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Saturday, September 5
 

12:00pm CDT

Revolutionary Socialism from Below: Strategies to Build the Resistance
Saturday September 5, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
W190B
If liberation could come from the government, it can be taken away again by that government. But there is a different approach to building socialism—from the bottom up. Strategies for creating socialism from below aim to inspire the creative participation of the multiracial working class through mass protests, long-term democratic organizing in rank-and-file unions, neighborhood-level organizations, and other working-class institutions. Join us to discuss recent examples of such efforts and their critical role in resisting authoritarianism and advancing the revolutionary transformation of society toward ecosocialism.
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Sponsors
avatar for Tempest
Saturday September 5, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
W190B
  Left Strategy

12:00pm CDT

What Is the Muslim Left?
Saturday September 5, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
Hyde Park B
From Malcolm X and the Black Radical Tradition to anti-imperialist organizing after 9/11, Muslim leftists have shaped US movements while remaining illegible to the broader left. Is the Muslim left a coherent political tradition or a coalition of incompatible projects? Speakers stake out distinct positions on religion, racialization, and revolutionary strategy.
Speakers
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Ashik Siddique

Ashik Siddique is national co-chair of Democratic Socialists of America, and has served on DSA's National Political Committee since 2021. He has organized with DSA’s campaign for Bernie in 2020, for campaigns against the climate crisis and for labor rights, with protests at the... Read More →
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Eman Abdelhadi

Eman Abdelhadi is a scholar, organizer and writer. She is an assistant professor and sociologist at the University of Chicago, writes a column for In These Times Magazine and is co-author of Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072, a sci-fi novel... Read More →
Sponsors
avatar for Acacia Magazine
Saturday September 5, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
Hyde Park B
  Left Strategy

3:00pm CDT

All Socialism, No Government: An Introduction to Anarchist Theory and Strategy
Saturday September 5, 2026 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Field ABC
Anarchism is often the least understood branch of socialism. Anarchists walk a revolutionary path separate from the brutality of state systems, whether social democratic or Stalinist. Join us to discuss how anarchists are organizing and building toward a directly democratic world without capitalism, the state, and systemic oppression.
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Heb Braggs

Heb Braggs is a writer, artist, and organizer in Chicago, Illinois. 
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Ben Eager

Ben Eager is an independent academic and activist in Chicago, Illinois.
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Jeremy Jewitt

Jeremy Jewitt is a tenant organizer in Chicago, Illinois. 
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Juan Gonzalez Valdivieso

Juan Gonzalez Valdivieso is a law student, organizer, and writer in Queens, New York City
Sponsors
avatar for Black Rose / Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation
Saturday September 5, 2026 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Field ABC
  Left Strategy

3:00pm CDT

Black Left Feminism and the Fight Against Fascism: Lessons and Assignments
Saturday September 5, 2026 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Grant Park AB
Black feminist thinkers and organizers have historically generated our most powerful frameworks and resources for defense against the far right and for remaking the world. Today, as neoliberal conditions give rise to new fascisms and attacks on our people, the Black feminist lineage provides strength and direction for struggles across a range of contexts, from the arts to municipal politics, public employment, and higher education. The ongoing work of Scholars for Social Justice is one important site of Black feminist organizing that will be discussed in this session.
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SH
Saturday September 5, 2026 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Grant Park AB
  Left Strategy

3:00pm CDT

Revolutionary Socialists and the Fight Against War and Authoritarianism
Saturday September 5, 2026 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Jackson Park A
Organizers from the revolutionary and independent socialist left, from four different cities, share their experiences in helping build the broader anti-Trump movement while fighting for distinct strategies and perspective—based on the need for political independence, a strategic focus on social struggle and mass action, and democratic organizing—to defeat authoritarianism.
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Ndindi Kitonga

Ndindi Kitonga, a black activist in LA originally from Kenya who is founder of Palms Unhoused Mutual Aid, an abolitionist housing network. She has also been active in BLM and related community organizing.
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Bill Mullen

Bill Mullen is a member of Socialist Horizon and the Committee to Defend Tom Alter.
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Kirstin Roberts

Kirstin Roberts is a Chicago teacher and socialist activist, long standing member of the CTU and active in May Day Strong Chicago. 
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Pepper Macias

Pepper Macias is a hotel kitchen worker, UNITE/HERE activist who is part of Unidad Latina en Accion.
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Meg

Meg is a grassroots activist organizing in working class neighborhoods of Baltimore for ICE defense, climate justice, and and other political coalitions.
Sponsors
avatar for United Left Platform
Saturday September 5, 2026 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Jackson Park A
  Left Strategy

5:00pm CDT

“As Goes the South”: Building Multiracial Working-Class Solidarity in the South for a Socialist Future
Saturday September 5, 2026 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
Jackson Park B
As W.E.B. DuBois said “As goes the South, so goes the nation.” Ruling class and authoritarian forces have always prioritized organizing the South as a way to hold power over the entire nation. If we are to defeat authoritarianism and win a socialist future, we must organize a multiracial working-class base in the South.
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Beth Howard

Beth Howard is the Cultural Strategist for Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), the largest national organization bringing white people into the fight for racial and economic justice. She grew up in a rural white working-class community in Eastern Kentucky and has organized in the... Read More →
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Jerome Scott

Jerome Scott was a labor organizer in the auto plants of Detroit in the 1960s-’70s, and a member of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. As a community organizer, popular educator and author in the South since the 1970s, he was a founding member and former director of Project... Read More →
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Walda Katz-Fishman

Walda Katz-Fishman is a scholar, activist, popular educator and author, and professor of sociology at Howard University. She was a founding member and former board chair of Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide. She is a contributing author and editor... Read More →
Sponsors
avatar for SURJ
Saturday September 5, 2026 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
Jackson Park B
  Left Strategy

5:00pm CDT

Movement Lawyering in Times of Retrenchment
Saturday September 5, 2026 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
Hyde Park B
Using lessons from "Lawyering for Liberation: A Toolbox for Movement Lawyers", this session explores how lawyers can support and sustain powerful movements, emphasizing the importance of power building and radical imagining in today’s context. As we face unique threats posed by growing authoritarianism, this need has never been more urgent.
Speakers
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Leena Odeh

Leena Odeh, Exec. Director, First Defense Legal Aid
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Christian Snow

Christian Snow, Exec. Director, Law 4 Black Lives (L4BL)
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Morgan Wilson

Morgan Wilson, Partnerships Director, L4BL
Sponsors
avatar for Law 4 Black Lives
Saturday September 5, 2026 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
Hyde Park B
  Left Strategy
 

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