Emily Janakiram and Megan Lessard speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by NYC for Abortion Rights: https://abortionrights.nyc.
The last decade has seen the rise of a “pro-life feminist” movement that has been instrumental in the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the passage of anti-trans legislation. Pro-life feminists position abortion as violence towards women which serves men and bosses, gesturing towards the real failures of liberal feminism to secure material gains for poor and working class women and advancing a "pro-family, pro-labor" agenda that casts abortion, feminism, and sexual liberty as neoliberal, capitalist innovations which exploit women and alienate them from their supposedly innate desire to raise children and maintain the domestic sphere. This discussion will unpack the terrain of this emergent movement and its effects within the anti-abortion movement as a whole, and describe how socialist feminism can and must counter it in a post-Dobbs world.
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Oct 7, 2022
Abolish the Family. Feminism for Care and Liberation
Sophie Lewis in conversation with Rosie Warren, a recording from the Socialism 2022 Conference.
When have "family values" limited the left? What did utopianists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries mean, exactly, when they said "abolish the family"? And which family, in a white-supremacist settler-colony, should we abolish? This session will explore how to decenter the private nuclear household as a source of care, and what that means for left politics and strategy.
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Oct 11, 2022
Palestinian Liberation, Internationalism, and Abolition w/ Mohammed El-Kurd
Mohammed El-Kurd in conversation with Brekhna Aftab, a recording from the Socialism 2022 Conference.
The colonization of Palestine is ongoing, and Palestinians continue to struggle for their liberation. Mohammed El-Kurd will discuss historic and contemporary Palestinian resistance, and how the liberation of Palestinians is intimately tied to the liberation of all those fighting capitalism and state violence across the globe.
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Oct 11, 2022
Backlash: Crime and the Return of Law-and-Order Politics w/ Naomi Murakawa
A session by Naomi Murakawa, a recording from the Socialism 2022 Conference.
The US is witnessing a renewed anti-crime campaign, with Democratic elites at the forefront. This talk will analyze the repressive backlash since the Black Lives Matter uprising in summer 2020—and how liberals have tried to turn BLM into a victims’ rights movement.
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Oct 12, 2022
Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Sudan
Rabab Elnaiem, Muzan Alneel, and Sara Abbas, a recording from the Socialism 2022 Conference.
The Sudanese Revolution of 2019 is one of the highpoints of the past few years wave of global resistance. The uprising that ousted president Omar al-Bashir sparked a revolutionary process in Sudan that is still undergoing. After a tenuous power-sharing agreement with the military, an military coup that was reversed, and resignation of the civilian head of the transitional government the Sudanese people remain a highly organized combative revolutionary force from below. This talk will cover lessons of that struggle with speakers from Sudan and especially look at the lessons of the bottom-up organizing of the resistance committees and talk about the path ahead for the revolutionary movement.
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Oct 12, 2022
The Case Against Nuclear Power w/ Joshua Frank
A session by Joshua Frank, a recording from the Socialism 2022 Conference.
Nuclear energy is making a comeback and is now being heralded as a key ingredient to fixing our climate crisis. Yet, nuclear power is anything but "renewable" or "green". From the mining of uranium on Indigenous lands, to its grave radioactive risks, to nuclear technology's ties to atomic weapons, there is a myriad of reasons nuclear power must be opposed.
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Oct 13, 2022
Ukraine, Self-Determination, and Imperialist War w/ Yuliya Yurchenko
Yuliya Yurchenko speaks in this recording from the Socialism 2022 Conference.
Yuliya Yurchenko analyzes the current Russian war in Ukraine, situating the inter-imperial rivalry within the trajectories of global neoliberal restructuring and post-Soviet developments. This session will put forward a perspective on Ukraine and imperialism rooted in the politics of solidarity and self-determination.
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