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Thursday, June 17, 8:00pm

  • Marvin Reeves
    Mark Clements
    Joey Mogul
    on
    Tortured confessions
    (American Injustice)
  • Kevin Coval on
    Kevin Koval hosts Louder Than A Bomb!: All Star Showcase and The People's Open Mic featuring poets from The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival
    (Culture and Resistance )
  • Anand Gopal on
    Who are the Taliban?
    (Imperialism and anti-Imperialism)
  • Kirstin Roberts on
    Before Classes: Our Egalitarian Past
    (Marx and Marxism)
  • Elizabeth Schulte on
    Populism: Left and Right
    (U.S. Politics)

Friday, June 18, 9:30am

  • Annie Zirin on
    Jackson Pollock And The Artists Of The Cold War
    (Culture and Resistance )
  • Lauren Flizeer
    Corrie Wetering
    on
    Sexuality and Capitalism
    (Gender and Sexuality )
  • John Riddell on
    The Two Souls Of Centralism: The Comintern, 1919-1923
    (Marx and Marxism)
  • Lucy Herschel on
    Marx on the Future Socialist Society
    (Marx and Marxism)
  • Danny Lucia on
    Lenin’s Left-Wing Communism and Revolutionary Impatience
    (Marxist Classics)
  • Brian Lenzo on
    The roots of Israel's terror
    (Middle East)
  • Charles Peterson on
    The Utopian Socialists
    (Radical Traditions)
  • Paul D'Amato on
    Antonio Gramsci: Life of A Revolutionary
    (Revolutions and Revolutionaries)
  • Lance Selfa on
    Is the U.S. Becoming a Tea Party Nation?
    (U.S. Politics)
  • Dianne Feeley
    Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
    on
    Abortion and Women’s Liberation
    (Women's Liberation)

Friday, June 18, 11:30am

  • Roger Leduc
    Ashley Smith
    on
    Imperialism and Resistance in Haiti
    (A World in Struggle )
  • Arun Gupta on
    The Politics of Food: Why You Can't Consume Your Way Out of the Crisis
    (Culture and Resistance )
  • Scott McLemee on
    From Vanguard to Avant Garde: Culture in the Russian Revolution
    (Culture and Resistance )
  • Petrino DiLeo on
    What is Keynesianism?
    (Economics)
  • Martin Unzueta
    Jorge Mujica
    on
    Arizona and the Fight for Immigrant Rights
    (Immigrants and Immigration)
  • Nancy Welch on
    The ABCs of Marxism
    (Introduction to Marxism)
  • Paul LeBlanc on
    What Do Socialists Say About Democracy?
    (Questions for Socialists)
  • Pranav Jani on
    Radical Pacifism
    (Radical Traditions)
  • Dennis Kosuth on
    The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution
    (Revolutionary Rehearsals)
  • Hannah Fleury on
    The Origin of Women’s Oppression
    (Women's Liberation)

Friday, June 18, 2:00pm

  • Ben Dalbey on
    NGOs: The Revolution Will Not be Funded
    (A World in Struggle )
  • Ashley Smith on
    Capitalism and Slavery
    (Black History and Politics)
  • Glenn Allen on
    Why Capitalism Fails
    (Economics)
  • Chris Williams
    Fred Magdoff
    on
    Capitalism, Climate Change, and the Future of Humanity
    (Environment and Science)
  • Leia Petty on
    What is Alienation?
    (Introduction to Marxism)
  • Lars Lih on
    We Must Dream': Echoes Of What Is To Be Done In Lenin's Later Career
    (Lenin, Bolsheviks, and the Russian Revolution)
  • John McDonald on
    Trotsky’s Permanent Revolution
    (Marxist Classics)
  • Lichi D'Amelio on
    Is Violence Necessary to Change Society?
    (Questions for Socialists)
  • Holly Krig
    Erica Bledsoe
    Carol Vialdores
    Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
    on
    Housing is a Right: Fighting Evictions Today
    (U.S. Politics)
  • Sharon Smith on
    The Rise and Fall of the IWW
    (Working Class Radicalism in the U.S.)

