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Socialism Conference episodes

October 26, 2025 The Role of Black Media Under Fascism
Da'Shaun Harrison, Tea Troutman, Ko Bragg, and Aurielle Marie speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Scalawag Magazine.
What is the role of Black media under fascism? This is one of the questions we would like to invite others to consider at this year's conference. We hope to delve into a discussion about what we see as our responsibility as an independent, Black-led publication and as part of movement media in this era of rising censorship. Moreover, we question what Scalawag can do to help push that agenda forward.
The next Socialism Conference will be held in Chicago, September 4-7, 2026. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org.
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1 hr 1 min
October 25, 2025 Revolutionary Accompaniment: Holding Each Other When Things Fall Apart
Kelly Hayes, Tanuja Jagernauth, and Eman Abdelhadi speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025.
A conversation between contributors to the upcoming anthology Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis, which offers advice and accompaniment to organizers struggling with the conflicts, heartbreaks, and catastrophes that activists so often experience.
The next Socialism Conference will be held in Chicago, September 4-7, 2026. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org.
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58 min
October 24, 2025 Refusing + Resisting Anti-Kashmiri Racism for a Free Kashmir
Binish Ahmed speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Kashmir Golpush.
What happens when an entire people are systematically dehumanized, their histories erased, and their identities weaponized against them? Anti-Kashmiri racism operates at the intersection of imperialism, settler-colonialisms, anti-Asian, anti-Muslim, and anti-Indigenous racism, portraying Kashmiris as perpetual threats and incapable of self-rule. This talk unpacks how such narratives legitimize genocidal settler-colonial violence, land dispossession, and cultural erasure, drawing parallels with global anti-Indigenous struggles. By critically examining the rhetoric and policies that sustain an ongoing genocide, we will explore ways to advocate for justice for a free Kashmiri future.
The next Socialism Conference will be held in Chicago, September 4-7, 2026. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org.
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38 min
October 24, 2025 Revolutionary Socialist Youth Organizing in the 1970s: The Red Tide and the Battle to Free Gary Tyler
Gary Tyler, Arnita Dobbins, Kyle Hopkins, and Michael Letwin speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025.
In 1976, high school students of the Red Tide newspaper campaigned to free Gary Tyler, a 16-year-old Black political prisoner on Louisiana's death row. In the process, they forged a multiracial, working-class youth organization of the International Socialists. Half a century later, Gary and several Red Tide veterans reflect on this history and its lessons for today.
The next Socialism Conference will be held in Chicago, September 4-7, 2026. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org.
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51 min
October 23, 2025 Borders vs. The Working Class: An Internationalist Perspective
This session was recorded at Socialism 2025 and sponsored by Speak Out Socialists.
Trump’s new policies have driven an increased militarism, nationalism, and patriotism across the world aimed at rallying workers in each country behind its own governments. Internationalism is the only perspective that can advance the interests of the working class. Hear revolutionary activists in France, Germany, and the U.S. discuss the importance of organization across borders in the revolutionary workers tradition.
The next Socialism Conference will be held in Chicago, September 4-7, 2026. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org.
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1 hr 6 min
October 23, 2025 Stop Cop City: Lessons from the Movement
Kamau Franklin, Micah Herskind, and Mariah Parker speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025.
The Stop Cop City movement is a decentralized effort to stop the construction of a $120 million police training facility and the destruction of 170 acres of the Weelaunee Forest outside of Atlanta, Georgia. Featuring a range of tactics, and in the face of enormous state repression, the SCC movement brought together forest defenders, environmental justice advocates, political prisoners, Indigenous activists, abolitionists, educators, legal scholars, and academics in a struggle for police abolition, environmental liberation, and Indigenous sovereignty. SCC organizers Kamau Franklin, Mariah Parker, and Micah Herskind will share insights from their newly published No Cop City, No Cop World, discussing the campaign's history, lessons learned, and challenges that lay ahead--with an eye towards how Stop Cop City can inform abolitionist organizing across the globe.
The next Socialism Conference will be held in Chicago, September 4-7, 2026. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org.
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1 hr 8 min
October 22, 2025 The Use of Political Education in Union Campaigns
Dylan Maraj, Alvin Gaine, and Ira Pollock speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Logistics Workers League.
While the urgent needs of organizing and fighting the boss naturally take top priority for union organizers and committees, political education of workers in struggle is a crucial but hard to prioritize investment that can turn committee leaders into committed trade union or even socialist activists for the long haul.
The next Socialism Conference will be held in Chicago, September 4-7, 2026. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org.
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1 hr 7 min
October 22, 2025 The Left and the Family: A Roundtable
Emily Janakiram, Eman Abdelhadi, Katie Gibson, and Olivia Katbi speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025.
How should the left relate to the family? Socialist analysis makes clear that the nuclear family form is an inherently repressive, racist, and hetereo-sexist institution that functionally reinforces and reproduces capitalism. But what does this mean for our organizing, especially when the family form remains a potent organizing structure for many everyday people, and when the Right constantly positions itself as a party of “family values”? Is a politics of family abolition in tension with a leftist family agenda focused on policies like universal preschool, child tax credits, and more? Join us for a roundtable that will discuss these issues at length.
The next Socialism Conference will be held in Chicago, September 4-7, 2026. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org.
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57 min
October 21, 2025 Under Death Squads and a Dictator's Son: Organizing a Left Alternative in the Philippines
Pang Delgra speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Partido Sosyalista.
From the weaponization of Facebook to successive elections of authoritarian leaders; the Philippines has been a testing ground for the Far-Right. How have the left been able to fight back under such conditions? Hear insights and perspectives from a representative from the newly formed Partido Sosyalista of the Philippines.
The next Socialism Conference will be held in Chicago, September 4-7, 2026. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org.
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47 min
October 21, 2025 Fascists Are Trying to Recruit You!: Antisemitism, Conspiracism, and the Anti-Woke Left
Naomi Bennet and Danny Katch speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025.
As Trump persecutes migrants, trans people, and other scapegoats, the left faces a choice: echo his anti-woke populism, or fight for collective liberation. This session will look at the dangers of antisemitic, conspiracist politics in movements across the political spectrum – and how we keep the focus on capitalism, not cabals.
The next Socialism Conference will be held in Chicago, September 4-7, 2026. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org.
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54 min

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The Socialism Conference is a four-day conference bringing together thousands of socialists and radical activists from around the country to take part in discussions about social movements, Marxism, abolition, working-class history, and the debates and strategies for organizing today.