** www.haymarketbooks.org **

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Haymarket Books is a non-profit, progressive book distributor and publisher, a project of the Center for Economic Research and Social Change.

We believe that activists need to take ideas, history and politics into the many struggles for social justice today. Learning the lessons of past victories as well as defeats can arm a new generation of fighters for a better world. Our titles include many of the best labor, activist and socialist books available.

We take inspiration and courage from our namesakes, the Haymarket Martyrs, who gave their lives fighting for a better world. Their struggle for the eight hour day in 1886, which gave us May Day, the international workers holiday, reminds workers around the world that ordinary people can organize and struggle for their own liberation. These struggles continue today in every corner of the globe­struggles against oppression, exploitation, hunger and poverty.

It was August Spies, one of the Martyrs who was targeted for being an immigrant and an anarchist, who predicted the battles being fought to this day:

"If you think that by hanging us you can stamp out the labor movement," Spies told the judge, "then hang us. Here you will tread upon a spark, but here, and there, and behind you, and in front of you, and everywhere, the flames will blaze up. It is a subterranean fire. You cannot put it out. The ground is on fire upon which you stand."

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Check out our new website to see our initial catalog - we'll be updating it frequently with new titles. There you can see Haymarket's own newest title, The Struggle for Palestine, edited by Lance Selfa. It's a great tool for anyone involved in the battle for justice in Palestine - with many well-known contributors it provides crucial background and history as well as strategies for activists.

We also carry the complete catalog of the International Socialist Review, another project of the Center for Economic Research and Social Change.

We'd like to hear from you with suggestions or comments - send them to info (at) haymarketbooks.org.

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To order online: www.haymarketbooks.org
To order by phone: 773-583-7884
To order by mail: PO Box 258082, Chicago IL 60625