brian bean speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. This session was sponsored by Rampant Magazine. https://rampantmag.com Contemporary capitalism exploits and degrades human beings around the world, relying on the violent power of states to create profits, guarantee the functioning of markets, and cheapen labor through violence. There is no way to build a liberated future for all of us without overthrowing capitalism, and that will mean confronting and dismantling the capitalist state, its prisons, policing, borders, and military. It’s time we talk about smashing the state. 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

Mariame Kaba, Kelly Hayes, and Harsha Walia speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Join Mariame Kaba, Kelly Hayes, and Harsha Walia for a discussion about the political lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic, mass protests, and mutual aid, and how we can reject cynicism and build power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe. 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

Dissenters activists speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Dissenters: https://wearedissenters.org. Dissenters students and leaders across the continent are waging campaigns and engaging in bold & creative action to disrupt business as usual for multinational weapons manufacturing companies; Join us to hear from a panel of organizers and about their successes, innovation, and the challenges involved as we build a movement to divest from death and reinvest resources in life-giving institutions. 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

Aja Monet, Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson, Derecka Purnell, Damon Williams, Delaney Vandergrift, and Nyle Fort speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Dream Defenders: https://www.dreamdefenders.org. SunDDay School is a space for us to explore and experience the spiritual life of social movements. This program, curated by the Dream Defenders, is organized around a simple truth: to change the world we must change ourselves and to change ourselves we must change the world. Join us for the “Spirit of Socialism” - an inspirational service that will celebrate how socialist politics can transform the human spirit! 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

Astra Taylor, Lindsey Muniak, and René Christian Moya speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by the Debt Collective: https://debtcollective.org/ Concentrated wealth, stagnant wages, and austerity-driven policies have forced us to take on enormous debts to cover the costs of everything from healthcare to housing, education to transportation. This panel will consider how the growing crisis of personal debt relates to the contemporary economic situation – and look at the forms of organizing that seek to turn debt into a political and collective question. 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

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. 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