Haley Pessin and Andy Sernatinger speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. This session was sponsored by the Tempest Collective. https://www.tempestmag.org Crises of class inequality, race and gender oppression, and climate raise the question of how socialists should relate to a political system defined by two capitalist parties. Why does Marxism center mass struggle and class independence? What is the role of the Democratic Party in undermining or advancing the fight for a socialist future? 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

Eman Abdelhadi speaks in conversation with Sophie Lewis in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. How do we imagine an emancipated society? Our visions of the future can enrich our day-to-day struggles. Sophie Lewis and Eman Abdelhadi will discuss revolutionary social reproduction in Eman’s coauthored novel Everything for Everyone. This new work of speculative fiction recounts a successful global insurrection that topples capitalist states, settler colonialism, and the nuclear family. 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

Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. This session was sponsored by the Highlander Research and Education Center. https://highlandercenter.org The US South has long been home to white supremacist terror and fear, but it has also produced sacred stories of love and Black resistance. Any strategy to change the politics of this country for the better cannot abandon or concede the South to the right. What does it mean to fight, to build community, and to center the most marginalized while resisting and overcoming the historic challenges of organizing in the South? 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

Jesse Hagopian speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. This session was sponsored by Rethinking Schools. https://rethinkingschools.org Today there is legislation in some 42 states that seeks to require teachers to lie to students about structural racism, sexism, and heterosexism. This neo-McCarthyist attack on education has led to hundreds of book banns, the firing of teachers around the country for discussing antiracist themes, and even physical attacks on educators. This coordinated assault on honest accounts of U.S. history that grapple with white supremacy and oppression is about more than a Republican Party reelection strategy; it is about discrediting public education in a bid to privatize, halting the gains in consciousness that were advanced during the 2020 uprising, and ultimately an attempt at epistemicide--the killing, silencing, or annihilation of entire systems of knowledge. Yet a growing movement of educators, students, and parents are building the Teach Truth movement—rooted in the long tradition of the fight for Black education—against the “violence of organized forgetting.” 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

Patty Krawec speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. Our current social and political crises are rooted in colonial systems hidden behind conventional readings of history. Krawec will discuss her upcoming book and how confronting and challenging these harmful readings with Indigenous perspectives can help us develop relationships of solidarity. 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