Friday, June 18, 4:00pm

  • Alexander Billet on
    The Music Of Liberation and the Liberation Of Music
    (Culture and Resistance )
  • Ian Angus on
    The Malthus Myth: Population, Poverty, and Global Warming
    (Environment and Science)
  • Ann Coleman on
    Why Are LGBT People Oppressed?
    (Gender and Sexuality )
  • Jennifer Roesch on
    Lenin’s Theory of the Vanguard Party
    (Lenin, Bolsheviks, and the Russian Revolution)
  • Jeff Bale on
    From Marx To Lenin: Self-Determination And National Liberation
    (Marxist Classics)
  • Eric Ruder on
    How Can Palestinian Liberation be Achieved?
    (Middle East)
  • Rohit Negi on
    Do All Revolutions End in Tyranny?
    (Questions for Socialists)
  • Eric Kerl on
    Anarchism: Theory and Practice
    (Radical Traditions)
  • Anthony Arnove on
    1989: The Anti-Stalinist Revolts & Their Legacy
    (Revolutionary Rehearsals)
  • Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
    Paul Street
    Salim Muwakkil
    on
    Obama And Black Politics Today
    (U.S. Politics)

Friday, June 18, 6:30pm

  • A showing of the documentary "Workers' Republic"
    (Culture and Resistance )

Friday, June 18, 7:30pm

  • Tariq Ali
    Gilbert Achcar
    Kevin Ovenden
    Ahmed Shawki
    on
    Breaking the Siege of Gaza
    (A World in Struggle )

Saturday, June 19, 9:30am

  • Amy Muldoon on
    The Communist Party in the 1930s: From Third Period to Popular Front
    (History of U.S. Radicalism)
  • Kyle Brown on
    U.S. Intervention and the Myth of American Benevolence
    (Imperialism and anti-Imperialism)
  • Hadas Thier on
    Introduction to Marx’s Capital
    (Introduction to Marxism)
  • Alan Maass on
    A People’s History of the Russian Revolution
    (Lenin, Bolsheviks, and the Russian Revolution)
  • Kaveh Ehsani
    Behzad Salmani
    on
    Iran Since the Green Revolt
    (Middle East)
  • Jonah Birch on
    Social Democracy: Can we vote our way to socialism?
    (Radical Traditions)
  • Nagesh Rao on
    Third-Worldism and the Revolutionary Politics of Franz Fanon
    (Radical Traditions)
  • Mike Corwin on
    Why are the Democrats so Lame?
    (U.S. Politics)
  • Todd Chretien on
    The State Of The States: The Budget Crisis and the Fightback
    (U.S. Politics)
  • Lee Sustar
    Sal Rosselli
    on
    Rebuilding a Fighting Labor Movement
    (Working Class Radicalism in the U.S.)

Saturday, June 19, 11:30am

  • Gilbert Achcar on
    Arab Views of the Holocaust
    (A World in Struggle )
  • Antonis Davanellos on
    Crisis and Reponse in Greece
    (A World in Struggle )
  • Lee Sustar on
    The Changing Balance of World Power: Is China Eclipsing the United States?
    (Imperialism and anti-Imperialism)
  • Sam Farber on
    What do Marxists Mean by Class?
    (Marx and Marxism)
  • Shaun Harkin on
    Fascism: What it is and How to Fight it
    (Marxist Classics)
  • Brian Erway on
    Marx and Engels on the Revolutions of 1848
    (Marxist Classics)
  • Sarah Knopp on
    Introduction to the International Socialist Organization
    (Politics of International Socialism)
  • Zach Zill on
    The German Revolution, 1918–1923
    (Revolutionary Rehearsals)
  • Dan La Botz on
    Hundredth Anniversary meeting: The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920
    (Revolutions and Revolutionaries)
  • Ahmed Shawki on
    The Obama Administration: Liberalism in Power?
    (U.S. Politics)

Saturday, June 19, 1:00pm

  • Road to Detroit: Organizing for the U.S. Social Forum
    (Working Class Radicalism in the U.S.)

Saturday, June 19, 2:00pm

  • France's New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA)
    (A World in Struggle )
  • Khury Petersen-Smith on
    Rebelling Against Racism: The Black Power Revolt of the 1960s
    (Black History and Politics)
  • Immigrant Youth Justice League on
    Youths Organizing for Immigrants' Justice
    (Immigrants and Immigration)
  • Tariq Ali on
    Obama at War
    (Imperialism and anti-Imperialism)
  • Phil Gasper on
    Marxism and the Dialectic
    (Introduction to Marxism)
  • Matt Swagler on
    What Do Socialists Say About the State?
    (Questions for Socialists)
  • Deepa Kumar on
    Marxism and Political Islam
    (Religion)
  • Dr. Margaret Flowers
    Helen Redmond
    on
    The Future Of Health Care
    (U.S. Politics)
  • Jesse Sharkey
    James Thindwa
    Megan Berhent
    on
    The Crisis in Public School Education
    (U.S. Politics)

