Socialism 2013 will have a whole range of lectures and series on a wide range of topics, designed to offer both ideas about strategies in our movements as well as theory to guide the fight for a better future. Here are some examples of the series and topics we will be offering:

Art, culture and sports

Ernst Fisher and the “Necessity of Art”

“9.5 Theses on Art and Class”

Verdi, opera, and revolution

“The Edice Complex”: How the rich and powerful shape the world

A people’s history of Jackie Robinson

Working-class literature in the U.S.

Asia and Asian Americans

Asian Americans: The myth of the model minority

North Korea in the crosshairs

Class and social struggles in the new India

Black history and politics

The abolitionists

Hubert Harrison and CLR James on socialism and Black liberation

Poverty pulls the trigger: The roots of urban violence

Rosa Parks and the civil rights movement

The political economy of racism

Communists and the fight against racism in the 1930s

Capitalism and crisis

Introduction to Marxist economics

The Marxist theory of crisis

Keynesianism: Capitalism with a human face?

How neoliberalism survived the crisis

Austerity USA: The working class today

Global slump: The world economy since the Great Recession

Civil liberties under assault

Islamophobia and the “New Atheists”

Obama’s war on civil liberties

Class and class inequality

The rich man’s burden: The subversion of democracy by the ultra-rich

101 Changemakers

Classics of Marxism

Trotsky on the united front

Lenin on self-determination

Frederick Engels, the familly, and social reproduction

The relevance of the Communist Manifesto today

Harry Braverman’s Labor and Monopoly Capital

Leon Trotsky’s History of the Russian Revolution

The criminal injustice system

Standing up to police brutality

The school to prison pipeline

Education

The schools our children deserve

More than a score: The fight against standardized testing

The fight for teachers’ unions

The environment in crisis

Marx’s ecology: The centrality of ecological concerns to Marxism

Imperialism and the ecological crisis: An historical perspective

The new environmental movement

The myth of “environmental catastrophism”

History of working-class radicalism

The impact of the Russian Revolution on the U.S. left

When workers occupied: The CIO sit-down strikes

What is syndicalism?

Immigration and immigrant rights

The new Juan Crow: “Reform” and the criminalization of immigrants

The case for open borders

Imperialism

The real “Pirates of the Caribbean”

Mali and the new imperial scramble for Africa

“Accumulation by dispossession:” A critique

The Marxist theory of imperialism and its critics

Marxism and postcolonial theory

U.S. imperialism’s “pivot to Asia”

Obama’s new militarism: Drones and the future of war

Introduction to Marxism

Marxism and organization: Why we need a revolutionary party

What do socialists say about violence and nonviolence?

The Marxist theory of alienation

Socialism from below: The necessity of self-emancipation

How does consciousness change?

Did Lenin lead to Stalin?

The future socialist society

Latin America

Venezuela after Chávez

The drug war in Latin America

Native American history

The Seminole Wars: How slaves and natives revolted against empire

Native resistance in the 21st century: From Idle No More to the Keystone XL Pipeline

Neither Washington nor Moscow: The politics of International Socialism

The legacy of International Socialism

The history of the ISO

Oppression and liberation

Roundtable: Capitalism, disability, and disability rights

A history of disability rights activism

Organizing as a socialist

How to build an ISO branch

High school organizing

Struggle in the Middle East

U.S. imperialism in the Middle East after the Arab Spring

The new movement against Israeli apartheid

The struggle for Palestine

Israel, Zionism, and imperialism

What happened to the Egyptian Revolution?

Questions in Marxist theory

Marxism and class

Political Marxism: A debate

Lenin and the debate on “Leninism”

Is there a future for social democracy?

Understanding base and superstructure

Marxism and morality

Heroes and crowds: The role of the individual in history

What do Marxists say about religion?

Planning vs. the market: The case for socialist planning

Hegel’s influence on Marx: What is the dialectic and do we need it today?

What do Marxists say about postmodernism?

Leninism vs. Zinovievism

Marxism and democracy

Be the change you want to see? A critique of pregurative politics

Revolutions and revolutionaries

Paul Levi and the German socialist movement

Louise Michel and the Paris Commune

Clara Zetkin

Lucy Parsons: An American revolutionary

The Spanish Civil War

A first-rate, second-rate man: Lincoln and the Civil War

Science and society

The use and abuse of statistics

Sexism and the food and diet industry

Sexuality and socialism

The fight against transgender oppression

Delusions of gender: How difference is constructed

Sex and sexuality in Soviet Russia

Queer liberation or LGBT rights?

Sexuality, reform, and revolution

The labor movement today

Why unions still matter

From WalMart to Wendy’s: New low-wage workers’ struggles

The future of unions in the U.S.

The new fightback in auto

The fight to save the Post Office

Anatomy of a victory: How the Chicago teachers won their strike

Critical conditions: Unions vs. the health care giants

U.S. politics

From the New Deal to the Grand Bargain: The poverty of U.S. liberalism

Mayor 1%: Rahm Emanuel’s war on Chicago’s 99%

Women’s liberation

The backlash against women: Sexuality and capitalism today

Adrienne Rich

Lise Vogel and social reproduction theory

Marxism and women’s liberation

Women, work, and austerity today

Black feminism and intersectionality

The fight against sexual assault

The women’s liberation movement of the 1970s

The political economy of violence against women

World in struggle

Golden Dawn and the far right in Europe

Greece and the struggle against austerity in Europe

Perspectives for the left