Speakers at Socialism 2013 include:
Ziad Abbas
Palestinian refugee from Dheisheh Refugee camp in the West Bank. He is the cofounder of the Ibdaa Cultural Center in Dheisheh where he served as Co-Director from 1994 to 2008. Ziad is also a journalist who has worked with Palestinian and international media and has participated in the production of several documentary films.
Palestinian refugee from Dheisheh Refugee camp in the West Bank. He is the cofounder of the Ibdaa Cultural Center in Dheisheh where he served as Co-Director from 1994 to 2008. Ziad is also a journalist who has worked with Palestinian and international media and has participated in the production of several documentary films.
Ali Abunimah
Palestinian journalist and co-founder of Electronic Intifada
Palestinian journalist and co-founder of Electronic Intifada
Ian Angus
Socialist and ecosocialist activist in Canada and co-author of Too Many People? Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis (Haymarket Books, 2011). Angus is the founder and director of Socialist History Project and the editor of Climate and Capitalism.
Socialist and ecosocialist activist in Canada and co-author of Too Many People? Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis (Haymarket Books, 2011). Angus is the founder and director of Socialist History Project and the editor of Climate and Capitalism.
Mick Armstrong
Socialist activist and author based in Melbourne, Australia. He is one of the founding members of the Trotskyist organisation Socialist Alternative.
Socialist activist and author based in Melbourne, Australia. He is one of the founding members of the Trotskyist organisation Socialist Alternative.
Abbie Bakan
Head of the Department of Gender Studies at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada and a Professor of Political Studies. Her research focuses on employment equity, Marxist theory and anti-oppression politics.
Head of the Department of Gender Studies at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada and a Professor of Political Studies. Her research focuses on employment equity, Marxist theory and anti-oppression politics.
Martha Biondi
Author of The Black Revolution on Campus (University of California Press, 2012) and To Stand and Fight: the Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City (Harvard University Press, 2003). She is the Director of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Professor of African American Studies and History at Northwestern University.
Author of The Black Revolution on Campus (University of California Press, 2012) and To Stand and Fight: the Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City (Harvard University Press, 2003). She is the Director of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Professor of African American Studies and History at Northwestern University.
Michele Bollinger
Editor of 101 Changemakers:Rebels and Radicals who Changed US History (Haymarket Books, 2012).
Editor of 101 Changemakers:Rebels and Radicals who Changed US History (Haymarket Books, 2012).
Mark Clements
spent 28 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. He now fights tirelessly against injustice for those still behind prison bars. Mark is a board member of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty.
spent 28 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. He now fights tirelessly against injustice for those still behind prison bars. Mark is a board member of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty.
Antonis Davanellos
Journalist and leading member of SYRIZA from Greece
Journalist and leading member of SYRIZA from Greece
Neil Davidson
Author of How Revolutionary were the Bourgeois Revolutions? He teaches at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. Davidson is on the Editorial Board of International Socialism.
Author of How Revolutionary were the Bourgeois Revolutions? He teaches at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. Davidson is on the Editorial Board of International Socialism.
Lamis Deek
Attorney and human rights advocate specializing in defending Arab & Muslim community members, activists and organizers against governmental attack. She is a long time member of Al-Awda NY: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, the Arab Muslim American Federation, and the National Lawyers Guild. She is co-founder of the US Palestinian Community Network.
Attorney and human rights advocate specializing in defending Arab & Muslim community members, activists and organizers against governmental attack. She is a long time member of Al-Awda NY: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, the Arab Muslim American Federation, and the National Lawyers Guild. She is co-founder of the US Palestinian Community Network.
Sue Ferguson
Canadian socialist-feminist activist and theorist. An associate professor of journalism, she has written extensively on issue of feminism, Marxism, and social reproduction theory. More recently, she has written on the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel.
Canadian socialist-feminist activist and theorist. An associate professor of journalism, she has written extensively on issue of feminism, Marxism, and social reproduction theory. More recently, she has written on the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel.
