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==History==
Haymarket Books was founded in 2001 by Anthony Arnove, Ahmed Shawki and Julie Fain, all of whom had previously worked at the ''[[International Socialist Review (1956)|International Socialist Review]]''.<ref name=Messinger>{{cite news|last1=Messinger|first1=Jonathan|title=Haymarket Books|url=https://www.timeout.com/chicago/books/haymarket-books|access-date=May 12, 2015|publisher=www.timeout.com|date=November 15, 2011}}</ref><ref name=stoner>{{cite web|url=https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/haymarket-books-publishes-reading-material-for-radicals/Content?oid=68185743|title=Haymarket Books publishes reading material for radicals|date=February 21, 2019|access-date=February 28, 2019|work=[[Chicago Reader]]|first=Rebecca|last=Stoner}}</ref> Its first title was ''The Struggle for Palestine'', a collection of essays by pro-Palestinian activists including [[Edward Said]].<ref name=Messinger/><ref name=stoner/> Haymarket aims, in Fain's words, "to be a socialist workplace in a capitalist world".<ref name=stoner/>
The name of the publishing house refers to the 1886 [[Haymarket affair]], in which an explosion and ensuing gunfire at a labor demonstration in [[Chicago]] resulted in the deaths of seven police officers and at least four civilians.<ref name=Messinger/><ref name=stoner/> Eight [[anarchists]] uninvolved in the bombing were subsequently convicted of [[conspiracy (crime)|conspiracy]], of whom seven were sentenced to death.
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