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
Maryam Abidi and Naomi Bennet speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023.
Religious institutions are some of the few remaining sites of genuine community not to be broken up by capital and resold piecemeal for profit; yet they remain an under-engaged terrain of struggle. This panel will discuss the fights happening inside particularly non-Christian religious institutions and argue for socialists to organize in every corner of the working class.
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Warda Karrar, Nisrin Elamin, and Muzan Alneel speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by In this session recorded over Labor Day weekend, Sudanese revolutionaries recount the history of the inspiring and highly organized 2018 Sudanese Revolution—its strengths in organizing tactics and models, as well as its limitations and the setbacks, negotiations, and concessions that brought it to the current state of war. Speakers then explore the prospects for revolutionary forces to regroup in the aftermath of war to renew the struggle for democracy, justice, and equality. 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
Naomi Bennet and Benjamin Balthaser speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2022.
From Cold War constructions of Judeo-Christianity to the threat of cultural Marxism, US political culture has long obsessed over imagined political meanings of Jewishness. We'll discuss how Euro-Christian ideas about Jews have helped to constitute the American nation-state, consolidate the capialist ruling class at home and abroad, and fuel right-wing anti-systemic movements.
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Tobita Chow and Ashley Smith speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2026. This session was sponsored by
“Chimerica” is over. The twin titans of neoliberal globalization are now at loggerheads over everything from trade to high tech, geopolitical alliances, and military hegemony over the Asia Pacific. Today’s global slump, exacerbated by Trump’s disastrous war in Iran, has heightened this imperial rivalry. This panel will examine the roots of the conflict, its trajectory, and how the left can build international solidarity from below against it.
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David Duhalde and Joe Todd speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2026. This session was sponsored by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung.
What is the throughline between the Belgian Worker’s party and the Democratic Socialists of America? British socialist, Joe Todd and DSA member David Duhalde will examine the new DSA and Belgian Workers Party's structures over the past decade, their developments and differences. This panel will reflect on the historical labor, electoral, and factional dynamics, of the Socialist party that have led us to today.
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Devin Thomas O'Shea and Kim Kelly speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2026.
Every December, St. Louis elites crown one of their daughters the Queen of Love and Beauty in a ceremony that celebrates the breaking of strikes and the enforcement of racial hierarchies. The Veiled Prophet Society has shaped the course of American history, and is an important example of how shadowy elites organize themselves against working-class power. Join Devin Thomas O’Shea as he explores the history of the secret society that has controlled St. Louis for over a century, and the lessons learned by the local activists who have pushed back against its power.
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Aaron Amaral, Kristen Guptill-Godfrey speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2026. This session was sponsored by Tempest.
If liberation could come from the government, it can be taken away again by that government. But there is a different approach to building socialism—from the bottom up. Strategies for creating socialism from below aim to inspire the creative participation of the multiracial working class through mass protests, long-term democratic organizing in rank-and-file unions, neighborhood-level organizations, and other working-class institutions. Join us to discuss recent examples of such efforts and their critical role in resisting authoritarianism and advancing the revolutionary transformation of society toward ecosocialism.
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Ruth Wilson Gilmore speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2026.
Based in concrete struggles throughout what Milton Santos provocatively called “used territory,” this talk traces abolition's emergence as an aspirational totality sprouting from cracks in urbanization and agrarian upheavals.
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Roger Peet, Margaret Vail Palmquist, and William Estrada speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2026.
Art is a part of movements, but how can it best serve the struggles it emerges from? This panel brings together three political artists who work in a diverse range of contexts to present and discuss what they think art can and should do for movements, and where radical imagination can help to build popular power.
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Da'Shaun Harrison, Tea Troutman, Ko Bragg, and Aurielle Marie speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Scalawag Magazine.
What is the role of Black media under fascism? This is one of the questions we would like to invite others to consider at this year's conference. We hope to delve into a discussion about what we see as our responsibility as an independent, Black-led publication and as part of movement media in this era of rising censorship. Moreover, we question what Scalawag can do to help push that agenda forward.
The next Socialism Conference will be held in Chicago, September 4-7, 2026. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org.
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