BUILDING SOCIALISM. BUILDING OUR MOVEMENTS

Last year's conference theme, “Building Socialism. Building Our Movements,” emphasized our goal to bring together socialists and social movement activists from the Boston area and increase our engagement with socialist ideas and the many struggles around our city, country and the world. A strong socialist community in Boston is essential for working people and the dispossessed to build power and eventually replace capitalism with a social system based on human need and not profit. Missed out this year? Read about it through the lens of People's World's, Donald Donato, http://peoplesworld.org/boston-socialist-unity-project-conference-aims-at-left-cooperation/ or check out the podcasts below!

PODCASTS

OPENING PLENARY: SOCIALISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Presenters:   
Cynthia Peters, Left Roots
Jorge Marin, Venezuela Solidarity Committee
Vijay Prashad, Trinity College
CLOSING PLENARY: SOCIALISM AND THE SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Presenters:
Clause St. Germaine, Boston School Bus Drivers
Nino Brown, Mass Action
Patricia Montes, Centro Presente
Yamila Hussein, Boston Plan for Excellence
ABC's of Socialism
Presenter: Nicole Aschoff, Editor of Jacobin Magazine
Boston Socialist School
Presenters: Juliet Ucelli, a founder of the NY Marxist School/Brecht Forum, Duncan McFarland, Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, Casey Doyle, Center for Marxist Education, Suren Moodliar, Massachusetts Global Action
Feminism and Socialism
Presenter: Monica Poole, Bunker Hill Community College
Health Care: The Crisis That Won't Go Away!
Presenter: Sandy Eaton, Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism
Origins of Police
Presenter: Nino Brown, Mass Action Against Police Brutality
Radical Organizing and Base-Building
Presenter: Steve Meacham, City Life/Vida Urbana
Secrets of a Successful Organizer
Presenters: Chris Brooks and Dan DiMaggio, Labor Notes
Red, Black and Queer
Presenter: Gerry Scoppettuolo, Workers World Party
Socialism or Social Democracy: What's the Difference?
Presenter: Chris Morale, International Socialist Organization
Socialism and the Elections
Presenters: Rand Wilson, Labor for Bernie and Howie Hawkins, Green Party of New York
Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution: Accomplishments and Prospects
Presenter: Jorge Marin, Venezuela Solidarity Committee and Boston Bolivarian Circle
What is Eco-Socialism?
Presenters: Chris Williams, System Change Not Climate Change and Keely Mullen, Socialist Alternative
2016 SPEAKERS

2016 WORKSHOPS

2016 EXHIBITORS

2016 CONFERENCE PROGRAM