Podcast Series
Socialism Conference
The Socialism Conference is a four-day conference bringing together thousands of socialists and radical activists from around the country to take part in discussions about social movements, Marxism, abolition, working-class history, and the debates and strategies for organizing today. Every year, the Socialism conference aims to be a place where activists can share lessons from their struggles—from the BDS campaign for Palestine to the fight for gender liberation, from strike organizing and support to the struggle to stop the destruction of the planet, the fight against racism, and more. Socialism 2025 took place in Chicago over July 4th weekend, July 3-6. Recordings from many sessions at Socialism 2025 will be released here. Socialism 2026 will take place in Chicago, September 4-7, 2026. Learn more: socialismconference.org
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Nov 30, 2023
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DeGrowth And EcoSocialist Revolution
Güney Işıkara, Erica Jung and Aditi Bansal speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Science for the People.
https://scienceforthepeople.org
That humanity cannot resolve anthropogenic ecological crises without radically restructuring social relations is a consensus shared by the degrowth movement and revolutionary socialism. In this panel, we discuss converging and diverging theoretical imperatives and strategies among radical environmental activists in order to enrich and strengthen our collective struggle for an ecosocialist future.
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Nov 30, 2023
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Anti-Blackness, Haiti, and the Migration Industrial Complex
Guerline Jozef speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2023.
Migration, the search for life, is a human right and key social justice issue, but while those with the right passports and wealth can migrate, borders dehumanize and kill people fleeing for their lives from places like Haiti, Somalia, and Cameroon. The fight for migrant justice must take on the anti-Blackness central to bordering regimes in the US and around the world.
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Nov 30, 2023
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Care - The Highest Stage Of Capitalism
Premilla Nadasen and Jessica Stites speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by
Since the earliest days of the pandemic, care work has been thrust into the national spotlight. The notion of care can seem simple enough. But, as Premilla Nadasen and Jessica Stites will discuss, we have only begun to understand the massive role it plays in our lives as a site of economic extraction: from its roots in racial capitalism, where historically there was no clear division between production and social reproduction, to the present care crisis, experienced acutely by more and more Americans.
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Nov 29, 2023
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The Everywhere Border: Fighting Digital Surveillance & Migration Control
Mizue Aizeki, Santiago Narváez speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by the Center for Political Education and Surveillance Resistance Lab.
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https://surveillanceresistancelab.org/
As part of its ever-expanding migration control regime, the US government is externalizing its digital border infrastructure. This growing surveillance apparatus, one that furthers a project of global apartheid, extends into Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and beyond. Join organizers and advocates across borders to discuss the implications of this infrastructure and the development of transnational strategies of resistance.
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Nov 29, 2023
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John Brown and the Revolutionary Response to Slavery
David Whitehouse speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2023.
John Brown's 1859 raid on the arsenal at Harper's Ferry helped precipitate the Civil War. Brown’s radicalism didn’t come out of nowhere. This talk will trace some of the connections between the multiracial militant wing of the northern abolition movement and the struggles of enslaved Black revolutionaries to emancipate themselves.
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India, Israel And Global Authoritarianism
Hafsa Kanjwal, Suchitra Vijayan, and Azad Essa speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023.
Under Narendra Modi, India has embarked on a project to become an authoritarian Hindu State, building an arsenal of weapons, evoking religious nationalism, dismantling civil society and using the Israeli model to enable settler-colonialism in Kashmir. This panel, made up of authors Hafsa Kanjwal, Suchitra Vijayan and Azad Essa, will discuss the implications of India's shift toward authoritarianism and why it continues to get a pass among the left in the US.
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