Haymarket is one of the juiciest radical English-language publishers worldwide. I tellya what: you look through their recent releases, send them an email describing your podcast/blog/publication/radio/public access TV show, ask for a review book and set up a date to interview the author. For a TV show, you look to see when the author is in your town, set up an interview with that person when they're there. Then you do it. It's my favorite thing, matter of fact.
Enjoy!
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NOW AVAILABLE FROM HAYMARKET
We are very pleased to announce the publication of the new paperback edition of Camilo Mejía's acclaimed Iraq war memoir, Road from ar Ramadi: The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejia. After reading this book, you'll want everyone you know to read it.
Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejía became the new face of the antiwar movement in early 2004 when he applied for a discharge from the Army as a conscientious objector. After serving in the Army for nearly nine years, he was the first known Iraq veteran to refuse to fight, citing moral concerns about the war and occupation. Despite widespread public support and an all-star legal team, Mejía was eventually convicted of desertion by a military court and sentenced to a year in prison, prompting Amnesty International to declare him a prisoner of conscience.
Far from being an accidental activist, Mejía was raised by prominent Sandinista revolutionaries and draws inspiration from Jesuit teachings. In this stirring book, he argues passionately for human rights and the end to an unjust war.
As New York Times columnist Bob Herbert writes, "The issues [Mejía] has raised deserve a close reading by the nation as a whole. . . . He has made a contribution to the truth about Iraq."
Road from ar Ramadi
The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejía: An Iraq War Memoir
Foreword by Chris Hedges
ISBN: 978-1-931859-53-0
Trade Paperback, $16
320 pages
HAYMARKET NEWS
Haymarket Books is proud to have been part of Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan, a historic gathering of antiwar veterans and allies that took place March 13-16 in Washington, DC. The event featured powerful testimony that exposed the realities of military occupation. You can watch Haymarket authors Anthony Arnove, author of Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal and Dahr Jamail discuss their impressions of the hearings.
Also check out Dahr's front-cover story on Winter Soldier in the April print edition of The Progressive. We will be publishing Dahr's book, Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist In Occupied Iraq in paperback this Fall.
This month's issue of The Progressive also features "Olympic Ruin," an eye-opening take on the upcoming Olympics by Haymarket author Dave Zirin, now a regular columnist at the magazine. Be sure to check out Dave's books, What's My Name, Fool? and Welcome to the Terrordome.
Also forthcoming from Haymarket in September is Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan: Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupation, a comprehensive documentation of the Winter Soldier gathering authored by Iraq Veterans Against the War and journalist Aaron Glantz that will preserve the courageous contributions of its participants.
In the awards department, a big congratulations to Dahr for winning the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism! The award letter states that Jamail's work "has shown the depth of suffering and 'collateral damage' not readily captured in corporate media" and praises his "remarkable contribution to social justice journalism." The award ceremony will take place at 5:30 p.m., Monday, April 14 at Hunter College in New York City.
We were thrilled to hear that our friend Jeremy Scahill won the prestigious Polk Award for his book Blackwater. Thoroughly well deserved!
Finally, check out Anthony Arnove's recent appearance on C-SPAN2's program BookTV. Anthony discusses Haymarket Books and the future of independent publishing with host Andre Schriffrin and Jacob Stevens of Verso Books.
Recently released from Haymarket
The Essential Rosa Luxemburg: Reform or Revolution and The Mass Strike
Edited by Helen Scott
ISBN: 1-931859-36-3
Paperback, $12, 280 Pages
One of the most important thinkers and leaders of the twentieth century, Rosa Luxemburg is finding renewed interest among a new generation of activists and critics of global capitalism. This new, authoritative introduction to Rosa Luxemburg's two most important works presents the full text of Reform or Revolution and The Mass Strike, with explanatory notes, appendices, and introductions.
"Rosa Luxemburg's explorations of themeaning of capitalism and the need for socialist democracy still have relevance for a new century, and helen Scott's thoughtful and informative introduction will be useful for students and activists alike."
