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have attended. Glenn Greenwald, journalist
Every year its the biggest gathering that I know of activists, of people from every
background, from every part of the country and even other countries, who are here
to learn from each other and to talk about how to change the worldhow to win.
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Speakers include:
Ali Abunimah
Tithi Bhattacharya
Paul DAmato
Antonis Davanellos
Samuel Farber
Phil Gasper
Sarah Jaffe
Brian Jones
Danny Katch
Remi Kanazi
Deepa Kumar
Paul Le Blanc
Erica Violet Lee
Fred Magdoff
Scott McLemee
Jennifer Roesch
Steven Salaita
Liliana Segura
Lance Selfa
Ahmed Shawki
Ashley Smith
Sharon Smith
Jill Stein
Bhaskar Sunkara
Lee Sustar
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Sherry Wolf
Gary Younge
Dave Zirin
And many more
Four days of radical politics,
debate, and entertainment
Crowne Plaza Hotel and Conference Center | Chicago OHare
register online at
socialismconference.org
Register early, by May 23, to pay a discounted
rate of $80 for the full conference.
Other registration options include:
$100 Full conference (after May 23)
$85 Weekend (SaturdaySunday only)
$45 Single day
$10 Single session
Hotel rooms are available at a conference
rate of $99 per nightuse group code
Socialism 2014. For hotel reservations,
visit SocialismConference.org/logistics.
Free childcare is available if reserved by May 31.
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Conference Schedule
Thursday 11am registration opens
Thursday 1pm9pm meetings
Friday 9:30am9pm meetings
Friday 9pm party
Saturday 9:30am9pm meetings
Saturday 9pm music and party
Sunday 9:30am3pm meetings
register online at
socialismconference.org
June 2629 Chicago, IL
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Art, culture, and sports
Brazils Dance with the Devil:
The World Cup, the Olympics,
and the struggle for Democracy
Monsters under the bed:
Capitalism and horror
Which way barbarism?:
Young adult dystopian fiction
Peoples art and political struggles
Marxism and photography
Asia and Asian Americans
Class and nationality:
Asian Americans today
The Indian working class today
Classics of Marxism
Understanding Marxs Capital
Trotskys Permanent Revolution
Lenins What Is to Be Done?
in context
The criminal
injustice system
What is the New Jim Crow?
Capitalism and the war on drugs
Ending police brutality
Ecology and socialism
Fixing the ecological crisis:
Why market solutions fail
Marxism and ecosocialism
What is ecosocialism?
Building the movement for
climate justice
Education
More than a score:
Stopping the testing madness
The fall of the faculty:
Neoliberalism and the
future of higher education
Social Reproduction and public
education: Where the private
sphere meets the public
The history and politics
of Black liberation
A history of interracial unionism
in the United States
Birth of a movement: From the
Second World War to Brown
vs. the Board of Education
Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil
rights movement of the 1950s
Revolutionary nationalism from
Malcolm X to the Black Panthers
the history of
working-class radicalism
Socialism and disability:
The politics of Helen Keller
Working-class womens liberation
and the rank-and-file rebellion
in steel
What happened to Big Labor?:
From sit-down strikes
to concessions
Lessons of the Seattle
General Strike of 1919
UPSurge and the rank-and-file
rebellion of the 1970s
Human development,
psychology, and society
Race and class in the U.S.
child welfare system
Capitalism, socialism,
and mental illness
Marxism and children:
The historical construction
of childhood
Immigration, migration,
and capitalism
The fight against deportations
Reform without justice: The
politics of immigration reform
Imperialism
The Marxist theory of imperialism
Lenin and the right of nations
to self-determination
No good men among the living:
America, the Taliban, and the
war through Afghan eyes
History and politics of the
national security state
How can the U.S. empire
be defeated?
The forging of the
American Empire
Introduction to Marxism
Marxs historical materialism
Marxism and the state
Marxism and the dialectic
Why the working class can
change society
Israel, Palestine,
and the BDS movement
Building the international
solidarity movement
for Palestine
Israel: The watchdog state
A tale of two Apartheids:
Israel and South Africa
The battle for justice in Palestine
The Arab working class and
Palestinian liberation
The labor movement today
Obamacare as neoliberal
healthcare reform
The Fight for 15 and the political
economy of low-wage labor
Public-sector union struggles
Latin America
From Allende to Pinochet:
The Battle for Chile
The radical left in the
Mexican Revolution
Maritegui and Marxism
in Latin America
LGBTQI liberation
Capitalism and the making
of gay identity
The struggle for trans* liberation
Who needs gender?
A Marxist analysis
Marxist economics
Marxs labor theory of value
Marxs theory of crisis: the basics
The Middle East
Revolution and counterrevolution
in Egypt
Syria: A hijacked revolution?
Native American
history and politics
Idle No More and the new
politics of Native resistance
Native resistance in the
1950s and 1960s
Oppression and liberation
Marxism and oppression: The
tribune of the oppressed
Special education and
disability rights
Questions in Marxist theory
Why we are Trotskyists
Neoliberalism and the
changing working class
Marxism and human nature
Questions on the left
What should socialists say about
privilege checking?
Will socialism be boring?
Are there too many people chasing
too few resources?
Radical Film Series
Labor's Turning Point: The
Minneapolis Truck Strikes of
1934A Rank-and-File Story
Union Maids
The Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975
The Trials of Muhammad Ali
Dirty Wars
Who Is Dayani Cristal?
Schoolidarity
The revolutionary party
In defense of Lenin
Trotsky and the united front
Marx, Engels, and the
political party
Broad parties and revolutionary
partiesan assessment
Revolutions and
revolutionaries
Another look at Che Guevara
The Chinese Revolution of 1949
Their morals and ours
Indian revolts against
British empire
The return of Karl Marx
C. L. R. Jamess Marxism and
the Black Jacobins
The Russian Revolution:
From Soviets to Stalinism
February to October: How the
Bolsheviks came to power
Revolution beseiged:
From the civil war to the
New Economic Policy
The tragedy of the Russian
Revolution: The Stalinist
counterrevolution
Their radicalism and ours
The politics of anarchism
Social democracy versus
revolutionary socialism
The legacy of postmodernism
The politics of prefiguration:
Can we create the future
in the present?
Maoism in the United States
from SDS to Jesse Jackson
U.S. politics
The future of Black politics
after Obama
Rahm Emanuel, Hillary
Clinton or Bill de Blasio:
Is the Democratic Party
at a crossroads?
The U.S. surveillance state
Womens liberation
The new fight against
sexual assault
Womens liberation and the
socialist movement
Women, race, and class: A history
of Black Feminism
Marxism and social
reproduction theory
World in struggle,
world in crisis
20 years after NAFTA:
Neoliberalism and resistance
in Mexico
How real is the fascist threat
in Europe?
The legacy of Chavez in Venezuela
Revolution and counterrevolution
in Egypt
Russia, Ukraine, and the U.S.:
Campism or internationalism?
South Africas unfinished
revolution: Class struggle
after Mandela
SYRIZAs crisis and the future of
the Greek left
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