CHICAGO! Join author Simukai Chigudu in conversation with Barbara Sostaita and Adam Goodman about his new book, Chasing Freedom: Coming of Age at the End of Empire. Live from @haymarkethouse.bsky.social. Wednesday April 1, 2026 6:30 PM RSVP: www.haymarkethouse.org/events/chasi...

Stop the War Now! Against the US and Israel's Wars on Iran and Lebanon Join us for a conversation with Manijeh Moradian, Ida Nikou, and Rima Majed, hosted with Tempest Thursday, March 26th at 1:00 pm ET RSVP to attend:

Every picture of ICE agents in airports is just this again

This was a wonderful reading, thank you @haymarketbooks.org and @redemmas.org and @davigray.com and Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop!

Mueller’s FBI persecuted Muslims nationwide. He was responsible for one of the most egregious, systemic violations of civil rights in the history of the FBI, which is saying a whole lot. This was Mueller’s FBI:

Climate activist and author Rebecca Solnit tells Rowan Hooper why she still has hope, even in these "catastrophic" times

“Weaving together archive, memoir, political speeches, and ethnography, this book is a more than worthy portrait of the Young Lords and their influence in Chicago.“ chireviewofbooks.com/2026/03/02/1...

I bought a copy of this for my local books-to-prisoners organization. They're always getting requests for books on the Young Lords (and the Black Panthers).

The Writing Freedom Fellowship aims to elevate the essential voices and contributions of writers impacted by the carceral system. Join our 2024 and 2025 Writing Freedom Fellows for two evenings of celebratory readings, featuring special guests Rachel Kushner and @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social.

What are you reading this weekend?

after Charlie Kirk died pundits like Ezra Klein praised his "hard conversations" with students. under the higher ed backlash he helped start, the real hard-to-have conversations are about gender, race, sexuality, protest. the feminists touring colleges with academic bans: @us.theguardian.com

One Day Longer, One Day Stronger Hear from union leaders & rank-and-filers who've been active on the frontlines and behind the scenes about how Minnesota's labor movement is resisting ICE. W/ @workdaymagazine.bsky.social. Tues, March 24 5:30 PM ET RSVP: events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...

up now in @thenation.com - FEMA failures, Jeff City sabotage, and an argument for city-county blobification www.thenation.com/article/poli...

For the first time in 60 years, Palestinians are being barred from praying at Al Aqsa mosque, one of the holiest sites in Islam. This morning, Palestinians tried to pray Eid right outside and were brutally attacked by the Israeli Occupation Forces.

Reading @haymarketbooks.org

if there's one conclusion that the study of both labor history and imperialism converge on, it is that the richest people in the world are happy to burn money on control, power, impunity. and the "everything is about profit" version of anti-capitalism does not survive serious contact with either

tomorrow: an interfaith group of chicagoland clergy + anti-ice advocates are hosting a noon press conference at evanston's sherman plaza, owned by chicago-based highlands reit. the group will announce a nationwide campaign demanding highlands end its contract with ice for a denver immigration jail.

Excited for this virtual event at 6:30 pm Pacific on Thursday, March 26, among other things I'll be discussing the process of working on my next anthology, ACT UP BEYOND NEW YORK: Stories and Strategies from a Movement to End the AIDS Crisis, to be published by @haymarketbooks.org in fall 2027🌺

Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for nonfiction.

ICE detention deaths are now occurring at a rate of roughly one every four days. Three weeks ago that rate was one every six days. The pace is accelerating, and Congress has not launched a single investigation.

I would say I’m fairly knowledgeable about the corruption, violence, coercive authority, and brutal imperial power that pervades extractive sectors and yet I am still in shock at this Trump admin move to secure Zambian minerals

A pamphlet: newest counter-recruitment resource, Beyond Border Patrol: What CBP Recruiters Won’t Tell You www.warresisters.org/store/beyond...

And when I say it’s good, it really is good. It’s exactly the type of propaganda we need these days. Hard headed, disciplined optimism that is needed for the working and middle (imho) classes alike.

