Socialism Conference

Chanelle Gallant, Elene Lam, Emi Koyama, and Yves Tong Nguyen speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. Travel bans, ICE abductions and deportations of green card holders are nothing new for migrants in the sex industry. But their lives and struggles also offer us a blueprint for resisting surveillance, criminalization and the “good immigrant” vs “bad immigrant” division. Instead they insp...

Silky Shah, Eman Abdelhadi, Mariah Parker, Mikaela Loach, and Scout Bratt speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. Amid relentless authoritarian attacks and power grabs, it will take all our movements to bring down the oligarchs and build a different kind of future. Join us for the Socialism 2025 final plenary as we confront a pivotal political moment and ground ourselves to come out stro...

Sal Ami, Rebecca John, Carl Redwood, and Sara Roschdi speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Bottom Up for Liberation. We are an emerging cadre formation of social movement leftists, growing out of the LeftRoots process. Too often internationalism is an obligatory footnote to local and electoral struggles--but for us, anti-imperialism is essential to our da...

Jesse Sharkey, Eric Maroney, and Donna Murch speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Spectre Journal. In order to build an effective resistance to Trump’s intensified attacks, we must combine the fight against oppression—including against the right's racist attacks, and its transphobia—with the struggle to build resistance to exploitation in the workplace. I...

Nadine Naber and Maya Schenwar speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. Caregiving is an integral part of movements for liberation. In this moment of rising fascism, it's especially crucial to uplift this care work, including care for children. Supporting young people and each other in concrete, material ways, day to day and hour to hour, is an essential component of resistance. In this w...

Ndindi Kitonga speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. Palms Unhoused Mutual Aid (PUMA) is an abolitionist network of care based in Palms, Los Angeles, CA. This interactive workshop is designed for those interested in building their own networks. We will offer insights and missteps from our work at PUMA. We will also explore libertory practices towards community care that centers unhous...

Felix T., Bri M., and Yasser Munif speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation. Movement organizations often hesitate to engage beyond their immediate focus. This panel highlights organizers who expanded their efforts—a tenant union opposing a police training facility and a labor union joining the fight for a ceasefire...

Natalia Tylim and David McNally speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Tempest Collective. Amid genocide, Trump’s authoritarian onslaught, climate catastrophe, and the threat of fascism—we are living at the edge of capitalism’s abyss. This meeting will make the case for why revolution is not only necessary, but also why mass struggles of working class and o...

Howie Hawkins, Bennett Carpenter, Ashik Siddique, Lee Wengraf speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Solidarity, Groundwork DSA, and Tempest. Socialists have historically taken quite different postures toward engagement with the Democratic Party. For some, it is the only existing avenue to mass influence and a necessary means to block growing fascist influe...

Ksenia Kagarlitskaya, Boris Kagarlitsky, Grusha Gilaeva, and Simon Pirani speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This panel examines Putin’s repression of critical voices, those who have publicly opposed his war of aggression against Ukraine. Boris Kagarlitsky, the well-known Marxist critic of Putin's regime, is currently serving a five year sentence in a penal colony for "justifying te...

Jason Wozniak, Lindsey Muniak, Jasson Perez, and Jeannine Woods speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Debt Collective. In this interactive session audience members will develop a robust analysis and critique of debt and discuss campaigns for debt abolition led by organized labor. Organizing for better wages and benefits is to organize against debt. To orga...

Lyra McMillan and Lyra Spencer speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by DSA. This panel connects the parallel attacks on reproductive and trans rights within a broader analysis of fascist control over marginalized bodies. Speakers examine effective coalition strategies that center the most vulnerable communities in our resistance movements. The next Socialism...

Aman Bardia, Maithreyi Rajeshkumar, Raza Gillani, Mohiba Ahmed speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by SALAM. What role can and should the diaspora play in left organizing? How do diaspora groups stay accountable to the communities they find themselves in the US, and stay connected and build international solidarity with movements in the Global South? This p...

Stacy Davis Gates, Jorge Mujica, Asha Ransby-Sporn, and René Christian Moya speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. As workers we have the power to change the course of this country and the world. Unions and community organizations have the organizational muscle to shut down Trump’s attacks and smash the far right. Hear from labor leaders and community organizers on the front lines of th...

Kali Akuno, Kamau Franklin, David Cobb, and Johanna Epke speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Build and Figh t, Community Movement Builders , and People's Network for Land & Liberation . The Build and Fight strategy is being applied in Jackson, MS. It emphasizes creating autonomous, cooperative institutions (Build) while simultaneously engaging in org...

Yasser Munif, Ramah Kudaimi, Leila al-Shami, and Shireen Akram-Boshar speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. Syrians have overthrown Bashar al-Assad's brutal dictatorship, liberated cities, freed political prisoners, and opened space to struggle for an inclusive, democratic, and egalitarian country. But internal, regional, and imperial forces are angling to contain the revolution. So, t...

Ari Bloomekatz, Shane Burley, Michael Staudenmaier, Andrea J. Ritchie, Kelly Hayes, and Rick Perlstein speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by In These Times. A conversation with veteran anti-fascists about what it means to scale-up an anti-fascist movement when the forces we're fighting have taken the power of the state. The next Socialism Conference will b...

Eman Abdelhadi, Olivia Katbi, Nashwa Bawab, and Sahar speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. Twenty-one months into Israel’s genocidal war on Palestine, the stakes of international solidarity are higher than they have ever been. Join representatives of the Palestinian Youth Movement, National Students for Justice in Palestine, and the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement for an u...

Andrea J. Ritchie, Lewis Raven Wallace, Maria Thomas, Eva Nagao speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. A number of frameworks have been articulated across the Left for resisting rising authoritarianism, fascism, white Christian cisheteropatriarchal supremacy, and imperialism in the U.S. Recognizing that criminalization is instrumental to authoritarian regimes and Right-wing agendas, fac...

Jerome Scott and walda katz-fishman speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. Theoretical study and class analysis are essential for understanding class struggle throughout the capitalist epoch, especially in this moment. We share lessons from the League’s 50+ year personal, political, collective journey of Marxist study and struggle for developing class consciousness and working class uni...

Elhom Karbassi and Thalía Chicojay speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Sexpectations Chicago. At the root of organizing is education, not just formal, but skill-sharing and radical understanding. Sex education must be foundational, covering pleasure, racial medical history, gender, advocacy, relationships, violence prevention, and harm reduction. This se...

David Broder and Meagan Day speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by the Daniel Singer Prize. Far-right leaders and parties throughout the world are winning the support of large sectors of the working class and represent a deadly threat to democracy and social justice. How can we explain this upsurge in support? Join the Daniel Singer Foundation and winners o...

Stanley Howard, Renaldo Hudson, Alice Kim, James "Jimmy" Soto, and Asha Ransby-Sporn speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Beyond Prisons at the Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture; Illinois Prison Project; Uptown People’s Law Office. This session will discuss the organizing and survival strategies that the panelists practiced to stay aliv...

Adom Getachew speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This talk surveys the history of Pan-Africanism with specific attention to key inflection moments such as the late nineteenth century and the era of decolonization to consider its on-going resonances. Through specific attention to the cultural politics of Pan-Africanism, it demonstrates why visions of global Black solidarity continue...

Shay, Sarah Hurd, and more speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by DSA. In 2024, DSA members joined their coworkers on the picket line for major labor actions across the University of California, and at Amazon and Starbucks nationwide. Along with these campaigns, we are organizing worker networks and fighting back with federal workers in the midst of broadsi...