Socialism Conference

Eli Friedman, Lu Yao, and Eric Chen speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. Although the space for explicitly leftist movements has become increasingly constrained in China in recent years, important developments have occurred. This panel will analyze linkages between three key areas of social oppression and resistance: labor, gender, and education. Learn more about the Socialism Confere...

Derecka Purnell and Thomas Mariadason speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. The 2020 uprisings against police violence opened a new horizon for many people. In this session, Derecka Purnell details how multi-racial social movements rooted in rebellion, risk-taking, and revolutionary love pushed her and a generation of activists toward abolition, and what the new systems that work to ad...

Carlos Ramirez-Rosa and Anthony Joel Quezada speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. This session was sponsored by In These Times. https://inthesetimes.com Socialist electeds will discuss municipal socialism in the U.S. Midwest – from socialists elected to local office in the early 20th century to their current work as members of the Chicago City Council combating neoliberalism and fight...

Martyna Jałoszyńska, Rayito Rocha, Natalia Tylim, and Lexi McMenamin speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. At this meeting we'll get an in depth look at the movements for abortion in Poland and Argentina, plus greetings from the Mexican movement. These struggles are ripe with lessons for a new generation of socialist feminists in the US coming to terms with why and how we have been los...

Ben Davis speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. “Culture war” is everywhere today as a concept, on the right and left. This talk looks at the concept’s origin in the late ‘80s at the end of the Cold War, and its contemporary renaissance, as a way to clarify what role this framing of politics has in today’s debates. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.o...

Promise Li, Andrea Sempértegui, and Shiyam Galyon speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. This session was sponsored by Internationalism From Below. https://www.facebook.com/intlfrombelow This panel will diagnose the disturbing rise of an authoritarian tankie/campist orientation on the Left today—one that rationalizes, sugarcoats, and defends repressive and murderous regimes in the name...

Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson, David McNally, and Donna Murch speak at the final plenary of the Socialism 2022 conference. The struggle for socialism is happening on many fronts, but all of our struggles are linked by the larger project of dismantling capitalism and building a new socialist future where all of us are free. At the final plenary of Socialism 2022, speakers will provide some perspective...

Yaira Matos, Ngakiya Camara, and Aree Worawongwasu speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. This session was sponsored by Dissenters. http://wearedissenters.org/ How are youth organizing in solidarity with everyday people impacted by US wars and militarism? Rooted in shared principles of self-determination and solidarity with everyday people and liberation movements, Dissenters youth are...

Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. Join the authors of Rehearsals for Living for an exchange of Black and Indigenous perspectives, the historical legacies of slavery and colonization, and to collectively envision the possibilities for more liberatory futures during a historic moment of Indigenous land defense, prison strikes, and global-...

Kate Aronoff, Matthew T. Huber, and Drew Pendergrass speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. This session was sponsored by Verso Books. https://www.versobooks.com What are the most useful frameworks and priorities for left climate organizers in our current moment? What strategies can we borrow from history and from other social movements? How can utopian thinking expand our horizons in o...

Deana Lewis, Chez Rumpf, and Santera Matthews speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. This session was sponsored by Survived & Punished and Love & Protect. https://survivedandpunished.org https://loveprotect.org In this session, Survived & Punished National, Love & Protect, and the Free Chrystul Kizer Defense Campaign will focus on defining the term “criminalized survivors,” building sur...

Eric Maroney speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. Right-wing pundits have declared open war on abortion rights, and queer and trans people. Although aimed at motivating conservative voters ahead of the midterms, this backlash is more than simple political calculus. The far-Right/alt-Right are animated by profound anti-feminism. Unpacking and understanding this anti-feminism is essent...

Justin Akers Chacón speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. The aggressive exploitation of labor on both sides of the US-Mexico border has become a prominent feature of capitalism in North America, but this vicious model of capitalist transnationalization has also created its own grave-diggers. This session will explore why fighting for migrant justice and rebuilding the international u...

Obery Hendricks, Josh Davis, and Aaron Anderson speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. There is a rise of religious organizations joining the socialist struggle. This panel will explore what role religion should play in socialist politics; the rightwing’s hegemony in US Christianity and what socialists can learn from it; and the difference between “reactionary socialism” and a truly ema...

Kali Akuno speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2022, moderated by Kade Doyle Griffiths. This session was sponsored by Cooperation Jackson. https://cooperationjackson.org Mississippi’s Cooperation Jackson has become a center for Black resistance at a time of global health, economic, and climate crisis. In the context of the water crisis in Jackson, this session will delve into the new and...

Dana Cloud, Nina Lozano, and Keith Rosenthal speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. Presentations on Disability Justice and Socialism, Political Economy of Disability, Crip Time and Workers with Disabilities, and Protesting While Disabled. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org. Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow Haymarket on Soundc...

Patty Krawec speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. Our current social and political crises are rooted in colonial systems hidden behind conventional readings of history. Krawec will discuss her upcoming book and how confronting and challenging these harmful readings with Indigenous perspectives can help us develop relationships of solidarity. Learn more about the Socialism Conference...

Jesse Hagopian speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. This session was sponsored by Rethinking Schools. https://rethinkingschools.org Today there is legislation in some 42 states that seeks to require teachers to lie to students about structural racism, sexism, and heterosexism. This neo-McCarthyist attack on education has led to hundreds of book banns, the firing of teachers around th...

Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. This session was sponsored by the Highlander Research and Education Center. https://highlandercenter.org The US South has long been home to white supremacist terror and fear, but it has also produced sacred stories of love and Black resistance. Any strategy to change the politics of this country for the better cannot aban...

Naomi Bennet and Benjamin Balthaser speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. From Cold War constructions of Judeo-Christianity to the threat of cultural Marxism, US political culture has long obsessed over imagined political meanings of Jewishness. We'll discuss how Euro-Christian ideas about Jews have helped to constitute the American nation-state, consolidate the capialist ruling class...

Eman Abdelhadi speaks in conversation with Sophie Lewis in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. How do we imagine an emancipated society? Our visions of the future can enrich our day-to-day struggles. Sophie Lewis and Eman Abdelhadi will discuss revolutionary social reproduction in Eman’s coauthored novel Everything for Everyone. This new work of speculative fiction recounts a successful globa...

Haley Pessin and Andy Sernatinger speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. This session was sponsored by the Tempest Collective. https://www.tempestmag.org Crises of class inequality, race and gender oppression, and climate raise the question of how socialists should relate to a political system defined by two capitalist parties. Why does Marxism center mass struggle and class independenc...

Kim Kelly speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. This session was sponsored by Pilsen Community Books. https://www.pilsencommunitybooks.com The radical, multiracial, and multi-gendered history of American labor offers a deep well of inspiration for today’s labor struggles in all their forms. Join author and journalist Kim Kelly for a discussion of the fighting American labor movement,...

Elene Lam, Chanelle Gallant, and Yves Tong Nguyen speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. This session was sponsored by Butterfly and Red Canary Song. Butterfly: https://linktr.ee/butterflysw Red Canary Song: https://www.redcanarysong.net How have the state, law enforcement and NGOs formed and benefited from an anti-migrant, carceral “anti-human trafficking industry” that exploits and ha...

Safear Ness, Stevie Wilson, Saleem Holbrook, Kim Wilson, Bryant Arroyo, and Jessica Sylvia speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. This session was sponsored by Study & Struggle, https://www.studyandstruggle.com. A conversation among criminalized people about censorship behind prison walls and how it impacts knowledge acquisition and production, organizing, community building, healing, a...