Tracy Rosenthal, Marques Vestal, and Beatrice Adler-Bolton speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Death Panel.
Discussions of “surplus populations” often fixate on labor markets; those cast out of work, left idle, or deemed unproductive. This session explores how the state organizes surplus not just through production, but through property and confinement. From land enclosures to the prison-industrial complex, the management of “surplus” has always been a question of containment, racialized abandonment, and carceral exile. Drawing on histories of displacement, abolitionist thought, and housed and unhoused tenant organizing, the discussion will examine surplus not as a demographic misfortune, but as a structural necessity of capital, and as a flashpoint of resistance. What emerges is not a question of productivity but of place—who is allowed to belong, and who must be removed to keep property regimes intact.
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Robin D.G. Kelley speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2025.
Aimé Césaire cut through mythologies to show that fascism in Europe was no anomaly, it was the boomerang effect of brutal European colonialism abroad coming home. The fight against fascism cannot be successful without understanding powerful struggles against colonialism, from the 20th century to today.
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Sergio González, Silky Shah, John Washington, and Angélica Cházaro speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Detention Watch Network.
Historically, border enforcement has been a tool of repression and intimidation. While the current administration has shown a cruel escalation in its attacks on the immigrant community, this panel will trace back the roots of these attacks and will make the case for how our side can fight back against immigration policing and border imperialism under authoritarianism.
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Rae Garringer, Andrea J. Ritchie, Sophie Lewis, Jeanelle K. Hope, and Sarah Leonard speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Lux magazine.
The far-right in the US and abroad has placed gender at the center of fascist politics, obsessing over trans rights, abortion, and the birthrate and attacking the very presence of the word gender in federal administration and universities. How does the right build its power through a focus on gender, and what is the role of gender in a resurgent left?
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