Socialism 2026

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10:00am CDT

The Power of Speculative Fiction in a Shifting Political Climate TBASareena Kamath • Vaishnavi Patel Fighting for Trans Liberation in the Midwest: Organizing Under Hostile State Governments TBADr. Emerson Cram • V Fixmer-Oraiz • Rev. Sean McRoberts • Mandi Remington Care Networks, Abolition, and the Fight Against Border Policing (Health Fascism Series) TBABeatrice Adler-Bolton • A. Naomi Paik • Silky Shah • Death Panel Refusing Erasure: Justice, Accountability and Historical Memory in the War on Terror TBAMansoor Adayfi • Maha Hilal • Sanaa Ansari Khan • Rashida James Saadiya • Muslim Counterpublics Lab Russian Neofascism: Imperialism Abroad & Repression at Home TBARobert Brenner • Ilya Budraitskis • Ilya Matveev • Daria Saburova • Boris Kagarlitsky International Solidarity Campaign The Old Being Reborn: The Revival of Socialist Organizations in US and Belgium TBADavid Duhalde • Joe Todd • RLS The General Strike and How to Build a Stronger, Bolder, and Bigger Pro-Democracy Labor Movement TBASean Fulkerson • Griffin Mahon • Jessica Tang • May Day Strong Protecting Our Own: Shifting from State Intervention to Community Care in Crisis Times TBAjaboa lake • Erica Meiners • Shannon Perez-Darby Documenting Transformative Justice: Building Knowledge Bases for Community Accountability Strategies TBAShira Hassan • Mimi Kim • Deana Lewis • iLL Weaver • Creative Interventions • Emergence Media • Just Praxtice The Forgotten History of the Civil Rights Movement’s Fight for Economic Justice—and Why It Matters Today TBABrian Jones • Nancy MacLean • Jeanne Theoharis • Elizabeth Todd-Breland Trust in God and Keep the Powder Dry: A Short History of Leftwing Religious Non-Nonviolence TBAAdam Vander Tuig • Highlander From Exploitation to Replacement? Workers in the New Political Economy of AI TBAAlex Hanna • Nathan Kim • Thomas Mariadason • Chika Okoye • Center for Political Education • Distributed AI Research Institute The Deadly Tech Exchange: How Tech Companies are Profiting from Genocide and Anti-Immigrant Violence TBAIzzy Mustafa • Edith Romero • Eric Sype • Adalah Justice Project Protecting Our Neighbors: DIY Community Defense Street Tactics from Midway Blitz TBAG.R.I.P. • G.R.I.P.

12:00pm CDT

Why Socialism Requires Abolition TBAZohra Ahmed • Kelly Gillespie • Ruth Wilson Gilmore • Vanessa Thompson Palestinian Revolutionary Thought and the Prisoners’ Movement TBADanya al-Saleh • Jenan Awaida • Ribhi Hussein • People's Center for Palestine Black History is for Everyone TBABrian Jones Sumud in Praxis: Teaching for Solidarity from Turtle Island to Palestine TBAAnita Fernández • Zeiad Abbas Shamrouch • Samia Shoman • Jenine Wehbeh Weaponizing Antisemitism: An Interactive History TBAAdam Sanchez • Rethinking Schools Unsafe: The Carceral Roots of the Anti-Trans Backlash TBAS. Lamble • Sophie Lewis Resisting MAHA & Building Environmental & Reproductive Justice TBAJudith Clerjeune • Dr. Sydney Curtis • Abhinaya Narayanan • Briana Perry Intro: Harm Reduction and Solidarity with Unsheltered Neighbors TBARachel Shearer • Luna Bender • Andrew Atkinson Bernd • Alexa Gold • Lucy Morales Cuba Under Siege: A Round Table Discussion TBATBD • Justine Medina • Helen Yaffe • Chicago Cuba Coalition The State of Worker Organizing in the South and the Southern Workers Assembly TBAjames pope • Abdul Alkalimat • Destiny Blackwell • Mike Goldfield • Southern Workers Assembly Psychic Militancy TBALara Sheehi • Pluto Press The Muslim Left, NYC, and Zohran Mamdani’s Victory TBAIskander Abbasi • Asad Dandia • Aber Kawas • TBD Documenting Actions, Activism, and Activists’ Lives: Strategies for Preserving Personal and Organizational Archives TBAKate Stewart Organizing 101: a Black Youth Project 100 Joint TBADesmond King • BYP100 Members • Black Youth Project 100 The Present State of People’s History TBAIsaac Silver • Peter Cole • Matthew Ray • Left in the Bay Socialize the Grid: Data Centers and Translocal Organizing TBADavid Cobb • Johanna Epke • Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright • India Willi • Black Alliance for Peace Rosa Luxemburg and Frantz Fanon on Imperialism—Its Lessons for Today TBAAlex Adamson • Peter Hudis • Ndindi Kitonga • International Marxist-Humanist Organization Necessary Trouble: Movement-Building since the Financial Crisis TBAAlex Hanna • Sarah Jaffe • Chenjerai Kumanyika • Yotam Marom

