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Roua Daas and Lea Kayali speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by the Palestinian Youth Movement. After almost 20 months of an ongoing U.S.-backed genocide, we have seen that the government will not enact an arms embargo, but with organization and coordination, the people will. Our demands: 1) Stop transporting military cargo complicit in the genocide of the...

Tracy Rosenthal, Marques Vestal, and Beatrice Adler-Bolton speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Death Panel. Discussions of “surplus populations” often fixate on labor markets; those cast out of work, left idle, or deemed unproductive. This session explores how the state organizes surplus not just through production, but through property and confinement....

Josie Pickens and connease warren speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by the upEND Movement. Since chattel slavery, state violence has regulated reproduction, evolving into institutions like family policing, which disproportionately targets marginalized communities under the guise of child protection. Using a reproductive justice framework, this session exa...

Wen Stephenson, Batul Hassan, Anthony Rogers-Wright, and Ray Acheson speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. For many, despair has become the only honest response to our converging climate and political catastrophes. Yet too much is at stake to settle for fatalism or any flimsy, cost-free hope. At this late date, nothing short of revolution in some form will salvage the possibility of a...

Emily Callaci and Sarah Leonard speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. Join historian Emily Callaci for a timely exploration of an often overlooked movement for economic and social justice: the Wages for Housework movement demanded wages for domestic labor as a starting point for remaking the world as we know it. Drawing on the campaign's 1970s roots in the US, Italy, and Britain, Calla...

Richard Seymour speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Salvage. While the spotlight often shines on charismatic new far-right leaders, like Donald Trump, Richard Seymour argues that the true peril lies elsewhere. These leaders are merely the embodiment of profound forces that are rarely understood: a seething cauldron of societal despair, fear, isolation a...

Libertie Valance, Casey O'Grady, Allyn Maxfield Steele, and Mandy Medley speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Firestorm Books, Haymarket House, Highlander Center, and Pilsen Community Books. In the midst of a climate shadowed by cruelty, alienation and uncertainty, community-based organizing spaces have never been more crucial. Join longtime organizers to...

Safear Ness, Bill Ayers, James Kilgore, Dawn Harrington, and Mon Mohapatra speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Community Justice Exchange. This workshop will offer an intergenerational conversation and reflection on international solidarity. Speakers ranging from 60s and 70s activists to present day freedom fighters will highlight what solidarity looked...

brian bean and Chenjerai Kumanyika speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. Where do cops come from and what is their true function in a global capitalist system? Are police at the core of the capitalist states that prop up systems of exploitation the world over? Join author brian bean and Chenjerai Kumanyika for a critical conversation weaving together the threads of the movement for pol...

Omar Barghouti and Olivia Katbi speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. Even as Israel extends its genocidal war, the struggle for Palestinian liberation continues with legendary sumud, resilience, and resistance. Their fight is all of our fight. To dismantle Israel’s regime of apartheid and settler colonialism, to defeat Trumpism and the rising wave of fascism worldwide will require uni...

Gabriel Winant, Asli Ü. Bâli, and Daniel Denvir speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by The Dig. An expansive analysis of the unfolding American political conjuncture. How should we analyze the reorganization of American politics under the fascist authoritarian regime of MAGA 2.0? How can the left move forward when years of struggle have left us far short of...

Micha Frazer-Carroll speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Pluto Press. Mental health is a political issue, but we often discuss it as a personal one. How is the current mental health crisis connected to capitalism, racism, and other social issues? In a different world, how might we transform the ways that we think about mental health, diagnosis, and trea...

Stephen Gurney, Amadi Ozier, Khadija Haynes, and Trevor-Anastacio Ortega speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by the Autonomous Tenant Union Network. This session will introduce “transitional demands,” a powerful organizing strategy that helps tenants connect their personal struggles—like rent hikes, repairs, and evictions—to the bigger picture. You'll hear...

Rae Garringer and Dao X. Tran speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. Join author Rae Garringer and editor Dao X. Tran for a conversation about lessons learned through the twelve-year journey of the Country Queers oral history project and podcast, culminating in the book Country Queers: A Love Letter (Haymarket, 2024). We’ll talk about community-based oral history work, queer and trans r...

Arun Kundnani speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Verso Books. Drawing lessons from a long tradition of anticolonial, anti-imperialist, and Marxist intellectuals and movements, Arun Kundnani will discuss how racism and capitalism are indivisible parts of one global system. And unless we can see the whole, we'll never know how to fight. The next Socialis...

Robert Cuffy and Jessica Garraway speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by New Politics and the Afrosocialists and Socialists of Color Caucus. The second wave of the Black Lives Matter rebellion erupted in 2020 while Trump was president in reaction to George Floyd & Breanna Taylor’s murder by the police. Now that Trump is back in the White House where doe...

Kim TallBear speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. In this talk, Dr. Kim TallBear explains how the very ideas of sex and nature cut networked relations into manageable objects or “things” that help maintain colonial domination. She draws on the insights of critical Indigenous and sexuality studies to offer alternative ways of thinking and doing intimacy. The next Socialism Conference...

Janene Yazzie and Ramzy Baroud speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Pilsen Community Books. As the world witnesses a live-streamed genocide, we face burning questions of how to combat fascism, white supremacy, religious fundamentalism, and settler colonialism. Two activists, authors, and scholars from Turtle Island and Palestine will discuss the long hist...

Kathryn Zamarrón, Margaret Palmquist, Loreen Targos, Colin Smalley, and Lindsey Muniak speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by In These Times. The Trump administration is carrying out a comprehensive assault on the public sector, with federal workers and their labor unions on the frontline. How do these attacks fit into much longer arcs of austerity, privati...

Sarah Schulman and Sarah Leonard speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. Everyone is under attack, and lessons from previous movements can stimulate our imaginations and the creation of new strategies and tactics. The successes of ACT UP (The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) 1987-1993, are not a blueprint, but they can inform our thinking. Sarah Schulman and Jim Hubbard interviewed 188 s...

Lauren Bianchi, Jeff Ordower, and Marcie Pedraza speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by the Climate and Community Institute. While corporate elites have long pitted climate and labor movements against each other, labor organizers are fighting against these divisions and organizing for green agendas aligned within material benefits to the working class. Hear...

Rae Garringer, Beth Howard, Shawn Sebastian, and Stephen Smith speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Rural Defenders Union and SURJ. What can the Left learn from rural organizers about strategy, innovation, and courage? What will it take for progressives to truly invest in working class rural organizing and see rural people as a critical part of winning th...

Myaisha Hayes, Irna Landrum, Alli Finn, and Cinthya Rodriguez speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Kairos Action. Tech billionaires claim AI will save us—but decades of community experience tell another story. Governments and corporations use AI to extract our data and labor, and justify life-and-death decisions about our lives, especially Black, brown, a...

Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Artie Vierkant, and Vicky Osterweil speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Death Panel. With the new administration, the federal government has been actively attacking healthcare funding for the poor and intensified its targeting of trans and disabled people and the immiseration of healthcare workers. Join us for a discussion of what...

Rae Garringer, Andrea J. Ritchie, Sophie Lewis, Jeanelle K. Hope, and Sarah Leonard speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Lux magazine. The far-right in the US and abroad has placed gender at the center of fascist politics, obsessing over trans rights, abortion, and the birthrate and attacking the very presence of the word gender in federal administration...