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Socialism Conference
by Haymarket Audio
The Socialism Conference is a four-day conference bringing together thousands of socialists and radical activists from around the country to take part in discussions about social movements, Marxism, abolition, working-class history, and the debates and strategies for organizing today.Every year, the Socialism conference aims to be a place where activists can share lessons from their struggles—from the BDS campaign for Palestine to the fight for gender liberation, from strike organizing and support to the struggle to stop the destruction of the planet, the fight against racism, and more.Socialism 2025 took place in Chicago over July 4th weekend, July 3-6. Recordings from many sessions at Socialism 2025 will be released here. Socialism 2026 will take place in Chicago, September 4-7, 2026. Learn more: socialismconference.org
Episodes
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Migrant Sex Workers Against Fascism: Lessons from 150 Years of Resistance
Chanelle Gallant, Elene Lam, Emi Koyama, and Yves Tong Nguyen speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. Travel bans, ICE abductions and deportations of green card holders are nothing new for migrants in the sex industry. But their lives and struggles also offer us a blueprint for…
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All Our Movements in this Together
Silky Shah, Eman Abdelhadi, Mariah Parker, Mikaela Loach, and Scout Bratt speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. Amid relentless authoritarian attacks and power grabs, it will take all our movements to bring down the oligarchs and build a different kind of future. Join us for the...
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Bottom Up for Liberation: An Anti-Imperialist Strategy for our Movement
Sal Ami, Rebecca John, Carl Redwood, and Sara Roschdi speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Bottom Up for Liberation. We are an emerging cadre formation of social movement leftists, growing out of the LeftRoots process. Too often internationalism is an...
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The Struggle for Collective Liberation: Class, Oppression, and the Politics of Resistance
Jesse Sharkey, Eric Maroney, and Donna Murch speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Spectre Journal. In order to build an effective resistance to Trump’s intensified attacks, we must combine the fight against oppression—including against the right's racist...
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Caregiving Toward Abolition: Workshop and Story Circles
Nadine Naber and Maya Schenwar speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. Caregiving is an integral part of movements for liberation. In this moment of rising fascism, it's especially crucial to uplift this care work, including care for children. Supporting young people and each other in...
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Lessons from Below: Learn from/with Palms Unhoused Mutual Aid (PUMA) and Build your own Abolitionist Network of Care
Ndindi Kitonga speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. Palms Unhoused Mutual Aid (PUMA) is an abolitionist network of care based in Palms, Los Angeles, CA. This interactive workshop is designed for those interested in building their own networks. We will offer insights and missteps…
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Fighting Fragmentation: Building Cross-Sectoral Social Movements
Felix T., Bri M., and Yasser Munif speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation. Movement organizations often hesitate to engage beyond their immediate focus. This panel highlights organizers who expanded their…
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Hope at the Edge of the Abyss: The Case for Revolution
Natalia Tylim and David McNally speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Tempest Collective. Amid genocide, Trump’s authoritarian onslaught, climate catastrophe, and the threat of fascism—we are living at the edge of capitalism’s abyss. This meeting will…
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Debate and Discussion: Socialists, Independent Politics, and the Democratic Party
Howie Hawkins, Bennett Carpenter, Ashik Siddique, Lee Wengraf speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Solidarity, Groundwork DSA, and Tempest. Socialists have historically taken quite different postures toward engagement with the Democratic Party. For some,...
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Putin’s Anti-War Political Prisoners in Russia
Ksenia Kagarlitskaya, Boris Kagarlitsky, Grusha Gilaeva, and Simon Pirani speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This panel examines Putin’s repression of critical voices, those who have publicly opposed his war of aggression against Ukraine. Boris Kagarlitsky, the well-known Marxist...
