Socialism Conference

Michael Lujan Bevacqua, Monaeka Flores, Aren Quenga Kerr and Nathan Samayo speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by DSA.

Guåhan (Guam), with its remote location in the Pacific and modest population of less than 170,000, is frequently neglected in discussions about US imperialism and decolonization. Despite this, the Chamoru people have resisted Western imperialism since Spanish colonization 400 years ago. Today, as an unincorporated territory of the US, the island is exploited by the military as the 'tip of the spear' in ongoing posturing with China. This panel will focus on the growing self-determination movement on Guåhan, driven by the urgent need to protect the island's cultural heritage and fragile ecosystem from catastrophic damage wrought by US imperialism.

The next Socialism Conference will be held in Chicago, July 3-6. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org.

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Alan Dettlaff, Maya Pendleton, Josie Pickens, and Connease Warren speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by upEND Movement.

The state has used the forcible separation of Black children from their families as a tool for over 400 years, and this continues today through the modern child welfare system. This session will discuss the harm this system perpetuates and the growing movement to work toward its abolition.

The next Socialism Conference will be held in Chicago, July 3-6. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org.

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Abdel Razzaq Takriti speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024.

During the 1948 Nakba, most of southern Palestine was ethnically cleansed by settler-colonist militias. Many refugees ended up in Gaza, playing a key role in the development of Palestinian revolutionary thought and practice. This talk examines the centrality of Gaza to Palestinian liberation, as well as the repeated settler-colonial attempts to attack, besiege and, ultimately, to destroy it. Placing the genocide in historical context, it also reflects on future emancipatory prospects and the role of international solidarity.

The next Socialism Conference will be held in Chicago, July 3-6. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org.

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Jasson Perez and Rousemary Vega speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by Rampant Magazine.

A massive effort by working people in Chicago to put former CTU organizer Brandon Johnson in office. This session will bring together Chicago organizers to assess both the positive and negative results of this experiment, the contradictions of the mayoral office itself in our stage of capitalism, and some lessons for left strategy today.

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Hanif Abdurraqib speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024.

Join Hanif Abdurraqib in exploring both politically radical poems and love poems from June Jordan's body of work and mapping how those two impulses (love and a radical politic) intersect, and are not at all disparate.

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Phil Gasper, Nancy Holmstrom, and Robert Cuffy speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by New Politics.

Since it was first written in 1848, The Communist Manifesto has been translated into more languages than any other modern text. All across the world it has been debated, shared, brandished, invoked, banned, burned, and even declared “dead." This session will discuss the continued relevance of Marx's (and Engels') ideas in today's political landscape.

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Noura Erakat speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2024.

Since the early 20th century, Palestinians have leveled a racial and anti-colonial critique of Zionism. That critique crystallized vividly during the apex of Third World Revolt particularly in the UN General Assembly Resolution 3379 condemning Zionism as a form of racism and racial discrimination. While the Oslo Agreement offered Israel a lifeline to protect its Zionist settler sovereignty, the State incrementally and steadily dismantled the prospect of a Palestinian state. In 2020, several legacy human rights organizations echoed the Palestinian critique of Israel following Israel’s passage of the Nation-State Law declaring that only Jews have the right to self-determination in Palestine making clear that Israel intended to be the only sovereign between the River and the Sea. This history and analysis seemed to fall by the wayside after October 7th, which lifted Gaza outside of geographical and political context and suggested that history began in 2023. This lecture will discuss this historical development with an eye on the Palestinian intellectual and political tradition in order to offer commentary on the limits of international law in this moment.

The next Socialism Conference will be held in Chicago, July 3-6. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org.

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Bati Bai Rajak, Farhat Jahan, and Jiya S. Pandya speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024.

It will be forty years since the night when a Union Carbide (now Dow Chemicals) factory leaked 27 tons of toxic methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas into the lungs, soil, and water of Bhopal, India, killing 22,000 people and leaving 500,000 still facing the environmental, health, and economic devastation from this disaster. This panel spotlights these survivors' efforts to build and maintain community resilience for the past four decades, as state and corporate actors abdicated all responsibility, as well as the ongoing struggle to hold Dow Chemicals responsible for the clean up of Bhopal.

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Jeff Schuhrke speaks with Aparna Gopalan in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by Verso.

A conversation about the new book Blue Collar Empire—which recounts the AFL-CIO’s global anticommunist crusade in the late 20th century, shows how it took place in partnership with the US government’s Cold War-era quest to control labor struggles abroad, and explores what this history means for the possibility of international solidarity in the US labor movement today.

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Dissenters members speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by Dissenters.

Join Dissenters to hear from young people who recently traveled to Cuba, the Philippines and Guatemala on political delegations. On this panel, they’ll share vibrant pictures of the impacts of US empire across these three distinct geographies, uplift resistance and organizing from indigenous & local communities, and ground us in the responsibilities of those of us who live within the so-called United States. A focus will be on pushing back against internalized US exceptionalism in our movements, and integrating internationalism and anti-militarism into domestic racial, economic and environmental justice work.

The next Socialism Conference will be held in Chicago, July 3-6. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org.

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