Socialism Conference

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Socialism Conference episodes

October 08, 2025 Skyscraper Jails: The Abolitionist Fight Against Jail Expansion in New York City
Zhandarka Kurti, Jarrod Shanahan, and Jack Norton speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025.
Join scholars and organizers Zhandarka Kurti and Jarrod Shanahan for a damning account of mass incarceration that reveals how progressive forces in New York City appropriated the rhetoric of social movements and social justice to promise “downsized” and “humane" jails. The story at the heart of their book, Skyscraper Jails, is at once a case study and a cautionary tale for what will be coming to cities and towns across the United States and beyond.
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 08, 2025 The Battle for Global Hegemony: Trump and the US-China Rivalry
Tobita Chow, Carmen Phanuelle Delgra, Ashley Smith, and JM Wong speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025.
Donald Trump’s regime has abandoned Washington’s grand strategy of superintending global capitalism for an America First imperialism targeting China first and foremost. This panel will explore the nature of the rivalry, its impact on the Asia Pacific, why the international left should not side with either power, and how we can build international working class solidarity against rising militarism and threats of great power war.
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 07, 2025 Healthcare is a Human Right: Confronting Disparities from Chicago to Gaza
Ezekiel Richardson, Hana Masud, and Caesar Thompson speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025.
Healthcare disparities exist around the world, some are a product of the profit driven healthcare industry, others are due to colonial occupation. Hear a panel of healthcare activists discuss the connections as well as how we can struggle to change it for the better.
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 11 min
October 07, 2025 Nos Defendemos: Community Deportation Defense from Workplaces to Neighborhoods
Hector Rincon, Jorge Mújica, and Jazmin Tlaxcala speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Workers' Voice.
Worker, tenant, and immigrant organizers discuss the need to organize to defend immigrants in our workplaces and communities and lessons from the attacks in the first six months of the Trump regime.
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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49 min
October 06, 2025 I Didn't Come Here to Lie: The Life and Legacy of Karen Lewis
Elizabeth Todd-Breland and Jesse Sharkey speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025.
In 2012, Karen Lewis led the Chicago Teachers Union to a historic strike, challenging the city’s powerful mayor and paving the way for an unprecedented wave of teacher strikes in the decade that followed. Join us for a discussion and celebration of Karen's legacy and monumental impact on the labor movement 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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50 min
October 06, 2025 Making Sense of the Anti-Trans Turn
Danielle Bullock and Eric Maroney speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025.
Trump and the MAGAtized Republican Party have taken advantage of voters’ anxieties and created a sense of panic surrounding transgender issues. However, what remains less clear are the reasons why these appeals resonate with certain voters, what drives this particular political reaction, and how the Left can effectively respond.
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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52 min
October 05, 2025 Roundtable: Political Education in the Time of Monsters
This session was sponsored by B-REAL Academy, Center for Political Education, Claudia Jones School, KC Defender, Highlander Center, and W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School.
While the fight for spaces within colleges and universities continues, this moment underlines the urgent need to build and expand counter-hegemonic political education on the left to confront and resist the right and put forward a creative new vision for the world being born. Join political educators from a number of organizations to discuss the role of political education in today’s social movements.
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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43 min
October 05, 2025 Political Education 3: Abolition & Reconstruction Today
This session was sponsored by B-REAL Academy, Center for Political Education, Claudia Jones School, KC Defender, Highlander Center, and W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School.
The brief period following the Civil War set the stage for where we find ourselves today. Instead of rebuilding American society as a multiracial democracy, the Reconstruction project was defeated by white terrorism, and instead of equality, we got Black Codes, convict leasing, Jim Crow, police, and prisons. This participatory workshop will collectively map the current legacies of Reconstruction's failure and reframe contemporary abolitionist struggles around the positive project of building a new world.
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 3 min
October 04, 2025 Political Education 2: Slavery, Colonialism, and Primitive Accumulation
This session was sponsored by B-REAL Academy, Center for Political Education, Claudia Jones School, KC Defender, Highlander Center, and W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School.
Capitalism has never been just an economic system, but has instead always relied on the use of violence, law, and the state in a process Marx described as "so-called primitive accumulation," which reaches its height in colonialism and slavery. This participatory workshop will provide an introduction to this concept and its ongoing relevance, and guide a collective mapping of its relevance for the present.
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 04, 2025 Political Education 1: Basics of Materialist Analysis
This session was sponsored by B-REAL Academy, Center for Political Education, Claudia Jones School, KC Defender, Highlander Center, and W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School.
Marxism isn't just about applying concepts to the world, it's about analyzing the world around us in a materialist way: looking at the way things are made, where and how people live, and who holds the power. This workshop will provide an introduction to materialist analysis before guiding participants in activities geared toward analyzing contemporary reality to ask what we're up against and how we can fight it.
The next Socialism Conference will be held in Chicago, September 4-7, 2026. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org.
Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org
Follow Haymarket on podcast platforms for regular event recordings, book talks, political analyses and poetry readings!
1 hr 13 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.