Introducing Digressions, a virtual reading group organized by the Dig and Haymarket Books. This first session took place on August 3, 2023.Every session of Digressions will take place three to four weeks after its guest appears on the Dig, and will be broadcast live. A list of suggested readings—including a discount code for any recommended book(s)…

Please join Linda Quiquivix, William C. Anderson, & Mohamed Abdou for a round table conversation on "Palestine 1492: Settler-colonialism, Solidarity & Resistance." They will situate Palestine transnationally in relation to 1492, & discuss admirable acts of solidarity by activists and organizers as well as common pitfalls within leftist social movem…

This roundtable will celebrate the much-anticipated publication of Orisanmi Burton’s first book, Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt. Order a copy of "Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt" from Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/a/1039/9780520396326SpeakersJa…

Come celebrate the launch of Cheryl Boyce-Taylor’s collected poems The Limitless Heart.Encompassing the breadth of Cheryl Boyce-Taylor’s astounding career, The Limitless Heart is a time capsule of the boundless love, care, grief, and fortitude that make her work so stirring.With deep empathy, thoughtfulness, charisma, and lyricism, Boyce-Taylor’s w…

Join us for a conversation between Vincent Bevins and Naomi Klein on what their recent books—"If We Burn" and "Doppelganger"—can teach us about our political moment.Over the course of the past ten years mass protests of unprecedented scale swept across the entire globe. From the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia, to the eruption of rebellions in the…

Join us for a conversation between Luke Messac and Kenyon Farrow on medical debt and racial justice. This event took place on November 16, 2023.Ruth Wilson Gilmore said, “Debt robs. But debt also disciplines…Today, while the imperial imperatives might be different, the role of debt is the same—to compel consent through the coercion of debt.” One of…

Join Haymarket Books and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project for a conversation celebrating the launch of the anthology Going for Broke. Join Alissa Quart in conversation with Alex Miller, Annabelle Gurwitch, Katha Pollitt and Ray Suarez, to celebrate the launch of the anthology Going for Broke, a collaboration between Haymarket Books and the E…

Join Mike Taber, David McNally, Anne McShane, & Tom Alter for a discussion about the Second International’s strengths, weaknesses, & legacy. This event took place on October 26, 2023.At its height, the Second (Socialist) International (1889-1914) represented the majority of organized workers in the world, with the stated revolutionary aim of overth…

Join us for a livestream from Haymarket House: the first of a four-part public discussion series focused on Chicago’s left political landscape and movement!This event took place on October 25, 2023.We’re kicking off our Chicago Conversations series with a discussion about building & wielding left political power.Chicago’s robust left social movemen…

Join Barbara Smith,Tamika Middleton, Haley Pessin and Jaimee A. Swift as they discuss historical & contemporary issues Black feminists face.This event took place on October 18, 2023.To celebrate the fortieth anniversary of Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology Barbara Smith, Tamika Middleton, Haley Pessin, and Jaimee A. Swift will discuss the hist…

Join us for the live stream of a conversation with Syrian writer & former political prisoner Yassin al-Haj Saleh moderated by Wendy Pearlman & Danny Postel. Broadcasting from Haymarket House. This event took place on October 17, 2023.Join us for the livestream of a conversation with Yassin al-Haj Saleh, the leading intellectual voice of the Syrian …

Over the course of the past year, The Work and Us has been conducting surveys of incarcerated people to find out what they're thinking about prison labor, extraction, and freedom. In this conversation scholar-activist Ruth Wilson Gilmore and currently incarcerated organizer Stevie Wilson discuss some of the results, and what they mean for the strug…

Join Dean Spade & organizers from Atlanta as they discuss how to protect our communities against recent threats to mutual aid & solidarity efforts.This event took place on August 17, 2023.In the last year, we’ve seen attempts to criminalize mutual aid become more common as an authoritarian tactic. The recent attacks on mutual aid organizers of the …

The past few years have brought a huge resurgence in labor organizing across the U.S.—efforts which, from Chris Smalls’ founding of the Amazon Labor Union to Cecily Myart-Cruz’s work as president of United Teachers Los Angeles, have been driven in large part by members of the Black working class. In award-winning historian Blair LM Kelley’s BLACK F…

Join Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Robin D.G. Kelley for a conversation about perspectives for fighting back against racism today. This event took place on July 19, 2023.Since its founding as a discipline, Black Studies has been under relentless attack by social and political forces seeking to discredit and neutralize it. Most recently, legislatures …

Join trans theorists and activists for a discussion of how "Transgender Marxism” can explain the backlash and help guide the resistance. This event took place on July 16, 2023.The right has launched a systematic backlash against trans people. It has introduced hundreds of anti-trans bills in statehouses across the US, ramped up attacks on trans peo…

In their latest collection of poems, Cave Canem Poetry Prize winner Brionne Janae dives into the deep, unsettled waters of intimate partner violence, queerness, grief, and survival.This event took place on July 6, 2023.“I’ve decided I can’t trust anyone who uses darkness as a metaphor for what they fear,” poet Brionne Janae writes in this stunning …

