Workshops
SATURDAY: Block One (Saturday 12pm)
Sports and Sexuality: Fighting for a Level Playing Field
What Would Socialism Look Like?
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Sentencing, Racism & the Prison Industrial Complex
Robert Gangi, Lawrence Hayes, and Lee Wengraf
Reform and Revolution
An Injury to One Is An Injury to All: A History of the Wobblies
Socialist Strategy for the Liberation of the Oppressed
Trotsky’s Struggle against Stalinism
SATURDAY: Block Two (Saturday 2:30pm)
History of the ISO
Capitalism and the Global Food Crisis
A People’s Guide to the Healthcare Debate
Dawning Greenstreet, Katie Robbins, and
Ajamu Sankofa
Social Justice Unionism:
Putting the Movement Back in the Labor Movement
Marvin Holland, Amy Muldoon, and a Grassroots Education Movement Representative
Taking Sides: Imperialism, Iran and the Left
Hadas Thier
1934 in Minneapolis, Toledo and San Francisco:
Three Strikes that Showed the Way
Black liberation and Socialism
Economics of the Madhouse: What’s Wrong with Capitalism?
Petrino DiLeo
The Democratic Party: A Critical History
Kyle Brown
SATURDAY: Block Three (Saturday 4:30pm)
Empire Rebranded: US Imperialism in the Obama Era
Jeremy Scahill and Michael Schwartz
Poor People’s Movements
Social Class: A Marxist Approach
Another Brick in the Wall: Education Under Capitalism vs Socialism
Megan Behrent, Bill Linville
Marxism, Nationalism and Third Worldism
No Restrictions, No Apologies: Fighting for Abortion Rights Today
Steph Schwartz
Lenin’s State and Revolution
Student Struggle and the Fight for Socialism
SUNDAY: Block One (Sunday 10:00am)
Media as Weapon: Speaking Truth to Power
Laura Flanders, Arun Gupta, Alan Maass, and Liliana Segura
Green Shoots on Withering Vines: Where is the Economy Headed?
Why the Working Class Can Change the World
Hannah Fleury
The Myth of Humanitarian Imperialism
The Communist Women’s International: 1921-1926
The Capitalist Roots of Sexual Oppression
Matt Swagler
Why We Need a Revolutionary Party
Leia Petty
SUNDAY: Block Two (Sunday 1:00pm)
Malcolm X
What’s Wrong with Green Capitalism?
Equality Now: Next Steps for the LGBT Movement
A panel of activists to be announced
The Tyranny of Structurelessness:
The Problem with Prefigurative Politics
Reportback from Honduras: Resistance Against the Coup
Shaun Joseph, Miguel Luna
Live Working or Die Fighting: How the Working Class Went Global
Geoff Bailey
Socialists and the Trade Union Movement
Ben Dalbey
SUNDAY: Block Three (Sunday 3:00pm)
Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism
The Siege of Gaza: Resistance and Solidarity
Khury Petersen-Smith, Suzanne Weiss
The Russian Revolution and Its Significance Today
What Would a Sustainable Society Look Like?
Chris Williams
