Socialism Conference
Socialism Conference is a podcast featuring recordings from the annual Socialism conference, a four-day gathering of thousands of socialists and radical activists. Sessions cover social movements, Marxism, abolition, working-class history, and strategies for organizing today. Topics range from the BDS campaign for Palestine and gender liberation to strike organizing, anti-racism, and the fight against environmental destruction. Episodes released here come from Socialism 2025, held in Chicago over July 4th weekend, with future editions planned in Chicago as well.
Episodes
Migrant Sex Workers Against Fascism: Lessons from 150 Years of Resistance
Chanelle Gallant, Elene Lam, Emi Koyama, and Yves Tong Nguyen speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. Travel bans, ICE abductions and deportations of green card holders are nothing new for migrants in the sex industry. But their lives and struggles also offer us a blueprint for resisting surveillance, criminalization and the “good immigrant” vs “bad immigrant” division. Instead they insp
All Our Movements in this Together
Silky Shah, Eman Abdelhadi, Mariah Parker, Mikaela Loach, and Scout Bratt speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. Amid relentless authoritarian attacks and power grabs, it will take all our movements to bring down the oligarchs and build a different kind of future. Join us for the Socialism 2025 final plenary as we confront a pivotal political moment and ground ourselves to come out stro
Bottom Up for Liberation: An Anti-Imperialist Strategy for our Movement
Sal Ami, Rebecca John, Carl Redwood, and Sara Roschdi speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Bottom Up for Liberation.We are an emerging cadre formation of social movement leftists, growing out of the LeftRoots process. Too often internationalism is an obligatory footnote to local and electoral struggles--but for us, anti-imperialism is essential to our dai
The Struggle for Collective Liberation: Class, Oppression, and the Politics of Resistance
Jesse Sharkey, Eric Maroney, and Donna Murch speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Spectre Journal.In order to build an effective resistance to Trump’s intensified attacks, we must combine the fight against oppression—including against the right's racist attacks, and its transphobia—with the struggle to build resistance to exploitation in the workplace. In
Caregiving Toward Abolition: Workshop and Story Circles
Nadine Naber and Maya Schenwar speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. Caregiving is an integral part of movements for liberation. In this moment of rising fascism, it's especially crucial to uplift this care work, including care for children. Supporting young people and each other in concrete, material ways, day to day and hour to hour, is an essential component of resistance. In this w
Lessons from Below: Learn from/with Palms Unhoused Mutual Aid (PUMA) and Build your own Abolitionist Network of Care
Ndindi Kitonga speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. Palms Unhoused Mutual Aid (PUMA) is an abolitionist network of care based in Palms, Los Angeles, CA. This interactive workshop is designed for those interested in building their own networks. We will offer insights and missteps from our work at PUMA. We will also explore libertory practices towards community care that centers unhous
Fighting Fragmentation: Building Cross-Sectoral Social Movements
Felix T., Bri M., and Yasser Munif speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation.Movement organizations often hesitate to engage beyond their immediate focus. This panel highlights organizers who expanded their efforts—a tenant union opposing a police training facility and a labor union joining the fight for a ceasefire i
Hope at the Edge of the Abyss: The Case for Revolution
Natalia Tylim and David McNally speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Tempest Collective.Amid genocide, Trump’s authoritarian onslaught, climate catastrophe, and the threat of fascism—we are living at the edge of capitalism’s abyss. This meeting will make the case for why revolution is not only necessary, but also why mass struggles of working class and op
