Socialism 2026

9:00am CDT

Historic Bike Tour: Chicago Race Riot 1919 Commemoration Project

10:00am CDT

Reproductive Justice Strategy SessionChicago For Abortion Rights Organizing Social Workers for Abolition SummitNetwork to Advance Abolitionist Social Work

2:30pm CDT

Abolitionist Campaigns in Hostile Terrains: Fighting Against Immigrant Detention in NY TBAViju Mathew • Sophia Gurule • Critical Resistance Confronting Colonialism: Race, Indigeneity, and Liberation TBAKyle T. Mays • Michael Staudenmaier The Threat of Geoengineering and the Socialist Response TBAT Callahan • Ashwin Shantha • TBD • Science for the People Sing, Struggle, Organize: Movement Songs, Political Education, and Collective Power TBASteff Reed A University Fit For Our Dreams: Abolitionist Higher Education TBASofya Aptekar • Lucien Baskin • Saudi Garcia • Phil McHarris • Jason Wozniak • Scholars for Social Justice and Coalition Against Campus Debt Community Lessons for Fighting Fascism: In Honor of Amisha Patel TBATBD • Truthout From a Marxist Feminist Point of View: Freedom, Rationality and Human Nature TBANancy Holmstrom • Phil Gasper • Alex Holmstrom-Smith • Rose Lenehan From Prairie to Poppy: How Struggles for Land, War, and Farming Are Connected from Chicago to Palestine TBAHeather Aubry • A. Funk • Rumsha S. • Dissenters Inside Organizing 101 TBAJaz Brisack Mother Jones and the Early Socialist Movement: Lessons for Today TBARosemary Feurer • Joseph Rathke • Mother Jones Heritage Project We Keep Us Safe: De-Escalation Training TBAbrian bean • Haymarket Books

4:30pm CDT

Life After Death Row TBAMumia Abu-Jamal • Kenny Collins • Stanley Howard • Mike Stark Confronting Zionism: Decolonizing Palestine and Building the World Anew TBANoura Erakat • Brekhna Aftab Introduction to Theatre of the Oppressed TBADouglas Paterson Why Does Capitalism Suck and Why Does it Fail? An Introduction to Marxist Economics TBACharlie Post Femme-inism Against Cisness: Bread, Roses, and Hormones, Too TBAA.J. Bohrer • Sophie Lewis How Veterans & Labor Are Fighting VA Union Busting And Privatization TBAStuart Hall • Dan Blough • Grace Neudek • Lisa Dadabo • Veterans Healthcare Policy Institute Unveiling the Prophet: Anti-Labor Secret Societies and Their Activist Enemies TBAKim Kelly • Devin Thomas O'Shea Transformative Rural Organizing TBABo Belotti • Jake Krug • Vida Rangel Workers Deserve More! A Program for a Future Beyond Capitalism TBAAshik Siddique • Michaela Brangan • Frances Gill • Megan Romer • DSA What We Saw in Chicago: From Midway Blitz to New Forms of Community Defense TBAJuliet DeJesus Alejandre • Antonio Gutierrez • TBD • Rey Wences • ICIRR • OCAD People Over Mega-Events: Organizing for Housing, Workers, and Communities Beyond the World Cup TBATBD • Play Fair ATL Why Eugene Debs Matters TBAAllison Duerk • Shawn Gude Abolition Judaism: The Revolutionary Possiblities of Diaspora TBABenjamin Balthaser • Maurice BP-Weeks Balthazar • Rabbi Andrue Kahn • Dania Rajendra Political Education 1: What Are We Up Against? TBAGeo Maher • Chris Rogers • Ant Smith • B-REAL • Center for Political Education • W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School

6:00pm CDT

Welcome Happy Hour

7:30pm CDT

Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Palestine, Internationalism, Abolition TBAAngela Y. Davis • Naomi Murakawa

9:30pm CDT

Radical game night! Radical trivia night!

