On Solidarity clarifies a key idea in struggles for a more just world. What does solidarity mean, and how can diverse movements build enough of it to change society?

Organizer and political theorist Mie Inouye will be joined by contributors Charisse Burden-Stelly and Nathan R. DuFord for a forum on obstacles to collective action today. Rejecting the language of “allyship” and the politics of deference, On Solidarity makes the case for maintaining solidarity through conflict in durable institutions over time, none of which is possible without the hard work of good organizing.

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Speakers:

Mie Inouye is an organizer and political theorist. As Assistant Professor of Political Studies at Bard College, her research and teaching areas include social movements, democratic theories of political action, socialist political thought, and religion and politics. Her public writing has appeared in Boston Review, Jacobin, and The Forge. She leads a forum in Boston Review’s summer 2023 issue, On Solidarity.

Charisse Burden-Stelly is Associate Professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University. Her latest book is Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States. She is also coauthor, with Gerald Horne, of W. E. B. Du Bois: A Life in American History and coeditor, with Jodi Dean, of Organize, Fight, Win, Black Communist Women’s Political Writing.

Nathan R. DuFord is Assistant Professor of Government at Smith College and author of Solidarity in Conflict: A Democratic Theory.

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