Debate and Discussion: Socialists, Independent Politics, and the Democratic Party
Howie Hawkins, Bennett Carpenter, Ashik Siddique, Lee Wengraf speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Solidarity, Groundwork DSA, and Tempest.Socialists have historically taken quite different postures toward engagement with the Democratic Party. For some, it is the only existing avenue to mass influence and a necessary means to block growing fascist influen
Putin’s Anti-War Political Prisoners in Russia
Ksenia Kagarlitskaya, Boris Kagarlitsky, Grusha Gilaeva, and Simon Pirani speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This panel examines Putin’s repression of critical voices, those who have publicly opposed his war of aggression against Ukraine. Boris Kagarlitsky, the well-known Marxist critic of Putin's regime, is currently serving a five year sentence in a penal colony for "justifying te
Debt is a Labor Issue: Unions and Debt Abolition
Jason Wozniak, Lindsey Muniak, Jasson Perez, and Jeannine Woods speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Debt Collective.In this interactive session audience members will develop a robust analysis and critique of debt and discuss campaigns for debt abolition led by organized labor. Organizing for better wages and benefits is to organize against debt. To organ
United Struggles: Intersectional Resistance to Bodily Autonomy Restrictions
Lyra McMillan and Lyra Spencer speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by DSA.This panel connects the parallel attacks on reproductive and trans rights within a broader analysis of fascist control over marginalized bodies. Speakers examine effective coalition strategies that center the most vulnerable communities in our resistance movements.The next Socialism C
Building an Internationalist Left Through Diaspora Mobilization: From South Asian North America
Aman Bardia, Maithreyi Rajeshkumar, Raza Gillani, Mohiba Ahmed speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by SALAM.What role can and should the diaspora play in left organizing? How do diaspora groups stay accountable to the communities they find themselves in the US, and stay connected and build international solidarity with movements in the Global South? This pa
Labor and Community Organizing Against the MAGA Billionaire Agenda
Stacy Davis Gates, Jorge Mujica, Asha Ransby-Sporn, and René Christian Moya speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. As workers we have the power to change the course of this country and the world. Unions and community organizations have the organizational muscle to shut down Trump’s attacks and smash the far right. Hear from labor leaders and community organizers on the front lines of th
Build & Fight: A Strategy to Meet the Moment
Kali Akuno, Kamau Franklin, David Cobb, and Johanna Epke speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Build and Fight, Community Movement Builders, and People's Network for Land & Liberation.The Build and Fight strategy is being applied in Jackson, MS. It emphasizes creating autonomous, cooperative institutions (Build) while simultaneously engaging in organiz
After the Fall of Assad: The Struggle for a Free Syria
Yasser Munif, Ramah Kudaimi, Leila al-Shami, and Shireen Akram-Boshar speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. Syrians have overthrown Bashar al-Assad's brutal dictatorship, liberated cities, freed political prisoners, and opened space to struggle for an inclusive, democratic, and egalitarian country. But internal, regional, and imperial forces are angling to contain the revolution. So, t
Rethinking Antifascism
Ari Bloomekatz, Shane Burley, Michael Staudenmaier, Andrea J. Ritchie, Kelly Hayes, and Rick Perlstein speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by In These Times.A conversation with veteran anti-fascists about what it means to scale-up an anti-fascist movement when the forces we're fighting have taken the power of the state.The next Socialism Conference will be
What's Next for the Palestine Solidarity Movement?
