Kathryn Zamarrón, Margaret Palmquist, Loreen Targos, Colin Smalley, and Lindsey Muniak speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by In These Times.
The Trump administration is carrying out a comprehensive assault on the public sector, with federal workers and their labor unions on the frontline. How do these attacks fit into much longer arcs of austerity, privatization, and the defanging of organized labor? This panel brings together public sector workers from several different areas who are organizing not only to fight the decimation of our existing public infrastructure, but to build and advance a vision of a civil society that actually works for the public good, with rank & file workers leading the way.
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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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