The annual Socialism Conference in Chicago is just a few short weeks away! Have you secured your ticket yet?
https://socialismconference.org/The subject came up in the current /ukr/ thread,
>>2279417 , specifically the 2019 article by The Gray Zone outing many of the participants as USAID/NED funded glowies:
https://thegrayzone.com/2019/07/06/dsa-jacobin-iso-socialism-conference-us-funded-regime-change/And the weaksauce rebuttal for what little it's worth:
https://newpol.org/in-defense-of-socialist-internationalism-answering-the-propaganda-of-the-authoritarian-left/This thread is for discussing the upcoming event, which I think is safe to say will be the tastemaking event of the year as far as pseudo-left talking points are concerned. Why not get a preview of the hottest psy ops and troll topics of the coming year BEFORE they hit forums near you? It's GLOW-CON!
2025 Sessions Preview
>This list is incomplete and still subject to changes. Final session information and schedule will be available in late May or early June.
Abolition
> Caregiving Toward Abolition: Workshop and Story Circles
< Stop Cop City
> Their End is Our Beginning: Cops, Capitalism, and Abolition
< One Million Experiments: Redefining and Creating Abolition Five Years After Uprising
> Abolitionist Organizing Under Authoritarianism
< Challenging Mass Surveillance in the Time of Trump
> “Texas is infamous for its taste for death:” Lethal Practices in the Lone Star State
< Fighting Carceral Infrastructure to End Mass Incarceration
> No New Jails: Lessons from Organizers Resisting Carceral Infrastructure
< Prison Organizing For A Liberated Future
> Build Communities Not Prisons
< Reproductive Justice, Family Policing, and Abolition
Health Politics & Disability Justice
> Love in a F*cked Up World: Community Care in the Face of Collapse
< Deny, Defend, Depose: Health Struggle After Luigi
> Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health
< “Sick, Twisted Freedom”: Inside-Out Lessons in Disability Justice
> Gender, Sexuality, Reproduction and the State: Fighting Back Against the So-Called Law
< Healthcare is a Human Right: Confronting Disparities From Chicago to Gaza
International Politics
> On Pan-Africanism: Past and Present
< After the Fall of Assad: The Struggle for a Free Syria
> Borders vs. The Working Class: An Internationalist Perspective
Palestine
> BDS: Building People Power for Palestinian Liberation
< The Palestine Crisis in Liberal Institutions and the Trump Moment
> From the River to The World
< What Can Students Achieve? Analyzing the Possibilities and Limits of the Student Intifada
Racism & Anti-Racism
> Hindu Supremacy and the Multiracial Far-Right
< What is Antiracism? And Why it means Anticapitalism
> Anti-Caste Organizing Today
Black Liberation
> Fighting Fascism: Lessons from the Colonies
< BLM Under Trump: Where Do We Go from Here?
> The Role of Black Media Under Fascism
< Fanon at 100: Insights for Today’s Anti-Colonial Struggles
Economics
> How to Democratize Everything
< Fiscal Fascism: How to Make Sense of Chaotic Policy as Activists and Organizers
> Debt is a Labor Issue: Unions and Debt Abolition
< Fake Work: What a Fake Job Dedicated to Solving a Fake Crisis Can Teach Us About Financialized Capitalism
> You Are Not a Loan: Debtors Assembly
Education Justice
< Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education
> The Blunt-Force Assault on Education: Resistance to Fascism
< Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism
> Community as Rebellion: Building Networks of Resistance Inside and Outside the University
< Labor and the Struggle for Higher Education
Housing Justice
> You Cannot Evict a Movement: Tenant Fights That Catalyze, Mobilize, and Win
< Lessons from Below: Learn from/with Palms Unhoused Mutual Aid (PUMA) and Build your own Abolitionist Network of Care
> Mapping Landlords and Their Technologies for Housing Justice and Rent Abolition
< The Proletariat Has No Homeland: Property and the Surplus Class
Imperialism & Anti-Imperialism
> State Violence and GI Resistance
< Ukraine Betrayed: Trump, Putin and the Struggle for Self-Determination
> Reviving the Bandung Spirit: Why Anti-Imperialism Still Matters