Eman Abdelhadi, Olivia Katbi, Nashwa Bawab, and Sahar speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. Twenty-one months into Israel’s genocidal war on Palestine, the stakes of international solidarity are higher than they have ever been. Join representatives of the Palestinian Youth Movement, National Students for Justice in Palestine, and the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement for an u
Abolitionist Organizing Under Authoritarianism
Andrea J. Ritchie, Lewis Raven Wallace, Maria Thomas, Eva Nagao speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. A number of frameworks have been articulated across the Left for resisting rising authoritarianism, fascism, white Christian cisheteropatriarchal supremacy, and imperialism in the U.S. Recognizing that criminalization is instrumental to authoritarian regimes and Right-wing agendas, fac
Becoming Working Class Revolutionaries: Lessons from the League of Revolutionary Black Workers for Today’s Class War
Jerome Scott and walda katz-fishman speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. Theoretical study and class analysis are essential for understanding class struggle throughout the capitalist epoch, especially in this moment. We share lessons from the League’s 50+ year personal, political, collective journey of Marxist study and struggle for developing class consciousness and working class un
Collective Liberation through Sex Education: How Sex Education Should be at the Root of All Organizing Spaces
Elhom Karbassi and Thalía Chicojay speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Sexpectations Chicago.At the root of organizing is education, not just formal, but skill-sharing and radical understanding. Sex education must be foundational, covering pleasure, racial medical history, gender, advocacy, relationships, violence prevention, and harm reduction. This ses
The Rise of Right-Wing Politics In Working-Class Communities
David Broder and Meagan Day speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by the Daniel Singer Prize.Far-right leaders and parties throughout the world are winning the support of large sectors of the working class and represent a deadly threat to democracy and social justice. How can we explain this upsurge in support? Join the Daniel Singer Foundation and winners of
Survival and Resistance Behind Bars
Stanley Howard, Renaldo Hudson, Alice Kim, James "Jimmy" Soto, and Asha Ransby-Sporn speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Beyond Prisons at the Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture; Illinois Prison Project; Uptown People’s Law Office.This session will discuss the organizing and survival strategies that the panelists practiced to stay alive
On Pan-Africanism: Past and Present
Adom Getachew speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2025.This talk surveys the history of Pan-Africanism with specific attention to key inflection moments such as the late nineteenth century and the era of decolonization to consider its on-going resonances. Through specific attention to the cultural politics of Pan-Africanism, it demonstrates why visions of global Black solidarity continue
Workers Deserve More: DSA's National Labor Program
Shay, Sarah Hurd, and more speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by DSA.In 2024, DSA members joined their coworkers on the picket line for major labor actions across the University of California, and at Amazon and Starbucks nationwide. Along with these campaigns, we are organizing worker networks and fighting back with federal workers in the midst of broadsid
A Time of Monsters: What Indigenous Horror Can Teach Us About Resistance
Kali Simmons, Robyn Bourgeois, and Patty Krawec speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. "The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters." —Antonio Gramsci. We live in a time of monsters, and the unique perspective of Indigenous horror can teach us how to respond to them without becoming monsters ourselves.The next Socialism Conference will be
The Blunt-Force Assault on Education: Resistance to Fascism
Wayne Au, David Stovall, Jesse Hagopian, Barbara Ransby, Davarian Baldwin, and Bill Ayers speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. Book-banning, attacks on Critical Race Theory, Black Studies and Queer Studies, the use of state violence to repress dissent—we are experiencing a furious backlash against modest steps to make education accessible to all children and youth. How should a
Building Durable Power: Lessons from Jewish Voice for Peace
Shelby Handler, Michael Wolfe, and CP speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace.What does it take to absorb and consolidate a membership base after periods of uprising & mass mobilization? Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) organizers will share their reflections on nitty gritty topics like: creating effective leadership structures, buildi
Social Reproduction Theory and Practice
Sean K. Isaacs speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. Social Reproduction Theory (SRT) represents one of the liveliest sites of Marxist debate today. SRT’s theoretical approach highlights the need to view colonialism, race, gender, and other social relations as central to capital’s reproduction. Strategically, this means that struggles beyond the point of production must be recentred i
