Socialism 2026: Full Schedule

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12:00pm CDT

Sunday September 6, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT

Leading abolitionist thinkers will clarify the distinct formulation abolition offers about the relationship between capitalism, the state in general, and the carceral state specifically. They will each explain why socialism requires prison abolition.

Speakers

Zohra Ahmed

Zohra Ahmed is an associate professor of law at Boston University, USA. She writes and teaches about U.S. militarism, domestically and globally. She is a former public defender, and works closely with grassroots movements challenging criminalization.

Kelly Gillespie

Kelly Gillespie is a political and legal anthropologist at the University of Western Cape in South Africa. Her research focuses on criminal justice in South Africa, she is particularly concerned with the ways in which criminal justice has become a vector for the continuation of Apartheid... Read More →

Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Ruth Wilson Gilmore is professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences, and American Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center, USA. Co-founder of many grassroots organizations including the California Prison Moratorium Project, Critical Resistance, and the Central California Environmental... Read More →

Vanessa Thompson

Vanessa Thompson is Associate Professor Distinguished Professor in Black Studies and Social Justice at Queen's University, Canada. Her research examines the relation between state violence, racism and capitalism, and how people struggle against interconnected forms of state violence... Read More →

Sunday September 6, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
TBA

Abolition

3:00pm CDT

Redefining Family: Intro to Family Abolition and Creating Abundant Care

Sunday September 6, 2026 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT

TBA

What does family abolition look like through a Black feminist lens? In this introductory workshop, we envision a world in which care is universally accessible and not reliant on the private family. We engage radical imagination to bring this post-capitalist vision to life with a creative exercise and group discussion.

Speakers

Alanah Armstead

Alanah Armstead (she/her) is a research and writing fellow at Kuluntu Reproductive Justice Center and a recent graduate from Yale University with a BA in the History of Science and Medicine and MPH in Social and Behavioral Sciences. Outside of advocating for Black maternal health... Read More →

Marin Hart

Marin Hart (they/them) is a writer, organizer, and research fellow at Kuluntu Reproductive Justice Center. Currently residing in Portland, Oregon, Marin owes much of their reproductive justice education to the kick-ass advocates of the South. Marin got their bachelor's degree in Gender... Read More →

Sponsors

Kuluntu Reproductive Justice Center

Sunday September 6, 2026 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA

Abolition

5:00pm CDT

Are All Cops Bastards?

Sunday September 6, 2026 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT

TBA

While liberal objections to an ACAB approach may be expected, recently some surprising defenses of police forces in supposedly socialist states have emerged. This session will examine the role of police around the world and ask the question, is there really any such thing as a “revolutionary” cop?

Speakers

brian bean

brian bean is a Chicago-based socialist organizer, writer, and agitator originally from North Carolina. They are one of the founding editors of Rampant magazine. Their work has been published in Truthout, Jacobin, Tempest, Spectre, Red Flag, New Politics, Socialist Worker, International... Read More →

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 →

Sunday September 6, 2026 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
TBA

Abolition

5:00pm CDT

Imagine a Future Without Family Policing!

Sunday September 6, 2026 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT

TBA

The family policing (aka child welfare) system is designed to place marginalized families under intense state surveillance while it promotes a carceral logic that impedes social change. A growing movement calls for abolition: dismantling the system alongside the radical reimagining of a society that supports families and keeps children safe.

Speakers

Dorothy Roberts

Sunday September 6, 2026 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
TBA

Abolition

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