Your Socialism 2017 cheat sheet

THURSDAY | 1 p.m.

Laura Bartkowiak on How Capitalism Works and How It Doesn't
"The point is to change it" | Paul D'Amato

Paul Heideman on The Impact of the Russian Revolution on the Black Left in the U.S.
"The Black Bolsheviks" | Paul Heideman

Chris Dols and Bekah Ward on Their Science and Ours: STEM Workers' Resistance and the Fight Against Trump's War on Science
"Making science serve the people" | Eugene Dardenne

Anton Ford on Marx's Understanding of History
"Marx's theory of working class revolution" | Alan Maass

Alpana Mehta and Michele Bollinger on Manifest Destiny and the Conquest of North America
"A Manifest Destiny massacre" | Brian Ward

Kirstin Roberts on The Theory of United Front
"What do we mean by a 'united front'?" | Tyler James

Jon Van Camp on The Good War? Imperialism, Genocide and Resistance During the Second World War
"One of history's worst war crimes" | Khury Petersen-Smith

Elizabeth Dean on The 1919 Seattle General Strike
"Labor will feed the people" | Harvey O'Connor

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THURSDAY | 3 p.m.

Geoff Bailey on A Tale of Three Cities: Slum, Dispossession and Class Struggle in the Global South
"Why is South Africa being torn apart?" | Thandokuhle Manzi and Patrick Bond

Phil Gasper on Is It Too Late to Save the Environment?
"Does Trump's Paris pullout mean game over?" | Phil Gasper

Katie Feyh on Mapping the Enemy: What Is the "Alt-Right"?
"We'll honor Richard by standing up to the right" | Brendan Sulliva, Zakariya Uddin and Dave Zirin

Behzad Tehrani on Marxism and Law
"Crime and punishment under capitalism" | Paul D'Amato

David Whitehouse on Not Just Your Pay Grade: How Do Marxists Understand Class?
"Why the working class" | Hal Draper

Anthony Cappetta on A User's Guide to Marxism: Stalinism
"Socialism, Stalinism and Eastern Europe" | Phil Gasper

Nolan Rampy on Oil, Empire and Capitalism
"The deadly scramble for the world's oil" | Eric Ruder

Marlene Martin on Eugene Debs and the 1894 Pullman Strike
"How Debs became a socialist" | Paul D'Amato

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THURSDAY | 6:30 p.m.

Donna Murch on Assata Taught Me: The Black Panther Party and Popular Mobilization in the Trump Era
"The revolutionary legacy of the Black Panthers" | David Bliven and Alan Maass

Nicole Colson on Marxism and Cultural Appropriation
"Champion of racist mascots" | Dave Zirin

Socialist Worker-sponsored meeting
Dana Blanchard and Eric Ruder on Socialism 101
"Socialist organization in the time of Trump" | Todd Chretien

Yusef Khalil on Syria and the Left
"Anti-imperialism and the Syrian Revolution" | Ashley Smith

Eva María on Venezuela: The Impasse of Chavismo
"Did socialism fail in Venezuela?" | Eva María

Lee Sustar on Trump, Economic Nationalism and Imperialism Today
"Free trade, nationalism and the 2016 election | Lance Selfa

Amanda Achin and Claire Douglas on Sexuality and Socialism
"What should the LGBT movement fight for?" | Sherry Wolf

Mike Brown and Chris Zimmerly-Beck on Do Workers Still Have Power?
"The disappearing working class?" | Paul D'Amato

Bill Roberts on The Rise and Fall of the Socialist Party
"Socialism according to Eugene Debs" | Elizabeth Schulte

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FRIDAY | 9:30 a.m.

Jacobin-sponsored meeting
Bhaskar Sunkara and Paul Heideman on Building Our Party
"Which path to take from the People's Summit?" | Tyler Zimmer

Socialist Worker-sponsored meeting
Danny Katch on What Would Socialism Look Like?
"The specter that still haunts capitalism" | Danny Katch

Lucy Herschel and Diana Macasa on Building Emergency Response Networks
"How activists are confronting ICE's terror" | Christopher Baum and Alan Maass

Todd Chretien on A History of the Russian Revolution for the 21st Century
"The making of the Russian Revolution" | A Socialist Worker series

Nick Estes on The Lessons of Standing Rock
"How the water protectors won at Standing Rock" | Leia Petty, Edna Bonhomme, Emily Brooks, Sumaya Awad and Dorian Bon

Elizabeth Schulte on Misogynist in Chief: What's at Stake for Women's Rights in the Trump Era?
"The Misogyny Factor" | Elizabeth Schulte

