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10:00am CDT

Russian Neofascism: Imperialism Abroad & Repression at Home

Sunday September 6, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT

Vladimir Putin responded to democratic uprising in Russia’s former empire by repressing domestic dissent and launching an imperialist war on Ukraine. In a discussion of their new book, Russia’s New Imperialism, Ilya Budraitskis and Ilya Matveev will be joined by Robert Brenner and Daria Saburova to examine Putin’s neofascist project, Ukraine’s struggle for self-determination, and today’s inter-imperial rivalries.

Speakers

Ilya Budraitskis

Ilya Budraitskis, co-author of Russia’s New Imperialism

Ilya Matveev

Ilya Matveev, co-author of Russia’s New Imperialism

Robert Brenner

Robert Brenner, professor Emeritus UCLA, editor at New Left Review, author of Economics of Global Turbulence

Yulia Yurchenko

Sponsors

Boris Kagarlitsky International Solidarity Campaign

Sunday September 6, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
Erie

International Politics

12:00pm CDT

Documenting Actions, Activism, and Activists’ Lives: Strategies for Preserving Personal and Organizational Archives

Sunday September 6, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT

Erie

This workshop will include tips, strategies, and discussion on preserving analog and digital documentation of our own lives as activists and the work of our organizations in unprecedented times. We will also discuss privacy, anonymity, donating material to archives and libraries, and its future use for scholarship and restorative justice.

Speakers

Kate Stewart

Kate Stewart is the Curator of the Wilcox Collection of Contemporary Political Movements at the Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas. She has worked as a librarian and archivist for twenty years, including managing oral history projects such as the Civil Rights History Project... Read More →

Sunday September 6, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
Erie

Organizing

3:00pm CDT

Using Historical Ephemera for Political Education

Sunday September 6, 2026 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT

Erie

Buttons of the Left preserves and curates buttons and other ephemera of working class resistance to tell the stories of our movements. This session shares case studies of exhibits and workshops, explores the project’s origins, and the challenges and opportunities of using tangible historical materials for political education.

Speakers

Isaac Silver

Isaac Silver is a socialist activist and independent archivist/historian based in Chicago.

Sponsors

Buttons of the Left

Sunday September 6, 2026 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Erie

Radical History

10:00am CDT

12:00pm CDT

3:00pm CDT

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