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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.
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 2026 took place in Chicago over Labor Day weekend, Sept. 4-7. Recordings from many sessions at Socialism 2026 will be released here. Learn more: socialismconference.org
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- Mass Labor Action in Defense of Immigrant Workers: Why We Need It and How We Can Get there · 1 h 4 minLucia Flores, Justin Akers Chacón, Victor Rodríguez, and Dan Troccoli speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2026. This session was sponsored by Workers Voice. This panel…
- The Strike that Shook the Bay: San Francisco’s Historic 2026 Educator Strike and the Coming California Strike Wave · 52 minYajaira Cuapio, Ilan Desai-Gellar, and Alex Schmaus speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2026. This session was sponsored by United Educators of San Francisco. Earlier…
- The False Choice Between Identity Politics and Class Struggle · 37 minMike McCarthy speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2026. Does building mass political coalitions against the right require us to abandon issues specific to minorities of…
- Socialism, Liberation Theology, and the Black Church: Lessons from Black Socialist Preachers Past and Present · 49 minAndrew Reginald Hairston and Charles Holm speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2026. Taking inspiration from James Cone’s “The Black Church and Marxism: What Do They Have…
- Community Lessons for Fighting Fascism: In Honor of Amisha Patel · 1 h 24 minKatelyn Johnson, Rocio Garcia, Juliet de Jesus Alejandre, Tanuja Jagernauth, and Maya Schenwar speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2026. This session was sponsored by…
- The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took over the World · 50 minVicky Osterweil and Daniella Mazzio speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2026. Join Vicky Osterweil on a quest to discover how Disney’s “imagineers” have made it…
- The Revolutionary Legacies and Lineages of Grace Lee Boggs · 1 h 0 minLily Luo speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2026. This workshop is an introduction to the life and thoughts of this Detroit-based Chinese-US American labor organizer…
- From a Marxist Feminist Point of View: Freedom, Rationality and Human Nature · 1 h 4 minNancy Holmstrom, Rose Lenehan, Phil Gasper, and Alex Holmstrom-Smith speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2026. This session was sponsored by New Politics and the Daniel…
- The US and China: Imperial Rivalry in a Multipolar World · 48 minTobita Chow and Ashley Smith speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2026. This session was sponsored by “Chimerica” is over. The twin titans of neoliberal globalization are…
- The Old Being Reborn: The Revival of Socialist Organizations in US and Belgium · 48 minDavid Duhalde and Joe Todd speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2026. This session was sponsored by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung. What is the throughline between the Belgian…
- Revolutionary Socialism from Below: Strategies to Build the Resistance · 39 minAaron Amaral, Kristen Guptill-Godfrey speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2026. This session was sponsored by Tempest. If liberation could come from the government, it…
- Unveiling the Prophet: Anti-Labor Secret Societies and Their Activist Enemies · 44 minDevin Thomas O'Shea and Kim Kelly speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2026. Every December, St. Louis elites crown one of their daughters the Queen of Love and Beauty in…
- Land and Abolition · 1 h 11 minRuth Wilson Gilmore speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2026. Based in concrete struggles throughout what Milton Santos provocatively called “used territory,” this talk…
- Art is Politics: Making Movements Irresistible · 43 minRoger Peet, Margaret Vail Palmquist, and William Estrada speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2026. Art is a part of movements, but how can it best serve the struggles it…
- Migrant Sex Workers Against Fascism: Lessons from 150 Years of Resistance · 42 minChanelle Gallant, Elene Lam, Emi Koyama, and Yves Tong Nguyen speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. Travel bans, ICE abductions and deportations of green card holders…
- All Our Movements in this Together · 1 h 7 minSilky Shah, Eman Abdelhadi, Mariah Parker, Mikaela Loach, and Scout Bratt speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. Amid relentless authoritarian attacks and power grabs…
- Bottom Up for Liberation: An Anti-Imperialist Strategy for our Movement · 38 minSal Ami, Rebecca John, Carl Redwood, and Sara Roschdi speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Bottom Up for Liberation. We are an emerging…
- The Struggle for Collective Liberation: Class, Oppression, and the Politics of Resistance · 52 minJesse Sharkey, Eric Maroney, and Donna Murch speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Spectre Journal. In order to build an effective…
- Caregiving Toward Abolition: Workshop and Story Circles · 33 minNadine Naber and Maya Schenwar speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. Caregiving is an integral part of movements for liberation. In this moment of rising fascism…
- Lessons from Below: Learn from/with Palms Unhoused Mutual Aid (PUMA) and Build your own Abolitionist Network of Care · 44 minNdindi Kitonga speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. Palms Unhoused Mutual Aid (PUMA) is an abolitionist network of care based in Palms, Los Angeles, CA. This…
- Fighting Fragmentation: Building Cross-Sectoral Social Movements · 54 minFelix T., Bri M., and Yasser Munif speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation. Movement…
- Hope at the Edge of the Abyss: The Case for Revolution · 40 minNatalia Tylim and David McNally speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Tempest Collective. Amid genocide, Trump’s authoritarian…
