2023 Sessions Preview

This list is incomplete and still subject to changes. Final session information and schedule will be available in late July or early August.

Abolition

  • Organizing in Prison
  • Abolishing the Death Penalty: Lessons from Illinois
  • Martin Sostre: Mentor, Model, Inspiration, and Revolutionary Prison Organizer
  • Teaching Toward Freedom from Behind the Bars
  • Free The Dream$: Disrupting Censorship in Youth Prisons
  • Abolition and Social Work: Possibilities, Paradox and Praxis
  • Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care
  • Abolition Communism
  • A History of Reformist Reforms: The Ongoing Struggle for Pretrial Freedom

Economics

  • The Political Economy of Debt and Debtor Organizing
  • Debtors of the World, Unite! The Strength & Potential of Debtors’ Assemblies
  • Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
  • What and Who is the Ruling Class?
  • Why Capitalism Fails: Marxist Crisis Theory

Migrant Justice

  • Our Class Has No Borders: Detained Workers’ Strikes and Solidarity
  • Sex Work, Policing, and Border Abolition
  • Anti-Blackness, Haiti, and the Migration Industrial Complex

Socialist and Marxist Theory

  • Political Democracy: From the Ancient World to the Syrian Revolution
  • What is Scientific Socialism?
  • Family Abolition Today: Care Beyond Capitalism
  • Economic Democracy: What a Socialism After Capitalism Could Look Like
  • How Do We Imagine Socialism?

Climate Justice

  • The Longer Road to a Green New Deal
  • Abolition and the Nuclear Age
  • Degrowth and Ecosocialist Revolution
  • The Environmental Injustices of American Capitalism

Health Politics & Disability Justice

  • Health and Capital
  • Resisting Carceral Sanism
  • How Capitalism Kills: Social Murder and Covid-19
  • The State, Austerity, and the Politics of Healthcare

Indigenous Liberation

  • Legitimacy, Accountability, and Belonging in the U.S. Settler State
  • From Turtle Island to Palestine
  • Revolutionary Socialism means Land Back

Racism and Anti-Racism

  • Freedom To Learn: Black and Asian American Solidarity Against Attacks on Antiracist Education
  • Confronting the Backlash: Socialists and the Anti-Racist Struggle for Liberation
  • Abolition, Ethnic Studies, and Solidarity in the Struggle Toward Education for Liberation

Socialist Strategy

  • Organizing Across Difference
  • The Future of DSA
  • The Dig LIVE: Organizing and Socialist Strategy
  • Debating the Path to the Party: Revolutionaries and Reformist Organizations
  • Rebels for the System: Resisting NGOization of Our Movements
  • From Repression to Liberation: Organizing the South in the Era of the New Confederacy

Culture

  • We’re Not Praying Alone: Religion, Marxism, and The Struggle Over Third Spaces
  • A.I. and Creative Labor
  • Popular Science Fiction and Left Political Imaginations
  • Sports in a Socialist Society

Housing Justice

  • Socialist Strategy and the Housing Crisis
  • Building City-Wide Tenants Unions: Strategies from the Autonomous Tenants Union Network
  • De Venezuela a Los Ángeles: The Fight for Housing Justice
  • Organizing Tenants: Lessons from the Field

International Politics

  • Global Crises and Global Revolts: Feminist Insurgencies and Anti-Racist Class Struggle
  • Palestine 101 for Socialists
  • The Role of Revolutionary Councils in the Kurdish Struggle
  • Revolution in Crisis: Lessons and Challenges from the Sudanese Uprising
  • France 2023: The Hot Spring and Summer of Strikes and Protests
  • Between Fact and Fiction: AMLO’s Mexico and the Fourth Transformation
  • The Abolitionist International
  • Apartheid and Counterrevolution: Advances and Challenges in the Palestinian Freedom Struggle

Radical History

  • Lenin: Catastrophe and Revolution
  • John Brown and the Revolutionary Response to Slavery
  • Homosexuality and the Left in American History
  • Walter Rodney: A Revolutionary For Our Time
  • Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement
  • The Fight for Municipal Socialism: Recovering a Usable Past

Understanding the Right

  • Fascism: Past, Present, or Future
  • The Conspiracy Is Capitalism: Making Sense of the Paranoid Right — and the Tasks of the Left
  • The Far Right, Border Abolition, and Anti-fascism in Crisis
  • India, Israel, and Global Authoritarianism
  • Fighting Fascism in Florida

Gender-Sexuality-Liberation

  • Building a United Front for Bodily Autonomy: DSA in the Struggle for Abortion and Trans Rights
  • The Politics of Childhood
  • Resisting the Tradwife Turn
  • The Means of Reproduction: Abortion, Race and the 1%
  • Fighting for Our Lives: Abortion and Trans Rights Under Attack
  • Abolition. Feminism. Now.

Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism

  • What It Takes to Win Against the War Machine
  • Imperialism & Anti-Imperialism
  • Resisting Russian Imperialism: Ukraine’s Struggle for Self-Determination
  • Moving Millions: Mainstreaming Palestine Solidarity

Labor Movement

  • Rebuilding the House of Labor
  • A New Day in the UAW? Successes and Challenges in an Industrial Union
  • Organize Your Workplace (Training)
  • Organizing the Unorganized: A Growing Labor Movement in Traditionally Unorganized Sectors
  • Union Democracy: The Power of a Democratic Labor Movement
  • The Case for Nationalizing the Railroads
  • Lessons from the Chicago Teachers Union: Looking Ahead at Our Next Challenge

Skill Sharing

  • Kids as Comrades
  • How We Built Our Movement School
  • Divesting from Despair: Building a Liberatory Movement Media Ecosystem
  • Our Communities, Our Solutions: An Organizer’s Toolkit for Developing Campaigns to Abolish Policing

US Politics

  • Understanding the IPO Movement in Chicago: New Models of Organizing
  • StopCopCity: The Fight for Narrative Power
  • How Did Chicago Beat Back the Neoliberal Machine?

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