Blocking the Right, Building the Base: The Work of Left Unity in 2025
Bennett Carpenter, David Duhalde, Montague Simmons, Jayanni Webster, and Cayden Mak speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Convergence Magazine, Liberation Road, and Rising Majority.How can organizers take on bold, strategic work to strengthen left-led base building within a broad anti-fascist united front? Our panelists debate the “build” component of a sh
The Role of Black Media Under Fascism
Da'Shaun Harrison, Tea Troutman, Ko Bragg, and Aurielle Marie speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Scalawag Magazine.What is the role of Black media under fascism? This is one of the questions we would like to invite others to consider at this year's conference. We hope to delve into a discussion about what we see as our responsibility as an independent,
Revolutionary Accompaniment: Holding Each Other When Things Fall Apart
Kelly Hayes, Tanuja Jagernauth, and Eman Abdelhadi speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. A conversation between contributors to the upcoming anthology Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis, which offers advice and accompaniment to organizers struggling with the conflicts, heartbreaks, and catastrophes that activists so often experience. The next Socialism Con
Refusing + Resisting Anti-Kashmiri Racism for a Free Kashmir
Binish Ahmed speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Kashmir Golpush.What happens when an entire people are systematically dehumanized, their histories erased, and their identities weaponized against them? Anti-Kashmiri racism operates at the intersection of imperialism, settler-colonialisms, anti-Asian, anti-Muslim, and anti-Indigenous racism, portraying K
Revolutionary Socialist Youth Organizing in the 1970s: The Red Tide and the Battle to Free Gary Tyler
Gary Tyler, Arnita Dobbins, Kyle Hopkins, and Michael Letwin speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025.In 1976, high school students of the Red Tide newspaper campaigned to free Gary Tyler, a 16-year-old Black political prisoner on Louisiana's death row. In the process, they forged a multiracial, working-class youth organization of the International Socialists. Half a century later, Gary an
Borders vs. The Working Class: An Internationalist Perspective
This session was recorded at Socialism 2025 and sponsored by Speak Out Socialists.Trump’s new policies have driven an increased militarism, nationalism, and patriotism across the world aimed at rallying workers in each country behind its own governments. Internationalism is the only perspective that can advance the interests of the working class. Hear revolutionary activists in France, Germany, an
Stop Cop City: Lessons from the Movement
Kamau Franklin, Micah Herskind, and Mariah Parker speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025.The Stop Cop City movement is a decentralized effort to stop the construction of a $120 million police training facility and the destruction of 170 acres of the Weelaunee Forest outside of Atlanta, Georgia. Featuring a range of tactics, and in the face of enormous state repression, the SCC movement b
The Use of Political Education in Union Campaigns
Dylan Maraj, Alvin Gaine, and Ira Pollock speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Logistics Workers League.While the urgent needs of organizing and fighting the boss naturally take top priority for union organizers and committees, political education of workers in struggle is a crucial but hard to prioritize investment that can turn committee leaders into co
The Left and the Family: A Roundtable
Emily Janakiram, Eman Abdelhadi, Katie Gibson, and Olivia Katbi speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025.How should the left relate to the family? Socialist analysis makes clear that the nuclear family form is an inherently repressive, racist, and hetereo-sexist institution that functionally reinforces and reproduces capitalism. But what does this mean for our organizing, especially when t
Under Death Squads and a Dictator's Son: Organizing a Left Alternative in the Philippines
Pang Delgra speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Partido Sosyalista.From the weaponization of Facebook to successive elections of authoritarian leaders; the Philippines has been a testing ground for the Far-Right. How have the left been able to fight back under such conditions? Hear insights and perspectives from a representative from the newly formed Pa
Fascists Are Trying to Recruit You!: Antisemitism, Conspiracism, and the Anti-Woke Left
Naomi Bennet and Danny Katch speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025.As Trump persecutes migrants, trans people, and other scapegoats, the left faces a choice: echo his anti-woke populism, or fight for collective liberation. This session will look at the dangers of antisemitic, conspiracist politics in movements across the political spectrum – and how we keep the focus on capitalism, not
How to Democratize Everything
Michael A. McCarthy speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2025.If you’re a socialist, what do you know about democratic planning? Socialism isn't bigger state bureaucracies, endless meetings, or even turning out votes. Instead, it is empowering ordinary people to have a greater say over the institutions that affect us all. Join social theorist Michael A. McCarthy to explore how the working
