Socialism Conference

Local leaders from UAW 551, SEIU local 26 Minneapolis and CTU Local 1 speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by Key leaders in various unions are attempting to align contracts for May 1st, 2028 to win bigger collective demands for the working class than would be possible separately, such as fighting national healthcare. The next Socialism Conference will be he...

Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. We pay rent at the peril of our need and at the barrel of a gun. Drawing from their forthcoming Haymarket book, two LA Tenants Union cofounders will situate the fight for housing as an essential axis of class struggle. How can we organize our buildings and blocks to get rid of our landlords and take control of o...

James Wilt speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. Alcohol is one of the most popular drugs in the world, yet remains largely under-analyzed as a highly profitable commodity for capitalist firms and states. This session explores how we might take alcohol seriously as a widely enjoyed and celebrated drug, while also working to reduce alcohol-caused harms largely caused by capitalist domi...

Anderson Bean and Mara Garcia speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. The Venezuelan Left-Populist experience of the late 1990s and early 2000s was characterized by mass participation, hope, and expectations. How do we understand how and why those high-points have degenerated into the challenging and desperate situation for Venezuelans today? This session will give voice to perspectives...

Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson, Renée Paradis, and Bennett Carpenter speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by Liberation Road, North Star Socialist Organization, and DSA Socialist Majority. Amid many intensifying contradictions, the white Christian nationalist right is organizing for and winning power. Today’s neo-fascist MAGA movement is not the same old right wi...

Blanca Missé, Ilya Matveev, and Zakhar Popovych speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by Ukraine Solidarity Network. Ukraine’s resistance to Russia’s effort to deny its national existence is a critical dimension of the global fight against imperialism and fascism. At a moment when the far-Right is increasingly allying itself with Putin’s white nationalist age...

Nada Elia and Nadine Naber speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by Salvage. Arab American feminists Nada Elia and Nadine Naber explore how, from the British Mandate in Palestine to present-day organizing on Turtle Island, Palestinian women and our allies have consistently engaged in decolonial feminist praxis as we struggled to achieve collective social and...

Editors of the Line 3 Storytelling Anthology speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. Join the editors of Even the River Starts Small, a collection of stories from the movement to stop the construction of the Line 3 pipeline, for a workshop on the principles of movement storytelling. The next Socialism Conference will be held in Chicago, July 3-6. Learn more about the Socialism Conference...

Sophia Gurulé, Michael Letwin, Marcelina Pedraza, and Shahinaz Geneid speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by UAW Labor for Palestine. This panel examines working class support for Palestine, from the League of Revolutionary Black Workers' stance in 1969, Arab-led autoworker strikes in 1973, Labor for Palestine since 2004, Block the Boat/ILWU since 2014, to...

Juana and Anastasia speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by Workers' Voice. Panelists will discuss their experiences as undocumented immigrant organizers fighting for their rights, from the mass march of 2006 through to labor- and hunger- strike solidarity for people in ICE detention, and share lessons on the importance of building democratic, working class...

Premilla Nadasen, Martha Biondi, Lynette Jackson speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. Exploring the lives of three prominent figures in the struggle against apartheid and for self-determination in South Africa, the panelists will discuss the anti-imperialism and critiques of settler-colonialism that were hallmarks of their subjects’ organizing, demonstrating why the South African stor...

Frances Amador, Zafiro Patiño, Steve Meacham, Eric Wellers speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by This panel will break down the sword, the shield, and the offer a housing justice- anti displacement organizing strategy—CLVU’s nationally known organizing strategy utilizing public pressure, legal defense, and collective negotiations—and will give experience-b...

Eman Abdelhadi, Ariel Ajeno, Max Fox speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by Pinko. The concept of gay communism is greater circulation now than when it was first coined by the Italian Marxist Mario Mieli in the context of the sexual liberation struggle and the post-operaist milieu he was active in. What does it mean, what traditions does it partake in, and...

Megan Lessard and Emily Janakiram speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by NYC for Abortion Rights. Less than 25 years after the United States invaded Afghanistan, vowing to “liberate” women from the Taliban, warmongers in the imperial core are cynically invoking “women’s rights” to manufacture consent for Israel’s genocide in Palestine. In this discussion, w...

Ray Acheson, M.V. Ramana, Joshua Frank speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by Science for the People, Verso, and CounterPunch. This panel will explore the myths of nuclearism and the attempts to modernize the machines of war and power in today’s world. Participants will discuss how nuclear power is a dangerous distraction from decarbonizing energy systems,...

Sarah Wattar, Micah Clark Moody, and more speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by REAL Youth Initiative, Civil Rights Corps. Jailing people is family separation. Family separation forces pleas, extracts profit, and destabilizes love. Here, panelists will briefly share our personal and professional experiences challenging carceral family separation. Then, we...

Lexi Dotson-Dufault, Emily Likins-Ehlers, Dr. Mary Bowman, and Anne Rumberger speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by Chicago for Abortion Rights and Lux. Two years after the fall of Roe and during another "most important election of our lifetimes," how can supporters of reproductive freedom build power through intersectional organizing and envision a radica...

Mizue Aizeki, Matt Mahmoudi, and Kate Sim speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by Surveillance Resistance Lab. We explore connections and share strategies between the “No Tech For” and divestment movements—from resisting the violence of borders to Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians. Against the backdrop of the high-tech powered genocide in Gaza, it is c...

Megan Romer, Mina Parkison, Peg Strobel, and Bill Barclay speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by DSA. If we want to win the whole world, our organizing must engage more than just the young, the childless, and the able-bodied. How do we tackle the socialist project intergenerationally and make an organizing space for everyone, one which allows for robust eng...

Mohiba Ahmed, Aman Bardia, Divyani Motla, Arsalan Samdani speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by SALAM (South Asian Left Activist Movement)l Diasporic South Asians are often seen as a “model minority.” However, over the past years, a spurt of radical South Asian-led community and media activism has contested this trope. This session brings together various...

Taras Bilous, Olena Lyubchenko, Volodymyr Ishchenko, Suzi Weissman, Robert Capistrano speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by the Daniel Singer Millenium Prize. This panel will celebrate the 2024 Daniel Singer Millennium prize recipient, and provide a moment for invited panelists and audience members to engage their writing on the subject of the Russian inva...

Roshan Dadoo and Samer Araabi speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by the Center for Political Education and the Arab Resource & Organizing Center. The shared commitment to stop the Gaza genocide has produced remarkable growth in leftist organizing, but not a shared vision for navigating the path to Palestinian freedom beyond the war. We’ll share relevant hi...

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. Using Nishnaabeg "poetic knowledge" concerning water, this talk explores Indigenous internationalism, grounded solidarity and world making towards liberatory futures. The next Socialism Conference will be held in Chicago, July 3-6. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org. Buy books from H...

Nick Estes speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. Join scholar-activist Nick Estes as he traces traditions of Indigenous resistance—from the days of the Missouri River trading forts through the Indian Wars, the Pick-Sloan dams, the American Indian Movement, and the campaign for Indigenous rights at the UN—that have led to today’s crucial organizing against fossil fuel pipelines and for...

Sai Englert speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by Pluto Press. Rich with their unique histories, characteristics, and social relations, Indigenous struggles across the world are connected by the shared enemy they face: settler colonialism. In this session, Sai Englert argues that settler colonial forms of domination and accumulation played a central role...