Yasmeen Kamel and Moustafa Bayoumi on Islamophobia and the Ideology of the "War on Terror"
"Using terror as an excuse for more terror " | Socialist Worker editorial

Tim Goulet and Tristin Adie on How Do Workers' Ideas Change?
"The myth of the selfish workers" | Alan Maass

Jeremy Tully on Rehabilitating Imperialism: From Vietnam to the War on Terror
"Against amnesia: The empire under Obama" | Khury Petersen-Smith

Doniella Maher on The Factory Occupations and the Rise of Mussolini
"The Comintern and the united front" | Duncan Hallas

Natalia Tylim on Strikes, Protests and Revolutionaries: The First May Day
"It is a subterranean fire" | Elizabeth Schulte

Flynn Murray on Luxemburg's Reform or Revolution
"Reform or Revolution" | Helen Scott

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FRIDAY | 11:30 a.m.

Neil Loehlein and Brian Sullivan on Gentrification and the Neoliberal City
"What drives gentrification?" | Ronnie Almonte

Coco Smyth on A User's Guide to Marxism: Anarchism
"Organization without authority" | Paul D'Amato

Paul Le Blanc on Lenin and the Bolshevik Party
"How is Leninism relevant today?" | Paul Le Blanc

Samuel Farber on The Cuban Revolution and the Legacy of Fidel Castro
"The Cuba that Castro created" | Samuel Farber

Jacobin-sponsored meeting
Lichi D'Amelio and Jenny Brown on How to Lose the Fight for Reproductive Justice
"Why we need protest to stop the anti-choicers" | Lichi D'Amelio

David B. on Trump, Business and the "Deep" State: Who's in Charge?
"Is there a pro-Putin clique in the Trump White House" | Lee Sustar

Eric Ruder on The Mirage of Socialist Zionism
"Zionism's colonial project" | Lance Selfa

Socialist Worker-sponsored meeting
Amanda Michelle and Alexander Buckingham on The Case for a Revolutionary Newspaper
"What Is To Be Done?" | Paul D'Amato

Eli Friedman on Class Struggles in China: Strikes, Protest and Workers' Resistance
"Contours of the class struggle in China" | Interview: Ellen David Friedman

Kay Sweeney and Owen Hill on Where Does Profit Come From? How the Boss Rips You Off
"How free is 'free' labor?" | Leela Yellesetty

Alan Maass on What Do Socialists Say About Nationalism and National Liberation?
"What do we say about the national question?" | Paul'D'Amato

Gerardo Molinari and Anderson Bean on "Good Neighbors"? U.S. Intervention in Latin America
"The coup that crushed democracy in Chile" | Lance Selfa

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FRIDAY | 2 p.m.

Sharon Smith and Sarah Jaffe on "Rust-Belt Reactionaries"?: The U.S. Working Class Today
"Who's to blame for Trump's victory?" | Lance Selfa

Sotiris Martalis and Katerina Sergidou on Crisis and Resistance: The Struggle Continues in Greece
"Greece's radical left after SYRIZA" | Antonis Davanellos

Jesse Hagopian and Wayne Au on Education and Capitalism
"Pedagogy and capitalism" | Adrienne Johnstone and Elizabeth Terzakis

Rebecca Vilkomerson and Stephanie Schwartz on Understanding Antisemitism
The uses and abuses of anti-Semitism | Interview: Rebecca Vilkomerson and Rabbi Brant Rosen

Jason Farbman and John McDonald on Strategies for Anticapitalists
"A new kind of anti-capitalism?" | Shaun Harkin

Ben Davis and Grant Mandarino on Art and Politics: Thinking with John Berger
"The ways John Berger saw" | Sarah Levy

Justin Akers Chacón on The Border Crossed Us: Economics and Politics of the U.S.-Mexico Border
"Children forced on a dangerous journey" | Justin Akers Chacón

Brian Erway on A User's Guide to Marxism: Maoism
"Who made China's revolution?" | Dennis Kosuth

Paul D'Amato on Lenin's State and Revolution
"State and Revolution" | Shaun Harkin

Alessandro Tinonga on From Rebel Soldiers to the Red Army: Defense of the Russian Revolution, 1917-1921
"The legacy of 1917" | Alan Maass

Scott McLemee on A Meeting of the Minds: C.L.R. James and Richard Wright
"The centrality of the Black struggle" | C.L.R. James

Lee Wengraf on Land Grabs to Big Oil: The New Scramble for Africa
"The West and 'African corruption'" | Lee Wengraf