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Debt is a Labor Issue: Unions and Debt Abolition
Jason Wozniak, Lindsey Muniak, Jasson Perez, and Jeannine Woods speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Debt Collective. In this interactive session audience members will develop a robust analysis and critique of debt and discuss campaigns for debt…
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United Struggles: Intersectional Resistance to Bodily Autonomy Restrictions
Lyra McMillan and Lyra Spencer speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by DSA. This panel connects the parallel attacks on reproductive and trans rights within a broader analysis of fascist control over marginalized bodies. Speakers examine effective coalition...
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Building an Internationalist Left Through Diaspora Mobilization: From South Asian North America
Aman Bardia, Maithreyi Rajeshkumar, Raza Gillani, Mohiba Ahmed speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by SALAM. What role can and should the diaspora play in left organizing? How do diaspora groups stay accountable to the communities they find themselves in…
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Labor and Community Organizing Against the MAGA Billionaire Agenda
Stacy Davis Gates, Jorge Mujica, Asha Ransby-Sporn, and René Christian Moya speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. As workers we have the power to change the course of this country and the world. Unions and community organizations have the organizational muscle to shut down Trump’s...
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Build & Fight: A Strategy to Meet the Moment
Kali Akuno, Kamau Franklin, David Cobb, and Johanna Epke speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Build and Fight, Community Movement Builders, and People's Network for Land & Liberation. The Build and Fight strategy is being applied in Jackson, MS. It...
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After the Fall of Assad: The Struggle for a Free Syria
Yasser Munif, Ramah Kudaimi, Leila al-Shami, and Shireen Akram-Boshar speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. Syrians have overthrown Bashar al-Assad's brutal dictatorship, liberated cities, freed political prisoners, and opened space to struggle for an inclusive, democratic, and...
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Rethinking Antifascism
Ari Bloomekatz, Shane Burley, Michael Staudenmaier, Andrea J. Ritchie, Kelly Hayes, and Rick Perlstein speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by In These Times. A conversation with veteran anti-fascists about what it means to scale-up an anti-fascist movement...
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What's Next for the Palestine Solidarity Movement?
Eman Abdelhadi, Olivia Katbi, Nashwa Bawab, and Sahar speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. Twenty-one months into Israel’s genocidal war on Palestine, the stakes of international solidarity are higher than they have ever been. Join representatives of the Palestinian Youth Movement,...
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Abolitionist Organizing Under Authoritarianism
Andrea J. Ritchie, Lewis Raven Wallace, Maria Thomas, Eva Nagao speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. A number of frameworks have been articulated across the Left for resisting rising authoritarianism, fascism, white Christian cisheteropatriarchal supremacy, and imperialism in the…
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Becoming Working Class Revolutionaries: Lessons from the League of Revolutionary Black Workers for Today’s Class War
Jerome Scott and walda katz-fishman speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. Theoretical study and class analysis are essential for understanding class struggle throughout the capitalist epoch, especially in this moment. We share lessons from the League’s 50+ year personal, political,...
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Collective Liberation through Sex Education: How Sex Education Should be at the Root of All Organizing Spaces
Elhom Karbassi and Thalía Chicojay speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Sexpectations Chicago. At the root of organizing is education, not just formal, but skill-sharing and radical understanding. Sex education must be foundational, covering pleasure,...
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The Rise of Right-Wing Politics In Working-Class Communities
David Broder and Meagan Day speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by the Daniel Singer Prize. Far-right leaders and parties throughout the world are winning the support of large sectors of the working class and represent a deadly threat to democracy and…
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Survival and Resistance Behind Bars
Stanley Howard, Renaldo Hudson, Alice Kim, James "Jimmy" Soto, and Asha Ransby-Sporn speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Beyond Prisons at the Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture; Illinois Prison Project; Uptown People’s Law Office. This...
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On Pan-Africanism: Past and Present
Adom Getachew speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This talk surveys the history of Pan-Africanism with specific attention to key inflection moments such as the late nineteenth century and the era of decolonization to consider its on-going resonances. Through specific attention to…
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Workers Deserve More: DSA's National Labor Program
Shay, Sarah Hurd, and more speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by DSA. In 2024, DSA members joined their coworkers on the picket line for major labor actions across the University of California, and at Amazon and Starbucks nationwide. Along with these...
