Abolition & Reconstruction Today

Join us for a live streamed session from the Socialism 2025 conference, in Chicago. ——————————————————————— The brief period following the Civil War set the stage for where we find ourselves today. Instead of rebuilding American society as a multiracial democracy, the Reconstruction project was defeated by white terrorism, and instead of equality, we got Black Codes, convict leasing, Jim Crow, police, and prisons. This participatory workshop will collectively map the current legacies of Reconstruction's failure and reframe contemporary abolitionist struggles around the positive project of building a new world. ——————————————————————— Help sustain the Socialism Conference for years to come by making a donation today: https://haymarketbooks.app.neoncrm.com/forms/help-sustain-the-socialism-conference © Haymarket Books 2025. All rights reserved. This video may not be reproduced in whole or in part without expressed written consent.