Thanks to everyone for a memorable weekend! Videos posted here.

Friday, Nov. 13 - Sunday, Nov. 15, New York University

Click here to register for the conference; pre-registration is strongly encouraged. If you have any questions, send an email to nyc@solidarity-us.org.

Confirmed speakers include: David McNally (New Socialist Group, Canada) Penelope Duggan (New Anti-Capitalist Party, France) Vivek Chibber (Socialist Register) Glen Ford (Black Agenda Report) Christy Thornton (North American Congress on Latin America) Normahiram Perez (United Federation of Teachers) Mike Filippou (BCTGM Lcl 50/Stella D'Oro Shop Steward) Steve Downs (Transport Workers Union Local 100) Ashaki Binta (United Electrical Workers) Margaret Stevens (Iraq Veterans Against the War) Victor Toro (May 1 Coalition) Joycelyn Gill-Campbell (Domestic Workers United) Taja Lindley (Community Voices Heard) Reina Gossett (Queers for Economic Justice) Brandon King (Malcolm X Grassroots Movement) Pat Korte (Radical Student Union, New School) *Organizational affiliations listed for identification purposes only

As the worst global economic crisis in seventy years deepens, social movement organizations and the Left have been forced to rethink our past strategies. Working people are faced with critical situations at every turn in the workplace and in their communities.

But in the last year we’ve also seen moments of fightback that point to what a united response to the crisis would look like. This conference is for all activists who want to build strong organizations that can transform these moments into movements. Movements that can take on the assault on the working class and oppressed—and win. Movements that can be the bedrock on which we can rebuild the radical Left.

Join organizers from around the country and guests from the international anti-capitalist left for a weekend of education and discussion about the causes of the crisis, how to use what we have to build the resistance, and what kind of movements and Left we need to forge for the future.

Main Sessions:

Crisis of Capitalism, Challenge to the Movements
The New Imperialism & the Global Fightback
The State of Resistance in Communities & the Workplace
Socialist Organization Today

The conference will also feature workshops on the Labor Movement • Campus Activism • Immigrant Rights Organizing • Race and Racism in the Age of Obama: Freedom Struggles Today • Struggles for Housing, Transit and Education • Feminist Politics and Women’s Organizing under the Crisis • Queer Liberation and the Left • and the Anti-War Movement

Click here for the current conference schedule. Keep checking back for readings, videos and other materials you can peruse in advance of the school!

Click here to register for the conference; pre-registration is strongly encouraged.

If you still need to pay for the conference, click here.

Free housing, childcare and meals provided
Travel subsidies available