Saturday, June 19, 4:00pm

  • Michele Bollinger on
    The Liberation of Alcatraz
    (American Injustice)
  • Joel Geier on
    Debt, Default, and Austerity: Is a Second Recession Coming?
    (Economics)
  • Heather Rogers on
    Green Gone Wrong
    (Environment and Science)
  • Nativo Lopez
    Bridget Broderick
    on
    Capitalism, Borders, and Migration
    (Immigrants and Immigration)
  • Tristin Adie on
    Revolution and Counterrevolution in Central America
    (Imperialism and anti-Imperialism)
  • Bushra Khaliq on
    Pakistan in Crisis
    (Imperialism and anti-Imperialism)
  • Shaun Joseph on
    U.S. Intervention In Latin America Today
    (Latin America)
  • Ahmed Shawki on
    The Politics of International Socialism
    (Politics of International Socialism)
  • Chris Hedges on
    How Corporations Destroyed American Democracy
    (U.S. Politics)
  • Leighton Christianson on
    The 1930s: From Unemployed Councils to Sit-Down Strikes
    (Working Class Radicalism in the U.S.)

Saturday, June 19, 7:30pm

  • Martin Smith on
    The Rise of the Right in Europe
    (A World in Struggle )
  • Wallace Shawn on
    An Evening With Wallace Shawn Reading from his new book Essays
    (Culture and Resistance )
  • Dave Zirin on
    Here Come Los Suns: Sports and Resistance to Arizona's SB 1070
    (Culture and Resistance )
  • Sherry Wolf on
    Sex Wars: From McCarthyism to Prop 8
    (Gender and Sexuality )
  • James Green on
    The Haymarket Martyrs and the fight for the Eight Hour Day
    (Working Class Radicalism in the U.S.)

Sunday, June 20, 10:00am

  • Representatives of Organización Socialismo Internacional on
    Striking Against Austerity In Puerto Rico
    (A World in Struggle )
  • Marlene Martin on
    Lessons of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
    (Black History and Politics)
  • Martin Smith on
    John Coltrane: Jazz, racism, and resistance
    (Culture and Resistance )
  • Geoff Bailey on
    Lenin, Bukharin, and Luxemburg on Imperialism
    (Marxist Classics)
  • Julien Ball on
    People’s History of the French Revolution
    (People's Histories)
  • Bekah Ward on
    Is Human Nature a Barrier to Socialism?
    (Questions for Socialists)
  • Bill Roberts on
    The Meek and the Militant: Marxism and Religion
    (Religion)
  • Brian Chidester on
    Toussaint L’Ouverture and the Haitian Revolution
    (Revolutions and Revolutionaries)
  • Wendy Thompson on
    Crisis in the UAW: The Restructuring of the Auto Industry
    (Working Class Radicalism in the U.S.)
  • Adam Turl on
    The Eugene Debs Rebellion: The 1894 Pullman Strike
    (Working Class Radicalism in the U.S.)

Sunday, June 20, 11:45am

  • Lee Wengraf on
    The New Imperialism in Africa
    (A World in Struggle )
  • Orlando Sepúlveda on
    Chile: From Allende To Piñera
    (A World in Struggle )
  • Gary Lapon on
    Marxism and Oppression
    (Black History and Politics)
  • Nicole Colson on
    Catch a Fire: The Life and Music of Bob Marley
    (Culture and Resistance )
  • David McNally on
    The Mutating Crisis of Global Capitalism
    (Economics)
  • Joe Allen on
    Student Radicalism in the 1930s
    (History of U.S. Radicalism)
  • David Whitehouse on
    Is Marxism a Science?
    (Marx and Marxism)
  • Helen Scott on
    Luxemburg’s Reform or Revolution
    (Marxist Classics)
  • Snehal Shingavi on
    Trotsky’s Struggle Against Stalin
    (Revolutions and Revolutionaries)
  • Monique Dols on
    How Can We Stop Violence Against Women?
    (Women's Liberation)
  • Martin Smith on
    Black Soldiers' Resistance In The Vietnam War
    (Working Class Radicalism in the U.S.)

Sunday, June 20, 2:00pm

  • Building the Left in the Age of Obama
    (Rally)

Socialism 2010 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). For more information, email info@socialismconference.org or call (773) 583-7884.