Phil Gasper
Author of The Annotated Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History’s Most Important Political Document (Haymarket Books, 2005). He is on the editorial board of and writes the bimonthly “Critical Thinking” column for the International Socialist Review, and is a contributor to Socialist Worker, CounterPunch, ZNet, and MRzine.
Author of The Annotated Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History’s Most Important Political Document (Haymarket Books, 2005). He is on the editorial board of and writes the bimonthly “Critical Thinking” column for the International Socialist Review, and is a contributor to Socialist Worker, CounterPunch, ZNet, and MRzine.
Joel Geier
Associate Editor of the International Socialist Review and frequent contributor on a range of subjects including economics, imperialism, and history.
Associate Editor of the International Socialist Review and frequent contributor on a range of subjects including economics, imperialism, and history.
Sam Gindin
Author (with Leo Panitch) of The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire (Verso, 2012) and In and Out of Crisis: The Global Financial Meltdown and Left Alternatives (with Greg Albo and Leo Panitch). He is the former Research Director of the Canadian Autoworkers Union and Packer Visiting Chair in Social Justice at York University.
Author (with Leo Panitch) of The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire (Verso, 2012) and In and Out of Crisis: The Global Financial Meltdown and Left Alternatives (with Greg Albo and Leo Panitch). He is the former Research Director of the Canadian Autoworkers Union and Packer Visiting Chair in Social Justice at York University.
Glenn Greenwald
Journalist for the Guardian. Greenwald’s latest book With Liberty and Justice for Some is an indictment of America’s two-tiered system of justice. Greenwald was named by The Atlantic as one of the 25 most influential political commentators in the nation. He is the winner of the 2010 Online Journalism Association Award for his investigative reporting about Bradley Manning.
Journalist for the Guardian. Greenwald’s latest book With Liberty and Justice for Some is an indictment of America’s two-tiered system of justice. Greenwald was named by The Atlantic as one of the 25 most influential political commentators in the nation. He is the winner of the 2010 Online Journalism Association Award for his investigative reporting about Bradley Manning.
Jesse Hagopian
Teacher at Garfield High School in Seattle. Hagopian is a union activist and a leading member of the MAP standardized test boycott.
Teacher at Garfield High School in Seattle. Hagopian is a union activist and a leading member of the MAP standardized test boycott.
Briana Hanny
Amherst College student who is active in the movements against sexual assault and racism at Amherst College.
Amherst College student who is active in the movements against sexual assault and racism at Amherst College.
Joseph “Jazz” Hayden
Founding member of the Campaign to End the New Jim Crow. An advocate for prisoners’ right to vote, Hayden was the pro se plaintiff in Hayden v. Pataki, a class action law suit that fought for the right to vote for prisoners. In 2012, Jazz along with a grassroots campaign successfully defeated charges against him brought in retaliation for his Harlem cop watch activism.
Sarah Jaffe
New York-based writer, rabble-rouser and frequent Twitterer. Jaffe has written on Occupy, the labor movement, low-wage workers’ organizing, student debt, and many other issues for Alternet, Jacobin, Truthout and more.
New York-based writer, rabble-rouser and frequent Twitterer. Jaffe has written on Occupy, the labor movement, low-wage workers’ organizing, student debt, and many other issues for Alternet, Jacobin, Truthout and more.
Cedric Johnson
Associate professor of African American Studies and Political Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His is the author of Revolutionaries to Race Leaders: Black Power and the Making of African American Politics (University of Minnesota Press, 2007) Johnson is the editor of The Neoliberal Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, Late Capitalism and the Remaking of New Orleans (University of Minnesota Press, 2011). His writings have appeared in New Political Science, Monthly Review, SOULS, Journal of Developing Societies and In These Times.
Associate professor of African American Studies and Political Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His is the author of Revolutionaries to Race Leaders: Black Power and the Making of African American Politics (University of Minnesota Press, 2007) Johnson is the editor of The Neoliberal Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, Late Capitalism and the Remaking of New Orleans (University of Minnesota Press, 2011). His writings have appeared in New Political Science, Monthly Review, SOULS, Journal of Developing Societies and In These Times.
