Socialism Conference

Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. Join leading scholar-activists as they reflect on the often unrecognized genealogies of queer, anti-capitalist, internationalist, grassroots, and women-of-color-led feminist movements that have helped to define abolition and feminism in the twenty-first century, and ground our confere...

Mohammed El-Kurd, Sumaya Awad, and Jason Farbman speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023 over Labor Day weekend. This session was sponsored by Adalah Justice Project and Jewish Voice for Peace. https://www.adalahjusticeproject.org https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org Palestinians have been struggling for 75 years for their liberation from ethnic cleansing and oppression at the hands of the...

Kristen Godfrey, Annabelle Guptill, and Fawn Pochel speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. What do revolution and the emancipation of workers mean on stolen land? This session considers the relationships between ‘collective ownership of the means of production’ and reparations, climate justice, & #LandBack. Panelists will argue for revolutionary socialists to practice solidarity locally...

Warda Karrar, Nisrin Elamin, and Muzan Alneel speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by In this session recorded over Labor Day weekend, Sudanese revolutionaries recount the history of the inspiring and highly organized 2018 Sudanese Revolution—its strengths in organizing tactics and models, as well as its limitations and the setbacks, negotiations, and conces...

Patty Krawec and Mohamed Abdou speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. Patty Krawec and Mohamed Abdou, the authors of "Becoming Kin" and "Anarchism and Islam" will present concepts of solidarity in the context of settler states from Turtle Island to Palestine. Relying on Anishinaabe and Islamic concepts of community that invite us into layered relationships, they will present and then le...

Emily Janakiram and Megan Lessard speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by NYC for Abortion Rights: https://abortionrights.nyc. The last decade has seen the rise of a “pro-life feminist” movement that has been instrumental in the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the passage of anti-trans legislation. Pro-life feminists position abortion as violence towards wome...

Astra Taylor, Lindsey Muniak, and René Christian Moya speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by the Debt Collective: https://debtcollective.org/ Concentrated wealth, stagnant wages, and austerity-driven policies have forced us to take on enormous debts to cover the costs of everything from healthcare to housing, education to transportation. This panel will con...

Aja Monet, Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson, Derecka Purnell, Damon Williams, Delaney Vandergrift, and Nyle Fort speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Dream Defenders: https://www.dreamdefenders.org. SunDDay School is a space for us to explore and experience the spiritual life of social movements. This program, curated by the Dream Defenders, is organized around...

Dissenters activists speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Dissenters: https://wearedissenters.org. Dissenters students and leaders across the continent are waging campaigns and engaging in bold & creative action to disrupt business as usual for multinational weapons manufacturing companies; Join us to hear from a panel of organizers and about their succes...

Mariame Kaba, Kelly Hayes, and Harsha Walia speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Join Mariame Kaba, Kelly Hayes, and Harsha Walia for a discussion about the political lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic, mass protests, and mutual aid, and how we can reject cynicism and build power in an era of d...

brian bean speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. This session was sponsored by Rampant Magazine. https://rampantmag.com Contemporary capitalism exploits and degrades human beings around the world, relying on the violent power of states to create profits, guarantee the functioning of markets, and cheapen labor through violence. There is no way to build a liberated future for all of us...

Ronnie Almonte, Paul Kirk-Davidoff, and Elizabeth Lalasz speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. This session was sponsored by NYC for Abortion Rights: https://abortionrights.nyc. Being a socialist at work means more than being the best builder of your union. Our horizon extends beyond the parameters of strengthening the union movement, our sights are on the full transformation of societ...

Alejandro Bodart, Andreu Coll, and Natalia Tylim speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. Socialists from three continents discuss the ongoing necessity to build revolutionary organizations. Efforts from the last decades have faced sometimes terminal challenges, while a growing opening exists for Marxist politics, based in part on the impasse of recent broad party and reformist projects....

Gabriel Winant, Donna Murch, Mie Inouye, and Dan Denvir speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. This session was sponsored by n+1 Magazine. https://www.nplusonemag.com How do activists learn from struggles, and how do we put our analysis to work in our fights? This panel will feature an open-ended discussion of the relationship between intellectual work and organizing work, drawing on bo...

Djamil Lakhdar-Hamina, Carlos Perez, and Donald Parkinson speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. This session was sponsored by Cosmonaut Magazine. http://cosmonautmag.com A major goal of socialists is to win the fight for democracy by extending democracy to the economy. Capitalism is a contradictory couple of the “free market” and the dictatorship of the workplace. The “free market” imp...

Yael Bridge, Daniel Denvir, and Jesse Sharkey speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. Find out more about the "When We Fight" documentary here: https://www.whenwefightmovie.com. Join Daniel Denvir, Yael Bridge, and Jesse Sharkey for a screening of When We Fight, a short documentary about the 2019 L.A. teachers' strike, and a conversation about the teachers' strike wave and its legacy as...

Oscar Sanchez and Carlos Enriquez speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. Earlier this year community members is Chicago's Southeast Side successfully pressured the city of Chicago to deny the operating permit that would allow a dangerous metal shredder to relocate to their neighborhood. In this talk we will reflect on how that victory was made possible. Learn more about the Socialism Co...

Hadas Thier speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. In our new reality of abortion bans in half of the country, what is the To dismantle the economy of the 1%, we have to understand it. Marxism offers a radical economic theory that explains both the basics of how capitalism works (and doesn't work), as well as current predicaments: from inflation, to the anarcho-capitalism of cryptocurr...

Danny Katch speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. Gun violence–from mass shootings to homicides to suicides–is on the rise, worsening an ongoing crisis and feuling a “law and order” backlash. This meeting will lay out how socialists can reject the failed “good guys vs bad guys” framework of both the NRA and police departments–and respond to the sometimes conflicting demands of public...

René Christian Moya, Lindsey Muniak, and Ami Schneider speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. This session was sponsored by the Debt Collective. https://debtcollective.org As wealth continues to concentrate at the top, people are increasingly forced into debt to make ends meet. What could a debtors movement achieve in our financialized economy? This session will consider recent economic...

Phil Gasper speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. This talk will explain key Marxist ideas about class, the state, economic crises, and revolution with the aim of showing how they remain relevant for socialists in the 21st century. The emphasis will be on Marxism as a method that requires creative application to the problems we face today. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at...

John McDonald speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. Moralism has been the life blood of the horror genre for as long as there have been boogey-men in hockey masks stalking around murdering teenagers. And yet, on today's blood splattered celluloid, cheap morality tales have mostly been replaced by overt political/social anxieties. What do the rise of Family Horror, social thrillers, an...

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. “Identity politics” continues to polarize public discourse, but the problem is not with identity politics itself. In this session, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò will discuss how this and other radical concepts can be stripped of their political substance and liberatory potential by becoming the victim of elite capture—deployed by political,...

Lizette Montes, Mason Andrew Kilpatrick, and Sabrina Davis speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. This session was sponsored by Solidarity, CLR James Forum for Socialist Organizing, and Against the Current. https://solidarity-us.org, https://againstthecurrent.org. *Note: Apologies for the audio quality for some segments of this recording. We included the poor-quality segments in the int...

Donna Murch speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. This talk will focus on the fate of Black working class people in the 1970s through the present, as a way to challenge mainstream understanding of the successes of the civil rights movement. While greater mobility and access became possible for a segment of black workers (especially in the public sector), targeted criminalization, the...