Parhaat Socialism Conference Podcastit (2025)

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Settler Colonialism: An Introduction 42:49

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Sai Englert speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by Pluto Books.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 d…

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Cooperatives, Socialized Power, and the Reproduction of Economic Alternatives 43:23

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Jonah Olsen and Hialy Gutierrez speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024.We will discuss the radical potential and challenges of cooperatives to transform conditions both within their walls and within the communities in which they are embedded. We argue that, through practices responsive to and rooted in community context and socialist rela…

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Unbuild Walls: Borders, Prisons, and Abolition 1:10:28

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Silky Shah, Harsha Walia, and Amna Akbar speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by Detention Watch Network.As calls to abolish ICE, prisons and policing, and borders gain urgency in the U.S. and abroad, so too does the need to understand how these systems necessitate and sustain each other. Silky Shah and Harsh…

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From the Death Chambers to Cop City: How the South is Pushing Back Against State Violence 1:35:53

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Furonda Brasfield, Michelle Smith, Tiara Cooper, and Cherrell Brown speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by Noose to Needle - 8th Amendment Project.The South leads the way in racial oppression and injustice. This panel will explore how Southern organizers are fighting state sanctioned violence and murder and …

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Carewashing: Carcerality Disguised as Social Welfare 58:21

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Mon Mohapatra, Victoria Law, Tracy Rosenthal, and Beatrice Adler-Bolton speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by Death Panel.This session will explore how the rhetorics of “care,” support, and empathy are often deployed to expand and reinforce carcerality—to make carcerality appear innocuous, or even an expans…

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Assembly and Territory: Building Popular Power in Los Angeles 50:57

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David Albright, Magdaleno Rosales, Ines Alcazar speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by LA Tenant's Union.What kinds of formations and practices do tenants unions need to develop in order to become deeply-rooted in poor and working-class immigrant neighborhoods? Members of the largest dues-funded tenants unio…

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Treatment Not Trauma: Organizing for Public Care in Late Capitalism 45:47

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Rossana Rodríguez, Verónica Tirado, Eric Ramos, and Jonathan Nagy speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by 33rd Ward Working Families.A talk about the fight for structures of care in Chicago from the perspective of government workers delivering direct services, from the Alderperson who leads the fight for Trea…

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Liberating Abortion: Claiming Our History, Sharing Our Stories, and Building the Reproductive Future 1:22:50

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Renee Bracey Sherman, Regina Mahone, and Brittany Mostiller speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. Lawmakers have weaponized abortion restrictions against people of color since the 1800s, creating cycles of poverty and perpetuating racist and xenophobic stereotypes. Join Renee Bracey Sherman and Regina Mahone for a discussion on their re…

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Not in Our Names: Organizing Against Supremacy and Towards Solidarity 34:34

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Rebecca Vilkomerson, Alissa Wise, Beth Howard, and Pranay Somayajula speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. A powerful source of resistance to systems of domination and violence comes from within the very communities that are used to justify and uphold those systems. The past decades have seen impactful solidarity organizing of Jews agai…

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Marxism, Domination, and Freedom: Toward a Politics of Socialist Emancipation 41:37

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Tom Ladendorf and Miikka Jaarte speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. Marx’s critique of political economy puts forward groundbreaking theories of freedom and unfreedom that are crucial for understanding capitalism and the capitalist state. We argue that socialists today should take up Marx’s critique of the market and his analysis of t…

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U.S. Sanctions on Cuba and the Global South: Cost and Response 1:16:28

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Liz Oliva Fernandez, Helen Yaffe, August Nimtz, and Anthony Quezada speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by Chicago Cuba Coalition.Washington’s designating Cuba a “State Sponsor of Terrorism” prevents nearly all Cuba’s international commerce. Meanwhile U.S. sanctions against Venezuela, Nicaragua, and others a…

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Mastering the Universe: Who Is The Ruling Class (and How Do We Take Their Money)? 1:00:11