8:30am CDT

10:00am CDT

The Black Path to Socialism TBAKali Akuno • India • Brian Kwoba • Erica Ryan No Such Thing As NIMBY: The Fight to Protect Our Water TBAJenny Espino • Jake Hernandez • Chloe Torres Hustle Culture vs. Solidarity TBANatalie Bencivega • Chenjerai Kumanyika • Demetrius Noble Journalism, Authoritarianism and Struggles Against ICE TBAAdam Goodman • Memo Torres • Diane de Vignemont • Daniel Singer Foundation Gender and Accumulation TBAEric Maroney Health Fascism, Body Politics, and the Anti-State State (Health Fascism Series) TBABeatrice Adler-Bolton • Da’Shaun L. Harrison • Artie Vierkant • Death Panel Building the Anti-War Movement: Identifying and Organizing Against U.S. Military Subcontractors TBAMatt Fiorillo • Joseph Gumina • Julia Mente • Valerie Wallach • BDS Pittsburgh Crisis in Venezuela: Socialist Perspectives TBAAnderson Bean • Gonzalo Gómez • Emiliano Terán Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World's Most Powerful Industry TBAClarissa Redwine • JS Tan Labor at the Margins TBAKatherine Passley • Kim Kelly • TBD Chicago's Educators and Families Defending Communities Against ICE TBALisset G • Kobi Guillory • Raul Islas • Kathryn Zamarron Attention Economics for Organizers: How Big Tech Hijacked Our Attention & How We’re Fighting Back TBASarah Jaffe • Cayden Mak • Delaney Vandergrift • Convergence Magazine Lessons of the Russian Revolution TBAPhil Gasper • Suzi Weissman • Critique • New Politics Political Education 2: Understanding Dialectics TBASamer Araabi • Thomas Mariadason • Chika Okoye • B-REAL • Center for Political Education • W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School Song for a Hard-Hit People: Building Anti-Racist Solidarity in Appalachia TBABeth Howard • Jerome Scott

12:00pm CDT

Cross-Walls Solidarity Against Carceral Infrastructure TBAKendra Drysdale • Berty Hernandez • Mon Mohapatra • TBD • Community Justice Exchange Debates in Prison Abolitionist Theory and Practice TBAAmna Akbar • Amelia Kirby • Silky Shah • Jack Norton • Zohra Ahmed The Merciless Society: Incarceration, Dehumanization, and American Empire TBALyle May Art and Propaganda: On Learning from Paul Robeson, Why the Artist must Take Sides TBASaul Williams Socialist Fiscal Strategy for the 21st Century: Dispatches from New York City’s New Era TBAElizabeth Cooper • Ciarán Finlayson • Zainab Firdausi Break the Board: Neoliberalism in Crisis and the Popular University as Abolition TBAAdam • Alex • Fiona • Laith • National Students for Justice in Palestine Sex for Pleasure: Controlling your Reproduction Under a Pro-Natalist Regime TBAEmily Likins-Ehlers Class Struggle Infrastructure: Tenant Unions and Socialism TBAChicago Union of Tenants • Chicago Union of Tenants Rank and File Lessons from a New York Nurses Strike in the Mamdani Era TBARoxana Garcia • Beth Loudin • TBD Revolutionary Socialism from Below: Strategies to Build the Resistance TBAAaron Amaral • Kristen Guptill-Godfrey • Tempest What Is the Muslim Left? TBAEman Abdelhadi • TBD • Acacia Magazine Migra Watch Training for Illinois Residents TBADiego Morales • PUÑO Che’s “New Man” and The Bodhisattva Revolutionary TBABreht O’Shea • Rev Left Radio Socialism, Liberation Theology, and the Black Church: Lessons from Black Socialist Preachers Past and Present TBAAndrew Reginald Hairston • Charles Holm AI Extractivism: Global Systems, Local Processes TBAShiera S. al-Malik • V'cenza Cirefice • Marta Cook • Fawn E. Pochel