Nisrin Elamin, Raga Makawi, and Hamid Khalafallah recount the history of the 2018 Sudanese Revolution and explain the current conflict. This event took place on July 5, 2023.Spectre Live Presents:Counterrevolution in Sudan: Understanding the Causes of the Current WarSudan is wracked by war between dueling military factions. Nisrin Elamin, Raga Maka…

Three acclaimed poets with new books in multiple genres take on questions of history, trauma, and family in the Americas. This event took place on June 9, 2023.To celebrate the publication of Julie Carr’s Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West (University of Nebraska Press, May 2023), she will be joined by…

Join Alexa Patrick and special guests for a celebration of her debut poetry collection Remedies for Disappearing. This event took place on June 6, 2023.In this beautiful debut from an exciting new poet, Alexa Patrick’s Remedies for Disappearing memorializes Blackness in its quiet and unexpected forms, bringing the peripheral into focus. These poems…

Join us for a conversation on the seedy underside to Tech’s past, present, and future. This event took place on May 30, 2023.If the industry’s most credulous boosters are to be taken at their word, the contemporary tech industry is an economic freight train driven by big-brained disrupters who are charting a path toward a future of mutual prosperit…

Join us for a book launch, poetry reading, and visual showcase of Por Siempre. This event took place on May 17, 2023.Por Siempre is a visual and verbal narrative of the grit and gentleness in Southwestern Latinx communities told through photography by Antonio Salazar and poetry by José Olivarez.Guns, tattoos, pit bulls, and cars appear alongside a …

Join us for a virtual launch event celebrating the release of Let This Radicalize You by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba.This event took place on May 16, 2023.What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care is a practical and imagina…

Join us for a discussion of Ukrainians' struggle to cancel their country's debt as part of the global movement against neoliberalism.This event took place on May 11, 2023.In the midst of Russia’s imperialist war, Ukraine’s left, unions, and popular movements have struggled to cancel their country’s debt held by international financial institutions …

Join Cathy Linh Che, Kyle Lucia Wu, and illustrator Kavita Ramchandran for a book launch and celebration of An Asian American A to Z.A comprehensive and spirited exploration of Asian American history—its movements, cultures, and key figures—An Asian American A to Z is a beautifully illustrated and compellingly told for readers of all ages.Co-author…

Join Clément Petitjean and Alex Han in conversation about the new book Occupation Organizer. This event took place on April 30, 2023.How can activists seize on this moment of unrest to build durable, effective organizations for change? Join Clément Petitjean and Alex Han for a history and critique of the community organizing tradition and the fight…

Join Quenton Baker and special guests for a celebration of and conversation on their new book ballast. This event occurred on April 26, 2023.Ballast is a poetic sequence using the 1841 slave revolt aboard the brig Creole as a lens through which to view the vitality of Black lives and the afterlife of slavery.In 1841, the only successful, large-scal…

Hundreds of thousands of people have demonstrated globally in outrage at Israel's genocidal bombardment of Gaza. In the Middle East in particular, protests have been massive, faced state repression, and evoked memories of the Arab Spring revolutions. In Egypt, for example, protestors marched to Tahrir Square for the first time since 2013. In Jordan…

Join Alex Kane (Jewish Currents), Hannah Fertig (Justice Democrats), and Jason Farbman (Jewish Voice for Peace) for a panel moderated by Sumaya Awad (Adalah Justice Project) exploring the US-Israel relationship, with a focus on the role of the Israel lobby in domestic politics.————————————This event is sponsored by Adalah Justice Project, NYC-DSA, …

Join Barnaby Raine, Nihal El Aasar, and Malia Bouattia for a conversation on how we can build a mass international movement for Palestinian liberationThe Palestinian cause is not a cause for Palestinians only, but a cause for every revolutionary, wherever he is, as a cause of the exploited and oppressed masses in our era.” ― Ghassan KanafaniWe are …

Join leading Palestine solidarity activists for a discussion of the role of BDS in solidarity with Palestine.Israel’s attack on the 2.3 million Palestinians in the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip has been described by genocide scholars, international law experts and UN officials as “a textbook case of genocide.” Israel’s bombardment of Gaza has ki…

Join Jewish organizers and scholars for an urgent conversation about the political importance, and long history, of Jewish organizing against Israeli violence, dispossession and occupation. Speakers will discuss the political analysis and strategic orientation guiding IfNotNow and Jewish Voice for Peace as they organize for a ceasefire and an end t…

Join a discussion on opposing occupation and building solidarity among oppressed nations from Ukraine to Palestine.Israel has launched a genocidal war against Palestine at the very same time as Russia continues its imperialist attempt to annex Ukraine. This panel will challenge the selective solidarity that haunts the left and argue for solidarity …

