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 4, 2023
Confronting the Backlash: Socialists and the Anti-Racist Struggle for Liberation
Haley Pessin and Phil Gasper speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Tempest.
https://www.tempestmag.org
The 2020 Black Lives Matter protests were the biggest in US history, but three years later there is a full-scale right-wing backlash. This session will draw the lessons of the past few years, explain why fighting racism and other forms of oppression must be central to the socialist project, and discuss how we can build an effective anti-racist movement to confront the backlash.
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Dec 5, 2023
Resisting Carceral Sanism
Liat Ben-Moshe, Leah Harris, and Beatrice Adler-Bolton speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Death Panel.
https://www.deathpanel.net
An increasing wave of policies and legislation, from Eric Adams’ stance on involuntary hospitalization to Gavin Newsom’s Care Courts, seeks to criminalize madness and people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Join scholar Liat Ben-Moshe and writer Leah Harris, along with facilitator Beatrice Adler-Bolton of the Death Panel podcast, for a discussion on why it is so critical for the left to work against these policies, and how to understand the politics of what Ben-Moshe has termed “carceral sanism.”
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Dec 5, 2023
The Environmental Injustices of American Capitalism
Daniel Faber, Christina Schlegel, and Leigh Brownhill ______ speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Capitalism, Nature, Socialism Journal.
https://www.cnsjournal.org
This panel will explain the anti-ecological dynamics of American capitalism, and the threats it poses to both people and the planet. We will explore the opportunities for ecosocialists and ecofeminists to foster a more emancipatory and transformative environmental politics, including the possibilities of a radical Green New Deal.
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Dec 6, 2023
Abolition Communism with Robin D.G. Kelley
Robin D.G. Kelley speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2023.
Abolition is presence. We combine already-existing activities, suppressed knowledges, and fresh practices to strengthen communities-in-struggle, inventing new futures as we go. The real movement for abolition—of racial capitalism, carcerality, criminalization, borders—reorganizes what is into what we need to make a world in which life is precious.
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Dec 6, 2023
Lessons from the Chicago Teachers Union: Looking Ahead at Our Next Challenge
Jesse Sharkey speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2023.
The movements in Chicago were key to electing a new mayor–Brandon Johnson, and will be key to building grassroots power going forward. Former CTU President Jesse Sharkey will discuss lessons from the CTU’s experience of strikes and campaigns over the previous decade and what these mean for building the organizational strength of our grassroots movements and winning what we need.
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Dec 6, 2023
We're Not Praying Alone: Religion, Marxism, and the Struggle Over Third Spaces
Maryam Abidi and Naomi Bennet speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023.
Religious institutions are some of the few remaining sites of genuine community not to be broken up by capital and resold piecemeal for profit; yet they remain an under-engaged terrain of struggle. This panel will discuss the fights happening inside particularly non-Christian religious institutions and argue for socialists to organize in every corner of the working class.
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