1:30pm CDT

Letter Writing to Incarcerated Comrades Socialist Horizon Meet-up TBA

3:00pm CDT

Land and Abolition TBARuth Wilson Gilmore Solidarity Across the Walls and Beyond: Conversation on Inside/Outside Collaborations TBANick Brown • Eddy Fletcher • James Kilgore • Mon Mohapatra • Stevie Wilson • Community Justice Exchange Ocean Deep Solidarity: Reparations, LANDBACK, and Collective Liberation TBADr. Aymar Jean Escoffery • Matthew Harvey • Claire Maracle • Justin Morgan • Raven Schwam-Curtis • BLIS Collective Printing the Revolution: The Role of Art in Organizing and Building Community Resistance TBADio Cramer • Ricardo Levins Morales • Pilsen Community Books Resisting Attacks on Schools, from Gaza to Chicago TBAEmmaia Gelman • Nora Lester Murad • TBD • Chicago Educators for Palestine • DropTheADL from Schools • Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism Funding Until It’s Free: Building a Movement for Tomorrow While Fundraising for Today TBAMary Coleman • Lawrence Koval • Qudsiyyah Shariyf • Em Gonzalez • Lux • Chicago For Abortion Rights Trans Care in the Age of Health Fascism (Health Fascism Series) TBABeatrice Adler-Bolton • S. Lamble • Vicky Osterweil • Death Panel Connecting with Coworkers to Form Your Union TBAAK Alilonu • Araya Barnes • Atulya Dora-Laskey • Rumin Sarwar • Dawn Tefft • EWOC All Socialism, No Government: An Introduction to Anarchist Theory and Strategy TBAHeb Braggs • Ben Eager • Jeremy Jewitt • Juan Gonzalez Valdivieso • Black Rose / Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation Black Left Feminism and the Fight Against Fascism: Lessons and Assignments TBABarbara Ransby How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention TBAJohn Washington • Johannes Favi Bridging the Gap: Building Intergenerational Organizing Power TBAEssence-Jade Gatheright • Mari Lee • Chicago Freedom School The Revolutionary Legacies and Lineages of Grace Lee Boggs TBALily Luo How the Left Takes on AI Will Determine the Future TBASasha Costanza-Chock • Sarah Hamid • Tawana Petty • Edith Romero Propaganda Printmaking TBADanielle Bullock Political Education 3: Slavery, Colonialism, and Primitive Accumulation TBAGeo Maher • Chris Rogers • Ant Smith • B-REAL • Center for Political Education • W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School

5:00pm CDT

Fighting the Surveillance Apparatus: Connecting ALPRs to Larger Networks of Policing & How to Build Past Them TBAAustin Kral • Tynetta Hill-Muhammad • Navjot Heer • nat palmer • Breanna Champion • Lucy Parsons Lab Prison Papers in Action: Activating Archives with Walls Turned Sideways TBAMira Simonton-Chao • Carlos Ayala • Walls Turned Sideways Building the People's Embargo for Palestine: Strategy, Assessment, and the Path to Freedom During the Time of Genocide TBATBD • Palestinian Youth Movement • People's Embargo for Palestine War, Capitalism, and Navigating the Climate Crisis TBAJoshua Frank • Tori Tsui • CounterPunch • Pilsen Community Books • Science for the People The US and China: Imperial Rivalry in a Multipolar World TBATobita Chow • Ashley Smith They Called Us Non-Compliant: The (Sedated) History of Psychiatric Resistance TBASarah Broas • Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu • Heena Sharma • Project LETS “As Goes the South”: Building Multiracial Working-Class Solidarity in the South for a Socialist Future TBABeth Howard • Chris Kutalik • Jerome Scott • SURJ Movement Lawyering in Times of Retrenchment TBALeena Odeh • Christian Snow • Morgan Wilson • Law 4 Black Lives The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn TBABrian Jones • Dave Zirin The Young Lords Speak: Building Revolution on the Streets of Chicago TBAJacqueline Lazú • Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez When Socialists Turned to the Factory Floor TBACandace Cohen • Jack Weinberg • Solidarity Spirit of Justice TBAnyle fort • Michelle Alexander • Rami Nashashibi • Spirit of Justice The False Choice Between Identity Politics and Class Struggle TBAMike McCarthy Standing Up to the National Security State: Collective Defense against Political Repression TBATom Alter • TBD • United Left Platform Who Moves America: Film Screening and Discussion TBAYael Bridge

