Socialism Conference

Richard Seymour speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Salvage.

While the spotlight often shines on charismatic new far-right leaders, like Donald Trump, Richard Seymour argues that the true peril lies elsewhere. These leaders are merely the embodiment of profound forces that are rarely understood: a seething cauldron of societal despair, fear, isolation and sparks of individual and collective violence against perceived enemies. Unless we understand these deeper forces propelling the far-right resurgence, we have little chance of stopping it.

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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Libertie Valance, Casey O'Grady, Allyn Maxfield Steele, and Mandy Medley speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Firestorm Books, Haymarket House, Highlander Center, and Pilsen Community Books.

In the midst of a climate shadowed by cruelty, alienation and uncertainty, community-based organizing spaces have never been more crucial. Join longtime organizers to examine the challenges and joys of constructing and maintaining third spaces, different models of sustainable spaces, and the utility of these spaces for fostering solidarity to strengthen our 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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Safear Ness, Bill Ayers, James Kilgore, Dawn Harrington, and Mon Mohapatra speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Community Justice Exchange.

This workshop will offer an intergenerational conversation and reflection on international solidarity. Speakers ranging from 60s and 70s activists to present day freedom fighters will highlight what solidarity looked like in the days of the anti-Vietnam war movement and Black Power, why this solidarity declined after 1990, and consider how the current resurgence of support for Palestinian freedom and rebellions of migrants and incarcerated individuals can contribute to a global left front against fascism.

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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brian bean and Chenjerai Kumanyika speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025.

Where do cops come from and what is their true function in a global capitalist system? Are police at the core of the capitalist states that prop up systems of exploitation the world over? Join author brian bean and Chenjerai Kumanyika for a critical conversation weaving together the threads of the movement for police abolition and the social revolution against capitalism.

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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Omar Barghouti and Olivia Katbi speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025.

Even as Israel extends its genocidal war, the struggle for Palestinian liberation continues with legendary sumud, resilience, and resistance. Their fight is all of our fight. To dismantle Israel’s regime of apartheid and settler colonialism, to defeat Trumpism and the rising wave of fascism worldwide will require uniting our many struggles in broad-tent alliances along the lines of the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions.

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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Gabriel Winant, Asli Ü. Bâli, and Daniel Denvir speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by The Dig.

An expansive analysis of the unfolding American political conjuncture. How should we analyze the reorganization of American politics under the fascist authoritarian regime of MAGA 2.0? How can the left move forward when years of struggle have left us far short of real organized power? How should we think of coalitions with liberals at a time when we are too weak to govern by ourselves but mainstream Democrats have endorsed colonial genocide? A live recording of The Dig podcast.

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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Micha Frazer-Carroll speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Pluto Press.

Mental health is a political issue, but we often discuss it as a personal one. How is the current mental health crisis connected to capitalism, racism, and other social issues? In a different world, how might we transform the ways that we think about mental health, diagnosis, and treatment? This session will situate mental health as an urgent political concern that demands deeper understanding from the left.

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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Stephen Gurney, Amadi Ozier, Khadija Haynes, and Trevor-Anastacio Ortega speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by the Autonomous Tenant Union Network.

This session will introduce “transitional demands,” a powerful organizing strategy that helps tenants connect their personal struggles—like rent hikes, repairs, and evictions—to the bigger picture. You'll hear from experienced tenants about how Black and migrant tenants are responding to housing crises in gentrifying neighborhoods; you’ll leave with tools to organize in your own building or community.

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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Rae Garringer and Dao X. Tran speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025.

Join author Rae Garringer and editor Dao X. Tran for a conversation about lessons learned through the twelve-year journey of the Country Queers oral history project and podcast, culminating in the book Country Queers: A Love Letter (Haymarket, 2024). We’ll talk about community-based oral history work, queer and trans resilience and resistance in rural communities, and the lessons that rural Appalachian and southern country queers have to teach us all about taking care of one another across political difference, in the end times of fascism and climate catastrophe.

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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Arun Kundnani speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Verso Books.

Drawing lessons from a long tradition of anticolonial, anti-imperialist, and Marxist intellectuals and movements, Arun Kundnani will discuss how racism and capitalism are indivisible parts of one global system. And unless we can see the whole, we'll never know how to fight.

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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