Noura Erakat speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2024.
Since the early 20th century, Palestinians have leveled a racial and anti-colonial critique of Zionism. That critique crystallized vividly during the apex of Third World Revolt particularly in the UN General Assembly Resolution 3379 condemning Zionism as a form of racism and racial discrimination. While the Oslo Agreement offered Israel a lifeline to protect its Zionist settler sovereignty, the State incrementally and steadily dismantled the prospect of a Palestinian state. In 2020, several legacy human rights organizations echoed the Palestinian critique of Israel following Israel’s passage of the Nation-State Law declaring that only Jews have the right to self-determination in Palestine making clear that Israel intended to be the only sovereign between the River and the Sea. This history and analysis seemed to fall by the wayside after October 7th, which lifted Gaza outside of geographical and political context and suggested that history began in 2023. This lecture will discuss this historical development with an eye on the Palestinian intellectual and political tradition in order to offer commentary on the limits of international law in this moment.
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Dec 1, 2023
Abolishing the War on Terror and Building Communities of Care
Darakshan Raja speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Muslims for Just Futures and Muslim Abolitionist Futures.
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Muslims for Just Futures will host a workshop session on ways abolition can be used as a framework and an organizing intervention to tackle structural Islamophobia and the Global War on Terror. The session will include an introduction to the Muslim Abolitionist Futures agenda, tools, and frameworks that can be used as a tool of movement-building to link demands for abolition of policing, militarism, and surveillance expansion to the Global War on Terror.
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Dec 1, 2023
Homosexuality and the Left in American History
Aaron Lecklider speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2023.
This session discusses the relationship between homosexuality and the Left in US history, particularly emphasizing the ways radical activists, artists, and writers incorporated sexual politics into their critiques of capitalism, racism, and fascism in the decades before Stonewall.
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Dec 2, 2023
Fascism: Past, Present, or Future
Alberto Toscano and Ilya Budraitskis speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Verso.
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How can we best understand the right in the US and internationally? The history of ‘fascism’ as a concept has gone through many iterations. This session will explore the meaning and relevance of the term, but also look at contemporary manifestations of fascist politics and how to confront them.
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Dec 2, 2023
Fighting For Sanctuary: Migrant Justice Organizing in Chicago
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.
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Dec 4, 2023
Family Abolition Today: Care Beyond Capitalism
M. E. O'Brien, Eman Abdelhadi, and Sophie Lewis speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Pinko.
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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.
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Dec 4, 2023
The Fight For Municipal Socialism: Recovering a Usable Past
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.
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