< The Battle for Global Hegemony: Trump and the US China Rivalry
Radical History
> Lessons from ACT UP for Today’s Solidarity Movements
< Wages for Housework: The Feminist Fight Against Unpaid Labor
> Eugene Debs: From Rail Labor Organizer to Socialist Agitator – Lessons for Today
< Literacy is the Foundation of a Revolution!: The Radical History of the 1961 Cuban Literacy Campaign
> Anti-Colonial Political Education: Amílcar Cabral and the PAIGC
< “Our Goal is to Dismantle the Whole Violent System”: Abolition Feminist Organizing in the 1970s
Climate Justice
> What’s at Stake: Organizing for Climate Armageddon
< Gulf to Gaza: No Sacrifice Zones
> Beyond Climate Despair: Rebuilding a Revolutionary Left in the Face of Catastrophe
< Power Lines: Building a Climate-Labor Justice Movement
> Climate Action to Transform Our World
Fighting the Right
> Disaster Nationalism: Trump and the Downfall of Liberal Civilization
< Rethinking “Parental Rights:” Movement Building Against the Right
> Fascists Are Trying To Recruit You!: Antisemitism, Conspiracism, and the Anti-Woke Left
< Perspectives on Right-Wing Politics and the Working Class
> Rethinking Antifascism
< Blocking the Right, Building the Base: The Work of Left Unity in 2025
> All You Fascists Bound To Lose: The Left’s Role During Repression
< Defeating the End Times Triad: Christian Zionists, Christian Nationalists, and Technofascists
Labor Movement
> How Worker-to-Worker Unionism Can Transform America
< Labor and Community Organizing Against the MAGA Billionaire Agenda
> The Use of Political Education in Union Campaigns
< Flores Magón, Workers Centers and Direct Action
> Politics on the Job, Politics from the Job
< UNION: Film Screening and Discussion
Skill Sharing
> Collective Liberation through Sex Education: How Sex Education Should be at the Root of All Organizing Spaces
< Against Abandonment: DIY Approaches to Clean Air Justice
> Revolutionary Accompaniment: Holding Each Other When Things Fall Apart
< Harm in A Time of Collapse: Practicing Responses to Harm in Leftist Spaces
> De-Escalation Training
< DIY Abortion
Socialist Strategy
> Becoming Working Class Revolutionaries: Lessons from the League of Revolutionary Black Workers for Today’s Class War
< Fighting Fragmentation: Building Cross-Sectoral Social Movements
> Organizing, Religion, and Revolutionary Love
< Roundtable: Political Education in the Time of Monsters
> “The Same Old Tools Don’t Work Here”: A Conversation with the Rural Defenders Union about the Role of Rural Organizing in Defeating Authoritarianism
< Reclaiming the Future: Outer Space as a Site of Organizing and Imagination
> Debate: Socialists, Independent Politics, and the Democratic Party
Culture & Art
> Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry
< Zine Making for Social Justice
> Art & Communism
< Building New Worlds: Poetry Writing Workshop
> Free the Presses
Gender-Sexuality-Liberation
> Gender and the Rising Right
< Enemy Feminisms: Reckoning with TERFs, Policewomen, and Zionist Feminists
> Trans Organizing in a Time of Repression
< Sexual Democracy, Moral Panics, and Trans Politics
> Abortion Bans as State Gender-Based Violence
< Making Sense of the Anti-Trans Turn
> Carceral Natalism: Technology and Surveillance in the Post-Dobbs Era
< Country Queers: A Conversation About Community Care and Memory Work in End Times
> Reproductive Justice Requires Palestinian Liberation
< United Struggles: Intersectional Resistance to Bodily Autonomy Restrictions
Indigenous Liberation
> Why Is Sex a “Thing”? Making Relations against Settler-Colonialism
< Indigenous Grounded Solidarity, Then and Now
> Refusing + Resisting Anti-Kashmiri Racism for a Free Kashmir
< A Time of Monsters: What Indigenous Horror Can Teach Us About Resistance
> Demon Mineral: Film Screening and Discussion
< A War Where All Wars Fit
Migrant Justice
> Internationalism and Solidarity in the Age of Trump: Cross Border Solidarity
< Nos Defendemos: Community Deportation Defense from Workplaces to Neighborhoods
> Immigration Detention, Inc.
< Building Abolitionist Campaigns To End Migrant Detention: Case Study on Dignity Not Detention (Free them all!)
