Haymarket Books is a

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, independent book publisher based in

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History

Haymarket Books was founded in 2001 by Anthony Arnove, Ahmed Shawki and Julie Fain, all of whom had previously worked at the '' International Socialist Review''. Its first title was ''The Struggle for Palestine'', a collection of essays by pro-Palestinian activists including

Edward Said Edward Wadie Said (; , ; 1 November 1935 – 24 September 2003) was a Palestinian-American professor of literature at Columbia University, a public intellectual, and a founder of the academic field of postcolonial studies.Robert Young, ''Whit ...

. Haymarket aims, in Fain's words, "to be a socialist workplace in a capitalist world". The name of the publishing house refers to the 1886

Haymarket affair The Haymarket affair, also known as the Haymarket massacre, the Haymarket riot, the Haymarket Square riot, or the Haymarket Incident, was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square i ...

, in which an explosion and ensuing gunfire at a labor demonstration in

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resulted in the deaths of seven police officers and at least four civilians. Eight

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uninvolved in the bombing were subsequently convicted of

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, of whom seven were sentenced to death. Haymarket was cited by

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on their list of fast-growing independent publishers in 2017 and 2018. As of 2019, Haymarket publishes 40 to 50 books each season.

Publications

Notable Haymarket authors include Michael Bennett,

Noam Chomsky Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American public intellectual: a linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky i ...

Angela Davis Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American political activist, philosopher, academic, scholar, and author. She is a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. A feminist and a Marxist, Davis was a longtime member of ...

Eve Ewing Eve Louise Ewing (born 1986) is an American sociologist, author, poet, and visual artist from Chicago, Illinois. Ewing is a tenured professor at the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago. Her academic research in ...

Naomi Klein Naomi A. Klein (born May 8, 1970) is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses, support of ecofeminism, organized labour, left-wing politics and criticism of corporate globalization, fascism, ecofascism ...

Arundhati Roy Suzanna Arundhati Roy (born 24 November 1961) is an Indian author best known for her novel ''The God of Small Things'' (1997), which won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the best-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author. S ...

Rebecca Solnit Rebecca Solnit (born 1961) is an American writer. She has written on a variety of subjects, including feminism, the environment, politics, place, and art. Early life and education Solnit was born in 1961 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, to a Jewish fa ...

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor __NOTOC__ Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is an American academic, writer, and activist. She is a professor of African American Studies at Northwestern University. She is the author of ''From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation'' (2016). For this book, ...

Howard Zinn Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922January 27, 2010) was an American historian, playwright, philosopher, socialist thinker and World War II veteran. He was chair of the history and social sciences department at Spelman College, and a politica ...

, and

Dave Zirin Dave Zirin, born 1974, is an American political sportswriter. He is the sports editor for ''The Nation'', a weekly progressive magazine dedicated to politics and culture, and writes a blog named ''Edge of Sports: the weekly sports column by Dav ...

. In 2005 Haymarket published the sportswriter

's ''What’s My Name, Fool?'', a collection of essays on the relationship between sports and politics. In 2018 Haymarket published

José Olivarez José Olivarez is an author, poet and educator from Calumet City, Illinois, U.S. His first full collection of poetry is ''Citizen Illegal'', published by Haymarket Books. ''Citizen Illegal'' was shortlisted for the 2019 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award. ...

's poetry collection ''Citizen Illegal'', which won the ''

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'' award for best poetry and was shortlisted for the

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. Haymarket is known for publishing "provocative books from the left end of the political spectrum."

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