Haymarket Books Live is a regular online series of urgent political discussions, book launches, organizer roundtables, poetry jams, and more, hosted by Haymarket Books. The podcast features recordings of our livestreamed video event series. Haymarket Books is a radical, independent, nonprofit book publisher based in Chicago.
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Haymarket Originals is a new home for audio deep dives, by and for the left—brought to you by Haymarket Books. The first Haymarket Originals project is FRAGILE JUGGERNAUT: WHAT WAS THE CIO? Through a limited run of twenty episodes, a group of labor historians and organizers will revisit the near-mythical history of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)—and the high water mark of US labor activity in the 1930s and 1940s—in the context of today’s critical juncture in the labor movemen ...
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Join Rae Garringer and special guests Neema Avashia, Kijana West, and David Rodriguez for a virtual launch and celebration of Country Queers: A Love Letter. Part photo book, part memoir, part oral history project, this volume paints a vivid portrait of queer and trans experiences in rural areas and small towns across the US. After years as a DIY, m…
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Episode 19 of Fragile Juggernaut weighs up the results of the struggle for hegemony in the 1945-1946 strike wave over the next several years. While millions of workers participated in militant actions, their strikes were uncoordinated and politically isolated, opening the way for the political right to organize a backlash and recapture Congress in …
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We The Gathered Heat: Asian American and Pacific Islander Poetry, Performance, and Spoken Word
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1:18:46Join Bao Phi, Terisa Siagatonu, George Abraham, David Mura, Saba Keramati and other special guests for a live celebration of their poetry anthology We The Gathered Heat: Asian American and Pacific Islander Poetry, Performance, and Spoken Word. A rich anthology featuring some of the brightest voices in contemporary poetry who challenge, expand, and …
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Visualizing Palestine with Linda Sarsour, Noura Erakat, Yosra El Gazzar, and Aline Batarseh
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1:22:49Join Linda Sarsour, Noura Erakat, Yosra El Gazzar, and Aline Batarseh as they discuss Visualizing Palestine: A Chronicle of Colonialism and the Struggle for Liberation, Edited by Jessica Anderson, Aline Batarseh, and Yosra El Gazzar and Created by Visualizing Palestine. The book is a striking collection of more than 200 full-color infographics is a…
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Set the Earth on Fire: The Great Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902 and the Birth of the Police
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1:29:59Join David Correia, Kim Kelly and Judah Schept as the discuss Corriea’s latest book, Set the Earth on Fire: The Great Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902 and the Birth of the Police. The book is an eye-opening account of the Great Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902, showing how the strike—and the violent backlash that ensued—reveal the genesis of modern pol…
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Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence
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1:25:16Join Mizue Aizeki, Matt Mahmoudi, Harsha Walia, Migrants Organise and Books Against Borders in this virtual discussion of Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence on September 12, 2024, at 7pm UK time. This event will also act as the launch for a new, in-person reading group for organisers in London, starting September 18th Our current moment…
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From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire
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1:15:32Join Haymarket Books and In These Times for a book talk on From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire, with author Sarah Jaffe. This event will take place at Haymarket House, and will also be live-streamed on our YouTube channel. Our era is one of significant and substantial loss, yet we barely have time to acknowledge it. The losses r…
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Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat
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1:32:47Join us for a discussion of how to maintain hope in the face of despair, with Hannah Proctor and Sarah Jaffe. In the struggle for a better world, setbacks are inevitable. Defeat can feel overwhelming at times, but it has to be endured. How then do the people on the front line keep going? In her new book Burnout, Hannah Proctor answers that question…
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Join Tarik Dobbs with special guests Julian Randall, I.S. Jones and Katana Smith, in celebration of his debut poetry collection Nazar Boy. From one of the most imaginative and radical voices in contemporary poetry, a debut collection of fierce tenderness, political acuity, and powerful lyricism. Tarik Dobbs’s work explores surveillance, queerness, …
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The Corporate Coup In Global Context w/ Naomi Klein, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Astra Taylor, Chenjerai Kumanyika
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1:57:31Join Naomi Klein, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Astra Taylor, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor for an emergency town hall on the accelerating corporate dominance of our lives and societies.From Elon Musk’s hostile takeover of core government functions, to the Trump family's vision for remaking Gaza into another Dubai, we are witnessing the extension of corporate…
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Perfect Victims with Mohammed El Kurd & Robin D.G. Kelley
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1:10:03Join Mohammed El-Kurd and Robin D.G. Kelley for a virtual conversation to launch Mohammed’s new book Perfect Victims.Perfect Victims is an urgent affirmation of the Palestinian condition of resistance and refusal―an ode to the steadfastness of a nation.Palestine is a microcosm of the world: on fire, stubborn, fragmented, dignified. While a settler …
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The sudden end of World War II was met with both exultation and terror. While millions of Americans understood that the killing abroad could come to an end, the fate of the depression economy that had only been revived by wartime mobilization now hung uncertainly in the balance. The saga of demobilization and reconversion, the name for the process …
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Episode 17 of Fragile Juggernaut concerns the momentous arrival of long-dreaded events abroad that broke US politics out of its political and economic impasse during Roosevelt’s second term: Europe’s descent into fascist war. Foreign policy dislodged the American elite from their indecision over the nature of domestic reform; dislodged President Ro…
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Episode 16 is the last in our three-episode regional series, offering a view of the CIO from the West Coast. Andrew, Ben, Emma, and Tim discuss what was distinct about the economy of the West: in this underdeveloped imperial context, working-class activity followed the supply chain, from coastal ports to inland warehouses and processing centers to …
