Books published by Haymarket Books

In Eros and Revolution, Javier Castro presents a comprehensive intellectual and political biography of the world-renowned critical theorist Herbert Marcuse

Build Yourself a Boat redefines the language of collective and individual trauma through lyric and memory.

New translations of the most important documents from socialist parties, soviets, and worker militias in Petrograd during 1917

These ten essays provide a comprehensive introduction and overview of the theory of global capitalism and its application to a wide range of contemporary issues that will be accessible to activists and the general public yet also satisfying for scholars.

A lexicon of the contemporary age of inequality, which decodes the new vocabulary of capitalism for a broad readership.

A story of resistance, repression, and US policy in Honduras in the aftermath of a violent military coup.

It's 2051, and Arcadia is under attack. As the stand-alone sequel to Splinterlands begins, the sustainable compound in what was once Vermont is on high alert.

"A smart, readable history of the Democrats that reminds us of the party's allegiance to capital." Indypendent

"e;Is Just a Movie is not just a movie, it's a poem, too."e;Arundhati Roy, author, The God of Small Things"e;Earl Lovelace is arguably the Caribbean's greatest living novelist. In Is Just a Movie, he writes at the top of his considerable literary powers, picturing the Caribbean's poor and powerless defending their ever-embattled humanity with resourcefulness and tenacity."e;Randall Robinson, author, Makeda"e;Is Just a Movie confirms Lovelace as a master storyteller of the West Indies."e;Financial Times"e;Lovelace is bursting with things to say about this complex, heterogeneous society in the late twentieth century. This he does with a flair that at its best reaches a soaring rhapsody."e;Guardian"e;Funny, moving, endlessly inventive."e;The Times"e;Vivid prose that seems to stroll effortlessly across the page. Lovelace's loose writing is meticulously crafted but it retains its casual elegance."e;The Times Literary SupplementIn Trinidad, in the wake of 1970's Black Power rebellion, we follow Sonnyboy, Singer King Kala, and their town's folk through experiments in music, politics, religion, and loveand in their day-to-day adventures. Humorous and serious, sad and uplifting, Is Just a Movie is a radiant novel about small moments of magic in ordinary life.Earl Lovelace's books include While Gods Are Falling, winner of the BP Independence Award; the Caribbean classic The Dragon Can't Dance; and Salt, which won the 1997 Commonwealth Writers Prize. For Is Just a Movie, he has won the Grand Prize for Caribbean Literature by the Regional Council of Guadeloupe.

Theoretical meditations and empirical studies of the intersection of culture, power and history in social life.

The articles in this volume examine how the capitalist world-economy impacts the natural world.

This collection of works by prominent Latin Americanists explores the region's move beyond the neoliberal era

Is religion any longer relevant or meaningful in the globalizing development of society and its subjects?

The book rediscovers and defends liberal democracy from its conservative adversaries.

A unique, multidimensional view of the political imagination of the American worker during World War II.

Marx insisted that 'in competition everything is reversed'--this title shows how Marx's method explains why.

A critique of structural-functionalist theories of the state.

Bidet conducts an unprecedented investigation of Marx's work in the spirit of the history of science.

A systemic account of capitalist globalization, and an elaboration of a socialist alternative.

Making History is about the complex interaction between human agency and social structures.

An unparalleled documentation of the most important Marxist analyses of fascism and the struggle to resist it.

A DIY guide for social justice oral history projects.

An extensive compilation of articles, speeches, press statements, and open letters by American socialist Eugene V. Debs.

Emancipation and History assesses critical theory today, focusing on the connection between history and emancipation and on the trends that structure modernity and may lead us beyond it.

Cooperativism and Democracy contains a selection of texts in socio-political thought focusing on Polish cooperativism which make an important contribution to the debate over the relationship of contemporary economics and politics.

This volume brings together contributions which take up the key debates regarding the economic crash of 2007-8 and its sequels.