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10:00am CDT

Crisis in Venezuela: Socialist Perspectives

Saturday September 5, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT

This session features contributors to the book Venezuela in Crisis, presenting Venezuelan socialist analyses of the country’s collapse and advancing an anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, and anti-authoritarian critique of the Maduro regime. It will also assess the post–January 3 U.S. military intervention and the reconfiguration of power, sovereignty, and class relations in its aftermath.

Speakers

Simón Rodríguez

Simón Rodríguez, Venezuelan socialist, member of Partido Socialismo y Libertad, and author of Por Qué Fracasó el Chavismo

Anderson Bean

Anderson Bean is a North Carolina–based activist and editor and contributor of the book Venezuela in Crisis: Socialist Perspectives from Haymarket Books, and the author of Communes and the Venezuelan State: The Struggle for Participatory Democracy in a Time of Crisis from Lexington... Read More →

Gonzalo Gómez

Gonzalo Gómez is a Venezuelan socialist activist and writer who played a key role in the regroupment of Trotskyism in Venezuela and provided critical support to the Bolivarian Revolution during the Chavez era. He is a cofounder of both Aporrea and Marea Socialista, a current that... Read More →

Saturday September 5, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
Erie

International Politics

12:00pm CDT

Migra Watch Training for Illinois Residents

Saturday September 5, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT

Erie

For more than a year, PUÑO has been building collective power to protect Chicago’s immigrant communities through a variety of trainings and connecting Chicagoans to their local rapid response group. At this training organizers will lead attendees on how to document and record ICE activity, as well as how to combat ICE terror in our communities.

Speakers

Diego Morales

Sponsors

PUÑO

Saturday September 5, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
Erie

Migrant Justice

3:00pm CDT

The Revolutionary Legacies and Lineages of Grace Lee Boggs

Saturday September 5, 2026 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT

Erie

This workshop is an introduction to the life and thoughts of this Detroit-based Chinese-US American labor organizer, Black Power activist, and leftist Asian American icon. We will explore how her revolutionary legacy continues to inform visionary projects in Detroit and global movements. Drawing from the lessons I’ve learned over two summers in Detroit, together we will envision what a visionary, place-based, relational organizing could look like for your local context.

Speakers

Lily Luo

Dr. Lily Luo is a scholar, organizer, and artist based in New York City and working at the University of Connecticut. She recently successfully defended her dissertation titled “Learning to Transform: The Revolutionary Legacies and Lineages of Grace Lee Boggs” at the University... Read More →

Saturday September 5, 2026 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
Erie

Radical History

6:30pm CDT

How to Close a Camp Study Session

Saturday September 5, 2026 6:30pm - 8:00pm CDT

Erie

Join us for a collective study session on lessons from the struggle against immigration detention, drawing on extracts from John Washington's How to Close a Camp. Through a shared reading and drawing on organizing lessons and experiences of folks in the room, we will explore the different ways the border regime and detention state can and must be resisted.

Reading the book's Introduction, or “This is How We Close the Camps” by John Washington in the Nation, ahead of the session is ideal but not necessary to attend. How to Close a Camp is also available from haymarketbooks.org and at the Socialism 2026 bookstore.

Sponsors

Books Against Borders

Saturday September 5, 2026 6:30pm - 8:00pm CDT
Erie

Migrant Justice

10:00am CDT

12:00pm CDT

3:00pm CDT

6:30pm CDT

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