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 4, 2024
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Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde
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 her deep engagement with the natural world.
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 4, 2024
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Capitalism’s New Attacks on Public Education
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 teachers’ and students’ work, often working with the far Right to turn back social justice reforms in schools. The session explores the project and pushback.
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 4, 2024
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Lenin And the Politics of Rehearsal
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, expand, and connect contemporary world-experiments rehearsing abolitionist, communist, and anti-imperialist movement around the planet?
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
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Dec 4, 2024
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General Strike for May 1st, 2028?
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 healthcare.
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!
Dec 4, 2024
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Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis
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 to get rid of our landlords and take control of our homes?
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!
Dec 4, 2024
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Drinking Up the Revolution: A Socialist Politics of Alcohol
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 alcohol-caused harms largely caused by capitalist domination of its production.
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!