6:30pm CDT

Abolitionist Zine Writing Workshop Songs for Liberation United Left Platform Meet-up TBA

8:00pm CDT

Neighbors Get Ready: Forging New Solidarities and Defeating ICE TBASilky Shah • TBD

8:30am CDT

10:00am CDT

The Power of Speculative Fiction in a Shifting Political Climate TBASareena Kamath • Vaishnavi Patel Fighting for Trans Liberation in the Midwest: Organizing Under Hostile State Governments TBADr. Emerson Cram • V Fixmer-Oraiz • Rev. Sean McRoberts • Mandi Remington Care Networks, Abolition, and the Fight Against Border Policing (Health Fascism Series) TBABeatrice Adler-Bolton • A. Naomi Paik • Silky Shah • Death Panel Refusing Erasure: Justice, Accountability and Historical Memory in the War on Terror TBAMansoor Adayfi • Maha Hilal • Sanaa Ansari Khan • Rashida James Saadiya • Muslim Counterpublics Lab Russian Neofascism: Imperialism Abroad & Repression at Home TBARobert Brenner • Ilya Budraitskis • Ilya Matveev • Daria Saburova • Boris Kagarlitsky International Solidarity Campaign The Old Being Reborn: The Revival of Socialist Organizations in US and Belgium TBADavid Duhalde • Joe Todd • RLS The General Strike and How to Build a Stronger, Bolder, and Bigger Pro-Democracy Labor Movement TBASean Fulkerson • Griffin Mahon • Jessica Tang • May Day Strong Protecting Our Own: Shifting from State Intervention to Community Care in Crisis Times TBAjaboa lake • Erica Meiners • Shannon Perez-Darby Documenting Transformative Justice: Building Knowledge Bases for Community Accountability Strategies TBAShira Hassan • Mimi Kim • Deana Lewis • iLL Weaver • Creative Interventions • Emergence Media • Just Praxtice The Forgotten History of the Civil Rights Movement’s Fight for Economic Justice—and Why It Matters Today TBABrian Jones • Nancy MacLean • Jeanne Theoharis • Elizabeth Todd-Breland Trust in God and Keep the Powder Dry: A Short History of Leftwing Religious Non-Nonviolence TBAAdam Vander Tuig • Highlander From Exploitation to Replacement? Workers in the New Political Economy of AI TBAAlex Hanna • Nathan Kim • Thomas Mariadason • Chika Okoye • Center for Political Education • Distributed AI Research Institute The Deadly Tech Exchange: How Tech Companies are Profiting from Genocide and Anti-Immigrant Violence TBAIzzy Mustafa • Edith Romero • Eric Sype • Adalah Justice Project Protecting Our Neighbors: DIY Community Defense Street Tactics from Midway Blitz TBAG.R.I.P. • G.R.I.P.

