Socialism 2026

Chelsea Birchmier

2:30pm CDT

From a Marxist Feminist Point of View: Freedom, Rationality and Human Nature TBANancy Holmstrom • Phil Gasper • Alex Holmstrom-Smith • Rose Lenehan Inside Organizing 101 TBAJaz Brisack

4:30pm CDT

Life After Death Row TBAMumia Abu-Jamal • Kenny Collins • Stanley Howard • Mike Stark Unveiling the Prophet: Anti-Labor Secret Societies and Their Activist Enemies TBAKim Kelly • Devin Thomas O'Shea

7:30pm CDT

Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Palestine, Internationalism, Abolition TBAAngela Y. Davis • Naomi Murakawa

10:00am CDT

The Black Path to Socialism TBAKali Akuno • India • Brian Kwoba • Erica Ryan Crisis in Venezuela: Socialist Perspectives TBAAnderson Bean • Gonzalo Gómez • Emiliano Terán

12:00pm CDT

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

3:00pm CDT

Solidarity Across the Walls and Beyond: Conversation on Inside/Outside Collaborations TBANick Brown • Eddy Fletcher • James Kilgore • Mon Mohapatra • Stevie Wilson • Community Justice Exchange Printing the Revolution: The Role of Art in Organizing and Building Community Resistance TBADio Cramer • Ricardo Levins Morales • Pilsen Community Books 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

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 The US and China: Imperial Rivalry in a Multipolar World TBATobita Chow • Ashley Smith

8:00pm CDT

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

10:00am CDT

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 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

12:00pm CDT

Cuba Under Siege: A Round Table Discussion TBATBD • Justine Medina • Helen Yaffe • Chicago Cuba Coalition Psychic Militancy TBALara Sheehi • Pluto Press Organizing 101: a Black Youth Project 100 Joint TBADesmond King • BYP100 Members • Black Youth Project 100 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