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From Chávez to Maduro: Understanding Venezuela today

Anderson Bean and Mara Garcia speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. The Venezuelan Left-Populist experience of the late 1990s and early 2000s was characterized by mass participation, hope, and expectations. How do we understand how and why those high-points have degenerated into the challenging and desperate situation for Venezuelans today? This session will give voice to perspectives of the Venezuelan experience that the US left doesn't often get to hear from, contextualized in the rise and fall of the Pink Tide. 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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Nov 9, 2025

Bottom Up for Liberation: An Anti-Imperialist Strategy for our Movement

Sal Ami, Rebecca John, Carl Redwood, and Sara Roschdi speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Bottom Up for Liberation.

We are an emerging cadre formation of social movement leftists, growing out of the LeftRoots process. Too often internationalism is an obligatory footnote to local and electoral struggles--but for us, anti-imperialism is essential to our daily and long-term work to win ecofeminist socialism, from our communities to the world.


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Nov 9, 2025

All Our Movements in this Together

Silky Shah, Eman Abdelhadi, Mariah Parker, Mikaela Loach, and Scout Bratt speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025.

Amid relentless authoritarian attacks and power grabs, it will take all our movements to bring down the oligarchs and build a different kind of future. Join us for the Socialism 2025 final plenary as we confront a pivotal political moment and ground ourselves to come out stronger on the other side.

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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Nov 20, 2025

Migrant Sex Workers Against Fascism: Lessons from 150 Years of Resistance

Chanelle Gallant, Elene Lam, Emi Koyama, and Yves Tong Nguyen speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025.

Travel bans, ICE abductions and deportations of green card holders are nothing new for migrants in the sex industry. But their lives and struggles also offer us a blueprint for resisting surveillance, criminalization and the “good immigrant” vs “bad immigrant” division. Instead they inspire us to transform fear and uncertainty into creativity, power, empathy and noncompliance.

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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