Reading for Radicals

Haymarket's recommendations for key reading for radicals in the age of Coronavirus. Indispensable books for anyone looking to start, or expand, their activist library. All of these books are currently 30% Off.

As isolated individuals, debtors have little influence. But as a bloc, we can leverage our debts and devise new tactics to challenge the corporate creditor class and help win reparative, universal public goods. Can't Pay, Won't Pay is a powerful guide to action for people in debt.

In this series of electrifying essays, Arundhati Roy challenges us to reflect on the meaning of freedom in a world of growing authoritarianism.

Activist, teacher, author and icon of the Black Power movement Angela Davis talks Ferguson, Palestine, and prison abolition.

“This brilliant book is the best analysis we have of the #BlackLivesMatter moment of the long struggle for freedom in America. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor has emerged as the most sophisticated and courageous radical intellectual of her generation.” Dr. Cornel West
 

It is not enough, Naomi Klein tells us, to merely resist, to say “no.” Our historical moment demands more: a credible and inspiring “yes,” a roadmap to reclaiming the populist ground from those who would divide us—one that sets a bold course for winning the fair and caring world we want and need.

"No writer has better understood the mix of fear and possibility, peril and exuberance that's marked this new millennium." Bill McKibben

An original and compelling analysis of how a newly emboldened and radicalizing right has come to global political ascendance in the years after 9/11, culminating in the victories of Trump and Brexit.
 

"If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free." —Combahee River Collective Statement

A funny and accessible introduction to socialism.

A newly updated and expanded primer for 21st-century democratic socialists from acclaimed scholars Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin, with Stephen Maher.

Organized alphabetically as a lexicon, Keywords explores the history and common usage of major terms in the everyday language of capitalism.

A lively, accessible, and timely guide to Capitalism for those who want to understand and dismantle the world of the 1%.

Capitalism is killing the planet, and the preservation of a natural environment favorable to human life requires a radical alternative. In this new collection of essays, long time revolutionary and environmental activist Michael Löwy offers a vision of ecosocialist transformation.

This book comprises a collection of groundbreaking writings by Marta Russell on the nature of disability and oppression under capitalism.

This classic book is the first truly comprehensive history of American imperialism.

No One Is Illegal convincingly debunks the leading ideas behind the often-violent right-wing backlash against immigrants.

An engaging collection of riveting stories about working people in United States history fighting back in the darkest times.

A critical analysis of the state of public education under capitalism and the prospects for radical pedagogy and reform.

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