Podcast Series
Socialism Conference
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. Every year, the Socialism conference aims to be a place where activists can share lessons from their struggles—from the BDS campaign for Palestine to the fight for gender liberation, from strike organizing and support to the struggle to stop the destruction of the planet, the fight against racism, and more. Socialism 2025 took place in Chicago over July 4th weekend, July 3-6. Recordings from many sessions at Socialism 2025 will be released here. Socialism 2026 will take place in Chicago, September 4-7, 2026. Learn more: socialismconference.org
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Dec 26, 2023
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The Future Of DSA
Sydney Ghazarian, Kristian Hernandez, Justin Charles and Philip Locker speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by DSA.
https://www.dsausa.org
What kind of socialist organization does the current political moment call for? How should DSA confront the threat of the far right and situate itself in relation to the Democratic Party and progressives? Does the current moment call for a Popular Front, a realignment of the Democratic Party, or the formation of an independent party? Join us for a debate on these pressing questions.
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Dec 22, 2023
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Organizing the Unorganized: A Growing Labor Movement in Traditionally Non-Union Sectors
Elce Redmond, Hollis Harris, Hayley Neiling, and Jared Coles speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by EWOC.
https://workerorganizing.org
The labor movement is on the ascent among workers under the age of 35 for the first time in decades. Join a panel discussion with organizers from the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) and worker-organizers from an exciting graduate students' union campaign supported by EWOC. We'll discuss campaigns taking off across sectors that are changing the face of labor: from warehouse workers, to retail, to the non-profit world and beyond. Workers are learning from experienced organizers, attending seminars, and receiving one-on-one support for campaigns where many of the established unions are still not organizing.
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Dec 22, 2023
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France 2023: The Hot Spring and Summer of Strikes and Protests
Hélène Cavat speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2023.
Macron’s class war from above in France has generated social instability, generating both a rising right-wing populism and the eruption of social movements. The latter have taken the form of labor unrest on a national scale (the yellow vests) as well as street rebellions against racism among youth in different marginalized communities. This session will explore the state of the class struggle in France and the possibilities it opens for a revolutionary perspective.
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Dec 22, 2023
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The Case for Nationalizing the Railroads
Fritz Edler, Mark Burrows, and Guy Miller speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Railroad Workers United.
https://www.railroadworkersunited.org
For 30 years, Wall Street investors have driven the railroads to subordinate all aspects of operations to cutting every expense and maximizing profit. This dangerous, dysfunctional system is hazardous for workers, the public, as well as the economy. It’s time for this crucial infrastructure to be taken under public ownership.
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Dec 21, 2023
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Our Class Has No Borders: Detained Workers' Strikes and Solidarity
Hector Rincon and Veronica Avendano speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Workers' Voice.
https://workersvoiceus.org
Socialist activists involved with the solidarity campaign with immigrant detainees on strike in the Mesa Verde and Golden State Detention Centers in California will discuss lessons learned from struggles coordinated behind bars: connecting immigrant rights, abolition, and workers' struggles, building for independent mass action and the obstancles to achieving it.
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Dec 21, 2023
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Debating the Path to the Party: Revolutionaries and Reformist Organizations
Jimena Vergara and Aaron Amaral speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Left Voice & Tempest.
https://www.leftvoice.org
https://www.tempestmag.org
To overthrow capitalism, we need revolutionary organization(s). Tempest and Left Voice discuss how these can be built in the U.S. and how to engage with reformist projects. The panel will discuss how revolutionaries should view Podemos and Syriza, the DSA, and revolutionary coalitions like the FIT in Argentina.
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Dec 21, 2023
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A History of Reformist Reforms: The Ongoing Struggle for Pretrial Freedom
Mon Mohaptara and Rachel Foran speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Community Justice Exchange.
https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org
This session will focus on how the expansion of so-called alternatives to pretrial detention and incarceration has been a mechanism for strengthening the Prison Industrial Complex. We will use the history of “alternatives” in New York City from the 1940s onward as a jumping off point to discuss how to shape demands for abolition grounded in historical lessons.
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Dec 20, 2023
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Racial Capitalism and Black Working Class History of the Long 1980s and Beyond
Donna Murch speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2023.
This session will focus on racial capitalism and the Black working class in the late twentieth-century United States through today, with special attention to the 1980s. Historian Donna Murch will cover the importance of the public sector to Black workers, the consequences of intra-racial class stratification, and how the framing of the underclass hid the consequences of economic restructuring by blaming its victims. Finally, the talk will highlight multi-racial labor militancy in the context of the Reagan and Bush presidencies.
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Dec 20, 2023
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How Capitalism Kills: Social Murder and Covid-19
Nate Holdren, Artie Vierkant, and Abby Cartus speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Death Panel.
https://www.deathpanel.net
Capitalism exploits not just the surplus labor of the working class; it also exploits our health. This panel will discuss Friedrich Engels’ concept of “social murder,” the structural forces within capitalism that abandon populations to injury, debility, and premature death. Marxist historian Nate Holdren is joined by co-hosts of the Death Panel podcast Artie Vierkant and Abby Cartus to discuss how “social murder” can be used to understand the politics inherent to things like workplace injuries and the capitalist normalization of covid-19, and how under capitalism, “social murder” is a feature, not a bug. Nate Holdren will participate in this session remotely.
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Dec 20, 2023
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Divesting From Despair: Building a Liberatory Movement Media Ecosystem
Daniel Kisslinger, Damon WIlliams, Bill Ayers, and Eva Nagao speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Respair Media.
https://www.respairmedia.com
The session will feature clips from a variety of media projects that exemplify this humanizing radical movement media approach, and connect each project to the larger framework of media as a source of activating people to participate in hands-on social movement work.
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