Socialism Conference

Elce Redmond, Hollis Harris, Hayley Neiling, and Jared Coles speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by EWOC.

https://workerorganizing.org

The labor movement is on the ascent among workers under the age of 35 for the first time in decades. Join a panel discussion with organizers from the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) and worker-organizers from an exciting graduate students' union campaign supported by EWOC. We'll discuss campaigns taking off across sectors that are changing the face of labor: from warehouse workers, to retail, to the non-profit world and beyond. Workers are learning from experienced organizers, attending seminars, and receiving one-on-one support for campaigns where many of the established unions are still not organizing.

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Hélène Cavat speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2023.

Macron’s class war from above in France has generated social instability, generating both a rising right-wing populism and the eruption of social movements. The latter have taken the form of labor unrest on a national scale (the yellow vests) as well as street rebellions against racism among youth in different marginalized communities. This session will explore the state of the class struggle in France and the possibilities it opens for a revolutionary perspective.

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Fritz Edler, Mark Burrows, and Guy Miller speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Railroad Workers United.

https://www.railroadworkersunited.org

For 30 years, Wall Street investors have driven the railroads to subordinate all aspects of operations to cutting every expense and maximizing profit. This dangerous, dysfunctional system is hazardous for workers, the public, as well as the economy. It’s time for this crucial infrastructure to be taken under public ownership.

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Hector Rincon and Veronica Avendano speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Workers' Voice.

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Socialist activists involved with the solidarity campaign with immigrant detainees on strike in the Mesa Verde and Golden State Detention Centers in California will discuss lessons learned from struggles coordinated behind bars: connecting immigrant rights, abolition, and workers' struggles, building for independent mass action and the obstancles to achieving it.

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Jimena Vergara and Aaron Amaral speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Left Voice & Tempest.

https://www.leftvoice.org

https://www.tempestmag.org

To overthrow capitalism, we need revolutionary organization(s). Tempest and Left Voice discuss how these can be built in the U.S. and how to engage with reformist projects. The panel will discuss how revolutionaries should view Podemos and Syriza, the DSA, and revolutionary coalitions like the FIT in Argentina.

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Mon Mohaptara and Rachel Foran speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Community Justice Exchange.

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This session will focus on how the expansion of so-called alternatives to pretrial detention and incarceration has been a mechanism for strengthening the Prison Industrial Complex. We will use the history of “alternatives” in New York City from the 1940s onward as a jumping off point to discuss how to shape demands for abolition grounded in historical lessons.

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Donna Murch speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2023.

This session will focus on racial capitalism and the Black working class in the late twentieth-century United States through today, with special attention to the 1980s. Historian Donna Murch will cover the importance of the public sector to Black workers, the consequences of intra-racial class stratification, and how the framing of the underclass hid the consequences of economic restructuring by blaming its victims. Finally, the talk will highlight multi-racial labor militancy in the context of the Reagan and Bush presidencies.

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Nate Holdren, Artie Vierkant, and Abby Cartus speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Death Panel.

https://www.deathpanel.net

Capitalism exploits not just the surplus labor of the working class; it also exploits our health. This panel will discuss Friedrich Engels’ concept of “social murder,” the structural forces within capitalism that abandon populations to injury, debility, and premature death. Marxist historian Nate Holdren is joined by co-hosts of the Death Panel podcast Artie Vierkant and Abby Cartus to discuss how “social murder” can be used to understand the politics inherent to things like workplace injuries and the capitalist normalization of covid-19, and how under capitalism, “social murder” is a feature, not a bug. Nate Holdren will participate in this session remotely.

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Daniel Kisslinger, Damon WIlliams, Bill Ayers, and Eva Nagao speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Respair Media.

https://www.respairmedia.com

The session will feature clips from a variety of media projects that exemplify this humanizing radical movement media approach, and connect each project to the larger framework of media as a source of activating people to participate in hands-on social movement work.

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brian bean speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Rampant Magazine.

https://rampantmag.com

Today’s global capitalism is underpinned by the competition of many states, each of which deploys expanding carceral violence through prisons, borders, and policing. Consequently, the abolitionist project for liberation has been and must be an international one. This session will highlight revolutionary movements to abolish the police and capitalist states spanning four continents, from Egypt to Ireland to Mexico to Russia and beyond, pointing toward the glimmers of an Abolitionist International.

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