Socialist & Marxist Theory
> Social Reproduction Theory and Practice
< Left-Internationalism from the Imperial Core: Then and Now
> Political Education 1: Basics of Materialist Analysis
< Political Education 2: Slavery, Colonialism, and Primitive Accumulation
> Key Figures in Marxism: CLR James
< Key Figures in Marxism: Rosa Luxemburg
U.S. Politics
> AI and the Techo-Fascist Power Grab for our Data, Lives, and Resources
< The Struggle for Collective Liberation: Class, Oppression, and the Politics of Resistance
> Covering Fascism While Surviving Fascism: A Media Meet-Up
>>2279563https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_HarringtonJesus, no kidding.
>Harrington and Shachtman believed that socialism, which they believed implied a just and fully democratic society, could not be realized by authoritarian communism, and were fiercely critical of the "bureaucratic collectivist" states in Eastern Europe and elsewhere.[4]
<After Norman Thomas's Socialist Party absorbed Shachtman's ISL in 1957, Harrington endorsed Shachtman's strategy of working as part of the Democratic Party rather than sponsoring candidates as Socialists. Although Harrington identified personally with the socialism of Thomas and Eugene Debs, the most consistent thread running through his life and his work was a "left wing of the possible within the Democratic Party."[8]
>Harrington was present in June 1962 at the founding conference of Students for a Democratic Society. In clashes with Tom Hayden and Alan Haber, he argued that their Port Huron Statement was insufficiently explicit about excluding communists from their vision of a New Left.
>Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr. called Harrington the "only responsible radical" in America. Ted Kennedy said, "I see Michael Harrington as delivering the Sermon on the Mount to America," and "among veterans in the War on Poverty, no one has been a more loyal ally when the night was darkest."
>By the early 1970s, the governing faction of the Socialist Party continued to endorse a negotiated peace to end the Vietnam War, a stance that Harrington came to believe was no longer viable. What the fuck does
that mean?
>Harrington said that socialists had to go through the Democratic Party to enact their policies, reasoning that the socialist vote had declined from a peak of approximately one million in the years around World War I to a few thousand by the 1950s.
>In 1982, the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee merged with the New American Movement, an organization of New Left activists, forming the Democratic Socialists of America.More like Democratic Sellouts of America
>>2279539>n+1WOW
ITALIAN LEFTCOM SPLINTERS
I DID NOT EXPECT THEM ON THE LIST HAHA
>>2279590>>2279598Nvm wtf? There seems to be two different n+1's
This is the italian one V
https://www.quinterna.org/lingue/english/who_we_are.htmThis is the one listed on the site V
https://www.nplusonemag.com/ >>2279609It's actually hilarious. Because the Grayzone staff seem to go out of their way to never state directly they are communists or to proffer any specific political ideology. Despite being obviously socialists of one bent or another. But you gotta slap a label on them for denunciations.
This screenshot that Max keeps as his X header, comes to mind.
>>2279609>For decades, anti-Stalinists in the U.S. were denounced verbally and frequently attacked physically by the Stalinists of the CPUSA – slandered viciously meetings broken up, etc.so bitchmade they have generational trauma wtf
>The “investigative” journalism the Grayzone prides itself on consists largely of demonstrating that oppositionists to their favored regimes receive money directly or indirectly from US government groups, especially the National Endowment for Democracy. The fact is that US imperialism will always try to infiltrate and otherwise influence and subvert oppositionists in these countries. That’s something to be aware of and to watch out for. Matt Christman voice: "That’s something to be aware of and to watch out for"
>But the best way to take it on is to support genuine oppositionistsThe best way to fight fascism is to parrot indigenous voices like Ukrainian anti-Stalinist holocaust fans
> stand for anti-statist, anti-authoritarian, libertarian socialism"I'm literally a communist!" - pretentious neoliberals who have spent the last 15 years begging for Elon Musk's anti-Stalinist destruction of the state for the sake of consumer free markets
>>2279636>>For decades, anti-Stalinists in the U.S. were denounced verbally and frequently attacked physically by the Stalinists of the CPUSA – slandered viciously meetings broken up, etc.holy based
beat up anti-stalinists until they learn
>>2279734>>2279780>>2279786>>2279801>>2279960fell for it again award
god you guys are stupid as shit
>>2296670I mean, you've got all these partners and organizers
>>2279539And you've got people attending and paying between 65-250 dollarydoos, and for what? Who is this gonna help organize?
>>2296974Looks like generic AI slop. If you want
that glow, you should use the raised fist symbol that they use in almost every one of their "revolutions".
>>2296979>>2296670>>2297051The money is going towards the rent for a venue in downtown Chicago, and towards included professional childcare (which by itself would be a lot more than the cost of a standard ticket.) If you want to hold an event on this scale, you're going to incur costs.
