This episode was recorded live at the 2025 Socialism Conference in Chicago, where we collaborated with conference organizers to host four discussions over the first weekend in July. All four recordings are now available for Death Panel patrons at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

feat. Beatrice, Artie, and Vicky Osterweil

Session description: With the new administration, the federal government has been actively attacking healthcare funding for the poor and intensified its targeting of trans and disabled people and the immiseration of healthcare workers. In this session, we discuss what the fight for health communism may look like under this new regime, and what strategies and forms of politics may help us move forward. With Death Panel co-hosts and co-authors of Health Communism Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant, joined by writer and organizer Vicky Osterweil.

Find a written version of Beatrice and Artie's remarks here: https://blindarchive.substack.com/p/where-is-the-site-of-struggle-in

Find our other Socialism Conference 2025 sessions here:

Gender, Sexuality, Reproduction and the State: Fighting Back Against the So-Called Law (DP x S25)

— Bea, Melissa Gira Grant, Sophie Lewis

https://www.patreon.com/posts/134643775

Dean Spade on Community Care in the Face of Collapse (DP x S25)

— Bea, Dean Spade

https://www.patreon.com/posts/134644217

The Proletariat Has No Homeland: Property and the Surplus Class (DP x S25)

— Bea, Tracy Rosenthal, Marques Vestal

https://www.patreon.com/posts/134644582

Thanks to Han Olliver for our Death Panel x Socialism Conference 2024 poster image, which is being used as the cover image for this episode on platforms that support it. Find and support Han's work at www.hanolliver.com

Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

Find Jules' latest book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny

Find Tracy's book, Abolish Rent, here: www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2443-abolish-rent

Find Phil's new book, Counting Like a State, here: kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700639687/

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