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Rob Larson speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2024.Most of humanity’s unfixable problems arise from its small, awful ruling class. Labor exploitation, climate change, monopoly, bubbles, the extinction crisis, financial crashes, tyrannical workplaces—all this, all this, is for the benefit of a tiny class of remote ruling class bastards. Sa…

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An Ecosocialism that Builds: What’s Next for the Green New Deal? 1:07:23

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Johanna Bozuwa, Thea Riofrancos, Brandon Mancilla, Elise Joshi, and Ashik Siddique speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by Climate and Community Institute and DSA.Five years ago, the Green New Deal transformed climate organizing. It’s time to take stock of successes, setbacks, and strategy. How can we confron…

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Help This Garden Grow: Ethics of Care, Environmental Justice, and Media-Making for Liberation 1:02:12

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Damon Williams, Daniel Kisslinger, Oscar Sanchez, Cheryl Johnson, and speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by Respair Media.Join the creators of Help This Garden Grow, an audio docuseries about Environmental Justice visionary Hazel Johnson, as they explore their care-based media praxis that supports radical t…

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Jewish-Muslim Solidarity: Building a Decolonial Alternative to Zionist Hegemony 57:16

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Dr. Santiago Slabodsky, Rabbi Alissa Wise, and Iskander Abbasi speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. From New York to Cape Town, London to Los Angeles, Muslims and Jews are at the forefront of confronting Zionism – whether in its Christian, Jewish or Islamic iteration. This movement of faith-based Jewish-Muslim solidarity is a direct ch…

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The Arab Spring and its Continuing Aftermath 34:15

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Sam Kimball speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session will open with a concise history of the Arab Spring Revolutions since 2011, and their continuing aftereffects. Kimball will discuss foreign interventions, the Arab Left, and trends and developments of struggle, referencing the likes of Achcar and Gopal. Tunisia and Libya wi…

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The Role of Law in Left Movement Strategy 44:37

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René Christian Moya, Ryan Doerfler, Sharlyn Grace, and Corinne Blalock speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by The Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project.Law may not save us, but can it be an effective site of struggle? How should movements for socialism and abolition use law effectively? This panel will con…

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Moving Toward Home: The Enduring Legacy of Black and Palestinian Solidarity 1:34:16

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Linda Sarsour, Rachel Gilmer, and Lama Alhasn speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by Dream Defenders.A decade ago, “from Ferguson to Palestine, occupation is a crime,” rang out at protests around the United States. This acknowledgement of shared struggle came from an enduring commitment against colonial domi…

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SundaySchool: A Revolutionary Love 1:37:39

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Nyle Fort, Damon Williams, Ash-lee Woodard Henderson, and the Dream Defenders Choir speak and sing in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by Haymarket and the Dream Defenders.SunDDay School is a space for us to explore and experience the spiritual life of social movements. As we move through profound grief in our wor…

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Palestine And Global Liberation 39:28

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David McNally, Shireen Akram-Boshar, and Eman Abdelhadi speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by Spectre.This panel will explore the significance of the Palestinian struggle in terms of anti-capitalist politics of global liberation. Questions of internationalism, feminism, and anti-racism will figure in a disc…

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Ending Sacrifice Zones: Fighting Racism and Imperialism through Climate Justice 57:01

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Ray Acheson, Janene Yazzie, and Oscar Sanchez speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by CounterPunch.This panel will explore the frontline, grassroots struggles, and ongoing resistance to imperialism in so-called Sacrifice Zones, from battles against AUKUS in Australia to uranium mining in New Mexico to the tox…

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Solidarity Without Exception: The Left and the Struggle for National Liberation 51:42

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Rafael Bernabe, Binish Ahmed, Denys Bondar, and Shireen Akram-Boshar speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by The Real News Network, Ukraine Solidarity Network, Against the Current, and Tempest.Oppressed nations from Palestine to Puerto Rico and Ukraine are fighting for liberation from their imperialist and su…