With how bad things are, it’s worth knowing @haymarketbooks.org is publishing a narrative history project, Heat The Ground Up, on Starbucks Workers United. It’s a powerful story of how everyday Americans can take back control of their lives from the class of people who brought us to this point

I loved being in conversation with these folks. Thank you to Kelly for having us on the show.

The Writing Freedom Fellowship aims to elevate the essential voices and contributions of writers impacted by the carceral system. Join our 2024 and 2025 Writing Freedom Fellows for two evenings of celebratory readings, featuring special guests Rachel Kushner and @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social.

Excellent mail day! @devintoshea.bsky.social @dygottlieb.bsky.social 👀👀👀

Transgender Poetry Finalists Cont’d: Death of the First Idea: Poems by Rickey Laurentiis. Local Woman by Jzl Jmz. Reprise: Poems and Photographs by @goldenthem.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.org #Lammys2026

LIVE NOW! Reading Frantz Fanon with Geo Maher of @abolitionschool.bsky.social week 7. Stream:

The nationwide book ban bill is now entering the House of Representatives for consideration. Here's everything you need to know about HR 7661, including next steps to take in helping defeat this anti-LGBTQ, anti-intellectual, pro-voucher bill before it goes any farther: bookriot.com/hr7661-advan...

movements aren't separate from society. they are part of society. every social problem in society will be found in movements.

1/3 - Photos from the @haymarketbooks.org AWP off-site reading, "Poetry for Changing the World," at @redemmas.org In pic #4, Maya Marshall (Haymarket's poetry editor) books up two books from the newly launched press Lost Kite Editions (lostkite.org), "Twenty-One Birthdays" and "Disfigured Hours"

DC area friends, please join me in conversation about Karen Lewis's memoir with the brilliant @drmchatelain.bsky.social Next Wednesday, March 25th, 5pm, 111 Massachussetts Ave, NW Celebrate Women's History Month and #LaborSpring with us! @aftteach.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.org

The tenth issue of Hammer & Hope is now live! This issue features 18 stories that offer our readers insights into a wide range of prescient political and cultural topics, from the community resistance in Minnesota and Ohio to the enduring legacy of D'Angelo and more. Read here: hammerandhope.org

I really like @hammerandhope.bsky.social because I see stories like this and think, wow, I am so glad someone wrote this. hammerandhope.org/article/trum...

The newest edition of @hammerandhope.bsky.social is now out! Find the entire issue here. A few highlights: hammerandhope.org

gonna need to grab a copy of this one!

Congrats to @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, very much looking forward to this one. Need a good dose of measured hope right now, and no one supplies it better

Happy pub day to one of our most anticipated books of the year, THE YOUNG LORDS SPEAK edited by Jacqueline Lazú (thanks for the pic, @haymarketbooks.org!) Check it out: www.pilsencommunitybooks.com/item/UfU8gx4...

Much looking forward to buying and reading this

Congratulations, @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social! 💐 THE BEGINNING COMES AFTER THE END is officially a New York Times bestseller in its first week of publication Thanks to everyone who pre-ordered or picked up a copy this week.

Oh yeah!

As of this morning, nearly 4,000 workers are on strike at one of the largest beef plants in the US. Biggest meatpacking strike in decades.

Persuasive from Trita Parsi. There's no reason for Iran to accept a ceasefire, given the results of the last one. The US might like the war to end but lacks the capacity to negotiate a real peace agreement. And Israel just wants the war to go on as long as possible. newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Nearly 4,000 meatpacking workers are on strike against the JBS-owned beef plant in Greeley, Colorado. It's the first meatpacking strike in decades and comes from UFCW Local 7 - an ambitious local that struck last year against Kroger-owned grocery stores.

Father of six, grabbed in front of his crying children as he was about to take them to school.

FREE e-books on border abolition

My review of From the Free Speech Movement to the Factory Floor: A Collective History of the International Socialists, edited by Andrew Stone Higgins @haymarketbooks.org

I love my publisher.