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.
The next Socialism Conference will be held in Chicago, September 4-7, 2026. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org.
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This session was sponsored by B-REAL Academy, Center for Political Education, Claudia Jones School, KC Defender, Highlander Center, and W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School.
Capitalism has never been just an economic system, but has instead always relied on the use of violence, law, and the state in a process Marx described as "so-called primitive accumulation," which reaches its height in colonialism and slavery. This participatory workshop will provide an introduction to this concept and its ongoing relevance, and guide a collective mapping of its relevance for the present.
The next Socialism Conference will be held in Chicago, September 4-7, 2026. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org.
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This session was sponsored by B-REAL Academy, Center for Political Education, Claudia Jones School, KC Defender, Highlander Center, and W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School.
The brief period following the Civil War set the stage for where we find ourselves today. Instead of rebuilding American society as a multiracial democracy, the Reconstruction project was defeated by white terrorism, and instead of equality, we got Black Codes, convict leasing, Jim Crow, police, and prisons. This participatory workshop will collectively map the current legacies of Reconstruction's failure and reframe contemporary abolitionist struggles around the positive project of building a new world.
The next Socialism Conference will be held in Chicago, September 4-7, 2026. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org.
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This session was sponsored by B-REAL Academy, Center for Political Education, Claudia Jones School, KC Defender, Highlander Center, and W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School.
While the fight for spaces within colleges and universities continues, this moment underlines the urgent need to build and expand counter-hegemonic political education on the left to confront and resist the right and put forward a creative new vision for the world being born. Join political educators from a number of organizations to discuss the role of political education in today’s social movements.
The next Socialism Conference will be held in Chicago, September 4-7, 2026. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org.
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Danielle Bullock and Eric Maroney speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025.
Trump and the MAGAtized Republican Party have taken advantage of voters’ anxieties and created a sense of panic surrounding transgender issues. However, what remains less clear are the reasons why these appeals resonate with certain voters, what drives this particular political reaction, and how the Left can effectively respond.
The next Socialism Conference will be held in Chicago, September 4-7, 2026. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org.
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Elizabeth Todd-Breland and Jesse Sharkey speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025.
In 2012, Karen Lewis led the Chicago Teachers Union to a historic strike, challenging the city’s powerful mayor and paving the way for an unprecedented wave of teacher strikes in the decade that followed. Join us for a discussion and celebration of Karen's legacy and monumental impact on the labor movement today.
The next Socialism Conference will be held in Chicago, September 4-7, 2026. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org.
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Hector Rincon, Jorge Mújica, and Jazmin Tlaxcala speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Workers' Voice.
Worker, tenant, and immigrant organizers discuss the need to organize to defend immigrants in our workplaces and communities and lessons from the attacks in the first six months of the Trump regime.
The next Socialism Conference will be held in Chicago, September 4-7, 2026. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org.
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