Brian Jones
Teacher, actor, and activist in New York City. Jones co-narrated the film, The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman, and contributed to the book, Education and Capitalism: Struggles for Learning and Liberation. He is a member of the Movement of Rank and File Educators: the social justice caucus of the United Federation of Teachers.
Teacher, actor, and activist in New York City. Jones co-narrated the film, The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman, and contributed to the book, Education and Capitalism: Struggles for Learning and Liberation. He is a member of the Movement of Rank and File Educators: the social justice caucus of the United Federation of Teachers.
Paul Kellogg
Canadian socialist who blogs at PolEcon.net.
Canadian socialist who blogs at PolEcon.net.
Paul Le Blanc
Author of many books, including Lenin and the Revolutionary Party, Work and Struggle: Voices from US Labor Radicalism, and (forthcoming, with Michael Yates) A Freedom Budget for All Americans: Recapturing the Promise of the Civil Rights Movement in the Struggle for Economic Justice Today
Author of many books, including Lenin and the Revolutionary Party, Work and Struggle: Voices from US Labor Radicalism, and (forthcoming, with Michael Yates) A Freedom Budget for All Americans: Recapturing the Promise of the Civil Rights Movement in the Struggle for Economic Justice Today
Kari Lyderson
Chicago-based reporter and author of Shoot an Iraqi: Art, Life and Resistance Under the Gun (City Lights, 2008) and Revolt on Goose Island: The Chicago Window Factory Takeover and What it Says About the Economic Crisis (Melville House, 2009).
Chicago-based reporter and author of Shoot an Iraqi: Art, Life and Resistance Under the Gun (City Lights, 2008) and Revolt on Goose Island: The Chicago Window Factory Takeover and What it Says About the Economic Crisis (Melville House, 2009).
Scott McLemee
Columnist for Inside Higher Ed. McLemee’s reviews, essays, and interviews have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Nation, Newsday, and numerous other publications.
Columnist for Inside Higher Ed. McLemee’s reviews, essays, and interviews have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Nation, Newsday, and numerous other publications.
David McNally
Professor at York University in Toronto. McNally is active in the New Socialist Group and the Greater Toronto Workers Assembly. He is the author of Global Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance (PM Press) and Monsters of the Market (Haymarket Books), among others.
Professor at York University in Toronto. McNally is active in the New Socialist Group and the Greater Toronto Workers Assembly. He is the author of Global Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance (PM Press) and Monsters of the Market (Haymarket Books), among others.
China Miéville
Author of several “weird fiction” novels, including The City and the City, Embassytown, and Perdido Street Station
Author of several “weird fiction” novels, including The City and the City, Embassytown, and Perdido Street Station
Khury Petersen-Smith
Long-time Boston activist. He traveled to Iraq in 2004 and the Gaza Strip in 2009 with international solidarity delegations.
Long-time Boston activist. He traveled to Iraq in 2004 and the Gaza Strip in 2009 with international solidarity delegations.
Charlie Post
Charlie Post teaches sociology at the Borough of Manhattan Community College-CUNY, is active in his faculty union and Solidarity. He is the author of The American Road to Capitalism (Haymarket Books), “What’s Left of Leninism?” in the 2013 Socialist Register (Monthly Review Books), and “Exploring Working Class Consciousness: A Critique of the Theory of the ‘Labor Aristocracy,’” Historical Materialism.
Charlie Post teaches sociology at the Borough of Manhattan Community College-CUNY, is active in his faculty union and Solidarity. He is the author of The American Road to Capitalism (Haymarket Books), “What’s Left of Leninism?” in the 2013 Socialist Register (Monthly Review Books), and “Exploring Working Class Consciousness: A Critique of the Theory of the ‘Labor Aristocracy,’” Historical Materialism.