12:00pm CDT

Why Socialism Requires Abolition TBAZohra Ahmed • Kelly Gillespie • Ruth Wilson Gilmore • Vanessa Thompson Palestinian Revolutionary Thought and the Prisoners’ Movement TBADanya al-Saleh • Jenan Awaida • Ribhi Hussein • People's Center for Palestine Black History is for Everyone TBABrian Jones Sumud in Praxis: Teaching for Solidarity from Turtle Island to Palestine TBAAnita Fernández • Zeiad Abbas Shamrouch • Samia Shoman • Jenine Wehbeh Weaponizing Antisemitism: An Interactive History TBAAdam Sanchez • Rethinking Schools Unsafe: The Carceral Roots of the Anti-Trans Backlash TBAS. Lamble • Sophie Lewis Resisting MAHA & Building Environmental & Reproductive Justice TBAJudith Clerjeune • Dr. Sydney Curtis • Abhinaya Narayanan • Briana Perry Intro: Harm Reduction and Solidarity with Unsheltered Neighbors TBARachel Shearer • Luna Bender • Andrew Atkinson Bernd • Alexa Gold • Lucy Morales Cuba Under Siege: A Round Table Discussion TBATBD • Justine Medina • Helen Yaffe • Chicago Cuba Coalition The State of Worker Organizing in the South and the Southern Workers Assembly TBAjames pope • Abdul Alkalimat • Destiny Blackwell • Mike Goldfield • Southern Workers Assembly Psychic Militancy TBALara Sheehi • Pluto Press The Muslim Left, NYC, and Zohran Mamdani’s Victory TBAIskander Abbasi • Asad Dandia • Aber Kawas • TBD Documenting Actions, Activism, and Activists’ Lives: Strategies for Preserving Personal and Organizational Archives TBAKate Stewart Organizing 101: a Black Youth Project 100 Joint TBADesmond King • BYP100 Members • Black Youth Project 100 The Present State of People’s History TBAIsaac Silver • Peter Cole • Matthew Ray • Left in the Bay Socialize the Grid: Data Centers and Translocal Organizing TBADavid Cobb • Johanna Epke • Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright • India Willi • Black Alliance for Peace Rosa Luxemburg and Frantz Fanon on Imperialism—Its Lessons for Today TBAAlex Adamson • Peter Hudis • Ndindi Kitonga • International Marxist-Humanist Organization Necessary Trouble: Movement-Building since the Financial Crisis TBAAlex Hanna • Sarah Jaffe • Chenjerai Kumanyika • Yotam Marom

1:30pm CDT

On the Mend: A Sashiko Workshop BIPOC Social

3:00pm CDT

Redefining Family: Intro to Family Abolition and Creating Abundant Care TBAAlanah Armstead • Marin Hart • Kuluntu Reproductive Justice Center Three Generations in the Struggle for Socialism and Black Liberation TBAJesse Hagopian • Miles Hagopian • Gerald Lenoir Organize or Burn: Sewer Socialism for Climate Survival in the 21st Century TBAAshik Siddique • Cihan Tekay Liu • Kelsea Bond • Alex Brower • DSA Poetry for the People: Creating Your Own Community-Based Poetry Workshop, A Training for Facilitators TBAMaya Marshall • Haymarket Books The Politics of Debt: Organizing in the Age of Finance TBABraxton Brewington • René Christian Moya • Lindsey Muniak • Debt Collective Bodies, Bodies, Bodies TBAAsya Sağnak • TBD • Lux Turn Illness Into A Weapon: Autonomous Health Organizing in Times of Rising Fascism (Health Fascism Series) TBAzara raven • Beatrice Adler-Bolton • Tea Burns • TBD • Death Panel Inquilab Zindabad: Bhagat Singh and the Revolutionary Left during South Asian Independence TBAViral Mistry Our International Struggles Cannot be Confined to the Capitalists’ National Elections TBALaura R • Jolene S • Tom T • Speak Out Socialists Radicalizing Labor Unions: A Balance Sheet of Reform, Class Struggle, and Rank-and-file Movement-Building TBAAndrew Bergman • Nelson Lichtenstein • Luigi Morris • Margie Thornton Data Centers, Class Politics, and Socialist Strategy TBANathan Kim • Austin Kral • Jasmine Lu • Cella Sum • Yvette Vargas Revolutionary Socialists and the Fight Against War and Authoritarianism TBANdindi Kitonga • Pepper Macias • Meg • Bill Mullen • Kirstin Roberts • United Left Platform Neighborhood Organizing 101 TBAAmadi Ozier Using Historical Ephemera for Political Education TBAIsaac Silver • Buttons of the Left Liberatory Spirit, the Spirit of Liberation: Multi-tradition Conversation on How We Get Free TBAAutumn Brown • Rev. Jinzu Minna Jain • Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg • JVP

