Class

Socialism 2022 Conference, Chicago Recording was taken from the “How Do We Get a New Constitution” session, of which “part 1” was released in the previous episode of Class Panelists: Amna Akbar, Aziz Rana The Left’s path to power is blocked by one of the oldest and least democratic founding documents in the world. Will it take a revolution to rewrite our Constitution? The recent Constituent Assemb...

Socialism 2022 Conference, Chicago “How Do We Get a New Constitution” Panelists: Aziz Rana The Left’s path to power is blocked by one of the oldest and least democratic founding documents in the world. Will it take a revolution to rewrite our Constitution? The recent Constituent Assembly in Chile may show a way forward. Aziz Rana is a professor of law at Cornell University.  He is the author of Th...

This episode features a panel discussion from the Socialism 2022 Conference in Chicago, moderated by Daphna Thier and discussing the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee. Panelists include Tristan Bock-Hughes, Olivia Prager, and Gabriel Winant. Tristan is an organizer with the Illinois Nurses Association and formerly one of two staff with the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee. Through E...

Ahead of the 2023 DSA National Convention, please join us for a debate and discussion between National Political Committee members on the future of DSA. We'll dig into important political questions facing our organization and what the terrain looks like for us and for the left broadly. This call will also include an orientation on the format and structure of the Convention and Pre-Convention....

This episode features a panel discussion from the Socialism 2022 Conference in Chicago, moderated by Daphna Thier and discussing the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee. Panelists include Elce Redmond, Tristan Bock-Hughes, Gabriel Winant, Teagan Harris, and Olivia Prager. Elce Redmond is a muckraker who has been both a community and union organizer for the past 36 years. For the last two year...

This is the second episode in a two-part series on the state of the labor movement in 2022 and what we expect in 2023, and why we as socialists care so much about the labor movement.  Daphna Thier, a DSA member and longtime bartender based in Brooklyn, recently stepped down as the chair of DSA National Political Education Committee (NPEC) and is now the Labor Education Coordinator at EWOC. You can...

In this episode Daphna Thier and Ryan Cowles ask a couple fellow labor organizers about the state of the labor movement, and why socialists care so much about labor. Daphna Thier is a DSA member and longtime bartender based in Brooklyn. She recently stepped down as the chair of DSA National Political Education Committee (NPEC), and is now the Labor Education Coordinator at EWOC. You can also find...

The Republican Party is the biggest threat to our liberal democracy, and we cannot depend on the liberals to defend our liberal democracy. How then should we as democratic socialists spearhead the fight for democracy and worker power? Socialism 2022 Conference, Chicago “The Crisis of American Politics: Socialists and Liberal Democracy”, part 2. Moderator: Griffin Mahon Panelists: Sanjiv Gupta, Pau...

The Republican Party is the biggest threat to our liberal democracy, and we cannot depend on the liberals to defend our liberal democracy. How then should we as democratic socialists spearhead the fight for democracy and worker power? Socialism 2022 Conference, Chicago “The Crisis of American Politics: Socialists and Liberal Democracy”, part 1. Moderator: Griffin Mahon Panelists: Sanjiv Gupta, Pau...

Bodily autonomy has been severely restricted by the overturning of Roe v. Wade. How can socialists organize to protect abortion rights where they exist, provide and expand access where they don’t, and win a permanent nationwide right to free and legal abortion? Socialism 2022 Conference, Chicago "Socialists in Defense of Abortion Rights" Panelists: Aileen Garza and Suz Warshell Moderator...

Featuring University of Massachusetts Amherst Sociologist Sanjiv Gupta and University of Massachusetts Amherst Economist David Kotz.  This episode is a part of a 4-part series on “What is Capitalism?” This series is accompanying the DSA National Political Education Committee’s curriculum packet, which can find our curriculum at https://education.dsausa.org/resources/ . This chapter, from a book pu...

Featuring University of Massachusetts Amherst Sociologist Sanjiv Gupta and University of Massachusetts Amherst Economist David Kotz.  This is episode 3 of a 4-part series on “What is Capitalism?” This series is accompanying the DSA National Political Education Committee’s curriculum packet, which can find our curriculum at https://education.dsausa.org/resources/ . This episode goes into classes an...

Featuring University of Massachusetts Amherst Sociologist Sanjiv Gupta and University of Massachusetts Amherst Economist David Kotz.  This is episode 1  of a 4-part series on “What is Capitalism?” This series is accompanying the DSA National Political Education Committee’s curriculum packet, which can find our curriculum at https://education.dsausa.org/resources/ . This episode covers a passage fr...

Featuring University of Massachusetts Amherst Sociologist Sanjiv Gupta and University of Massachusetts Amherst Economist David Kotz.  This is episode 1 of a 4-part series on “What is Capitalism?” This series is accompanying the DSA National Political Education Committee’s curriculum packet, which can find our curriculum at https://education.dsausa.org/resources/ . This episode covers “But at Least...