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Organizing the Unorganized: A Growing Labor Movement in Traditionally Non-Union Sectors

Elce Redmond, Hollis Harris, Hayley Neiling, and Jared Coles speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by EWOC. https://workerorganizing.org The labor movement is on the ascent among workers under the age of 35 for the first time in decades. Join a panel discussion with organizers from the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) and worker-organizers from an exciting graduate students' union campaign supported by EWOC. We'll discuss campaigns taking off across sectors that are changing the face of labor: from warehouse workers, to retail, to the non-profit world and beyond. Workers are learning from experienced organizers, attending seminars, and receiving one-on-one support for campaigns where many of the established unions are still not organizing. 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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Nov 5, 2025

Debate and Discussion: Socialists, Independent Politics, and the Democratic Party

Howie Hawkins, Bennett Carpenter, Ashik Siddique, Lee Wengraf speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Solidarity, Groundwork DSA, and Tempest.

Socialists have historically taken quite different postures toward engagement with the Democratic Party. For some, it is the only existing avenue to mass influence and a necessary means to block growing fascist influence in elected positions. For others, the Democratic Party is an institutional barrier to the advancement of social movements and a key factor creating the conditions for growing fascism in the US. Join us for a comradely debate among socialists from various points of view.


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Nov 6, 2025

Hope at the Edge of the Abyss: The Case for Revolution

Natalia Tylim and David McNally speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Tempest Collective.

Amid genocide, Trump’s authoritarian onslaught, climate catastrophe, and the threat of fascism—we are living at the edge of capitalism’s abyss. This meeting will make the case for why revolution is not only necessary, but also why mass struggles of working class and oppressed peoples make it possible. Our approach to the immediate and defensive struggles of today is inseparable from our insistence that ending this nightmare requires the revolutionary transformation of society.


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Nov 7, 2025

Fighting Fragmentation: Building Cross-Sectoral Social Movements

Felix T., Bri M., and Yasser Munif speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation.

Movement organizations often hesitate to engage beyond their immediate focus. This panel highlights organizers who expanded their efforts—a tenant union opposing a police training facility and a labor union joining the fight for a ceasefire in Gaza—demonstrating the power and necessity of a transversal approach to collective action.


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Nov 7, 2025

Lessons from Below: Learn from/with Palms Unhoused Mutual Aid (PUMA) and Build your own Abolitionist Network of Care

Ndindi Kitonga speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2025.

Palms Unhoused Mutual Aid (PUMA) is an abolitionist network of care based in Palms, Los Angeles, CA. This interactive workshop is designed for those interested in building their own networks. We will offer insights and missteps from our work at PUMA. We will also explore libertory practices towards community care that centers unhoused and precariously housed persons.


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Nov 8, 2025

Caregiving Toward Abolition: Workshop and Story Circles

Nadine Naber and Maya Schenwar speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025.

Caregiving is an integral part of movements for liberation. In this moment of rising fascism, it's especially crucial to uplift this care work, including care for children. Supporting young people and each other in concrete, material ways, day to day and hour to hour, is an essential component of resistance. In this workshop, we will engage with these themes, informed by the anthology We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition. We'll also offer an opportunity to be part of a circle in which we'll share stories of caregiving in a supportive space.


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Nov 8, 2025

The Struggle for Collective Liberation: Class, Oppression, and the Politics of Resistance

Jesse Sharkey, Eric Maroney, and Donna Murch speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Spectre Journal.

In order to build an effective resistance to Trump’s intensified attacks, we must combine the fight against oppression—including against the right's racist attacks, and its transphobia—with the struggle to build resistance to exploitation in the workplace. In this panel, we will discuss attacks by the right and the Trump administration, and strategies to fight back that effectively combine struggles against exploitation and oppression.

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