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Popular Science Fiction and Left Political Imaginations

Adam Kotsko, David K. Seitz, and Steven W. Thrasher speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. What popular visions of emancipatory futures might the Left wrest from commercial science fiction mass entertainment? This session will investigate the contradictions and possibilities of Hollywood allegory for critiquing racial capitalism, heteropatriarchy, and U.S. empire as well as imagining liberatory alternatives. 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 29, 2023

John Brown and the Revolutionary Response to Slavery

David Whitehouse speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. John Brown's 1859 raid on the arsenal at Harper's Ferry helped precipitate the Civil War. Brown’s radicalism didn’t come out of nowhere. This talk will trace some of the connections between the multiracial militant wing of the northern abolition movement and the struggles of enslaved Black revolutionaries to emancipate themselves. 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
Nov 29, 2023

The Everywhere Border: Fighting Digital Surveillance & Migration Control

Mizue Aizeki, Santiago Narváez speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by the Center for Political Education and Surveillance Resistance Lab. https://politicaleducation.org https://surveillanceresistancelab.org/ As part of its ever-expanding migration control regime, the US government is externalizing its digital border infrastructure. This growing surveillance apparatus, one that furthers a project of global apartheid, extends into Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and beyond. Join organizers and advocates across borders to discuss the implications of this infrastructure and the development of transnational strategies of resistance. 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
Nov 30, 2023

Care - The Highest Stage Of Capitalism

Premilla Nadasen and Jessica Stites speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Since the earliest days of the pandemic, care work has been thrust into the national spotlight. The notion of care can seem simple enough. But, as Premilla Nadasen and Jessica Stites will discuss, we have only begun to understand the massive role it plays in our lives as a site of economic extraction: from its roots in racial capitalism, where historically there was no clear division between production and social reproduction, to the present care crisis, experienced acutely by more and more Americans. 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
Nov 30, 2023

Anti-Blackness, Haiti, and the Migration Industrial Complex

Guerline Jozef speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. Migration, the search for life, is a human right and key social justice issue, but while those with the right passports and wealth can migrate, borders dehumanize and kill people fleeing for their lives from places like Haiti, Somalia, and Cameroon. The fight for migrant justice must take on the anti-Blackness central to bordering regimes in the US and around the world. 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
Nov 30, 2023

DeGrowth And EcoSocialist Revolution

Güney Işıkara, Erica Jung and Aditi Bansal speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Science for the People. https://scienceforthepeople.org That humanity cannot resolve anthropogenic ecological crises without radically restructuring social relations is a consensus shared by the degrowth movement and revolutionary socialism. In this panel, we discuss converging and diverging theoretical imperatives and strategies among radical environmental activists in order to enrich and strengthen our collective struggle for an ecosocialist 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
Dec 1, 2023

Legitimacy, Accountability, and Belonging in the U.S. Settler State

Dina Gilio-Whitaker speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. The concern for injustice toward non-white European people distinguishes the left from the right in the United States. Dina Gilio-Whitaker discusses genocidal dispossession of Native lands as the U.S.’s “original sin” which Americans have yet to fully reckon with, and how justice can lead to a sense of legitimate belonging for all non-Indigenous people. 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