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Christian Zionism 101: What it is, Who's Behind it, & How to Fight it 1:33:06

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Rev. Dr. Naomi Washington-Leaphart, Aidan Orly, Ben Lorber, Rev. Cristal Silva-McCormick and Annie Wilkinson speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by Political Research Associates.Researchers and anti-Zionist Christian faith leaders/organizers will explain what the Christian Zionist movement is and how it mobi…

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An Independent Guåhan: Indigenous Resistance and Self-Determination in the Face of US Imperialism 1:12:01

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Michael Lujan Bevacqua, Monaeka Flores, Aren Quenga Kerr and Nathan Samayo speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by DSA.Guåhan (Guam), with its remote location in the Pacific and modest population of less than 170,000, is frequently neglected in discussions about US imperialism and decolonization. Despite this…

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Abolishing the Child Welfare (aka Family Policing) System 1:12:19

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Alan Dettlaff, Maya Pendleton, Josie Pickens, and Connease Warren speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by upEND Movement.The state has used the forcible separation of Black children from their families as a tool for over 400 years, and this continues today through the modern child welfare system. This session…

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The Gaza Genocide in Context: Histories and Futures of Palestinian Liberation 39:00

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Abdel Razzaq Takriti speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. During the 1948 Nakba, most of southern Palestine was ethnically cleansed by settler-colonist militias. Many refugees ended up in Gaza, playing a key role in the development of Palestinian revolutionary thought and practice. This talk examines the centrality of Gaza to Palestini…

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The Movement Mayor? A Critical Assessment of Brandon Johnson's First Year 45:29

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Jasson Perez and Rousemary Vega speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by Rampant Magazine.A massive effort by working people in Chicago to put former CTU organizer Brandon Johnson in office. This session will bring together Chicago organizers to assess both the positive and negative results of this experiment,…

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I Guess It Was My Destiny To Live So Long: Exploring the Work of June Jordan 36:51

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Hanif Abdurraqib speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. Join Hanif Abdurraqib in exploring both politically radical poems and love poems from June Jordan's body of work and mapping how those two impulses (love and a radical politic) intersect, and are not at all disparate.The next Socialism Conference will be held in Chicago, July 3-6. L…

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175 Years Since the Communist Manifesto: Why Marxism (Still) Matters 46:23

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Phil Gasper, Nancy Holmstrom, and Robert Cuffy speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by New Politics.Since it was first written in 1848, The Communist Manifesto has been translated into more languages than any other modern text. All across the world it has been debated, shared, brandished, invoked, banned, bur…

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Palestine and the Limits of International Law 56:17

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Noura Erakat speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. Since the early 20th century, Palestinians have leveled a racial and anti-colonial critique of Zionism. That critique crystallized vividly during the apex of Third World Revolt particularly in the UN General Assembly Resolution 3379 condemning Zionism as a form of racism and racial dis…

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Bhopal and Beyond: 40 Years of Struggle Since the World’s Worst Industrial Disaster 29:23

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Bati Bai Rajak, Farhat Jahan, and Jiya S. Pandya speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. It will be forty years since the night when a Union Carbide (now Dow Chemicals) factory leaked 27 tons of toxic methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas into the lungs, soil, and water of Bhopal, India, killing 22,000 people and leaving 500,000 still facing the en…

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Blue Collar Empire: On the History of the 'AFL-CIA' and Possibilities for Labor Internationalism 45:07

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Jeff Schuhrke speaks with Aparna Gopalan in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by Verso.A conversation about the new book Blue Collar Empire—which recounts the AFL-CIO’s global anticommunist crusade in the late 20th century, shows how it took place in partnership with the US government’s Cold War-era quest to contro…

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Beyond the Imperial Core: Organizing against US Empire & American Exceptionalism 1:03:47

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Dissenters members speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by Dissenters.Join Dissenters to hear from young people who recently traveled to Cuba, the Philippines and Guatemala on political delegations. On this panel, they’ll share vibrant pictures of the impacts of US empire across these three distinct geographi…

