Socialism Conference

Patty Krawec and Fawn E. Pochel speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by Chi Nations Youth Council, Midnight Sun, Giniw Collective, and Indigenous Grounds. This session will be a conversation between Anishinaabekweg on how it’s essential to Indigenous liberation to examine and work against the invasiveness of the Peaceful Indian trope (which plays the Native...

Gladys Radek, Ashley Hemmers, and Ela Bannerjee speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by Voice of Witness. Join Voice of Witness for an insightful, intergenerational conversation between two narrators from the oral history collection How We Go Home: Voices from Indigenous North America. Indigenous women’s rights advocate Gladys Radek (Gitxsan/Wet’suwet’an Fir...

The last few years of political turmoil have unearthed the longstanding lack of public trust in the news media. As journalists who work in, outside and against legacy media, we will facilitate space for attendees to learn about the long and deep legacy of movement journalism that undermines the belief that objectivity and government sourcing are signs of quality and expands transformative, aboliti...

Kevin Lin, Ashley Smith, Lee Wengraf, and Yueran Zhang speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. The US and China are locked in conflict over everything from Tik Tok to trade, geopolitics, and military power. Kevin Lin, Ashley Smith, Lee Wengraf, and Yueran Zhang will discuss the nature of their conflict, its impact on the world, and how to build international solidarity against imperial r...

Noor (Palestinian Feminist Collective), Eman Abdelhadi, and Nourah Nabulsi speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by Salon Kawakib and Palestinian Feminist Collective. Palestinian workers and organized labor have played an instrumental role in advancing the struggle for national liberation by combatting Zionism and settler colonialism even prior to the Nakba i...

Rafael Bernabe speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. In this session led by the co-author of Puerto Rico in the American Century, Rafael Bernabe will situate the contemporary struggle against the US-based Junta installed since 2017 within the broader fight against colonial and capitalist rule on the island and beyond, offering a perspective for a break from free-market capitalism base...

Jeanelle K. Hope and Bill V. Mullen speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. Authors Jeanelle K. Hope & Bill V. Mullen will discuss how generations of Black activists and intellectuals have fought against fascism across the African diaspora. This session will elucidate Black antifascist organizing tactics employed to combat what Hope and Mullen call anti-Black fascism. The next Socialism...

Barbara Ransby, Nada Elia, Rossana Rodríguez, and Janene Yazzie speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by From Palestine to Chicago and across the globe, protests and strikes are surging and moving toward longer-term visions of social transformation. The Socialism 2024 closing plenary will provide perspectives on what it takes for movements to thicken relation...

Allison Guttu, Stephanie Kollgaard, Brooke Eliazar-Macke, and Molly Stump speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by National Women's Liberation. National Women's Liberation (NWL) is a multiracial feminist group for women who want to fight male supremacy and gain more freedom for women. https://womensliberation.org Is the war on abortion a matter of religious f...

Noah Kulwin speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Blowback. https://blowback.show Considered to be one of the greatest crimes of American imperialism, this year marks two decades since the invasion of Iraq. The $3 trillion war was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, and for the displacement of millions more as the country was fo...

Josh On speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. As much as they would like to deny it, there is a ruling class. This talk will examine the questions of why some people have more power to make important decisions that affect us all, who they are and how they rule today. It will provide an analysis of the structural relations that cement their rule - the market and the state. Learn more a...

Anne Rumberger and Mary Bowman speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Lux Magazine. https://lux-magazine.com The attacks on abortion access and trans existence are coming from the same Christian nationalist far-right playbook. The legal challenges and intimidation campaigns against those seeking reproductive and trans healthcare are coordinated incursions o...

Woods Ervin and Molly Porzig speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Critical Resistance. https://criticalresistance.org As demands to defund the police become more and more popular, how do we ensure these calls further on-the-ground work toward a vision of prison industrial complex abolition? How do we make material gains in our struggle for community self-...

Michael Hollingsworth, Justine Medina, and Tristian Martinez speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by DSA. https://www.dsausa.org The working class is divided by racism, sexism, elitism, transphobia, xenophobia, and ideological differences. How can the left organize across these divisions to build solidarity and power? This panel will feature best practices f...

Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò and Astra Taylor speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Hammer & Hope. https://hammerandhope.org In many ways, mainstream politics are broken - from healthcare to housing, debt, climate, and policing. Where do we start? What are the best targets for a growing but still marginal left, the best uses of our limited time and resources? Join Olú...

Alex N. Press, Sean Orr, Terri Houldieson, and Quentin Washington speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Jacobin. https://jacobin.com The labor movement has seen an encouraging uptick in organizing, worker militancy, and public support of unions in recent years. But it's not enough to get workers into unions — to fully use labor's power to change the world,...

Philip Rocco, Gabriel Winant, and Salonee Bhaman speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Death Panel. https://www.deathpanel.net The healthcare struggles of the last century have been profoundly shaped by the structures of US federalism: what resources are allocated to states, and what artificial constraints are imposed on them that produce policy in the mol...

Sandra Tamari and Jason Farbman speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This event was recorded on September 2, 2023. This session was sponsored by Adalah Justice Project and Jewish Voice for Peace. https://www.adalahjusticeproject.org https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org Every few years, the Israeli state's relentless drive to displace and kill Palestinians kicks into overdrive. In these...

Alex Vitale, Kaili Moss, Dylan Pyles, and Avery Jones speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Dream Defenders and Decarcerate KC. https://www.dreamdefenders.org https://www.decarceratekc.org Successful grassroots organizing and concrete policy changes guided by abolitionist principles abound. School police departments have been eliminated, non-police crisis...

Ashley Smith and Lee Wengraf speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. Imperialism is the competition between states for geopolitical dominance and the division of the world market. Lee Wengraf and Ashley Smith will explain its roots in capitalism, analyze its features today, address debates on the left, and argue for international solidarity among workers and oppressed nations against the...

Derecka Purnell, Nyle Fort, Damon Williams, Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson, and aja monet speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. As we expand our historical memory and inter-generational solidarity, the next generation is forging a radical new future from the rubble of the present. The movements of today show that the politics of tomorrow are radical, abolitionist, and socialist. Close out t...

Nikia Watkins and Bettina Johnson speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Liberation Library. http://www.liberationlib.org Founded in 2015 by Project Nia, Liberation Library is a volunteer led, abolitionist organization sending books to young people in prisons and jails. With the mission to provide young people the books of their choosing, Liberation Library...

Melinda Lavon, Sean Estelle, Sarah Callahan, and JP Lyninger speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by DSA. https://www.dsausa.org Bodily autonomy is under attack. DSA has made strides in protecting abortion through ballot measures in Kentucky, Kansas, and Montana, but where do we go next? What lessons from these campaigns can we apply to the fight for trans r...

Djamil Lakhdar-Hamina and Joseph Perez speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Cosmonaut. https://cosmonautmag.com Marx and Engels identified as "scientific", as opposed to “utopian”, socialists. Why does being a “scientific” socialist matter? What does it mean to be a "scientific" socialist? What do Marxists think about science, as a practice and institutio...

Sydney Ghazarian, Kristian Hernandez, Justin Charles and Philip Locker speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by DSA. https://www.dsausa.org What kind of socialist organization does the current political moment call for? How should DSA confront the threat of the far right and situate itself in relation to the Democratic Party and progressives? Does the current...