Socialism 2026: Full Schedule

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10:00am CDT

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

The 1917 Russian Revolution was one of the 20th century’s most important events. Its early successes inspired workers internationally, but within a decade the revolution had degenerated, and the early gains were replaced with labor camps, show trials, and bureaucratic dictatorship. What lessons does this history hold for socialists today?

Speakers

Phil Gasper

Phil Gasper is co-editor of New Politics, editor of an annotated edition of The Communist Manifesto, and a member of the Tempest Collective.

Suzi Weissman

Suzi Weissman is an editor of Against the Current and Critique. She is an award-winning journalist who hosts “Beneath the Surface” on Los Angeles’ KPFK radio, and the author of Victor Serge: The Course is Set on Hope.

Sponsors

Critique

New Politics

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

12:00pm CDT

Sex for Pleasure: Controlling your Reproduction Under a Pro-Natalist Regime

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

Jackson Park B

In a post-Dobbs era, are restrictions on birth control next? Probably. Learn about alternative contraception methods in a hands-on workshop with a doula + herbalist. **this is not medical advice, educational in nature **

Speakers

Emily Likins-Ehlers

Emily Likins-Ehlers is a full spectrum doula and educator in Illinois. They have been working with contraceptive plants and Fertility Awareness for over a decade.

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

Gender-Sexuality-Liberation

3:00pm CDT

Printing the Revolution: The Role of Art in Organizing and Building Community Resistance

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

Jackson Park B

Art is too often seen as an extra when building social struggles. Sometimes its seen as an important part of mobilizing people. But too rarely art is treated as a way into organizing and building an alternative to our crisis-ridden world. These artist-activists will bring their rich insights from combined decades of experience to explore art's role in building a better world.

Speakers

Amos Paul Kennedy Jr.

Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. is an American printer, book artist and papermaker best known for social and political commentary, particularly in printed posters.

Dio Cramer

Dio (they/them) is an artist, organizer, printmaker, and geographer currently living on occupied Dakota lands in so-called Minnesota. Their work is focused on placemaking, community building, and organizing through the arts, and facilitating collective and collaborative art-making... Read More →

Ricardo Levins Morales

Ricardo Levins Morales is an artist and organizer based in Minneapolis. He uses his art as a form of political medicine to support individual and collective healing from the injuries and ongoing reality of oppression.He was born into the anti-colonial movement in his native Puerto Rico and was drawn into... Read More →

Sponsors

Pilsen Community Books

Under the Tree Podcast

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

Culture and Art

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.

Speakers

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 →

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 →

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

SURJ

Saturday September 5, 2026 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
Jackson Park B

Left Strategy

10:00am CDT

12:00pm CDT

3:00pm CDT

5:00pm CDT

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