The last few years of political turmoil have unearthed the longstanding lack of public trust in the news media.  As journalists who work in, outside and against legacy media, we will facilitate space for attendees to learn about the long and deep legacy of movement journalism that undermines the belief that objectivity and government sourcing are signs of quality and expands transformative, abolitionist, and antiracist movement building through truthful reporting.

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Movement Journalism And The Fall Of Legacy Media

Mon Mohapatra, Victoria Law, Tracy Rosenthal, and Beatrice Adler-Bolton speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by Death Panel.

This session will explore how the rhetorics of “care,” support, and empathy are often deployed to expand and reinforce carcerality—to make carcerality appear innocuous, or even an expansion of social welfare and public health. Mon Mohapatra, Victoria Law, and Tracy Rosenthal will discuss how to evaluate and identify programs that disguise carcerality under the pretense of “care” and how carewashing can be resisted.

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Carewashing: Carcerality Disguised as Social Welfare

Furonda Brasfield, Michelle Smith, Tiara Cooper, and Cherrell Brown speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by Noose to Needle - 8th Amendment Project.

The South leads the way in racial oppression and injustice. This panel will explore how Southern organizers are fighting state sanctioned violence and murder and promote collective liberation by working across various issues including: police killings, mass incarceration, death penalty, rights for incarcerated persons, and expansion of the police state.

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From the Death Chambers to Cop City: How the South is Pushing Back Against State Violence

Silky Shah, Harsha Walia, and Amna Akbar speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by Detention Watch Network.

As calls to abolish ICE, prisons and policing, and borders gain urgency in the U.S. and abroad, so too does the need to understand how these systems necessitate and sustain each other. Silky Shah and Harsha Walia, in conversation with Amna A. Akbar, will unpack why global migrant justice efforts require a PIC abolition analysis, and how this relates to bordering, migration, and capitalism more broadly.

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Unbuild Walls: Borders, Prisons, and Abolition

Jonah Olsen and Hialy Gutierrez speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024.

We will discuss the radical potential and challenges of cooperatives to transform conditions both within their walls and within the communities in which they are embedded. We argue that, through practices responsive to and rooted in community context and socialist relations, cooperatives can contribute to community resilience and the reproduction of economic alterity.

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Cooperatives, Socialized Power, and the Reproduction of Economic Alternatives

Sai Englert speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by Pluto Books.

Rich with their unique histories, characteristics, and social relations, Indigenous struggles across the world are connected by the shared enemy they face: settler colonialism. In this session, Sai Englert argues that settler colonial forms of domination and accumulation played a central role in the emergence of capitalism, and remain crucial in its reproduction and stabilisation today. Defeating settler colonialism is therefore also key to destroying the capitalist system as a whole.

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Settler Colonialism: An Introduction

Emily Drabinski and Mariame Kaba speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by Social Justice Initiative.

The public library is an example of the world we want. Everything from books and media to cake pans and garden tools are held in common and shared equitably, expanding the public good and access to it. This is precisely why libraries are under attack, and why we must organize to win the library and, in turn, the world.

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Save the Library, Save the World

Ilan Pappé speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2024.

The radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe, author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine and a new edition of Ten Myths About Israel, will critically assess the myths and reality behind the state of Israel. From the false equation of Judaism with Zionism, to lies about Gaza, to the two state solution and more, equipping ourselves with historical knowledge is essential to solidarity with the struggle for Palestinian liberation.

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Ten Myths About Zionism

brian bean, Kristen Godfrey, Natalia Tylim speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by Tempest.

A presidential election between Trump and whoever the Democrats thrust upon us is the latest expression of deepening social, political and constitutional crisis. What does it mean to understand these elections through the prism of the pressing need to organize and build forces capable of fighting for an alternative, socialist future to that offered by Genocide Joe (or his successor) and Donald the Dictator?

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The Genocidal Return Of Lesser Evilism: The U.S. Elections and Left Strategy

Mandy Medley, Mary Zerkel, and Clarence White speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by Pilsen Community Books.

This session will discuss the importance of building community organizing spaces in support of our movements. Longtime organizers will examine the challenges of creating third spaces while also looking back at the ways they strengthen our communities through political education, mutual aid, creating solidarity through shared struggles.

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Logoff and Meetup: Building Third Spaces to Change the World

Noura Erakat, Linda Sarsour, Abdel Razzaq Takriti, Rabbi Brant Rosen, and George Abraham speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. 

Even amidst Israel’s ongoing genocidal war, the courage and steadfastness of Palestinians have awakened a global solidarity movement. Join us to discuss the rich history of the Palestinian liberation movement, the state of the resistance to Israel and US imperialism, and the future of Palestinian and global liberation.

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All Eyes On Palestine: Solidarity, Liberation, Intifada (Opening Plenary)

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 2024 occurred in Chicago over Labor Day weekend, August 30 - September 2. The recordings from the sessions at Socialism 2024 will be released here. Socialism 2025 will take place in Chicago, July 3-6, 2025.

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