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Energy for the People The Green New Deal and the Technical/Political Potentials of Grid Transformation Ashley Dawson Irene Shen Josh Karpoff Lia Soorenian Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Environment The US electric grid is often described as “the largest machine in the world.” Under a Green New Deal, how could this machine be brought under public ownership and social control - and rapidly re-engineered to eliminate carbon emissions? read more

The People’s Republic of Walmart How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism Michal Rozworski Leigh Phillips Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Economics Since the demise of the USSR, the mantle of the largest planned economies in the world has been taken up by the likes of Walmart, Amazon and other multinational corporations. For the left and the right, major multinational companies are held up as the ultimate expressions of free-market capitalism. read more

Forging New Radical Traditions in Europe Kate Seidel Daniel Finn Kathleen Brown Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time International Waiting for the Post-post-Soviet: Old and New Challenges to Building a Left in Russia Today - Kate Seidel Ireland’s Radical Tradition? The IRA and Left Politics in Modern Ireland - Daniel Finn After Aufstehen: Prospects for the German Left - Kathleen Brown

Critical Perspectives on the Venezuelan Crisis Gabriel Hetland George Ciccariello-Maher Andreina Torres Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time International As the political, economic, and humanitarian crises in Venezuela continue to unfold amid a protracted power struggle between the Maduro regime and the Juan Guaidó-led opposition, how do we contextualize the current moment and what possibly lies ahead? Sponsored by the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA).

Critical Perspectives on Law from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century Camila Vergara Sam Menefee-Libey Rob Hunter Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Socialism & Marxism Law and capitalism are co-constitutive. Commodities, property, and the wage relation are all legally constructed. The relations and conditions of production are also elaborated through law, as Marx described in Chapter 10 of Capital. The critique of capitalism and the articulation of socialism are both improved by recognizing that law is a social relation. read more

The Question That Never Goes Away Imperialism, Revolution, and the Agrarian Question in East Asia Tiffany Yang Harlan Chambers Benjamin Kindler Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time International How China's Communist Party approached taxation, particularly grain extraction, from the late 1930s-early 1940s —Tiffany Yang The role of cinema in colonialism-induced ecological change during Japanese rule in Taiwan, 1889-1905 —Harlan Chambers The Chinese Communist Party under Mao Zedong, and the challenge of collective labour through the figure of the "small producer" —Benjami

Anti-Communism and "Taliban Governance" in Pakistan Afghanistan Zenab Ahmed Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time International

Queer and Trans (Counter)Cultural Marxism Jordy Cummings Jules Joanne Gleeson Omnia Sol Anja Weiser Flower Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time LGBT This panel brings together Red Wedge, the only English language Marxist journal with a mission of engaging cultural production as a whole, and the Leftovers communist discussion group. Approaching its eighth anniversary, Red Wedge Magazine makes it a point, as goes our slogan, to “rekindle the revolutionary imagination”, towards what we refer to as a Popular Avant-Garde. read more

What Would Happen If Bernie Won? Strategic Opportunities and Challenges for Social Democracy Today Meagan Day Nantina Vgontzas Kate Doyle Griffiths Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time U.S. Politics The idea of social democracy is regaining popularity in the capitalist core, finding mass expression in two of its most liberalized economies through the campaigns of Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn. In the US, this electoral insurgency has been matched by an even more unexpected growth of the socialist movement. This fledgling Left is faced with enormous opportunities and

Opioids, Unions, and the Socialist Project Interrogating Connections, Strategizing Activism Honoria Guarino Peter Ikeler Samuel Friedman Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Labor & Unions In 2017, opioid overdoses claimed 49,068 lives in the US. This epidemic now surpasses the mortality of the HIV/AIDS crisis at its peak, annual deaths by car accident, suicide, gun violence or chronic kidney disease. Death by opioid also accounts for two thirds of all US overdose deaths, which totaled 72,000 in 2017. read more

Labor and the Fight for Single Payer Healthcare Sean Petty Laura Gabby Jeff Mikkelson Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Healthcare

Academic Workers Worker-Student Solidarity Amelia Horgan Edward Remus Sara Swerdlyk Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Labor & Unions New forms of disciplining at work, and new disciplinary forms of work in the academy, are made invisible by the inability to understand academic work as a form of work. —Amelia Horgan One episode in the failure of the New Left to leave a political party for socialism behind —Edward Remus read more

Gestational Labor Pains A Discussion of Sophie Lewis's "Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family" Sophie Lewis Jules Joanne Gleeson Natasha Lennard Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Women A panel on social reproduction, gestation as labor, family abolition, and struggles for reproductive justice, and sex worker rights. The surrogacy industry is worth over 1 billion dollars a year, and many of its surrogates work in terrible conditions, while many gestate babies for no pay at all. Should it be illegal to pay someone to gestate a baby for you? read mo

Subjectivity and Strategy Against Accursed Austerity Bruno Gulli Despina Lalaki Chris Knight Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Socialism & Marxism An examination of the possible ways that new political subjectivities can be conceived and created at the present moment of capitalist austerity, democratic decay, and ideological malaise. In particular, questions of trans-individuation, counter-hegemony, and ecological demands are addressed. Sponsored by Situations.

Revolution and Counter-Revolution in the Middle East Yasser Munif Frieda Afary Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time International

Ten Theses on Science and Research Under a Left Government Cliff Conner Chris Dols Seshat Mack Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Environment Government support for science, industry R&D, and other technical research has been a longstanding feature of American capitalism. Modern science has expanded possibilities for human welfare through incredible advances in medicine, agriculture, and other fields. read more

Marx at the Arcade Jamie Woodcock John McDonald Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Art & Culture A book launch panel for Jamie Woodcock's "Marx at the Arcade: Consoles, Controllers, and Class Struggle," published by Haymarket Books. read more