolution
in early twentieth-century America.
PAUL LE BLANC is a professor at La Roche College and the author of many books in-
cluding October Song, Left Americana, and From Marx to Gramsci and is the editor of The
Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg.
The Adventures of
The Communist Manifesto
Hal Draper
HAL DRAPER (1914-1990) was the author of the five-volume study Karl Marx’s Theory of
Revolution as well as War and Revolution: Lenin and the Myth of Revolutionary Defeatism
and Berkeley: The New Student Revolt. He was also a prominent socialist journalist and
editor of the journal Labor Action from 1948–1958.
The capitalist crisis of the twenty-first century has been met by a resurgence of interest
in critical Marxist theory. Yet the publishing institutions committed to Marxism have
contracted markedly since the high point of the 1970s. The Historical Materialism Book
Series is dedicated to addressing this situation by making available important works of
Marxist theory. The aim of the series is to publish important theoretical contributions—
in the form of original monographs, translated texts, and reprints of classics—as the basis
for vigorous intellectual debate and exchange on the left.
Marx on Capitalism
When Workers Shot Back James Furner
Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921
9781642590463 | $36.00 | 522 pages
Robert Ovetz
9781642590593 | $36.00 | 606 pages
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Jean-Numa Ducange
9781642590531 | $28.00 | 358 pages
Intelligent Materialism
Evald Ilyenkov and Evgeni Pavlov
Speculation as a Mode of Production 9781642590609 | $28.00 | 256 pages
Marina Vishmidt
9781642590517 | $28.00 | 254 pages
The Antagonistic Principle
Massimo Modonesi
Invisible Leviathan 9781642590616 | $28.00 | 120 pages
Murray E. G. Smith
9781642590456 | $28.00 | 370 pages
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A Beautiful Ghetto
Photographs by Devin Allen, introduction by D. Watkins
“Allen’s work demonstrates a connection between resistance as a daily activity,
a way of life in the ghetto, and resistance as a political act, as played out in the
streets last spring.” —Washington Post
9781608467594 | $24.95 | HARDBACK | 128 pages
Capitalism
A Ghost Story
Arundhati Roy
With anger and compassion, Roy exposes the sordid underbelly and dark
inhumanity of capitalism in India and around the globe.
9781608463855 | $14.95 | PAPERBACK | 136 pages
Cinderella Liberator
Rebecca Solnit, illustrated by Arthur Rackham
Rebecca Solnit reimagines a classic fairytale with a fresh, feminist Cinderella
and new plot twists that will inspire young readers to change the world.
9781608465965 | $17.95 | HARDCOVER | 32 pages
Citizen Illegal
José Olivarez
“Citizen Illegal is right on time, bringing both empathy and searing critique
to the fore as a nation debates the very humanity of the people who built it.”
—Eve L. Ewing
9781608469543 | $16.00 | PAPERBACK | 80 pages
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Electric Arches
Eve L. Ewing
“Exquisite.” —Ava DuVernay
“In her genre-defying debut, Eve Ewing is imagining a future of hope and safety
for all the kids of Chicago.” —Chicago Reader
9781608468560 | $16.00 | PAPERBACK | 104 pages
Masters of Mankind
Essays and Lectures, 1969–2013
Noam Chomsky, foreword by Marc Raskin
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.
9781608463633 | $12.95 | PAPERBACK | 162 pages
Night Thoughts
Wallace Shawn
Writer and actor Wallace Shawn’s probing, honest, and self-critical take on
civilization and its discontents.
9781608468126 | $14.95 | HARDBACK | 112 pages
No Is Not Enough
Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
Naomi Klein
“This year’s most immediately useful political book.”
—Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2017
9781608468904 | $16.95 | PAPERBACK | 288 pages
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On Palestine
Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé, edited by Frank Barat
Two leading voices in the struggle to liberate Palestine discuss the road ahead
for Palestinians and how the international community can pressure Israel to
end its human rights abuses against the people of Palestine.
9781608464708 | $11.95 | PAPERBACK | 224 pages
Six by Ten
Stories from Solitary
Edited by Taylor Pendergrass and Mateo Hoke
A collection of intimate portraits told directly by people whose lives have
been devastated by solitary confinement in America.
9781608469567 | $19.75 | PAPERBACK | 296 pages
Socialism . . . Seriously
A Brief Guide to Human Liberation
Danny Katch
“Warning to all Democrats, Republicans, and libertarians: this book might turn
you into a closet socialist.” —Judah Friedlander
9781608465156 | $13.95 | PAPERBACK | 182 pages
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Undivided Rights
Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice
by Jael Silliman, Marlene Gerber Fried, Loretta Ross, and Elena R. Gutiérrez
Undivided Rights captures the evolving and largely unknown activist history
of women of color organizing for reproductive justice.
9781608466177 | $19.00 | PAPERBACK | 384 pages
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