Labor and the Struggle for Higher Education
Jason Wozniak, Gabriel Winant, Sherry Wolf, and Chenjerai Kumanyika speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025.Repression of student protests on campuses and existential defunding threats from the White House have combined to change the face of higher education and call into question its very future. Join us for a discussion of the current state of the movement to save and transform higher e
Gulf to Gaza: No Sacrifice Zones
Chloe Torres and Jenny Espino speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025.BIPOC communities along the Gulf South have long been treated as sacrifice zones by corporations like Chevron and Valero who have also been instrumental in fueling genocide in Palestine. This panel will explore what it means to build solidarity in communities often overlooked and seldom seen as crucial sites of struggle
Ukraine Betrayed: Trump, Putin and the Struggle for Self-Determination
Howie Hawkins, Tanya Vyhovsky, Elias Seidel, Dianne Feeley, and Suzi Weissman speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Ukraine Solidarity Network-US.Trump’s political alignment with Russia’s Vladimir Putin is reshaping international politics while posing a serious threat to the Ukrainian people’s resistance to colonial domination and occupation. This panel wi
Socialist (Humanism) or Barbarism: On Political Education, Democratic Rights and Where We Go Next
Michaela Brangan, Steve Fraser, Sarah Hurd, and Mie Inouye speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by DSA.In the wake of the state’s anti-left attacks on the university, public education, and access to knowledge in general, liberals have failed to uphold their own institutions through neoliberal decline and the new right’s aggressive encroachment. It’s time for
Left-Internationalism from the Imperial Core: Then and Now
Audrey Nicolaides speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research.This lecture will retrace the theoretical and historical evolution of left-internationalism from the mid-19th century onward, paying particular attention to the problem of practicing international solidarity from within the imperial core. What is left intern
Gender, Sexuality, Reproduction and the State: Fighting Back Against the So-Called Law
Sophie Lewis, Melissa Gira Grant, and Beatrice Adler-Bolton speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Death Panel.As the state intensifies its assault on gender, sexuality, and reproduction—criminalizing abortion, trans care, and pregnancy outcomes, dismantling government functions to fight "gender ideology," and defining "real women" under the guise of protec
No New Cages: Lessons from Organizers Resisting Carceral Infrastructure
Silky Shah, Mon Mohapatra, Hannah Riley, Stevie Wilson, Maha Hilal, and Zhandarka Kurti speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Community Justice Exchange.The new, authoritarian, administration has promised to expand prison infrastructure, requiring remobilizations of efforts against expansion, construction, entrenchment, and net-widening. Alongside the rele
Eugene Debs: From Rail Labor Organizer to Socialist Agitator—Lessons for Today
Allison Duerk, Mark Burrows, and Guy Miller speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Railroad Workers United.After the 1894 Pullman Strike was violently crushed by the federal militia, Debs advocated for socialism to his dying day. Imprisoned for opposing US involvement in WW I, he received almost a million votes for president in 1920. What can we learn from
"Sick, Twisted Freedom": Inside-Out Lessons in Disability Justice
Harley Pomper, Raymond Youngblood, A'Keisha Lee, Micah Clark Moody, and Liat Ben-Moshe speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by the Jail Solidarity Network.In prison and jail where people must put themselves at risk to have their basic needs met, how do we think about disability? We will challenge people to see how incarceration disables and how disabled peop
Immigration Detention, Inc.
Nancy Hiemstra speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Pluto Press.While immigration detention is central to Trump's mass deportation plans, the U.S. detention system has been growing for decades. In addition to private prison operators, a whole range of companies and local governments are cashing in. As detention capacity increases, so do webs of economic
Confronting Counterinsurgency: Rebel Chores, Religion, Revolutionary Love
Adam Vander Tuig and Joy James speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by the Highlander Center.What are the “rebel chores,” the everyday educational, political, and spiritual commitments, that make revolutionary lovers? Often dismissed, what is the right relationship between spirituality and liberatory struggle? Can one be revolutionary without being religious
What Can Students Achieve? Analyzing the Possibilities and Limits of the Student Intifada
This session was recorded at Socialism 2025 and sponsored by National Students for Justice in Palestine.Positioning universities as features of imperialism’s superstructure, we give an assessment of the Student Intifada’s strategy, tactics, and its impact on advancing the broader anti-Imperialist struggle. We’ll define the historic tasks of the Palestinian student movement and the Left as we conti
