Socialism 2026

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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

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

United Left Platform Meet-up TBA

8:00pm CDT

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