Socialism Conference

Ania Aizman speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine exacerbated a stifling political atmosphere within Russia, leading to crackdowns, suppression, and the fleeing of dissidents. At the same time, many Russian leftists have drawn inspiration from the Belarusian opposition, leading to instances of sabotage and a broad “railway war” against the government. This...

Ashley Green, Nyle Fort, Akin Olla, and Nailah Summers speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. This session was sponsored by Dream Defenders, https://dreamdefenders.org. After over a decade of sustained uprisings around the value and dignity of Black lives, we sit at a critical juncture in the fight against white supremacy, fascism, and capitalism. Join Nyle Fort, Derecka Purnell, Akin O...

Emily Janakiram, Mandy Medley, and Derenda Hancock speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. This session was sponsored by NYC for Abortion Rights: https://abortionrights.nyc. In our new reality of abortion bans in half of the country, what is the way forward for abortion activists and how do we channel the anger and energy of this immediate post-Roe moment into long-term strategies to exp...

Yuliya Yurchenko speaks in this recording from the Socialism 2022 Conference. Yuliya Yurchenko analyzes the current Russian war in Ukraine, situating the inter-imperial rivalry within the trajectories of global neoliberal restructuring and post-Soviet developments. This session will put forward a perspective on Ukraine and imperialism rooted in the politics of solidarity and self-determination. Le...

A session by Joshua Frank, a recording from the Socialism 2022 Conference. Nuclear energy is making a comeback and is now being heralded as a key ingredient to fixing our climate crisis. Yet, nuclear power is anything but "renewable" or "green". From the mining of uranium on Indigenous lands, to its grave radioactive risks, to nuclear technology's ties to atomic weapons, there is a myriad of reaso...

Rabab Elnaiem, Muzan Alneel, and Sara Abbas, a recording from the Socialism 2022 Conference. The Sudanese Revolution of 2019 is one of the highpoints of the past few years wave of global resistance. The uprising that ousted president Omar al-Bashir sparked a revolutionary process in Sudan that is still undergoing. After a tenuous power-sharing agreement with the military, an military coup that was...

A session by Naomi Murakawa, a recording from the Socialism 2022 Conference. The US is witnessing a renewed anti-crime campaign, with Democratic elites at the forefront. This talk will analyze the repressive backlash since the Black Lives Matter uprising in summer 2020—and how liberals have tried to turn BLM into a victims’ rights movement. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialis...

Mohammed El-Kurd in conversation with Brekhna Aftab, a recording from the Socialism 2022 Conference. The colonization of Palestine is ongoing, and Palestinians continue to struggle for their liberation. Mohammed El-Kurd will discuss historic and contemporary Palestinian resistance, and how the liberation of Palestinians is intimately tied to the liberation of all those fighting capitalism and stat...

Sophie Lewis in conversation with Rosie Warren, a recording from the Socialism 2022 Conference. When have "family values" limited the left? What did utopianists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries mean, exactly, when they said "abolish the family"? And which family, in a white-supremacist settler-colony, should we abolish? This session will explore how to decenter the private nuclear househo...