Paul Fleckenstein on Why Capitalism Goes into Crisis
"The senseless cause of crisis under capitalism" | Tyler Zimmer

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FRIDAY | 4 p.m.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Alicia Garza, Barbara Ransby, Demita Frazier, Sharon Smith and Barbara Smith on The 40th Anniversary of the Combahee River Collective
"What would a 'radical reconstruction' mean? | Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Michael Smith, Ajamu Baraka, Ron Reosti, Paul Le Blanc and Diane Feeley on Imagine Living in a Socialist USA
Imagine all the people... | Phil Gasper

Mick Armstrong, Sotiris Martalis, Andrea Raboso and Antonello Zecca on SYRIZA, Podemos and Beyond: Success and Failure of New Left Party Initiatives
"The broad left party question after SYRIZA" | Mick Armstrong

Sherry Wolf, Fainan Lakha and C.J. Miller on The Struggle for Trans Liberation: Perspectives on a Marxist Approach
"An epidemic of deadly anti-trans violence" | Rachel Cohen

Alex Schmaus and Aaron Amaral on A User's Guide to Marxism: Social Democracy
"Can socialism be elected into power?" | Eric Ruder

Lauren Fleer, Zach Zill and Todd St Hill on Environmental Racism and the Origins of the Environmental Justice Movement
"We need a unified environmental movement" | Nikeeta Slade

Jonah ben Avraham, Sam Peiffer and Erica West on Fighting Back on Campus
"Who's behind the free speech crisis on campus?" | Dorian Bon

Hannah Utain-Evans, Frankie Cook and Nico Judd on Introduction to the International Socialist Organization
"The ISO and the soul of international socialism" | Alan Maass and Todd Chretien

Denise Romero, Rigo Gogol and Fermin Valle on From Sensenbrenner to Trump: History and Lessons of the Immigrant Rights Movement
"When immigrants marched out of the shadows" | Bridget Broderick and Orlando Sepúlveda

Akunna Eneh, Michelle Farber and Becca Bor on Abortion Without Apology
"Time to end the compromises on abortion" | Elizabeth Schulte

Dennis Kosuth on U.S. Health Care: Your Money and Your Life
"Trump prescribes poison for a failing system" | Dennis Kosuth and Alan Maass

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FRIDAY | 8 p.m.

John Cusack and Dave Zirin on Things That Can and Cannot Be Said
"Telling truths that can't be said" | Anthony Arnove

Barbara Smith, Demita Frazier and Megan Behrent on The Combahee River Collective and the Black Feminist Tradition
"Marxism and the fight for women's liberation" | Sharon Smith

Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! Twenty Years of Covering the Movements Changing America
"Inside the media propaganda mill" | Nicole Colson and Alan Maass

Jen Roesch on Marxism, Exploitation and Oppression
"Can the working class unite?" | Jen Roesch

Wael Elasady on States of Resistance: the Future of Palestinian Liberation
"Timely lessons about Palestine" | Wael Elasady

Jacobin-sponsored meeting
Kevin Prosen on Lean Production: Inside the War on Public Education
"Ed Sec wanted, no experience required" | Brian Jones

Eric Kerl on How the Russian Revolution Was Lost
"What happened to the Russian revolution?" | Paul D'Amato

Ashley Smith on A Newer World Order? Imperialism and the Rise of China
"Washington's Trans-Pacific Power Play" | Ashley Smith

Bill Keach on Palmyra: Violence in Syria and the Ruins of Empire
"How did Syria become a burning country?" | Interview: Robin Yassin-Kassab

Caitlin Sheehan and Melissa Rakestraw on What Do Socialists Say About Unions?
"Socialists and trade unions" | Paul D'Amato

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SATURDAY | 9:30 a.m.

Charlie Post on Is America Great Again?: The First Six Months of the Trump "Insurgency"
"Has Trump made the economy great again?" | Lance Selfa

Karen Fields on Racecraft in 2017
"Breaking the spell of race" | Leela Yellesetty

Elizabeth Terzakis on The Political Economy of Food
"A disaster caused by the free market" | Elizabeth Terzakis

Keith Rosenthal and Claire Baldi on What Do Socialists Say About Disability?
"Bringing Marxism to discussions of disability" | Keith Rosenthal

Haley Pessin on Race, Class and Feminism
"How will women win their liberation?" | Jen Roesch

Benoit Renaud and Nick Estes on Keep the Oil in the Soil: Fighting Against the Pipelines
"Fighting the pipeline menace" | Brian Ward

Keeagan O'Brien and Rebecca Anshell Song on How We Won Marriage Equality
"How our protests won marriage equality" | Keegan O'Brien

