Below is a full list of talks at Socialism 2010 Oakland. For a listing of talks by time, visit the Schedule page.

A World in Struggle

  • Lessons from the Puerto Rican Student Strike
    Saturday, July 3, 11:30am

American Injustice

  • Capitalism and Crime
    Saturday, July 3, 1:30pm

Black History and Politics

  • Legal Lynching In America
    Thursday, July 1, 9:00pm
  • The Black Power Revolt of the 1960’s
    Friday, July 2, 4:00pm

Culture and Resistance

  • A showing of the documentary "Workers' Republic"
    Friday, July 2, 8:00pm
  • Reclaiming Our Schools: The Fight For Real Education Reform
    Saturday, July 3, 4:00pm
  • Education and Liberation: Toward a Marxist Pedagogy
    Saturday, July 3, 6:00pm
  • Here Come Los Suns: Sports and Resistance to Arizona's SB 1070
    Saturday, July 3, 9:00pm
  • An Evening With Wallace Shawn Reading from his new book Essays
    Saturday, July 3, 9:00pm
  • How Art Relates to Class
    Sunday, July 4, 11:30am
  • Art and Resistance
    Sunday, July 4, 1:30pm

Economics

  • Is the Great Recession Over?
    Friday, July 2, 1:30pm

Environment and Science

  • Green Gone Wrong: How Our Economy Is Undermining the Environmental Revolution
    Saturday, July 3, 1:30pm
  • Social Media and Political Organizing
    Saturday, July 3, 3:00pm
  • BP, Corporate Crime, and the Environment
    Saturday, July 3, 4:00pm
  • Is Meat Murder? Nature and Humanity
    Saturday, July 3, 4:00pm
  • Clean Coal and Other Myths
    Saturday, July 3, 6:00pm

Gender and Sexuality

  • Sex Wars: From McCarthyism to Prop 8
    Thursday, July 1, 9:00pm
  • Trans Rights Now! The History & Politics of Transgender Resistance
    Saturday, July 3, 4:00pm

Health Care

  • The Future of Health Care
    Friday, July 2, 11:30am
  • How Capitalism Makes Us Sick
    Friday, July 2, 4:00pm

History of U.S. Radicalism

  • Lessons from 1934 General Strike (Slide Show)
    Friday, July 2, 3:00pm

Immigrants and Immigration

  • Arizona and the Fight for Immigrants' Rights
    Friday, July 2, 6:00pm

Imperialism and anti-Imperialism

  • Crisis in Pakistan
    Thursday, July 1, 9:00pm
  • How Can Palestinian Liberation be Won?
    Friday, July 2, 1:30pm
  • Will China Eclipse the US?
    Friday, July 2, 6:00pm
  • The Truth About Afghanistan
    Friday, July 2, 6:00pm
  • Shock Doctrine: Imperialism and Resistance in Haiti
    Saturday, July 3, 4:00pm

Lenin, Bolsheviks, and the Russian Revolution

  • Lenin’s Theory of the Vanguard Party
    Friday, July 2, 4:00pm
  • A People’s History of the Russian Revolution
    Saturday, July 3, 11:30am
  • The Role of Women in the Russian Revolution
    Saturday, July 3, 1:30pm
  • The Third International
    Sunday, July 4, 1:30pm

Marx and Marxism

  • Marxism and Religion
    Friday, July 2, 11:30am
  • Why Capitalism Fails: Marx's Theory of Crisis
    Saturday, July 3, 6:00pm
  • Introduction to Marx’s Capital
    Sunday, July 4, 11:30am
  • The Politics of International Socialism
    Sunday, July 4, 1:30pm
  • State and Revolution
    Sunday, July 4, 1:30pm

Marxist Classics

  • Rosa Luxemburg’s Reform or Revolution
    Friday, July 2, 6:00pm

Questions for Socialists

  • Is Violence Necessary to Change Society?
    Friday, July 2, 11:30am
  • Left-wing Communism: The Politics of Impatience
    Friday, July 2, 1:30pm
  • Is Human Nature a Barrier to Socialism?
    Saturday, July 3, 11:30am
  • What Would Socialism Be Like?
    Saturday, July 3, 1:30pm

Radical Traditions

  • Tribute to Peter Camejo
    Friday, July 2, 1:30pm
  • The Rise and Fall of the IWW
    Saturday, July 3, 1:30pm
  • Anarchism: Theory and Practice
    Sunday, July 4, 11:30am

Rally

  • Final Rally: Rebuilding the Left in the Obama Era
    Sunday, July 4, 4:00pm

Revolutions and Revolutionaries

  • The Tragedy of the German Revolution
    Friday, July 2, 11:30am
  • Zapata and the Mexican Revolution
    Friday, July 2, 4:00pm
  • Toussaint L’Overture and the Haitian Revolution
    Friday, July 2, 6:00pm
  • Did Lenin Lead to Stalin?
    Saturday, July 3, 11:30am

The International Socialist Organization

  • Introduction to the ISO
    Saturday, July 3, 3:00pm

U.S. Politics

  • Why are the Democrats So Lame?
    Friday, July 2, 11:30am
  • The Future of the Tea Party Movement
    Friday, July 2, 4:00pm
  • Breaking the Siege of Gaza
    Friday, July 2, 9:00pm
  • Students and Resistance in the U.S.
    Saturday, July 3, 6:00pm
  • How Corporations Destroyed American Democracy
    Saturday, July 3, 6:00pm

Women's Liberation

  • Abortion and Women’s Liberation
    Friday, July 2, 1:30pm
  • The Roots of Women’s Oppression
    Saturday, July 3, 11:30am

Working Class Radicalism in the U.S.

  • Report Back from the U.S. Social Forum
    Friday, July 2, 3:00pm
  • Class Struggle Unionism: Can it be revived?
    Saturday, July 3, 9:00pm