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Beyond the Ballot: The Left in a Time of Polycrisis
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1:37:25A special conversation with Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, and Chenjerai KumanyikaPresented by Hammer & Hope magazine, Haymarket Books and Marguerite Casey Foundation.The Left is at a critical juncture in the United States—and globally.We confront multiple simultaneous threats, from rising militarism, to profound ecological dis…
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Episode 15 of Fragile Juggernaut is the second of our trio of regional episodes, landing this time in the South. Ben, Emma, and Tim are joined by the celebrated historian Robin D.G. Kelley to discuss the patterns of Southern development, the rich organizational ecology of the region, the strategic misfires of the CIO, and the political and social b…
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Bonus Episode: What the CIO Reveals About the Movement Today
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1:32:01This week our crew at Fragile Juggernaut is delivering our third special bonus episode. Alex, Ben, Emma, Gabe, and Tim converged at Chicago’s Socialism conference to discuss what the CIO can make us alive to in the contemporary labor movement and our conjuncture more broadly. Our series has probed the history of the labor movement of the 1930s and …
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Episode 14 of Fragile Juggernaut is the first of our trio of regional episodes. It dials into New York City, the seat of the country’s largest manufacturing base, but one composed of a vast constellation of small and diverse shops; and also host to the nation’s largest port, transport system, white collar and cultural complex, and more. With the em…
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Episode 13 of Fragile Juggernaut surveys the impasse of the Second New Deal with the historian Ahmed White, when the newfound power of working-class organization in mass production confronted the counterattack of property and established social hierarchy. During 1937, the “Little Steel” Strike, the “Roosevelt Recession,” and the political dilemmas …
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Episode 12 of Fragile Juggernaut turns the lens on the situation and activity of white-collar, professional, and creative workers in the 1930s and 1940s. Together with guests Nikil Saval (state senator from Pennsylvania and author of Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace) and Shannan Clark (historian at Montclair State University and author of T…
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11. Who Gets the Bird? Communists and the CIO
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2:31:28Episode 11 of Fragile Juggernaut concerns the Communist Party and its complex role in the creation of the CIO. Andrew and Ben trace the strategic zigzags of America’s far-left, recount their pioneering role in organizing drives, and measure the Party’s own accounts of its politics against the often ambiguous, even contradictory realities of its pra…
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This week our crew at Fragile Juggernaut is delivering our second special bonus-episode: while we are on a brief summer hiatus, Andrew and Ben sum up the first half of our mini-series, drawing together the core themes of our show so far and discussing where we’ll go in the second half. Fragile Juggernaut is a Haymarket Originals podcast exploring t…
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This week our crew at Fragile Juggernaut is delivering our first special bonus episode. Tim and Ben talk with Sam-Adler Bell—an excellent writer and one-half of the brilliant Know Your Enemy podcast—about our series. Appearing on Know Your Enemy gave us a chance to explore a new dimension of our project: to think about the CIO not only as a moment …
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Episode 10 of Fragile Juggernaut surveys the wide range of workers who united–and sometimes fought each other–under the banner of the CIO. We begin in the slaughterhouse, with special guest Rick Halpern explaining how the United Packinghouse Workers of America (PWOC/UPWA) brought together black and white workers despite segregation inside and outsi…
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Episode 9 of Fragile Juggernaut is the first of a series of thematic episodes, in which we pause our chronological narrative to survey key issues shaping the world of the CIO. In this episode, we turn our view on the escalating confrontation between fascism and anti-fascism. Was there an American fascism? Where did it come from and what did it look…
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Episode 8 of Fragile Juggernaut places us back in the critical juncture of 1936: the final year of Roosevelt’s first term in office. What were FDR’s re-election prospects as workers’ insurgencies erupted from below and as capital waited in vain for the courts to demolish the Wagner Act? What did this juncture mean for the CIO and its relationship t…
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Episode seven of Fragile Juggernaut dramatizes the Sit Down strikes that built the UAW: why they proved to be powerful, what effect they had on the labor movement, and the truly global spread of the strike tactic. The fight in Flint and Cleveland, Kansas City and Atlanta, provides an occasion to talk both about the global organization of production…
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6. Passing Laws, Breaking Jaws: The Wagner Act and the Founding of the CIO
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2:10:34Episode six of Fragile Juggernaut pivots to high politics and institutional history: chronicling the passage of the Wagner Act, debating its significance, and recounting the raucous AFL convention in Atlantic City where the CIO was born. Featuring special guest Eric Blanc. Fragile Juggernaut is a Haymarket Originals podcast exploring the history, p…
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5. The Strikes That Broke Through
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2:12:15Episode five of Fragile Juggernaut is a dramatic retelling of the nearly-revolutionary strikes of 1934, in Toledo and San Francisco, in Minneapolis and across America’s textile belt: moments that dramatize the powerful interaction between radical militant minorities on the shop floor and mass working class struggles. Frustrated by the passivity of …
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Episode four of Fragile Juggernaut surveys the panorama of social life transfigured by the first three years of the Great Depression. By examining the sharp and persisting business downturn as a crisis of social reproduction—in which the conditions for working people to reproduce themselves appeared to permanently subside—Tim, Ben, Emma, and Andrew…
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Episode three of Fragile Juggernaut explores the transformations within the working class brought about by World War I and its decade-long aftermath. A growing political alliance between the AF of L and Woodrow Wilson’s Democratic Party profoundly altered the labor movement of the Progressive Era, growing its size and militancy amid the rising pric…
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