Books published by Haymarket Books

A compelling account of Karl Marx’s relevance for theorizing historical knowledge.

A groundbreaking study that shatters longstanding assumptions about the nature and origins of the Russian Revolution

The critically acclaimed account of life in Iraq under US occupation with a new afterword.

Though once thought anathema to one another, in contemporary society, Zafirovski shows that Capitalism and Dictatorship are increasingly codependent.

An innovative historical account which compellingly locates the provision of food in the political economic trajectory of Istanbul.

This expansive volume challenges the conventional approach to research by arguing for the recentering of local and marginalized knowledges

An evocative, affecting play on the horrors of mass incarceration written collaboratively by prisoners who have experienced it first-hand.

Tim Stafford’s work lives in the buffer zone between Chicago and the American Dream — far from the suburbs with white picket fences and country clubs but still too far to be of the city proper. Like a carefully curated mixtape, Stafford’s work navigates the side streets and highways in between, linking those worlds in an effort to create his own.

Hope Wabuke weaves together a coming-of-age narrative of a Black girl, the child of immigrants fleeing from genocidal terror to America.

A timely and persuasive discussion of the circumstances, challenges, and possibilities facing the new socialist movement in the US.

An academic exposes how dominant education reform policies destabilize low-income communities.In this incisive collection of essays, educator and activist Mark Naison draws on years of research on Bronx history and his own experience on the front lines of the education wars to unapologetically defend teachers and students from education "e;reform"e; policies that undermine their power and creativity.Naison shows how dominant education policy systematically hurts the very children it claims to support and instead forces them to "e;race to the top."e; He exposes the Duncans, Rhees, and Gateses for schemes that intensify racial and economic inequality. And he refocuses the conversation on teaching and organizing strategies that should be implemented in communities everywhere.Praise for Badass Teachers Unite!"e;Mark Naison has woven a series of provocative essays into a powerful book. No traditional scholarly treatise, Badass Teachers Unite! is an education manifesto for the people's school reform movement. With clarity, verve, and passion, Naison outlines the challenges we face in transforming public schools and he forges a guide to our actions. This book is must reading for anyone concerned about the plight of public schools in the USA today."e; -Henry Louis Taylor Jr., director, UB Center for Urban Studies, University at Buffalo"e;Mark Naison is a badass?and it took one to write this rousing pronouncement to the militancy emerging among today's schoolteachers . . . . Mark Naison's Badass Teachers Unite! brings back the attitude we need to confront the corporate reform bullies and reclaim our schools."e; -Jesse Hagopian, history teacher, Garfield High School, Seattle, Washington, and associate editor for Rethinking Schools magazine

Rodney's immensely creative and original use of Marxism was both a challenge to radical understandings of development and colonialisation but also faithful to a certain framework of analysis in the period he lived.

Two-time NBA champion Craig Hodges has never been shy about speaking truth to power.

How We Go Home shares contemporary Indigenous stories in the long and ongoing fight to protect Native land and life.

The first biography of the bold, principled, and fiercely independent woman who defied convention to make her own mark on the world.