5:00pm CDT

Are All Cops Bastards? TBAbrian bean • Anderson Bean Imagine a Future Without Family Policing! TBADorothy Roberts The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took over the World TBADaniella Mazzio • Vicky Osterweil Socialism Beats Fascism: Organizing for a Post-Trump America TBAGriffin Mahon • Eleanor Babaev • Bol B • Eman Abdelhadi • DSA We Are Each Other's Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities TBAMoya Bailey • Rachel Kuo • TBD The Strike that Shook the Bay: San Francisco’s Historic 2026 Educator Strike and the Coming California Strike Wave TBAYajaira Cuapio • Ilan Desai-Gellar • Alex Schmaus • United Educators of San Francisco Mass Labor Action in Defense of Immigrant Workers: Why We Need It and How We Can Get there TBAJustin Akers Chacón • Lucia Flores • Victor Rodríguez • Dan Troccoli • Workers Voice People's Movement Assembly 101: Building Insurgent Democracies in the US South TBADenzel Caldwell • Black Nashville Assembly Unruly Subjects LIVE: A Reckoning with our Moment TBARuth Wilson Gilmore • Chenjerai Kumanyika • Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò

6:30pm CDT

Tarot for socialists!

7:00pm CDT

Steal This Story: Film Screening and Discussion TBAAmy Goodman • Tia Lessin

8:00pm CDT

Chicago IPO/Neighborhood Org Social TBA33rd Ward Working Families Cultural Worker Meet-Up TBA Democratic Socialists of America Meet-Up TBADSA Library Workers Meetup TBA Movement Journalism as Anti-Fascist Resistance TBADa’Shaun Harrison • Cayden Mak • Maya Schenwar • Lara Witt • Movement Media Alliance Public Educators Meet-Up TBA Radical Healthcare Workers and Friends Meet Up TBADebt Collective’s Healthcare Worker Solidarity Collective Tech Worker Meetup TBA The South Meet Up TBASouthern Workers Assembly

9:00pm CDT

The Neo-Futurists present THE INFINITE WRENCH

10:00am CDT

The Roots of Punishment, The Seeds of Abolition: Organizing Against State Violence From the Ground Up TBAML Smith • Tiara Cooper • Furonda Brasfield • U.S. Campaign to Abolish the Death Penalty End the Genocide Behind Bars: Freedom for Palestinian Political Prisoners TBANawaf A • Jenan A • Palestinian Youth Movement • Freedom for Palestinian Political Prisoners A Shit Deal: Capitalism's Ecological Rift TBAT Callahan Art is Politics: Making Movements Irresistible TBAWilliam Estrada • Margaret Vail Palmquist • Roger Peet RePRESSion: Press Censorship in the Time of Fascism and Increasing Media Illiteracy TBASherronda J. Brown • Da'Shaun L. Harrison • Aarohi Sheth • Tea Troutman • Scalawag Madness, Capitalism and Psychiatric Abolition TBAStefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu • Leah Harris • Nze Okoronta • Jess Stohlmann-Rainey • Death Panel Building a Rank-and-File Working Class Antiwar Movement Today TBAMichael Letwin • TBD • Labor for Palestine National Network The Left and the National Question: Building Solidarity without Exception TBAEman Abdelhadi • Reza Rezaian • Simon Rodriguez • Tanya Vyhovksy • The Ukraine Soilidarity Network (US) Mayor Mamdani vs. Wall Street. Sewer Socialism and Municipal Financing—Which Way Forward? TBADavid Backer • Sylvia Kidder • Michael Reagan How Communities Become Targets: Somalis in Minnesota and the Policing of Black Muslim Life TBASomali Organizers from MN Creating Emotional and Spiritual Support Groups for Activists TBAAtena Danner • Kelly Hayes • Tanuja Jagernauth Insurgent Spiritualities for Revolutionary Struggle TBABenji Hart • Joy James • Andrew Krinks • Belkis Terán Don't Be Afraid, Start A Radical Book Club With Your Friends! TBALuna Ramos Neoliberalism, Fascism, Feudalism...or Socialism? What Lies Ahead TBAJasper Bernes • Nathan Kim • Erin McElroy • Justine Zhang

12:00pm CDT

We Want it All: Reclaiming the World from the Rich and the RightKelly Hayes • Beth Howard • TBD