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Bhopal and Beyond: 40 Years of Struggle Since the World’s Worst Industrial Disaster

Bati Bai Rajak, Farhat Jahan, and Jiya S. Pandya speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. It will be forty years since the night when a Union Carbide (now Dow Chemicals) factory leaked 27 tons of toxic methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas into the lungs, soil, and water of Bhopal, India, killing 22,000 people and leaving 500,000 still facing the environmental, health, and economic devastation from this disaster. This panel spotlights these survivors' efforts to build and maintain community resilience for the past four decades, as state and corporate actors abdicated all responsibility, as well as the ongoing struggle to hold Dow Chemicals responsible for the clean up of Bhopal. The next Socialism Conference will be held in Chicago, July 3-6. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org. Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow Haymarket on podcast platforms for regular event recordings, book talks, political analyses and poetry readings!

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Oct 28, 2025

The Blunt-Force Assault on Education: Resistance to Fascism

Wayne Au, David Stovall, Jesse Hagopian, Barbara Ransby, Davarian Baldwin, and Bill Ayers speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025.

Book-banning, attacks on Critical Race Theory, Black Studies and Queer Studies, the use of state violence to repress dissent—we are experiencing a furious backlash against modest steps to make education accessible to all children and youth.  How should a broad movement for educational justice be framed and forged?


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Oct 28, 2025

A Time of Monsters: What Indigenous Horror Can Teach Us About Resistance

Kali Simmons, Robyn Bourgeois, and Patty Krawec speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025.

"The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters." —Antonio Gramsci. We live in a time of monsters, and the unique perspective of Indigenous horror can teach us how to respond to them without becoming monsters ourselves.


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Oct 29, 2025

Workers Deserve More: DSA's National Labor Program

Shay, Sarah Hurd, and more speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by DSA.

In 2024, DSA members joined their coworkers on the picket line for major labor actions across the University of California, and at Amazon and Starbucks nationwide. Along with these campaigns, we are organizing worker networks and fighting back with federal workers in the midst of broadside attacks on the working class. Join us to learn more about these efforts!

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Oct 29, 2025

On Pan-Africanism: Past and Present

Adom Getachew speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2025.

This talk surveys the history of Pan-Africanism with specific attention to key inflection moments such as the late nineteenth century and the era of decolonization to consider its on-going resonances. Through specific attention to the cultural politics of Pan-Africanism, it demonstrates why visions of global Black solidarity continue to be activated even as the political projects of African federation and other forms of political and economic integration have declined.

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Oct 30, 2025

Survival and Resistance Behind Bars

Stanley Howard, Renaldo Hudson, Alice Kim, James "Jimmy" Soto, and Asha Ransby-Sporn speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Beyond Prisons at the Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture; Illinois Prison Project; Uptown People’s Law Office.

This session will discuss the organizing and survival strategies that the panelists practiced to stay alive, maintain hope, and fight for freedom and liberation from behind bars and with co-strugglers on the outside.


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Oct 30, 2025

The Rise of Right-Wing Politics In Working-Class Communities

David Broder and Meagan Day speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by the Daniel Singer Prize.

Far-right leaders and parties throughout the world are winning the support of large sectors of the working class and represent a deadly threat to democracy and social justice. How can we explain this upsurge in support? Join the Daniel Singer Foundation and winners of this year's Daniel Singer Prize contest on this topic for an important discussion.

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