Barbara Ransby
Author of Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional life of Mrs. Paul Robeson (Yale University Press, 2013) and Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (University of North Carolina, 2003). Professor of History, African-American Studies, and Gender and Women’s Studies at University of Illinois at Chicago.
Author of Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional life of Mrs. Paul Robeson (Yale University Press, 2013) and Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (University of North Carolina, 2003). Professor of History, African-American Studies, and Gender and Women’s Studies at University of Illinois at Chicago.
John Riddell
An active socialist since 1957 who lives and works in Toronto, Riddell is the translator and editor of Toward the United Front: Proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the Communist International, 1922 (Haymarket Books).
An active socialist since 1957 who lives and works in Toronto, Riddell is the translator and editor of Toward the United Front: Proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the Communist International, 1922 (Haymarket Books).
Stephanie Rivera
Student at Rutgers University pursuing her teaching certificate, author of blog, Teacher Under Construction, and Co-Founder and National Organizer of Students United for Public Education (SUPE).
Student at Rutgers University pursuing her teaching certificate, author of blog, Teacher Under Construction, and Co-Founder and National Organizer of Students United for Public Education (SUPE).
Jennifer Roesch
Frequent contributor to the International Socialist Review. Roesch is also a women’s right activist and very active in Occupy Wall Street.
Frequent contributor to the International Socialist Review. Roesch is also a women’s right activist and very active in Occupy Wall Street.
Brian Roper
Author of The History of Democracy: A Marxist Interpretation (Pluto Press, 2013).
Author of The History of Democracy: A Marxist Interpretation (Pluto Press, 2013).
Sal Rosselli
President of the National Union of Healthcare Workers.
President of the National Union of Healthcare Workers.
Jeremy Scahill
Writer and producer of the documentary Dirty Wars. Author of Dirty Wars: The world is a battlefield and Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army.
Writer and producer of the documentary Dirty Wars. Author of Dirty Wars: The world is a battlefield and Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army.
Liliana Segura
Editor at the Nation and a journalist with a focus on prisons and harsh sentencing. Her writing has appeared in the Nation, AlterNet, ColorLines, and other publications. She has appeared on Democracy Now!, Up With Chris Hayes, and Countdown with Keith Olbermann. She is on the board of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty and the Applied Research Center, a U.S. racial justice think tank.
Editor at the Nation and a journalist with a focus on prisons and harsh sentencing. Her writing has appeared in the Nation, AlterNet, ColorLines, and other publications. She has appeared on Democracy Now!, Up With Chris Hayes, and Countdown with Keith Olbermann. She is on the board of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty and the Applied Research Center, a U.S. racial justice think tank.
Richard Seymour
British Marxist writer, activist, and blogger at Lenin’s Tomb. He is the author of Unhitched: The Trial of Christopher Hitchens (Verso), American Insurgents: A Brief History of American Anti-Imperialism (Haymarket Books), and The Liberal Defense of Murder (Verso).
British Marxist writer, activist, and blogger at Lenin’s Tomb. He is the author of Unhitched: The Trial of Christopher Hitchens (Verso), American Insurgents: A Brief History of American Anti-Imperialism (Haymarket Books), and The Liberal Defense of Murder (Verso).
Ahmed Shawki
Author of Black Liberation and Socialism and editor-in-chief of the International Socialist Review
Author of Black Liberation and Socialism and editor-in-chief of the International Socialist Review
Gregg Shotwell
Author of Autoworkers Under the Gun (Haymarket 2011). A machine operator turned rebel writer, he worked thirty years at General Motors. His shopfloor fliers grew legs of their own, distributed by Rank-and-Filer and cited by auto industry analysts.
Author of Autoworkers Under the Gun (Haymarket 2011). A machine operator turned rebel writer, he worked thirty years at General Motors. His shopfloor fliers grew legs of their own, distributed by Rank-and-Filer and cited by auto industry analysts.
Hani Shukrallah
Chief editor of Ahram Online and a leading Egyptian Marxist.
Chief editor of Ahram Online and a leading Egyptian Marxist.