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A Time of Monsters: What Indigenous Horror Can Teach Us About Resistance
Kali Simmons, Robyn Bourgeois, and Patty Krawec speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. "The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters." —Antonio Gramsci. We live in a time of monsters, and the unique perspective of Indigenous horror can…
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The Blunt-Force Assault on Education: Resistance to Fascism
Wayne Au, David Stovall, Jesse Hagopian, Barbara Ransby, Davarian Baldwin, and Bill Ayers speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. Book-banning, attacks on Critical Race Theory, Black Studies and Queer Studies, the use of state violence to repress dissent—we are experiencing a furious...
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Building Durable Power: Lessons from Jewish Voice for Peace
Shelby Handler, Michael Wolfe, and CP speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace. What does it take to absorb and consolidate a membership base after periods of uprising & mass mobilization? Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) organizers will...
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Social Reproduction Theory and Practice
Sean K. Isaacs speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. Social Reproduction Theory (SRT) represents one of the liveliest sites of Marxist debate today. SRT’s theoretical approach highlights the need to view colonialism, race, gender, and other social relations as central to capital’s...
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Blocking the Right, Building the Base: The Work of Left Unity in 2025
Bennett Carpenter, David Duhalde, Montague Simmons, Jayanni Webster, and Cayden Mak speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Convergence Magazine, Liberation Road, and Rising Majority. How can organizers take on bold, strategic work to strengthen left-led…
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The Role of Black Media Under Fascism
Da'Shaun Harrison, Tea Troutman, Ko Bragg, and Aurielle Marie speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Scalawag Magazine. What is the role of Black media under fascism? This is one of the questions we would like to invite others to consider at this year's...
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Revolutionary Accompaniment: Holding Each Other When Things Fall Apart
Kelly Hayes, Tanuja Jagernauth, and Eman Abdelhadi speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. A conversation between contributors to the upcoming anthology Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis, which offers advice and accompaniment to organizers struggling with...
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Refusing + Resisting Anti-Kashmiri Racism for a Free Kashmir
Binish Ahmed speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Kashmir Golpush. What happens when an entire people are systematically dehumanized, their histories erased, and their identities weaponized against them? Anti-Kashmiri racism operates at the intersection...
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Revolutionary Socialist Youth Organizing in the 1970s: The Red Tide and the Battle to Free Gary Tyler
Gary Tyler, Arnita Dobbins, Kyle Hopkins, and Michael Letwin speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. In 1976, high school students of the Red Tide newspaper campaigned to free Gary Tyler, a 16-year-old Black political prisoner on Louisiana's death row. In the process, they forged a...
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Borders vs. The Working Class: An Internationalist Perspective
This session was recorded at Socialism 2025 and sponsored by Speak Out Socialists. Trump’s new policies have driven an increased militarism, nationalism, and patriotism across the world aimed at rallying workers in each country behind its own governments. Internationalism is the only perspective...
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Stop Cop City: Lessons from the Movement
Kamau Franklin, Micah Herskind, and Mariah Parker speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. The Stop Cop City movement is a decentralized effort to stop the construction of a $120 million police training facility and the destruction of 170 acres of the Weelaunee Forest outside of Atlanta,...
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The Use of Political Education in Union Campaigns
Dylan Maraj, Alvin Gaine, and Ira Pollock speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Logistics Workers League. While the urgent needs of organizing and fighting the boss naturally take top priority for union organizers and committees, political education of...
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The Left and the Family: A Roundtable
Emily Janakiram, Eman Abdelhadi, Katie Gibson, and Olivia Katbi speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. How should the left relate to the family? Socialist analysis makes clear that the nuclear family form is an inherently repressive, racist, and hetereo-sexist institution that...
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Under Death Squads and a Dictator's Son: Organizing a Left Alternative in the Philippines
Pang Delgra speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Partido Sosyalista. From the weaponization of Facebook to successive elections of authoritarian leaders; the Philippines has been a testing ground for the Far-Right. How have the left been able to fight...
