#haymarket books

[garadinervi]

From: Against Erasure. A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba, Edited by Teresa Aranguren and Sandra Barrilaro, Foreword by Mohammed El-Kurd, Haymarket Books, Chicago, IL, 2024

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Free Black History, Palestine, Socialism (and other) books on Haymarket

So, HaymarketBooks is a cool online bookstore that, while it does sell physical and digital books, it also offers a lot of free ebooks on subjects it thinks the public should be aware of.

Two categories I know of are Black History, after some racist law in the US that banned Black History resources

And Palestine, what with government media giving a super biased view of unfortunately

It’s in moments like these that we must turn to independent media and resource providers to educate ourselves on topics the government or other people don’t want us to learn about.

Now, here are all of Haymarket’s books they are offering for free, since their website doesn’t have a filter or sort by price option.

Here they are, 17 in total, as per 2nd Feb 2024 :)

Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions by Omar Barghouti, 320 pages

1989, The Number by Kevin Coval and Nate Marshall, 23 pages

Inauguration by Idris Goodwin and Nico Wilkinson, 23 pages

The Anti-Inauguration by Anand Gopal, Owen Jones, et al., 40 pages

Commando by E'mon Lauren,

Human Highlight by Kevin Coval and Idris Goodwin

1919 by Eve L. Ewing

The New Authoritarians by David Renton

Socialist Strategy and Electoral Politics

The Brother You Choose by Susie Day

Can't Pay, Won't Pay by Debt Collective

Black Lives Matter at School by Jesse Hagopian and Denisha Jones

Palestine: A Socialist Introduction Edited by Sumaya Awad and Brian Bean

Light in Gaza Edited by Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing, et al., 280 pages

A Life of Activism by Howard Zinn, 81 pages

Our History Has Always Been Contraband Edited by Colin Kaepernick, Robin D. G. Kelley, et al.

From the River to the Sea Edited by Sai Englert, Michal Schatz, et al.

While their website is limited when it comes to pricing options, it's not limited with free books, so you don't need to enter a single financial detail to download these books :)

Note: I haven't read any of these books yet so the tags are just based on their book descriptions

Other places for more free books:

Liberation Library

On the colonization and ethnic cleansing of Palestine

Sudan guide, not an ebook, but #keep eyes on sudan #free sudan

Happy reading! :)

[thoughtportal]

Publishing books on the struggle for justice in Palestine has been a central part of Haymarket’s mission since we published our first book, The Struggle for Palestine, in 2001. Now as ever, we recognize the root cause and ongoing perpetrator of violence in Palestine to be Israeli settler-colonialism and apartheid, and we stand in solidarity with Palestinians in their struggle for freedom.

We also believe that books, as tools for education, analysis, combatting misinformation, and inspiration, have a vital role to play in the global Palestine solidarity movement. In that spirit, we’ve made three crucial books free to download

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Haymarket Books is doing a campaign as part of their Books Not Bars series for the upcoming holidays. Donate to help them send books to incarcerated folks!

“In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the immense violence of the prison system, we want to do what we can to connect people with radical books and opportunities for political education. We have worked for many years with organizations that send books inside, and we are expanding those efforts.

This Holiday Season, we are raising funds to send books inside. Our goal is to send at least 1,000 books this winter, and we are asking for your help to cover some of the costs of books and shipping. Any amount raised above our goal will allow us to send additional books inside. “

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[elliedearest]

Haymarket books is currently offering ebooks about the history of Palestine for free on their website.

[whilereadingandwalking]

For Black Women Writers at Work, Claudia Tate interviewed 14 playwrights, poets, and novelists to get at their sensibilities and their craft, and ask their takes on some of the debates of the day. The artists include Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, Nikki Giovanni, Audre Lorde, and many more, and the interviews include a lot of fascinating insight into their craft, especially valuable when they were interviewed in the 1970s and too much of their work reduced to solely their own experiences rather than their creativity or process. The iconic tome has been rereleased by Haymarket Books in this new lovely edition.

The one thing I wish this reissue had was an introduction to the issues and debates of the day for the 2023 reader. Over and over again, Tate asked writers about a 'debate.' My understanding is that the Black sexist debate was raised particularly by two works: Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman by Michele Wallace and for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange. The crux of it was that female writers who raised issues of misogyny, abuse, and sexual assault were accused of dividing the community and undermining the unity of the Black cause. I was able to slowly get that from reading along and then google-searching, but an introduction to it could have been incredibly valuable and taken mere sentences.

It was honestly incredible to get into the heads of these authors and hear from them about their stories and their craft, when they were in the midst of it. Their voices are so distinct and vivid, and it's fantastic to have this archive, to get a chance to see into their heads. It includes many fantastic pieces of writing advice (I particularly loved Toni Morrison's, perhaps because she too feels like her characters and stories just arrive in her head). A great and necessary read for writers and for readers of these incredible authors' works.

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Haymarket Books is giving out free Black history books in response to the book bans!

They also started a program in Florida to give free books on black history to teachers, activist, etc.

Also feel free to donate to their program to give books to people in prison.

[garadinervi]

Against Erasure. A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba, Edited by Teresa Aranguren and Sandra Barrilaro, Foreword by Mohammed El-Kurd, Haymarket Books, Chicago, IL, 2024

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Haymarket Books is holding another online event on Palestine this Wednesday! Registration is free: HERE!