Art & Communism
Boots Riley and Jesse Hagopian speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025.Join filmmaker, rapper, and activist Boots Riley for a conversation with author and teacher Jesse Hagopian on the role of art in contemporary capitalism and what it means to be an artist on the left. Boots Riley's latest cinematic productions include the show I'm a Virgo, the film Sorry to Bother You, and the
Mapping Landlords and Their Technologies for Housing Justice and Rent Abolition
Benjamin Bartu, Nathan Kim, Erin McElroy, and Tracy Rosenthal speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project and Landlord Tech Watch.In this workshop, members of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project and Landlord Tech Watch will share methods that they use to map corporate landlords in the San Francisco Bay Area, as well techniques for
Fanon at 100: Insights for Today's Anti-Colonial Struggles
Ndindi Kitonga, Ricado Jacobs, and Peter Hudis speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by International Marxist-Humanist Organization.Frantz Fanon is renowned as one of the most important decolonial theorists of the twentieth century. As part of commemorating his 100th birthday, this panel will explore how his work speaks to today’s struggles against settler co
Fake Work: What a Fake Job Dedicated to Solving a Fake Crisis Can Teach Us About Financialized Capitalism
Leigh Claire La Berge speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2025.At the end of the last century, predictions about the destructive potential of the Y2K bug were everywhere. As the clocks ticked closer to the prophesied end-times, Capitalism—then in the rapturous throes of a global tech bubble—did what it does best: created a whole cottage industry of consultants dedicated not to preventing
Defeating the End Times Triad: Christian Zionists, Christian Nationalists, and Technofascists
Adam Vander Tuig, Ben Lorber, Crystal Silva-McCormick, and Annie Wilkinson speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Political Research Associates.In our dystopian conjuncture Christian Zionism, Christian nationalism and End-Times technofascism work together to further genocidal aggression in Palestine alongside the entrenchment of authoritarian repression in
Love in a F*cked Up World: Community Care in the Face of Collapse
Dean Spade and Beatrice Adler-Bolton speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Death Panel.In a world unraveling under capitalism, climate catastrophe, and state violence, how do we build real care and solidarity? Dean Spade will discuss approaches to survival and resistance explored in his books Love in a F*cked Up World, Mutual Aid, and Normal Life—breaking
What's at Stake: Organizing for Climate Armageddon
Ashley Dawson, Joshua Frank, Silky Shah, and Janene Yazzie speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by CounterPunch.We are in the midst of a climate upheaval. The world is burning, and we must act. This panel will discuss what is at stake and how our side can respond to the crisis. The discussion will address Indigenous sovereignty, climate refugees, and public
Skyscraper Jails: The Abolitionist Fight Against Jail Expansion in New York City
Zhandarka Kurti, Jarrod Shanahan, and Jack Norton speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. Join scholars and organizers Zhandarka Kurti and Jarrod Shanahan for a damning account of mass incarceration that reveals how progressive forces in New York City appropriated the rhetoric of social movements and social justice to promise “downsized” and “humane" jails. The story at the heart of thei
The Battle for Global Hegemony: Trump and the US-China Rivalry
Tobita Chow, Carmen Phanuelle Delgra, Ashley Smith, and JM Wong speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. Donald Trump’s regime has abandoned Washington’s grand strategy of superintending global capitalism for an America First imperialism targeting China first and foremost. This panel will explore the nature of the rivalry, its impact on the Asia Pacific, why the international left should
Healthcare is a Human Right: Confronting Disparities from Chicago to Gaza
Ezekiel Richardson, Hana Masud, and Caesar Thompson speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025.Healthcare disparities exist around the world, some are a product of the profit driven healthcare industry, others are due to colonial occupation. Hear a panel of healthcare activists discuss the connections as well as how we can struggle to change it for the better.The next Socialism Conference wi
Nos Defendemos: Community Deportation Defense from Workplaces to Neighborhoods
Hector Rincon, Jorge Mújica, and Jazmin Tlaxcala speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Workers' Voice.Worker, tenant, and immigrant organizers discuss the need to organize to defend immigrants in our workplaces and communities and lessons from the attacks in the first six months of the Trump regime.The next Socialism Conference will be held in Chicago, Sep
I Didn't Come Here to Lie: The Life and Legacy of Karen Lewis