Join Critical Resistance and abolitionists for a critical discussion on the ongoing war on Palestine.Prison industrial complex (PIC) abolitionists have always understood the work to dismantle the PIC to be connected to global movements against war, militarism, and colonialism. In the past few weeks, we’ve seen mass mobilization in solidarity with t…

Join this broadcast for the lecture on Palestine justice by Mohammed El-Kurd cancelled by the University of Vermont.For nearly twenty years the Will Miller Social Justice Lecture Series has worked with the University of Vermont to bring writers, activists, and public intellectuals to Burlington, Vermont to lead timely, politically engaged conversat…

Join us for a wide-ranging discussion of climate catastrophe and the challenges in confronting the state and market behind the disaster.Climate catastrophe is intensifying at an alarming pace. Capital and governments clearly have no intention of stopping it; for them, free markets, private property rights, and accumulation remain sacrosanct, even i…

Join authors of Whiteout and Robin D.G. Kelley for a discussion of the roots of the surprisingly white opioid crisis in racial capitalism.In the past two decades, media images of the surprisingly white “new face” of the US opioid crisis abounded. But why was the crisis so white? Some argued that skyrocketing overdoses were “deaths of despair” signa…

Join this discussion on recent developments in the fight for Palestinian liberation and where they fit in the context of settler colonialismIsrael is currently undergoing unprecedent intra-Jewish social and political convulsion in light of polices propagated by the ultra-religious-nationalist government coalition now in power. The latter also pushe…

Join leading international relations experts Gilbert Achcar and Ilya Budraitskis to discuss Achcar's latest book, The New Cold War.Join leading international relations experts Gilbert Achcar and Ilya Budraitskis as the discuss Achcar's latest book The New Cold War: The United States, Russia, and China from Kosovo to Ukraine.With the Russian invasio…

Join Haymarket Books and Souls for a discussion of the campaign to free Mutulu Shakur.This panel will examine the legacy of Dr. Mutulu Shakur and what this current generation of activists can learn and apply from his political history as an activist, health worker, and political prisoner. What does the experience to win his release have to teach us…

Stock markets and banks are teetering on the edge. Join Spectre live to discuss the meaning of the banking crisis and state bailouts.The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank followed by runs on First Republic Bank and Credit Suisse triggered panic in financial and stock markets throughout the world. Just as they did in the Great Finan…

Join Robin D.G. Kelley for the Freedom Dreams discussion series. The sixth discussion features actor and filmmaker Danielle Deadwyler.Freedom Dreams is a classic in the study of the Black radical tradition that has just been released in a new 20th anniversary edition. In this live event series, Robin D. G. Kelley will explore the connections betwee…

Join Luke Stewart, Cathy Wilkerson, and Alice Lynd for a conversation on Staughton Lynd's struggle against the war in Vietnam.Staughton Lynd was one of the principal intellectuals and activists making the radical argument that the U.S. intervention in Vietnam was illegal under domestic and international law. Lynd was uncompromising in his courageou…

Join activists from the movement to Stop Cop City in Atlanta for a discussion of their struggle and its lessons.The movement to Stop Cop City in Atlanta has reopened the prospect of mass abolitionist organizing after years of ongoing racist police murder, carceral expansion, and political quietism under a Democratic administration. The movement has…

Join Imani Perry and Kaitlyn Greenidge for a discussion of Claudia Tate and Black Women Writers At Work.Long out of print, Black Women Writers at Work is a vital contribution to Black literature in the 20th century.Through candid interviews with Maya Angelou, Toni Cade Bambara, Gwendolyn Brooks, Alexis De Veaux, Nikki Giovanni, Kristin Hunter, Gayl…

Join NAASW and Haymarket for a panel discussion that will explain the harms of CAPTA and discuss what can be done about it.The so-called Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA), does not prevent and it does not treat. Instead, it targets our most vulnerable neighbors, particularly those living in poverty and especially Black, Latinx, and I…

Join a panel of activists and experts to discuss the roots, nature, and politics of the war and Ukraine's resistance.This February marks one year since Russia’s imperialist invasion of Ukraine. On the anniversary, people around the world are organizing events in solidarity with Ukraine’s heroic struggle for self-determination. On Saturday, February…

Join us for discussion of Jon Melrod’s new book, Fighting Times, and the class war on the shop floor in the 1970s.Amidst a rekindled interest in the efforts of student radicals of the 1960s to industrialize in workers’ movement as part of a larger social transformation, Jon Melrod’s Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War cou…

Join Robin D.G. Kelley for the Freedom Dreams discussion series. The fifth discussion features Harsha Walia.Freedom Dreams is a classic in the study of the Black radical tradition that has just been released in a new 20th anniversary edition. In this live event series, Robin D. G. Kelley will explore the connections between radical imagination and …

Join Saket Soni and Naomi Klein for a launch event for The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America.————————————————————————————————————————————————Saket Soni, a Delhi-born labor organizer, was in his late 20s and working in New Orleans when he began to receive mysterious calls from inside a heavily guarded Mississ…