Haymarket Books Live

About Haymarket Books Live

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.

Publisher

Haymarket Audio

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

25 Feb 2021

Latest episode

18 May 2026

Latest episodes

12 of 435 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   18 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   We Are Each Other's Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities

   Rachel Kuo, Jaimee A. Swift, TD Tso, Pratibha Parmar, Margo Okazawa-Rey, and Dr. Beverley Bryan explore Black and Asian feminist solidarities, offering insights into cross-racial activism and liberation.

2. 

   18 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Ukraine’s Anti-Imperialist Struggle

   Artem Chapeye, Tanya Vyhovsky, and Denys Bondar discuss Ukraine's anti-imperialist struggle against Russian aggression and Western pressures in this interview.

3. 

   6 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   From the Free Speech Movement to the Factory Floor

   Join us for a discussion between author Andrew Stone Higgins and historian Nelson Lichtenstein on the new book From the Free Speech Movement to the Factory Floor: A Collective History of the International Socialists. Founded at UC Berkeley in 1964 as a radical civil rights group, lit the spark of the Free Speech Movement that same year, and its members and successor organizations would go on to play an outsized role in shaping the course of both the Black freedom struggle and the rank-and-file labor insurgency of the 1970s. Following their success in the Bay Area, the ISC launched chapters across the country, and in 1969 became the International Socialists, with much of its growing membership relocating to the Midwest to take industrial jobs in the auto, steel, communications, and trucking industries. In their final years, among other important efforts, the IS created a majority-Black youth group known as the Red Tide, founded the seminal publication Labor Notes, and helped create Teamsters for a Democratic Union. From the Free Speech Movement to the Factory Floor includes twenty-six original reflections by leading members—including renowned scholar-activists Nelson Lichtenstein and Nancy Holmstrom—offering invaluable insights into this influential but little-known organization. Speakers: Andrew Stone Higgins is the author of Higher Education for All: Racial Inequality, Cold War Liberalism, and the California Master Plan, called "required reading for understanding the complex politics of race and higher education" by Daniel Martinez HoSang. He earned his PhD in U.S. history from the University of California at Davis. Nelson Lichtenstein is a research professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His most recent book is A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism. Watch the live event recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf2R1e2FM7I Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org

Inside a recent episode

We Are Each Other's Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities

Published 18 May 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Perfect. This is such a treat, by the way, like this is historic actually, and so I am so looking forward to this conversation. So my first question is what does solidarity in this case cross -racial solidarity mean to you all? And when did you first become aware that solidarity was a radical individual and collective global imperative in necessity? And I'll ask Dr. Bryan if she would like to kick us off with this question. I'm sorry, Dr. Bryan, but I had to do it. Well, I'll try and meet the moment and say something that would be useful. What does it mean? I think it means recognizing the other share similar history of oppression, respecting that history and its meanings, and getting a strength that comes from those connections. […]

Who has been a guest on Haymarket Books Live

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Rachel Kuo
• Jaimee A Swift
• TD Tso
• Pratibha Parmar
• Margo Okazawa-Rey

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

3,260,532

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

96 ratings

Spotify

3.1 / 5

150 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 84 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

84

Social presence

97

YouTube

93

Engagement

66

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