- Debate and Discussion: Socialists, Independent Politics, and the Democratic Party · 47 minHowie Hawkins, Bennett Carpenter, Ashik Siddique, Lee Wengraf speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Solidarity, Groundwork DSA, and…
- Putin’s Anti-War Political Prisoners in Russia · 58 minKsenia Kagarlitskaya, Boris Kagarlitsky, Grusha Gilaeva, and Simon Pirani speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This panel examines Putin’s repression of critical…
- Debt is a Labor Issue: Unions and Debt Abolition · 1 h 1 minJason Wozniak, Lindsey Muniak, Jasson Perez, and Jeannine Woods speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Debt Collective. In this…
- United Struggles: Intersectional Resistance to Bodily Autonomy Restrictions · 1 h 42 minLyra McMillan and Lyra Spencer speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by DSA. This panel connects the parallel attacks on reproductive and…
- Building an Internationalist Left Through Diaspora Mobilization: From South Asian North America · 1 h 0 minAman Bardia, Maithreyi Rajeshkumar, Raza Gillani, Mohiba Ahmed speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by SALAM. What role can and should the…
- Labor and Community Organizing Against the MAGA Billionaire Agenda · 1 h 36 minStacy Davis Gates, Jorge Mujica, Asha Ransby-Sporn, and René Christian Moya speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. As workers we have the power to change the course of…
- Build & Fight: A Strategy to Meet the Moment · 1 h 2 minKali Akuno, Kamau Franklin, David Cobb, and Johanna Epke speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Build and Fight, Community Movement…
- After the Fall of Assad: The Struggle for a Free Syria · 28 minYasser Munif, Ramah Kudaimi, Leila al-Shami, and Shireen Akram-Boshar speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. Syrians have overthrown Bashar al-Assad's brutal…
- Rethinking Antifascism · 1 h 7 minAri Bloomekatz, Shane Burley, Michael Staudenmaier, Andrea J. Ritchie, Kelly Hayes, and Rick Perlstein speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was…
- What's Next for the Palestine Solidarity Movement? · 59 minEman Abdelhadi, Olivia Katbi, Nashwa Bawab, and Sahar speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. Twenty-one months into Israel’s genocidal war on Palestine, the stakes of…
- Abolitionist Organizing Under Authoritarianism · 56 minAndrea J. Ritchie, Lewis Raven Wallace, Maria Thomas, Eva Nagao speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. A number of frameworks have been articulated across the Left for…
- Becoming Working Class Revolutionaries: Lessons from the League of Revolutionary Black Workers for Today’s Class War · 1 h 2 minJerome Scott and walda katz-fishman speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. Theoretical study and class analysis are essential for understanding class struggle…
- Collective Liberation through Sex Education: How Sex Education Should be at the Root of All Organizing Spaces · 1 h 13 minElhom Karbassi and Thalía Chicojay speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Sexpectations Chicago. At the root of organizing is education…
- The Rise of Right-Wing Politics In Working-Class Communities · 46 minDavid Broder and Meagan Day speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by the Daniel Singer Prize. Far-right leaders and parties throughout the…
- Survival and Resistance Behind Bars · 1 h 11 minStanley Howard, Renaldo Hudson, Alice Kim, James "Jimmy" Soto, and Asha Ransby-Sporn speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Beyond…
- On Pan-Africanism: Past and Present · 41 minAdom Getachew speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This talk surveys the history of Pan-Africanism with specific attention to key inflection moments such as the…
- Workers Deserve More: DSA's National Labor Program · 47 minShay, Sarah Hurd, and more speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by DSA. In 2024, DSA members joined their coworkers on the picket line for…
- A Time of Monsters: What Indigenous Horror Can Teach Us About Resistance · 56 minKali Simmons, Robyn Bourgeois, and Patty Krawec speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. "The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time…
- The Blunt-Force Assault on Education: Resistance to Fascism · 1 h 2 minWayne Au, David Stovall, Jesse Hagopian, Barbara Ransby, Davarian Baldwin, and Bill Ayers speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. Book-banning, attacks on Critical Race…
- Building Durable Power: Lessons from Jewish Voice for Peace · 53 minShelby Handler, Michael Wolfe, and CP speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace. What does it take to absorb and…
- Social Reproduction Theory and Practice · 39 minSean K. Isaacs speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. Social Reproduction Theory (SRT) represents one of the liveliest sites of Marxist debate today. SRT’s…
- Blocking the Right, Building the Base: The Work of Left Unity in 2025 · 1 h 2 minBennett Carpenter, David Duhalde, Montague Simmons, Jayanni Webster, and Cayden Mak speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. This session was sponsored by Convergence…
- The Role of Black Media Under Fascism · 1 h 0 minDa'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…
- Revolutionary Accompaniment: Holding Each Other When Things Fall Apart · 57 minKelly 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…
- Refusing + Resisting Anti-Kashmiri Racism for a Free Kashmir · 37 minBinish 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…
- Revolutionary Socialist Youth Organizing in the 1970s: The Red Tide and the Battle to Free Gary Tyler · 51 minGary 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…
- Borders vs. The Working Class: An Internationalist Perspective · 1 h 5 minThis 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…
- Stop Cop City: Lessons from the Movement · 1 h 7 minKamau 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…