Yurii Colombo on The Russian Menace? Putin's Foreign Policy
"Where is Putin's Russia going?" | Ilya Budraitskis

Jim Plank on Why We Need a Revolutionary Party
"Marxism and political organization" | Elizabeth Schulte

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on Continental Imperialism and the Origins of the U.S. Way of War
"Unraveling America's founding myths" | Brian Ward

Edna Bonhomme on From Pan-Arabism to Internationalism: Socialist Movements in the Middle East
"From Nasser to Mubarak" | Eric Ruder

Sean Larson on The Comintern and the German Revolution
"Revolution in Germany" | Todd Chretien

Sasha Scott on Trotskyists and Teamsters: Socialist Strategy in the Minneapolis General Strike of 1934
"The Teamster rebellion of 1934" | Phil Gasper

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SATURDAY | 11:30 a.m.

Dave Zirin on The Year of Kaepernick
"Why I sat with Colin" | Interview: Rory Fanning

Brais Fernandez, Andrea Raboso, Camille Jouve and Eliana Como on Spain, France and Italy: Crisis and Struggle in Europe
"Building a left alternative in Macron's France" | Interview: Léon Crémieux

Annie Zirin, Sarah Levy on Art and the Russian Revolution
"Imaginers of a new future" | Amy Muldoon

Anand Gopal on Revolution and Counterrevolution in the Middle East
"Palestine and the Arab counterrevolution" | Corey Oakley

Jeanne Theoharis on Challenging the Myths of Rosa Parks and the Civil Rights Movement in the Age of Black Lives Matter
"The Montgomery bus boycott" | Marlene Martin

Amy Muldoon on Workers' Power in Revolutionary Russia
"How workers power was organized" | Amy Muldoon

Ronnie Almonte on "Nothing Can Be Changed Until It Is Faced": The Life and Work of James Baldwin
"Nothing can be changed until it is faced" | Alan Maass

Rachel Reiser and Emily Brooks on How Did Women's Oppression Begin and How Will It End?
"Marxism, feminism and women's liberation" | Sharon Smith

Sean Petty and Elizabeth Lalasz on Labor and Environmental Justice: History, Debates and Possibilities
"Tackling the jobs vs. the environment myth" | Michael Ware

Pranav Jani on M.N. Roy, the Comintern and the Politics of National Liberation
"Class, nation and the socialist struggle" | Lance Selfa

Dana Blanchard on Women in the U.S. Labor Movement: 1840 to the Second World War
"A strike for bread and roses" | Elizabeth Schulte

Mike Ehrenreich on The Civil War and Reconstruction: The Second American Revolution
"Reconstruction after the war" | Bill Mullen

Lily Hughes on Incarceration Nation: Drugs, Detention and Discrimination
"Forty years of drug war failure" | Helen Redmond

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SATURDAY | 2 p.m.

Jacobin-sponsored meeting
R.L. Stephens on What Should Socialists Say About Privilege?
"Why checking your privilege isn't enough" | Sharon Smith

Neil Davidson on From Brexit to the 2017 General Election: Corbynism and the Return of Class to British Politics
"Corbyn's triumph and what it means for the left" | Interview: Neil Davidson

Devin Allen and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on A Beautiful Ghetto
"The Baltimore Rebellion" | Socialist Worker editorial

Leonard Klein on Resisting the Rise of Right: Lessons from the Midwest Anti-Klan Network
"What we did in Iowa to chase away the Klan" | Leonard Klein

Sherry Wolf on Act Up, Fight Back: The AIDS Crisis and the LGBTQ Movement
"The birth of gay power" | Sherry Wolf

Fred Magdoff and Michael Ware on Creating an Ecological Society: Toward a Revolutionary Transformation
"What must be done to stop climate change?" | Chris Williams

Joel Geier on Socialists and Movements
"Are movements enough to make socialism?" | Dorian Bon

brian bean on The Left Ain't White: Multiracial Communist Organizing in the 1930s and '40s
"Communists in Harlem" | Adam Turl

Jeffrey Webber on Assessing the Pink Tide in Latin America
"Venezuela and the turning of the 'Pink Tide'?" | Eva Maria

Lance Selfa on Party Politics in the New Gilded Age: The Crisis of Democracy in the U.S. Today
"The world's greatest democracy? Really?" | Danny Katch

Leia Petty on Reversing the Backlash: Building a New Women's Movement
"How do we push sexism back to the fringe?" | Elizabeth Schulte

Eli Smith and Ernesto Gomez on Songs of Struggle: Protest Songs in American History
"We Shall Overcome" | Interview: Dave Marsh

Dorian Bon on Marxism, Imperialism and War
"Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism" | Phil Gasper

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SATURDAY | 4 p.m.

