Socialism 2013 Registration is Open!

[Joe Cleffie]

Socialism 2013 | June 27-30 | Chicago
http://www.socialismconference.org/

Millions of people have come to the understanding that capitalism is no longer working. From extreme weather caused by climate change and the relentless drive to slash workers’ living standards to the epidemic of police brutality, the signs of a society in crisis are all around us. The question isn’t whether society has run amok; the question is what to do about it.

The Socialism 2013 conference will bring together hundreds of activists from across the U.S., and around the world, to tackle the many discussions and debates that confront anyone interested in changing the world. How can women’s liberation and LGBT equality be won? What will it take to win real justice for immigrant workers? Can organized labor make a comeback? What lessons can be learned from the revolutions of the Middle East? What are the next steps in the struggle for Palestine? Why is Marxism relevant today?

Featured speakers include teachers on the front lines of the fight to defend public education, anti-racist fighters against police brutality and the New Jim Crow, trade unionists, Marxist authors, radical historians, and much more. Start making your plans to attend.

Socialism 2013 will have a whole range of lectures and series on a wide range of topics, designed to offer ideas about strategies in our movements as well as theory to guide the fight for a better future. 

Here are some examples of the series and topics we will be offering: The changing working class—do workers have the power to change society? | The worldwide fight against rape culture | Marxism and women’s liberation: social reproduction and the family | Black feminism and intersectionality | Racism in a “color-blind” society: fighting the New Jim Crow | The history and politics of Black liberation | The history of radicalism in the US labor movement | The Chicago Teachers’ strike and lessons for labor | Capitalism since the “Great Recession”—the continuing crisis | The new environmental movement | Indigenous struggles, past and present | The US-China rivalry and imperialism today | Crisis and resistance in the Eurozone | The US left since Occupy | The abolitionists and the fight against slavery | From Arab Spring to Arab Winter? What has happened to the Middle East revolutions? | Zionism and the Palestinian struggle for freedom | The debate over Political Marxism | Capitalism and disability oppression | The limits of postcolonial theory | Anarchism, autonomism, and prefigurative politics | Introductions to the ideas of great Marxists, from Marx to Lenin to Rosa Luxemburg | The socialist alternative and how to get there

Featured speakers include: Abbie Bakan, Ahmed Shawki, Ali Abunimah, Antonis Davanellos, Brian Jones, China Miéville, Dave Zirin, David McNally, Deepa Kumar, Glenn Greenwald, Ian Angus, Jennifer Roesch, Jesse Hagopian, John Riddell, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Lee Sustar, Liliana Segura, Michael Smith, Paul Kellogg, Paul Le Blanc, Richard Seymour, Sarah Jaffe, Scott Mclemee, Sharon Smith, Sherry Wolf, Sue Ferguson, Suzanne Weiss...and many more

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http://www.socialismconference.org/register

Please email in...@socialismconference.org with any questions about the conference. 

Locally, here in Philadelphia, you can contact our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/groups/2415600624/ or call (201) 503-4762.

Visit WeAreMany.org to view and listen to all of the meetings from last year’s conference!

Socialism 2013 sponsored by: Center for Economic Research and Social Change (publisher of International Socialist Review and Haymarket Books). Cosponsored by: The International Socialist Organization (publisher of Socialist Worker and Obrero Socialista).