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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Dec 1, 2023
Abolishing the War on Terror and Building Communities of Care
Darakshan Raja speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Muslims for Just Futures and Muslim Abolitionist Futures.
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Muslims for Just Futures will host a workshop session on ways abolition can be used as a framework and an organizing intervention to tackle structural Islamophobia and the Global War on Terror. The session will include an introduction to the Muslim Abolitionist Futures agenda, tools, and frameworks that can be used as a tool of movement-building to link demands for abolition of policing, militarism, and surveillance expansion to the Global War on Terror.
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Dec 1, 2023
Homosexuality and the Left in American History
Aaron Lecklider speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2023.
This session discusses the relationship between homosexuality and the Left in US history, particularly emphasizing the ways radical activists, artists, and writers incorporated sexual politics into their critiques of capitalism, racism, and fascism in the decades before Stonewall.
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Dec 2, 2023
Fascism: Past, Present, or Future
Alberto Toscano and Ilya Budraitskis speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Verso.
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How can we best understand the right in the US and internationally? The history of ‘fascism’ as a concept has gone through many iterations. This session will explore the meaning and relevance of the term, but also look at contemporary manifestations of fascist politics and how to confront them.
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Dec 2, 2023
Fighting For Sanctuary: Migrant Justice Organizing in Chicago
Vicko Alvarez and Graciela Guzmán speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by
After Texas Governor Greg Abbott bussed thousands of refugees to sanctuary cities such as Chicago as a political ploy, countless migrants have faced untenable conditions including being forced to sleep in police stations. This talk will look at the roots of this current crisis, and will also cover the local organizing efforts to provide aid and care for newly arrived migrants.
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Dec 4, 2023
Family Abolition Today: Care Beyond Capitalism
M. E. O'Brien, Eman Abdelhadi, and Sophie Lewis speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Pinko.
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Join M. E. O’Brien, Sophie Lewis and Eman Abdelhadi for a panel conversation on family abolition, care, and the family in racial capitalism. Occasioned by the publication of M. E. O’Brien’s Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care, this panel brings together three leading family abolitionist scholars and activists.
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Dec 4, 2023
The Fight For Municipal Socialism: Recovering a Usable Past
Shelton Stromquist speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2023.
For more than a century, municipal socialism has fired the imaginations of workers around the world. But, at every turn, propertied elites challenged their right to govern. Faced with urban/industrial crises of capitalism, workers invented a new local politics that promised to democratize cities and reclaim the wealth they created. That legacy continues to inspire activists today in their fight for the right of cities to govern themselves.
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