Socialism Conference

Simon Swartzman and Sandra Puebla speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by 33rd Ward Working Families.

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A third straight election expanded both socialist and progressive blocs on Chicago’s city council, and elected a Black, progressive union organizer as mayor. The balance has shifted towards working class organizations, including local Independent Political Organizations (IPOs). What are IPOs? What can we learn from their successes and challenges? Discuss with IPO organizers from Chicago’s “Red Kedzie Corridor.”

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Malcolm Harris speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by The New Inquiry.

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Silicon Valley is commonly described as a recent phenomenon, a product of postwar defense spending, neoliberalism, or even the contemporary zero-interest rate policy. Drawing on his book Palo Alto, Malcolm Harris recasts the SF Bay as a center for the world-capitalist epoch, with implications for today’s struggles.

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Harsha Walia, Chanelle Gallant, Elene Lam, and Robyn Maynard speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Butterfly and Red Canary Song.

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For over a century, Western states have scapegoated Asian migrant sex working women as “temptations” or victims to justify tighter borders, anti-immigrant restrictions and more policing–yet these workers have been left out of social movements. We explore how solidarity with migrant sex workers can strengthen movements for migrant justice, and the abolition of police, prisons, borders and racial capitalism.

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Steven Lazarov, Donna Murch, and Adam Cooper speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023.

Labor organizing and even strikes in higher ed have been a prominent feature of recent labor upsurges more broadly. Strikes at Rutgers and the University of California system in the last year featured massive numbers and innovative tactics. This session will explore the significance of recent higher ed labor organizing in several contexts and the impact on future struggles in higher education.

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Ilya Budraitskis, Hanna Perekhoda, and Denys Bondar speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023.

In a brazen act of imperialist aggression, Russia attempted to conquer Ukraine. But Ukrainians stopped them in their tracks, mounting a mass military and civilian resistance. Ukrainian socialists Denys Bondar and Hanna Perkhoda and Russian socialist Ilya Budraitskis will analyze the nature of the war and argue for the left to support Ukraine’s struggle for self-determination and a progressive reconstruction of their country.

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Andrew Bergman and Judy Wraight speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023.

Unite All Workers for Democracy (UAWD), the rank-and-file caucus in the United Auto Workers (UAW), made history by challenging long-entrenched business unionists and winning the campaign for top UAW leadership. With a possible strike looming at the Big Three automakers (Ford, GM, Chrysler), UAWD members — newly elected leaders and rank and file — speak about their organizing for militant unionism and how building democratic caucuses can politicize union decision-making and advance socialist strategy.

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Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023.

Join renowned author Naomi Klein for an exploration of our surreal moment in history—with politics plagued by conspiracy theories, anti-vaxxers, and demagogue hucksters—and what the right’s uncanny mirror world means for the left’s analysis and strategy.

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Zafiro Patino, Frances Amador, Cheryl Looney, Eric Kobesak, and René Christian Moya speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Solidarity.

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In this workshop, City Life/Vida Urbana, KC Tenants and Los Angeles Tenants Union will provide hands-on experiences about what it takes to build tenant power. We will focus on two questions: First, how do tenant organizers form the deep relationships that sustain activism over the long haul? Second, how do we organize with poor and working class folks across the many divisions that keep working-class communities apart and undermine our power.

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Renaldo Hudson, Alice Kim, and Damon Williams speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023.

Abolition of the death penalty in Illinois in 2011 was the result of decades of organizing and mobilizing by grassroots groups, and most important, the intrepid work of Death Row activists themselves as well as their families. Join us to discuss how an abolitionist movement was built step by step as various campaigns and organizations came together to defeat a thoroughly racist system, judicial corruption, and police violence, even while the struggle continues to end “death by incarceration.”

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Erik Wallenberg, AG, Chris Furino, and Yordanos Molla speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023.

From "Don't Say Gay" laws to attacks on Black history education to the destruction of higher education, Florida is at the forefront of a resurgent fascism in this country. Join activists involved in leading struggles against DeSantis and his goons for a discussion of the state of the battle in Florida and how organizers can defeat the looming fascist threat.

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