Michael Bennett, Wyomia Tyus, Craig Hodges and Dave Zirin on Three Generations: Athletes and Activism
"Taking a knee with Kaepernick" | Dave Zirin

Wallace Shawn on Night Thoughts: A Conversation with Wallace Shawn on Politics, Socialism and Art
"A fever for a better world" | Sherry Wolf

John Riddell, Mike Taber and Jen Roesch on How Marxists Responded to the Rise of Fascism
"Confronting the fascist threat" | Shaun Harkin

Brian Jones and Jeralynn Blueford on Making Black Lives Matter in the Trump Era
"A crackdown on our right to stand up" | Nicole Colson

Antonello Zecca, Katerina Sergidou and Brais Fernandez on The World Refugee Crisis
"The refugee 'crisis' of a decaying system" | Sandra Bloodworth

Neil Davidson, Shaun Harkin, Camille Jouve, Jeroen van der Starre and Duncan Thomas on The Rise of the Right--and the Left--in Europe
"Corbyn's triumph and what it means for the left" | Neil Davidson

Ty Briggs and Sumaya A. on Academic Freedom, Anti-Left Witchhunts and the Palestine Exception
A history of intimidation at Columbia | Monique Dols

Emily Giles, Joe Richard and Lillian Cicerchia on Fighting to Survive, Fighting to Win: Unions in Right-to-Work America
"The burger bosses' dreams come true" | Joe Richard

Lauren Bianchi, Anna Winston and Rachel Cohen on Struggles Against Sexual Assault in the United States
"The Trump of the iceberg of sexual assault" | Jen Roesch

Amy Gaidis, Brandon Daniels and Ryan Powers on Starting an International Socialist Organization Branch
"The building blocks of Socialism" | Socialist Worker editorial

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SUNDAY | 9:30 a.m.

Derek Wright and Jon Kurinsky on Shut It Down? How to Fight the Right
"Making sense of what happened at Berkeley | Derek Wright

Socialist Worker-sponsored meeting
Dana Cloud on Lies, Damn Lies and Fake News
"Separating facts from fake news" | Danny Katch

Jessie Muldoon on Women, the Family and Social Reproduction
"What is social reproduction theory?" | Tithi Bhattacharya

Jessica Hansen-Weaver and Don Lash on Managing Inequality: How Welfare Systems Regulate the Poor
"A system that entraps the poor" | brian bean

Sarah Z. Mamo on Marxism, Race and Class
"Race, class and Marxism" | Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Mukund Rathi on The Berkeley Free Speech Movement
Series: "The Free Speech Movement" | Dan Russell, Nicole Colson and Joel Geier

Brian Ward on Custer Died for Your Sins: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull and the Lakota Struggle for Freedom
"Remembering the Wounded Knee occupation" | Brian Ward

Julian Guerrero on Labor's Giant Step: The Flint Sit-down Strike of 1936-37
"The sit-down strikes" | Sharon Smith

Laura Snedeker on Trotsky's Their Morals and Ours
"Do the ends justify the means?" | Paul D'Amato

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SUNDAY | 11:30 a.m.

Jacobin-sponsored meeting
Jonah Birch on Why Should We Care About Social Democracy?
"Can socialism be elected into power?" | Eric Ruder

Socialist Worker-sponsored meeting
Paul D'Amato on Forty Years: History and Politics of the International Socialist Organization
"The ISO and the soul of international socialism" | Alan Maass and Todd Chretien

Megan Behrent on The Revolutionary Approach to Fighting Oppression
"What solidarity meant to Marx" | Aaron Petcoff

Daphna Thier on What's the Matter with the Israeli Working Class?
"The making of Israel's apartheid" | Phil Gasper

Khury Petersen-Smith on Black Power vs. Corporate America: The Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement
"Labor and Black Power" | Lee Sustar

David Russitano and Leela Yellesetty on Marxism and Alienation
"Rekindling the human spirit" | Todd Chretien

David Crawford Jones on Exhuming Thomas Sankara: Anti-Imperialism and the Legacy of Afro-Stalinism
"What's next in Burkina Faso?" | Andy Wynne

Kyle Brown on Lenin's Left-Wing Communism
"How they saw Lenin" | Paul Le Blanc

Larry Bradshaw on Labor's Rank-and-File Rebellion: 1968-74
"The workers' rebellion of the 1960s" | Sharon Smith