3:00pm CDT

Redefining Family: Intro to Family Abolition and Creating Abundant Care TBAAlanah Armstead • Marin Hart • Kuluntu Reproductive Justice Center Three Generations in the Struggle for Socialism and Black Liberation TBAJesse Hagopian • Miles Hagopian • Gerald Lenoir Organize or Burn: Sewer Socialism for Climate Survival in the 21st Century TBAAshik Siddique • Cihan Tekay Liu • Kelsea Bond • Alex Brower • DSA Poetry for the People: Creating Your Own Community-Based Poetry Workshop, A Training for Facilitators TBAMaya Marshall • Haymarket Books The Politics of Debt: Organizing in the Age of Finance TBABraxton Brewington • René Christian Moya • Lindsey Muniak • Debt Collective Bodies, Bodies, Bodies TBAAsya Sağnak • TBD • Lux Turn Illness Into A Weapon: Autonomous Health Organizing in Times of Rising Fascism (Health Fascism Series) TBAzara raven • Beatrice Adler-Bolton • Tea Burns • TBD • Death Panel Inquilab Zindabad: Bhagat Singh and the Revolutionary Left during South Asian Independence TBAViral Mistry Our International Struggles Cannot be Confined to the Capitalists’ National Elections TBALaura R • Jolene S • Tom T • Speak Out Socialists Radicalizing Labor Unions: A Balance Sheet of Reform, Class Struggle, and Rank-and-file Movement-Building TBAAndrew Bergman • Nelson Lichtenstein • Luigi Morris • Margie Thornton Data Centers, Class Politics, and Socialist Strategy TBANathan Kim • Austin Kral • Jasmine Lu • Cella Sum • Yvette Vargas Revolutionary Socialists and the Fight Against War and Authoritarianism TBANdindi Kitonga • Pepper Macias • Meg • Bill Mullen • Kirstin Roberts • United Left Platform Neighborhood Organizing 101 TBAAmadi Ozier Using Historical Ephemera for Political Education TBAIsaac Silver • Buttons of the Left Liberatory Spirit, the Spirit of Liberation: Multi-tradition Conversation on How We Get Free TBAAutumn Brown • Rev. Jinzu Minna Jain • Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg • JVP

5:00pm CDT

Are All Cops Bastards? TBAbrian bean • Anderson Bean Imagine a Future Without Family Policing! TBADorothy Roberts The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took over the World TBADaniella Mazzio • Vicky Osterweil Socialism Beats Fascism: Organizing for a Post-Trump America TBAGriffin Mahon • Eleanor Babaev • Bol B • Eman Abdelhadi • DSA We Are Each Other's Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities TBAMoya Bailey • Rachel Kuo • TBD The Strike that Shook the Bay: San Francisco’s Historic 2026 Educator Strike and the Coming California Strike Wave TBAYajaira Cuapio • Ilan Desai-Gellar • Alex Schmaus • United Educators of San Francisco Mass Labor Action in Defense of Immigrant Workers: Why We Need It and How We Can Get there TBAJustin Akers Chacón • Lucia Flores • Victor Rodríguez • Dan Troccoli • Workers Voice People's Movement Assembly 101: Building Insurgent Democracies in the US South TBADenzel Caldwell • Black Nashville Assembly Unruly Subjects LIVE: A Reckoning with our Moment TBARuth Wilson Gilmore • Chenjerai Kumanyika • Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò

7:00pm CDT

Steal This Story: Film Screening and Discussion TBAAmy Goodman • Tia Lessin

8:00pm CDT

Chicago IPO/Neighborhood Org Social TBA33rd Ward Working Families Cultural Worker Meet-Up TBA Democratic Socialists of America Meet-Up TBADSA Library Workers Meetup TBA Movement Journalism as Anti-Fascist Resistance TBADa’Shaun Harrison • Cayden Mak • Maya Schenwar • Lara Witt • Movement Media Alliance Public Educators Meet-Up TBA Radical Healthcare Workers and Friends Meet Up TBADebt Collective’s Healthcare Worker Solidarity Collective Tech Worker Meetup TBA The South Meet Up TBASouthern Workers Assembly