Elizabeth Todd-Breland and Jesse Sharkey speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025.In 2012, Karen Lewis led the Chicago Teachers Union to a historic strike, challenging the city’s powerful mayor and paving the way for an unprecedented wave of teacher strikes in the decade that followed. Join us for a discussion and celebration of Karen's legacy and monumental impact on the labor movement to
Making Sense of the Anti-Trans Turn
Danielle Bullock and Eric Maroney speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025.Trump and the MAGAtized Republican Party have taken advantage of voters’ anxieties and created a sense of panic surrounding transgender issues. However, what remains less clear are the reasons why these appeals resonate with certain voters, what drives this particular political reaction, and how the Left can effecti
Roundtable: Political Education in the Time of Monsters
This session was sponsored by B-REAL Academy, Center for Political Education, Claudia Jones School, KC Defender, Highlander Center, and W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School.While the fight for spaces within colleges and universities continues, this moment underlines the urgent need to build and expand counter-hegemonic political education on the left to confront and resist the right and put forward a cr
Political Education 3: Abolition & Reconstruction Today
This session was sponsored by B-REAL Academy, Center for Political Education, Claudia Jones School, KC Defender, Highlander Center, and W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School.The brief period following the Civil War set the stage for where we find ourselves today. Instead of rebuilding American society as a multiracial democracy, the Reconstruction project was defeated by white terrorism, and instead of e
Political Education 2: Slavery, Colonialism, and Primitive Accumulation
This session was sponsored by B-REAL Academy, Center for Political Education, Claudia Jones School, KC Defender, Highlander Center, and W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School.Capitalism has never been just an economic system, but has instead always relied on the use of violence, law, and the state in a process Marx described as "so-called primitive accumulation," which reaches its height in colonialism an
Political Education 1: Basics of Materialist Analysis
This session was sponsored by B-REAL Academy, Center for Political Education, Claudia Jones School, KC Defender, Highlander Center, and W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School.Marxism isn't just about applying concepts to the world, it's about analyzing the world around us in a materialist way: looking at the way things are made, where and how people live, and who holds the power. This workshop will provid
Green Social Housing
Maria Gabrielle, Renette Bradley, Matthew Nursey, and Nicole Murray speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by DSA.Rent is through the roof! Join tenant and housing organizers to discuss how tenant power and publicly-owned municipal social housing can solve the cost-of-living crisis.The next Socialism Conference will be held in Chicago, September 4-7, 2026. Lea
How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Can Transform America
Eric Blanc and Jasson Perez speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025.At a bleak moment in US politics, the labor movement provides a rare source of hope. What are the main lessons of the bottom-up unionization surge that has swept the United States since 2021? And how can this grassroots labor momentum be continued under the new Trump administration?The next Socialism Conference will be he
Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism
Brian Kwoba and Robin D.G. Kelley speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025.Hubert Harrison, the “father of Harlem radicalism,” blazed a trail for Black organizers in the Socialist Party. His Liberty League of Negro Americans catalyzed the rise of Marcus Garvey and the largest international organization of Black people in history. And he defended free love. Because of his radicalism, howeve
This is the Human Race Speaking: Reviving the Bandung Spirit in a Multipolar World
Pranay Somayajula speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2025.As U.S. empire decays and the world order becomes increasingly multipolar, internationalist solidarity is more important than ever before. In this talk, Pranay Somayajula will discuss the worldmaking legacy of the Third Worldist movement, and argue for the re-centering of genuine anti-imperialism as a core pillar of the Left's rad
Showdown in Germany: The Left Party and the Fight Against Fascism in 2025
This session was sponsored by Marx21 Germany.In the March elections, the Left Party made a surprising comeback. At the same time, the far-right AfD is now leading in the polls - especially among workers and low-income voters. With the new Merz government pushing austerity and militarization, the urgent question is: how should the left in Germany respond to this political landscape?The next Sociali
Mask Off Maersk
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 Pal
The Proletariat Has No Homeland: Property and the Surplus Class
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. F
Reproductive Justice, Family Policing, and Abolition
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 exam
Beyond Climate Despair: Rebuilding a Revolutionary Left in the Face of Catastrophe
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