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
Episodes
Nov 10, 2022
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Racial Capitalism, Deaths of Despair and the Black Working Class in the Post-Civil Rights Era
Donna Murch speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2022.
This talk will focus on the fate of Black working class people in the 1970s through the present, as a way to challenge mainstream understanding of the successes of the civil rights movement. While greater mobility and access became possible for a segment of black workers (especially in the public sector), targeted criminalization, the overlapping wars on drugs and gangs, deindustrialization and the neoliberal turn had devastating effects for the Black majority.
Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org.
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Nov 9, 2022
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Social Resistance in Contemporary China
Eli Friedman, Lu Yao, and Eric Chen speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2022.
Although the space for explicitly leftist movements has become increasingly constrained in China in recent years, important developments have occurred. This panel will analyze linkages between three key areas of social oppression and resistance: labor, gender, and education.
Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org.
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Nov 9, 2022
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Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
Derecka Purnell and Thomas Mariadason speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2022.
The 2020 uprisings against police violence opened a new horizon for many people. In this session, Derecka Purnell details how multi-racial social movements rooted in rebellion, risk-taking, and revolutionary love pushed her and a generation of activists toward abolition, and what the new systems that work to address the root causes of violence and harm in society could do.
Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org.
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Nov 9, 2022
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Municipal Socialism in the US Midwest
Carlos Ramirez-Rosa and Anthony Joel Quezada speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. This session was sponsored by In These Times.
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Socialist electeds will discuss municipal socialism in the U.S. Midwest – from socialists elected to local office in the early 20th century to their current work as members of the Chicago City Council combating neoliberalism and fighting for social rights.
Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org.
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Nov 8, 2022
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Abortion Struggles Across the World
Martyna Jałoszyńska, Rayito Rocha, Natalia Tylim, and Lexi McMenamin speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2022.
At this meeting we'll get an in depth look at the movements for abortion in Poland and Argentina, plus greetings from the Mexican movement. These struggles are ripe with lessons for a new generation of socialist feminists in the US coming to terms with why and how we have been losing so much ground, but more importantly, what inspiration we can draw to reverse that.
Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org.
Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org
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Nov 8, 2022
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What is a Culture War and Can it be Won?
Ben Davis speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2022.
“Culture war” is everywhere today as a concept, on the right and left. This talk looks at the concept’s origin in the late ‘80s at the end of the Cold War, and its contemporary renaissance, as a way to clarify what role this framing of politics has in today’s debates.
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