--Paul Le Blanc
Authors on the Road
Dave Zirin will be speaking in Washington, DC on Saturday, April 14th and Saturday, April 28th; he'll also be in Chestertown, MD on Thursday, April 19th. And if you can, check out Dave and Chuck D at the Schomburg Center in New York City on Tuesday, May 15. Dave's website Edge of Sports has further tour details.
Dahr Jamail continues to tour his book, Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq. He will be touring Scotland and England this month. Here's information for the tour:
April 8th--Glasgow, Scotland
University of Strathclyde, 5.30 p.m, 5.14 Graham Hills Building
Contact: m.idrees@gmail.com
April 9th--Dublin, Ireland
Dublin Institute of Technology, Aungier St., 6:30 pm—In a debate with RTE, moderated by Pepe Escobar
Contact: dmanning@gmail.com
April 10th--London, England
The Old Lecture Theatre, 7:00 pm, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street
Contact: david.crouch10@btinternet.com
April 11th--Totnes, England
Methodist Church, Fore Street, 7:30 pm
Contact: bill@scswebdesign.co.uk
April 12th--Taunton, England
Friend's Meeting House, 3 Bath Place, Taunton, TA1 4EP
Contact: alisonchown@aol.com
You can find further tour information at dahrjamailiraq.com.
Catch Haymarket at the following events:
V to the Tenth
April 11 and 12, New Orleans
Labor Notes 2008 Conference
April 11-13, Detroit, Michigan
London Book Fair
International Rights Center (via Roam Agency)
April 15-16
Historical Materialism
April 24-26, Ontario, Canada
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
April 26-27, Los Angeles
Book launch for Howard Zinn's A People's History of American Empire
May 3, New York, Cooper Union Great Hall, 1pm
Chicago Green Festival
http://www.greenfestivals.org/content/view/230/200/
May 17-18, Chicago
Book Expo America
June 1-3, New York, NY
Save the Date!
Socialism 2008
A Weekend of Politics, Discussion & Debate
Featuring:
Jeremy Scahill
Amira Hass
Laura Flanders
John Carlos
Sharon Smith
Jeffrey St. Clair
June 19-22, Chicago, IL
Check for updates at www.socialismconference.org
Forthcoming from Haymarket Books
Vietnam: The (Last) War the U.S. Lost
Joe Allen
As the United States now faces a major defeat in its occupation of Iraq, the history of the Vietnam War, as a historic blunder for US military forces abroad, and the true story of how it was stopped, take on a fresh importance. Unlike most books on the topic, constructed as specialized academic studies, The (Last) War the United States Lost examines the lessons of the Vietnam era with Joe Allen’s eye of both a dedicated historian and an engaged participant in today’s antiwar movement.
9781931859493 | $14 | 240 pages | May 2008
Lenin Rediscovered: What Is To Be Done? in Context
Lars T. Lih
In this impressive work, Lih presents an innovative challenge to the prevailing perspectives on one of Russian revolutionary V. I. Lenin's most important essays. While conventional wisdom has been contented to caricature What is to Be Done? as the definitive example of Lenin's authoritarian and elitist method, Lih traces this document's roots in the social and political debates of Russia's emerging socialist movement, and reinvigorates the debate unfolding today by introducing a comprehensive new translation of Lenin's original text.
9781931859585 | $50.00 | Paper | 880 pages | May 2008
The Revolution and the Civil War in Spain
Pierre Broué and Emile Témime
In the 1930s, Spanish workers and peasants captured the world's attention, bursting out in rebellion against poverty, oppression, and a monarchy frequently dependent on military repression for its survival. But the Spanish revolution quickly encountered critical challenges-from its leadership's confusion over their final goal to the rising of a fascist army led by Francisco Franco. In their unparalleled study, Broué and Témime detail the internal dynamics and the external obstacles that led one of the world's most promising movements for human liberation to fascist defeat.
9781931859516 | $50.00 | Paper | 700 pages | May 2008
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