That said, the cost is still hard to stomach for me with a session schedule that looks like that. I wouldn't even have to pay for hotel costs like I assume the majority of participants will, yet I'm still on the fence whether to cough up $155 (or even $65) to attend. A major deciding factor for me would be how much they tolerate heckling, which I'm guessing isn't much.
>>2298019>why have it in downtown Chicago?Because the offices of Haymarket Books are there, and they more than anyone else are the ones organizing the event. I'm not an expert on venue planning, but I'm not sure you'd be able to save a whole lot of money doing things outside a purpose-built convention center - sure, you save on rent, but then you have to haul in and set up tons of chairs and PA equipment to whatever rural warehouse you've picked out for cheap, then attendees have to rent cars from the airport and train station and figure out where to park… or you can just have a $100 cover charge and avoid all that hassle.
>Why have a physical event paywalled by tickets+travel+lodging etc at all?There actually are groups that have decided that physical events just aren't worth it anymore, but the majority think that the excitement, comradery, and ease of debate and discussion makes physical events worth the expense. For a negative example, look at the SEP / WoosWoos's somnambulant "International Online Rallies". They might boast about how ever many thousands of people view them on Youtube, but watch this and tell me how many of them are inspired to take action.
>>2298070The second he says the G word the MK ultra experiments wake up from their coma.
>>2298337Pussy culture and pussy people.
>>2298145They arent larping, this is a glowie con.
>>2279546'anti-kashmiri racism' lmao
Kashmiris are the biggest racists in South Asia
>>2298338I'm inclined to think she misspoke in the heat of her self righteous indignation, but "holocaust survivor" seems to be getting stretched pretty far lately.
Cynically, I think it's because there just aren't that many direct survivors of the genocide left, and that's a detriment to the Holocaust industry, but that's just a shallow impression.
>>2299240Nvm I think I found it:
https://thegrayzone.com/2022/08/09/establishment-daily-beast-rolling-stone-intelligence-ties/
>On July 15, Rolling Stone announced Shachtman “will lead content, editorial strategy and manage [its] illustrious staff.” Among its initial bows to Shachtman’s ascendancy, Rolling Stone removed from its website, after 16 years, a 2005 article called “Deadly Immunity” written by Kennedy.
>Why go back that far to change the past? Kennedy’s piece was about thimerosal in vaccines. He had constructed the article around the previously secret transcript of a clandestine 2000 meeting between 52 pharmaceutical chieftains, academic researchers and public health bureaucrats in a remote Georgia retreat center known as Simpsonwood. The Simpsonwood transcripts show the participants plotting strategies for hiding a 1,135% elevated risk of autism among vaccinated children — compared to unvaccinated — disclosed by an alarming internal CDC study of the government’s largest vaccine database.
>Rolling Stone and Salon had both extensively fact-checked Kennedy’s controversial piece prior to publishing it. Under pressure by pharmaceutical companies, Salon removed Kennedy’s article in 2011 citing undisclosed “factual misinformation.” Rolling Stone steadfastly defended the article as factually accurate for an additional decade until shortly before Shachtman’s arrival. In an article headlined “How the Anti-Vaxxers Got Red-Pilled,” writer Tim Dickinson announced: “The story no longer appears on Rolling Stone’s website.”Boosting Kennedy isn't great but I think the overall scope of the article is more than just being anti-vax, especially when it was written. Aside from that though even if they are anti-vax weirdos that doesn't mean their other reporting isn't valid.
>>2299344Grayzone writers have terminal conspiracy brain so they immediately jumped on the Covid vax hype train.
Ben Norton cringed watching it happen in real time so he split off to do his own thing with the backing of the Chinese left.
>>2300049I can't say that I blame them. Rfk jr and covid skepticism aside they frequently bring receipts.
And I don't know about everyone else but I'm really tired of guilt by association shit.
>>2300031>I'm convinced to this day that one of the speakers at the event was a fed and since this was at the peak of the syrian war they were defending Levant forces in the FSA against "Russian and Assadist imperialism.There was a trotskyist militia that fought for the DSA, not making that up.
I don't even hate Trots, at least not the RCI, but some almost seem to be contrarian on purpose.
>>2298345Israel proved vaccines are shit.
Why are you so adamant about dying on the hill of vaccines? Out of all the medications out there vaccines are the ones that make you freak out.
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