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Fascists Are Trying to Recruit You!: Antisemitism, Conspiracism, and the Anti-Woke Left
Naomi Bennet and Danny Katch speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. As Trump persecutes migrants, trans people, and other scapegoats, the left faces a choice: echo his anti-woke populism, or fight for collective liberation. This session will look at the dangers of antisemitic,...
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How to Democratize Everything
Michael A. McCarthy speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. If you’re a socialist, what do you know about democratic planning? Socialism isn't bigger state bureaucracies, endless meetings, or even turning out votes. Instead, it is empowering ordinary people to have a greater say over…
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Labor and the Struggle for Higher Education
Jason Wozniak, Gabriel Winant, Sherry Wolf, and Chenjerai Kumanyika speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. Repression of student protests on campuses and existential defunding threats from the White House have combined to change the face of higher education and call into question its...
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Gulf to Gaza: No Sacrifice Zones
Chloe Torres and Jenny Espino speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. BIPOC communities along the Gulf South have long been treated as sacrifice zones by corporations like Chevron and Valero who have also been instrumental in fueling genocide in Palestine. This panel will explore what…
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Ukraine Betrayed: Trump, Putin and the Struggle for Self-Determination
Howie Hawkins, Tanya Vyhovsky, Elias Seidel, Dianne Feeley, and Suzi Weissman speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Ukraine Solidarity Network-US. Trump’s political alignment with Russia’s Vladimir Putin is reshaping international politics while posing a...
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Socialist (Humanism) or Barbarism: On Political Education, Democratic Rights and Where We Go Next
Michaela Brangan, Steve Fraser, Sarah Hurd, and Mie Inouye speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by DSA. In the wake of the state’s anti-left attacks on the university, public education, and access to knowledge in general, liberals have failed to uphold…
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Left-Internationalism from the Imperial Core: Then and Now
Audrey Nicolaides speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. This lecture will retrace the theoretical and historical evolution of left-internationalism from the mid-19th century onward, paying particular attention…
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Gender, Sexuality, Reproduction and the State: Fighting Back Against the So-Called Law
Sophie Lewis, Melissa Gira Grant, and Beatrice Adler-Bolton speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Death Panel. As the state intensifies its assault on gender, sexuality, and reproduction—criminalizing abortion, trans care, and pregnancy outcomes,...
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No New Cages: Lessons from Organizers Resisting Carceral Infrastructure
Silky Shah, Mon Mohapatra, Hannah Riley, Stevie Wilson, Maha Hilal, and Zhandarka Kurti speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Community Justice Exchange. The new, authoritarian, administration has promised to expand prison infrastructure, requiring...
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Eugene Debs: From Rail Labor Organizer to Socialist Agitator—Lessons for Today
Allison Duerk, Mark Burrows, and Guy Miller speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Railroad Workers United. After the 1894 Pullman Strike was violently crushed by the federal militia, Debs advocated for socialism to his dying day. Imprisoned for opposing…
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"Sick, Twisted Freedom": Inside-Out Lessons in Disability Justice
Harley Pomper, Raymond Youngblood, A'Keisha Lee, Micah Clark Moody, and Liat Ben-Moshe speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by the Jail Solidarity Network. In prison and jail where people must put themselves at risk to have their basic needs met, how do we...
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The Socialism Conference is a four-day conference bringing together thousands of socialists and radical activists from around the country to take part in discussions about social movements, Marxism, abolition, working-class history, and the debates and strategies for organizing today.Every year, the Socialism conference aims to be a place where activists can share lessons from their struggles—from the BDS campaign for Palestine to the fight for gender liberation, from strike organizing and support to the struggle to stop the destruction of the planet, the fight against racism, and more.Socialism 2025 took place in Chicago over July 4th weekend, July 3-6. Recordings from many sessions at Socialism 2025 will be released here. Socialism 2026 will take place in Chicago, September 4-7, 2026. Learn more: socialismconference.org
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