Erik Wallenberg, AG, Chris Furino, and Yordanos Molla speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. From "Don't Say Gay" laws to attacks on Black history education to the destruction of higher education, Florida is at the forefront of a resurgent fascism in this country. Join activists involved in leading struggles against DeSantis and his goons for a discussion of the state of the battle in Florida and how organizers can defeat the looming fascist threat. 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

aja monet and Robin D.G. Kelley speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. Our ability to reenvision and transform our society is what radical social movements are made of. Just as the mechanics of our organizing have developed, every movement demands an evolution and transformation of the heart and mind. Join aja monet and Robin D.G. Kelley for a discussion of poetic vision, collective struggle, and how we build a world that can feed both our bellies and our imaginations. 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

Jesse Sharkey speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. The movements in Chicago were key to electing a new mayor–Brandon Johnson, and will be key to building grassroots power going forward. Former CTU President Jesse Sharkey will discuss lessons from the CTU’s experience of strikes and campaigns over the previous decade and what these mean for building the organizational strength of our grassroots movements and winning what we need. 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

Robin D.G. Kelley speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. Abolition is presence. We combine already-existing activities, suppressed knowledges, and fresh practices to strengthen communities-in-struggle, inventing new futures as we go. The real movement for abolition—of racial capitalism, carcerality, criminalization, borders—reorganizes what is into what we need to make a world in which life is precious. 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

Daniel Faber, Christina Schlegel, and Leigh Brownhill ______ speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Capitalism, Nature, Socialism Journal. https://www.cnsjournal.org This panel will explain the anti-ecological dynamics of American capitalism, and the threats it poses to both people and the planet. We will explore the opportunities for ecosocialists and ecofeminists to foster a more emancipatory and transformative environmental politics, including the possibilities of a radical Green New Deal. 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

Liat Ben-Moshe, Leah Harris, and Beatrice Adler-Bolton speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Death Panel. https://www.deathpanel.net An increasing wave of policies and legislation, from Eric Adams’ stance on involuntary hospitalization to Gavin Newsom’s Care Courts, seeks to criminalize madness and people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Join scholar Liat Ben-Moshe and writer Leah Harris, along with facilitator Beatrice Adler-Bolton of the Death Panel podcast, for a discussion on why it is so critical for the left to work against these policies, and how to understand the politics of what Ben-Moshe has termed “carceral sanism.” 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

Haley Pessin and Phil Gasper speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Tempest. https://www.tempestmag.org The 2020 Black Lives Matter protests were the biggest in US history, but three years later there is a full-scale right-wing backlash. This session will draw the lessons of the past few years, explain why fighting racism and other forms of oppression must be central to the socialist project, and discuss how we can build an effective anti-racist movement to confront the backlash. 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

Shelton Stromquist speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. For more than a century, municipal socialism has fired the imaginations of workers around the world. But, at every turn, propertied elites challenged their right to govern. Faced with urban/industrial crises of capitalism, workers invented a new local politics that promised to democratize cities and reclaim the wealth they created. That legacy continues to inspire activists today in their fight for the right of cities to govern 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

M. E. O'Brien, Eman Abdelhadi, and Sophie Lewis speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Pinko. https://pinko.online Join M. E. O’Brien, Sophie Lewis and Eman Abdelhadi for a panel conversation on family abolition, care, and the family in racial capitalism. Occasioned by the publication of M. E. O’Brien’s Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care, this panel brings together three leading family abolitionist scholars and activists. 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

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