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More books at the link.

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I put this release date in my calendar a while back but ooowweee that first sentence of the podcast description! “In episode thirteen of season two, co-hosts Dr. CBS and Dr. Layla Brown, start by shooting the shit with producer, Too Black, about "In-the-Room Privilege" -- when members of marginalized groups falsely believe they represent their group simply by being in the room where decisions are made.” That’s the exact humility I had to learn after my kkkarolina student government career ended and why I stay pissed off at table sitters since.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4tmgYskL8UDgwqvccvFnP5? si=uCKTQTHRT8iUS9gIoK0GBw

Upcoming Book Event with Hamarket Books May 9th 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/elite-capture-tickets-317714301027?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=escb

From the book listing at Haymarket Books:

“Identity politics” is everywhere, polarizing discourse from the campaign trail to the classroom and amplifying antagonisms in the media, both online and off. But the compulsively referenced phrase bears little resemblance to the concept as first introduced by the radical Black feminist Combahee River Collective. While the Collective articulated a political viewpoint grounded in their own position as Black lesbians with the explicit aim of building solidarity across lines of difference, identity politics is now frequently weaponized as a means of closing ranks around ever-narrower conceptions of group interests.

But the trouble, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò deftly argues, is not with identity politics itself. Through a substantive engagement with the global Black radical tradition and a critical understanding of racial capitalism, Táíwò identifies the process by which a radical concept can be stripped of its political substance and liberatory potential by becoming the victim of elite capture—deployed by political, social, and economic elites in the service of their own interests.

Táíwò’s crucial intervention both elucidates this complex process and helps us move beyond a binary of “class” vs. “race.” By rejecting elitist identity politics in favor of a constructive politics of radical solidarity, he advances the possibility of organizing across our differences in the urgent struggle for a better world.

Reviews

“I was waiting for this book without realizing I was waiting for this book.”

—Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition

“Olúfémi O. Táíwò is a thinker on fire. He not only calls out empire for shrouding its bloodied hands in the cloth of magical thinking but calls on all of us to do the same. Elite capture, after all, is about turning oppression and its cure into a (neo)liberal commodity exchange where identities become capitalism’s latest currency rather than the grounds for revolutionary transformation. The lesson is clear: only when we think for ourselves and act with each other, together in deep, dynamic, and difficult solidarity, can we begin to remake the world.”

—Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination

“Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò’s book is worth sitting with and absorbing. While critically examining what happens when elites hijack our critiques and terminologies for their own interests, Elite Capture acutely reminds us that building power globally means we think and build outside of our internal confines. That is when we have the greatest possibility at worldmaking.”

—Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist

“Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò offers an indispensable and urgent set of analyses, interventions, and alternatives to "identity politics," "centering," and much more. The book offers a sober assessment of the state of our racial politics and a powerful path on how to build the world that we deserve.”

—Derecka Purnell, author of Becoming Abolitionists

“With global breadth, clarity and precision, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò dissects the causes and consequences of elite capture and charts an alternative constructive politics for our time. The result is an erudite yet accessible book that draws widely on the rich traditions of black and anticolonial political thought.”

—Adom Getachew, author of Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination

“Among the churn of books on ‘wokeness’ and ‘political correctness,’ philosopher Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò’s Elite Capture clearly stands out. With calm, clarity, erudition, and authority, Táíwò walks the reader through the morass, deftly explicating the distinction between substantive and worthy critique and weaponized backlash. Understanding the culture wars is essential to US politics right now, and no one has done it better than Táíwò in this book.”

—Jason Stanley, author of How Fascism Works

“Olúfẹḿi O. Táíwò is one of the great social theorists of our generation. Elite Capture is a brilliant, devastating book. Táíwò deploys his characteristic blend of philosophical rigor, sociological insight, and political clarity to reset the debate on identity politics. Táíwò shows how the structure of racial capitalism, not misguided activism, is today’s prime threat to egalitarian, anti-racist politics. And Táíwò’s suggested path forward, a constructive and materialist politics at the radical edge of the possible, is exactly what we need to escape these desperate times. Anyone concerned with dismantling inequalities, and building a better world, needs to read this book.”

—Daniel Aldana Cohen, co-author of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal

“Táíwò's book is an insightful and fascinating look at how it is that elites capture and subvert efforts to better society. Anyone who wants to understand and improve upon the activist movements shaking our world needs to read this book.”

—Liam Kofi Bright, assistant professor at the London School of Economics

“This book, building on one of the most lucid, powerful, and important essays I can recall reading in recent years, is, in a word, brilliant. Read it—and read it twice. Every sentence contains multitudes.”

—Daniel Denvir, host, The Dig

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haymarket books is having a 40% off sale on ALL books through august 15, so get your radical texts now!

[cityofchapin]

from: "Ode to TERFs" by H. Melt

from: "Ode to TERFs"you cite the transsexual empirespell women incorrectlyhijack pride parades& mourn michfest.we are livingin a new world.you can join usor becomeextinct. Melt, H. “Ode to TERFs.” There Are Trans People Here. Haymarket Books, 2021, p. 20.

[expendablemudge]

Gettin' tighter & tighter to get tree-books delivered this #Booksgiving...your youngest reader will laugh with you while you read them WAKING BEAUTY, the amazing Rebecca Solnit looks at fairy tales from her own unique angle.