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A Potent Christian Left and the Fight for a Free Palestine 1:24:04

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Adam Vander Tuig, Amir Marshi, Peter Tanaka, Naomi Washington-Leapheart, and Jennifer Bing speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by Highlander.Initially after Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza began in October 2023, the broad Christian left seemed largely absent and otherwise unprepared. This panel—comprised …

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Revisiting the 1960s: Lessons for the Left 46:11

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Billy Che Brooks, Jacqueline Lazu, and Helen Shiller speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by With pro-Palestinian protests on campuses continuing to grow, comparisons with the student protests of the 1960s abound. In the late 1960s the Black Panther Party and the Young Lords, with an international, intercommu…

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Demilitarization and Climate Justice: Winning a Just Transition to a Peace Economy 47:27

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Patrick Bigger, Khem Rogaly, Jessie Kelly, and Sumaya Awad speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by Climate and Community Institute.Military domination of public resources and capture of US industrial capacity fuels the climate crisis and fundamentally puts full decarbonization – let alone climate justice – ou…

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Challening Police Surveillance Technologies: A Workshop with #StopShotSpotter 38:24

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Jose Manuel Almanza, Julio Mateo, and Julie Lee speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by #StopShotSpotter National Coalition.Since launching in 2022, the #StopShotSpotter national coalition has built a strong national formation with multiple campaigns to cancel contracts in cities across the country. Join memb…

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Antisemitism is Our Business: The ADL and Israel's Defenders 34:53

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Jason Farbman speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace and Adalah Justice Project.Two things are true: the Anti-Defamation League weaponizes accusations of antisemitism to defend Israel’s genocide; and we must make a real fight against antisemitism a part of a struggle for collective li…

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From the Ashes: Grief, Care, and Time in our Movements 1:01:27

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Sarah Jaffe, Eman Abdelhadi, Kelly Hayes, and Lydia Pelot-Hobbs speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. Grief is everywhere these days, and yet speaking about it is often foreclosed even in our movement spaces. As we move forward in a time of intersecting crises, how do we create space for our very human needs—for rest, for care, for time…

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Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde 35:50

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Alexis Pauline Gumbs speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. Join acclaimed writer Alexis Pauline Gumbs as she illuminates how, for Lorde, survival was not simply about getting through, or about resilience. It was about the total stakes of living on, and with, a planet in transformation, her commitment to justice intimately connected to …

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Capitalism’s New Attacks on Public Education 25:25

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Lois Weiner and Sarah Rothschild speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. Capitalism has shifted its project to dismantle public education. A new alignment of players (including tech firms, private equity, and venture capitalists), have established a foothold in schools using educational technology to privatize, surveil and control teacher…

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Religion at the Encampments 36:01

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Maryam Abidi, Safear Ness, and Jonah ben Avraham speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by At Palestine solidarity encampments across the country, religious life as part of revolutionary activity blossomed. Seders invited all to imagine a freer world and communities defended Muslims praying in congregation hand…

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Lenin And the Politics of Rehearsal 1:14:25

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Ruth Wilson Gilmore speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. 100 years after Lenin’s death, his exhortations to learn and think in the concrete remain urgent for our movements. What does it mean to approach our political practice not as an abstract set of rules, but as a collective rehearsal of coming worlds? And how can we perceive, expa…

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General Strike for May 1st, 2028? 31:11

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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 he…

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Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis 44:06

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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…

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Drinking Up the Revolution: A Socialist Politics of Alcohol 58:03

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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 alcoh…

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From Chávez to Maduro: Understanding Venezuela today 48:09

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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 tod…

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What Must Be Done: Defeating Project 2025 and the Neo-Fascist Right 1:35:07

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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-f…

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Ukraine and the Struggle Against the Global Right 50:01

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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 …

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Palestinian Feminism: History, Present, and Future 1:00:11

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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 …

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