Simon Swartzman and Sandra Puebla speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by 33rd Ward Working Families.
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A third straight election expanded both socialist and progressive blocs on Chicago’s city council, and elected a Black, progressive union organizer as mayor. The balance has shifted towards working class organizations, including local Independent Political Organizations (IPOs). What are IPOs? What can we learn from their successes and challenges? Discuss with IPO organizers from Chicago’s “Red Kedzie Corridor.”
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Nov 23, 2023
From Turtle Island To Palestine
Patty Krawec and Mohamed Abdou speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023.
Patty Krawec and Mohamed Abdou, the authors of "Becoming Kin" and "Anarchism and Islam" will present concepts of solidarity in the context of settler states from Turtle Island to Palestine. Relying on Anishinaabe and Islamic concepts of community that invite us into layered relationships, they will present and then lead a discussion on how we can build relationships of solidarity across imposed divisions.
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Nov 23, 2023
Revolution In Crisis: Lessons and Challenges from the Sudanese Uprising
Rabab Elnaiem, Nisrin Elamin, and Muzan Alneel speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by
In this session recorded over Labor Day weekend, Sudanese revolutionaries recount the history of the inspiring and highly organized 2018 Sudanese Revolution—its strengths in organizing tactics and models, as well as its limitations and the setbacks, negotiations, and concessions that brought it to the current state of war. Speakers then explore the prospects for revolutionary forces to regroup in the aftermath of war to renew the struggle for democracy, justice, and equality.
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Nov 23, 2023
Revolutionary Socialism Means Land Back
Kristen Godfrey, Annabelle Guptill, and Fawn Pochel speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023.
What do revolution and the emancipation of workers mean on stolen land? This session considers the relationships between ‘collective ownership of the means of production’ and reparations, climate justice, & #LandBack. Panelists will argue for revolutionary socialists to practice solidarity locally & internationally with Indigenous peoples & nations.
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Nov 23, 2023
Justice In Palestine: A Socialist Introduction
Mohammed El-Kurd, Sumaya Awad, and Jason Farbman speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023 over Labor Day weekend. This session was sponsored by Adalah Justice Project and Jewish Voice for Peace.
https://www.adalahjusticeproject.org
https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org
Palestinians have been struggling for 75 years for their liberation from ethnic cleansing and oppression at the hands of the Israeli state. In this session we'll cover everything you need to know to bring solidarity with Palestine into your own work, or just to inform you on a "complicated situation" that's not really so complicated.
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Nov 27, 2023
Abolition. Feminism. Now.
Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023.
Join leading scholar-activists as they reflect on the often unrecognized genealogies of queer, anti-capitalist, internationalist, grassroots, and women-of-color-led feminist movements that have helped to define abolition and feminism in the twenty-first century, and ground our conference weekend in the theories of change generated out of vibrant community based organizing.
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Nov 29, 2023
India, Israel And Global Authoritarianism
Hafsa Kanjwal, Suchitra Vijayan, and Azad Essa speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023.
Under Narendra Modi, India has embarked on a project to become an authoritarian Hindu State, building an arsenal of weapons, evoking religious nationalism, dismantling civil society and using the Israeli model to enable settler-colonialism in Kashmir. This panel, made up of authors Hafsa Kanjwal, Suchitra Vijayan and Azad Essa, will discuss the implications of India's shift toward authoritarianism and why it continues to get a pass among the left in the US.
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