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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Janene Yazzie and Ramzy Baroud speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Pilsen Community Books.
As the world witnesses a live-streamed genocide, we face burning questions of how to combat fascism, white supremacy, religious fundamentalism, and settler colonialism. Two activists, authors, and scholars from Turtle Island and Palestine will discuss the long history of Indigenous resistance including the strategies and tactics that build solidarity and the possibility for a better world.
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Kim TallBear speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2025.
In this talk, Dr. Kim TallBear explains how the very ideas of sex and nature cut networked relations into manageable objects or “things” that help maintain colonial domination. She draws on the insights of critical Indigenous and sexuality studies to offer alternative ways of thinking and doing intimacy.
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Robert Cuffy and Jessica Garraway speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by New Politics and the Afrosocialists and Socialists of Color Caucus.
The second wave of the Black Lives Matter rebellion erupted in 2020 while Trump was president in reaction to George Floyd & Breanna Taylor’s murder by the police. Now that Trump is back in the White House where does the movement go from here?
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Arun Kundnani speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Verso Books.
Drawing lessons from a long tradition of anticolonial, anti-imperialist, and Marxist intellectuals and movements, Arun Kundnani will discuss how racism and capitalism are indivisible parts of one global system. And unless we can see the whole, we'll never know how to fight.
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Rae Garringer and Dao X. Tran speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025.
Join author Rae Garringer and editor Dao X. Tran for a conversation about lessons learned through the twelve-year journey of the Country Queers oral history project and podcast, culminating in the book Country Queers: A Love Letter (Haymarket, 2024). We’ll talk about community-based oral history work, queer and trans resilience and resistance in rural communities, and the lessons that rural Appalachian and southern country queers have to teach us all about taking care of one another across political difference, in the end times of fascism and climate catastrophe.
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Stephen Gurney, Amadi Ozier, Khadija Haynes, and Trevor-Anastacio Ortega speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by the Autonomous Tenant Union Network.
This session will introduce “transitional demands,” a powerful organizing strategy that helps tenants connect their personal struggles—like rent hikes, repairs, and evictions—to the bigger picture. You'll hear from experienced tenants about how Black and migrant tenants are responding to housing crises in gentrifying neighborhoods; you’ll leave with tools to organize in your own building or community.
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