Michael Steven Smith
Author and attorney in New York City. He is the co-host (along with Heidi Boghosian of the National Lawyers Guild and Michael Ratner or the Center for Constitutional Rights) of the nationally broadcast radio show “Law and Disorder”. He is the author of Notebook of a Sixties Lawyer: An Unrepentant Memoir and co-author with Michael Ratner of Who Killed Che? How the CIA Got Away With Murder. Smith co-edited with Frances Goldin and Debby Smith the visionary book Imagine: Living In a Socialist USA which will be published in September. He is on the Board of The Center for Constitutional Rights.
Author and attorney in New York City. He is the co-host (along with Heidi Boghosian of the National Lawyers Guild and Michael Ratner or the Center for Constitutional Rights) of the nationally broadcast radio show “Law and Disorder”. He is the author of Notebook of a Sixties Lawyer: An Unrepentant Memoir and co-author with Michael Ratner of Who Killed Che? How the CIA Got Away With Murder. Smith co-edited with Frances Goldin and Debby Smith the visionary book Imagine: Living In a Socialist USA which will be published in September. He is on the Board of The Center for Constitutional Rights.
Sharon Smith
Author of Women and Socialism, Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States, and the forthcoming Marxism, Feminism and Women’s Liberation
Author of Women and Socialism, Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States, and the forthcoming Marxism, Feminism and Women’s Liberation
Lee Sustar
Author of the forthcoming Striking Back in Chicago: How Teachers Took on City Hall and Pushed Back Corporate Education “Reform”
Author of the forthcoming Striking Back in Chicago: How Teachers Took on City Hall and Pushed Back Corporate Education “Reform”
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Editorial board member of the International Socialist Review and a frequent contributor on the subject of race and class in America. Her writing has also appeared at CounterPunch and Socialist Worker. She is a doctoral student in African American Studies at Northwestern University.
Editorial board member of the International Socialist Review and a frequent contributor on the subject of race and class in America. Her writing has also appeared at CounterPunch and Socialist Worker. She is a doctoral student in African American Studies at Northwestern University.
Dao X. Tran
Editor of 101 Changemakers:Rebels and Radicals who Changed US History (Haymarket Books, 2012). She is currently working on the Domestic Worker Oral History Project.
Editor of 101 Changemakers:Rebels and Radicals who Changed US History (Haymarket Books, 2012). She is currently working on the Domestic Worker Oral History Project.
Alan Wald
Author of eight scholarly books on the U.S. literary and intellectual radicalism including The New York Intellectuals and American Night: The Literary Left in the Era of the Cold War. He is on the editorial board of “Against the Current” and “Science & Society”.
Author of eight scholarly books on the U.S. literary and intellectual radicalism including The New York Intellectuals and American Night: The Literary Left in the Era of the Cold War. He is on the editorial board of “Against the Current” and “Science & Society”.
Suzanne Weiss
Holocaust survivor and lifelong socialist. Weiss is a member of Not in Our Name: Jewish Voices Against Zionism and the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid in Toronto.
Holocaust survivor and lifelong socialist. Weiss is a member of Not in Our Name: Jewish Voices Against Zionism and the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid in Toronto.
Chris Williams
Author of Ecology and Socialism: Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis.
Author of Ecology and Socialism: Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis.
Sherry Wolf
Author of Sexuality and Socialism, is on the editorial board of the International Socialist Review and is a frequent public speaker as well as a contributing writer to a broad range of left sites and publications. She blogs at SherryTalksBack.com.
Author of Sexuality and Socialism, is on the editorial board of the International Socialist Review and is a frequent public speaker as well as a contributing writer to a broad range of left sites and publications. She blogs at SherryTalksBack.com.
Dave Zirin
Left-wing sports columnist for the Nation and author of The John Carlos Story (With Dr. Carlos), What’s My Name, Fool?, and Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love
Left-wing sports columnist for the Nation and author of The John Carlos Story (With Dr. Carlos), What’s My Name, Fool?, and Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love
