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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Dec 2, 2024
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Aging As Socialists: Building Organization Across the Phases of Life
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 engagement through shifts in circumstances and passage through life phases?
The next Socialism Conference will be held in Chicago, July 3-6. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org.
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Dec 2, 2024
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Insurgency In Diaspora: Community Organizing in South Asian North America
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 groups to discuss the role the diaspora can and are playing in local and internationalist mobilization.
The next Socialism Conference will be held in Chicago, July 3-6. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org.
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Dec 2, 2024
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Between Two Fires: Left Perspectives on the War on Ukraine
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 invasion of Ukraine. The late Daniel Singer was an idealistic socialist with a courageous respect for the facts on the ground. His journalism was descriptive, analytical and elegant. These are the qualities The Daniel Singer Foundation hopes to honor with the Daniel Singer Millennium Prize.
The next Socialism Conference will be held in Chicago, July 3-6. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org.
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Dec 2, 2024
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From Fanon To Falasteen: Decolonial Theory in Practice
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 historical lessons learned from sister struggles for decolonization in Algeria, Ireland, South Africa, and beyond.
The next Socialism Conference will be held in Chicago, July 3-6. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org.
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Nov 22, 2024
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Theory of Water: Indigenous Internationals for World-Making
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.
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Nov 22, 2024
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Our History Is The Future: The Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
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 Native sovereignty.
The next Socialism Conference will be held in Chicago, July 3-6. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org.
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Nov 22, 2024
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Settler Colonialism: An Introduction w/ Sai Englert
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 in the emergence of capitalism, and remain crucial in its reproduction and stabilisation today. Defeating settler colonialism is therefore also key to destroying the capitalist system as a whole.
The next Socialism Conference will be held in Chicago, July 3-6. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org.
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Nov 22, 2024
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Confronting the Peaceful Indian and Other Tropes as Essential to Building Solidarity
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 as helpless victims in need of a white savior) in the creation of Solidarity movements.
The next Socialism Conference will be held in Chicago, July 3-6. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org.
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Nov 22, 2024
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Fighting for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives, Looking for Indigenous Futures
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 First Nations)and tribal administrator Ashley Hemmers (Fort Mojave Indian Tribe) will discuss leadership, advocacy, and transforming narratives around Indigenous representation.
The next Socialism Conference will be held in Chicago, July 3-6. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org.
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Nov 22, 2024
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Movement Journalism And The Fall Of Legacy Media
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, abolitionist, and antiracist movement building through truthful reporting.
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 Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org
Follow Haymarket on podcast platforms for regular event recordings, book talks, political analyses and poetry readings!