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The Means of Reproduction: Abortion, Race and the 1%

Allison Guttu, Stephanie Kollgaard, Brooke Eliazar-Macke, and Molly Stump speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by National Women's Liberation. National Women's Liberation (NWL) is a multiracial feminist group for women who want to fight male supremacy and gain more freedom for women. https://womensliberation.org Is the war on abortion a matter of religious fanaticism? An attack on sexual pleasure? National Women’s Liberation believes these popular arguments don’t go deep enough. Using Jenny Brown’s book Birth Strike, we'll discuss the material, economic and racialized reasons that the capitalist class desperately needs to control reproductive labor. Editors note: At 8:30 the speakers incorrectly refer to the 1965 Supreme Court Case Griswold v. CT as granting abortion to married couples and it should be birth control. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org. Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow Haymarket on Soundcloud for regular event recordings, book talks, political analyses and poetry readings: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

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Oct 28, 2026

Revolutionary Socialism from Below: Strategies to Build the Resistance

Aaron Amaral, Kristen Guptill-Godfrey speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2026. This session was sponsored by Tempest.

If liberation could come from the government, it can be taken away again by that government. But there is a different approach to building socialism—from the bottom up. Strategies for creating socialism from below aim to inspire the creative participation of the multiracial working class through mass protests, long-term democratic organizing in rank-and-file unions, neighborhood-level organizations, and other working-class institutions. Join us to discuss recent examples of such efforts and their critical role in resisting authoritarianism and advancing the revolutionary transformation of society toward ecosocialism.

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Oct 29, 2026

The Old Being Reborn: The Revival of Socialist Organizations in US and Belgium

David Duhalde and Joe Todd speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2026. This session was sponsored by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung.

What is the throughline between the Belgian Worker’s party and the Democratic Socialists of America? British socialist, Joe Todd and DSA member David Duhalde will examine the new DSA and Belgian Workers Party's structures over the past decade, their developments and differences. This panel will reflect on the historical labor, electoral, and factional dynamics, of the Socialist party that have led us to today.

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Oct 29, 2026

The US and China: Imperial Rivalry in a Multipolar World

Tobita Chow and Ashley Smith speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2026. This session was sponsored by

“Chimerica” is over. The twin titans of neoliberal globalization are now at loggerheads over everything from trade to high tech, geopolitical alliances, and military hegemony over the Asia Pacific. Today’s global slump, exacerbated by Trump’s disastrous war in Iran, has heightened this imperial rivalry. This panel will examine the roots of the conflict, its trajectory, and how the left can build international solidarity from below against it.

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