Socialism Conference

Esteban Girón, Michael Hollingsworth, Rose Lenehan, Hayden Harwood, and Joshua Taylor speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Autonomous Tenants Union Network.

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Tenant organizers from several different autonomous (member-funded and member-run) tenants unions across the country will discuss how they started their organizations and the strategies they have used to move from small-scale campaigns in individual buildings towards militant and enduring regional tenant organizations.

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Elizabeth Oh, Johanna Bozuwa, Matt Haugen, and Grayson Flood speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by DSA.

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The climate crisis intensifies, but the prospects for transformative national legislation are grim. How do we reclaim public ownership and win clean public power at the state and city levels? The Build Public Renewables Act in New York outlines a possible pathway to win and sets the stage for public power, with coordination between socialist electeds and a mobilized base.

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Zhang Mazi, Bonnie Jin, Dennis Kosuth, and Kang Yang speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by

The rivalry between the US and China lies at the heart of world imperialism. The US is determined to maintain its dominance, while China aims to claim its status a great power. This panel will argue that the international left must build international solidarity among workers and oppressed peoples against both powers and their intensifying conflict.

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Barbara Ransby and Asha Ransby-Sporn speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023.

Ella Baker (1903-1986) was a grassroots organizer who shunned the spotlight in favor of vital behind-the-scenes work that helped power the Black freedom struggle. What not everyone knows is that she was also a radical with socialist politics. Barbara Ransby discusses Baker's life and her political contributions, many of which hold lessons for organizers struggling for justice today.

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Leo Zeilig and Robert Cuffy speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Afrosocialists and Socialists of Color Caucus.

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In recent years, Guyanese revolutionary Walter Rodney and his contributions to Marxist thought, history and political organizing have reached a larger audience. Rodney's books and political work have inspired a new generation of political activists in the Black Lives Matter movement, and in research and activism across Africa. This panel will bring together Robert Cuffy and Leo Zeilig to discuss the life, politics and relevance of Rodney's ideas today.

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Paul Le Blanc, Promise Li, and Cliff Connolly speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Pluto Press.

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Over the last century, the legacy of Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin has been fiercely contested. This discussion with acclaimed scholar of communist history Paul Le Blanc presents a modern take on the revolutionary icon, with an emphasis on the powerful democracy and collective struggles behind much of Lenin’s political thought.

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Adam Kotsko, David K. Seitz, and Steven W. Thrasher speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023.

What popular visions of emancipatory futures might the Left wrest from commercial science fiction mass entertainment? This session will investigate the contradictions and possibilities of Hollywood allegory for critiquing racial capitalism, heteropatriarchy, and U.S. empire as well as imagining liberatory alternatives.

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Brendan O'Connor speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2023.

Echoing Angela Davis: it is not enough to be non-fascist; one must be anti-fascist. But what does it mean to be an anti-fascist in practice today? The forces of revanchism are not static, but rather shift and mutate: conjuring a moral panic here, inciting terror there. What might it take to stop reacting to reaction and begin building towards abolition?

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Ben Davis speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2023.

The explosion of generative artificial intelligence in the last year has dizzying implications for the future of labor, culture, and the economy. Already it is being used as a tool to automate and further alienate aspects of creative production and has played a part in touching off at least one major labor action, the WGA Writers Strike. This talk will be a starting point in thinking about the theoretical and practical issues for socialists raised by A.I.

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Saadat Hashamiyan and Sozan Savehilaghi speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023.

A panel presentation and discussion led by multi-generational Marxist/anti-capitalist Kurdish feminists on what the Kurdish Freedom Movement can teach us about international organizing and what revolutionary neighborhood/community councils can teach us about liberatory governance. The presentation will thread together regional historical context, reflections on movement organizing and the role of decentralized local governance as experiment and practice within Kurdish peoples' resistance movements.

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