Vicko Alvarez and Graciela Guzmán speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by After Texas Governor Greg Abbott bussed thousands of refugees to sanctuary cities such as Chicago as a political ploy, countless migrants have faced untenable conditions including being forced to sleep in police stations. This talk will look at the roots of this current crisis, and will also cover the local organizing efforts to provide aid and care for newly arrived migrants. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org. Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow Haymarket on Soundcloud for regular event recordings, book talks, political analyses and poetry readings: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Alberto Toscano and Ilya Budraitskis speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Verso. https://www.versobooks.com How can we best understand the right in the US and internationally? The history of ‘fascism’ as a concept has gone through many iterations. This session will explore the meaning and relevance of the term, but also look at contemporary manifestations of fascist politics and how to confront them. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org. Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow Haymarket on Soundcloud for regular event recordings, book talks, political analyses and poetry readings: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Aaron Lecklider speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session discusses the relationship between homosexuality and the Left in US history, particularly emphasizing the ways radical activists, artists, and writers incorporated sexual politics into their critiques of capitalism, racism, and fascism in the decades before Stonewall. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org. Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow Haymarket on Soundcloud for regular event recordings, book talks, political analyses and poetry readings: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Darakshan Raja speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Muslims for Just Futures and Muslim Abolitionist Futures. https://www.muslimsforjustfutures.org https://www.muslimabolitionistfutures.org Muslims for Just Futures will host a workshop session on ways abolition can be used as a framework and an organizing intervention to tackle structural Islamophobia and the Global War on Terror. The session will include an introduction to the Muslim Abolitionist Futures agenda, tools, and frameworks that can be used as a tool of movement-building to link demands for abolition of policing, militarism, and surveillance expansion to the Global War on Terror. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org. Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow Haymarket on Soundcloud for regular event recordings, book talks, political analyses and poetry readings: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Dina Gilio-Whitaker speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. The concern for injustice toward non-white European people distinguishes the left from the right in the United States. Dina Gilio-Whitaker discusses genocidal dispossession of Native lands as the U.S.’s “original sin” which Americans have yet to fully reckon with, and how justice can lead to a sense of legitimate belonging for all non-Indigenous people. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org. Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow Haymarket on Soundcloud for regular event recordings, book talks, political analyses and poetry readings: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

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. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org. Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow Haymarket on Soundcloud for regular event recordings, book talks, political analyses and poetry readings: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

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. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org. Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow Haymarket on Soundcloud for regular event recordings, book talks, political analyses and poetry readings: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

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. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org. Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow Haymarket on Soundcloud for regular event recordings, book talks, political analyses and poetry readings: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

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. https://politicaleducation.org 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. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org. Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow Haymarket on Soundcloud for regular event recordings, book talks, political analyses and poetry readings: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

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. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org. Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow Haymarket on Soundcloud for regular event recordings, book talks, political analyses and poetry readings: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks