Confronting the Backlash: Socialists and the Anti-Racist Struggle for Liberation

Haley Pessin and Phil Gasper speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Tempest. https://www.tempestmag.org The 2020 Black Lives Matter protests were the biggest in US history, but three years later there is a full-scale right-wing backlash. This session will draw the lessons of the past few years, explain why fighting racism and other forms of oppression must be central to the socialist project, and discuss how we can build an effective anti-racist movement to confront the backlash. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org. Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow Haymarket on Soundcloud for regular event recordings, book talks, political analyses and poetry readings: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks