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Socialism 2026

Chelsea Birchmier

2:30pm CDT

Abolitionist Campaigns in Hostile Terrains: Fighting Against Immigrant Detention in NY Burnham ABCViju Mathew • Sophia Gurule • Critical Resistance Sing, Struggle, Organize: Movement Songs, Political Education, and Collective Power Jackson Park CSteff Reed From a Marxist Feminist Point of View: Freedom, Rationality and Human Nature Adler ABCNancy Holmstrom • Phil Gasper • Alex Holmstrom-Smith • Rose Lenehan • Daniel Singer Foundation • New Politics Inside Organizing 101 SuperiorJaz Brisack

4:30pm CDT

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

7:30pm CDT

Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Palestine, Internationalism, Abolition W190Angela Y. Davis • Naomi Murakawa

10:00am CDT

The Black Path to Socialism W190AKali Akuno • India • Brian Kwoba • Erica Ryan Crisis in Venezuela: Socialist Perspectives ErieSimón Rodríguez • Anderson Bean • Gonzalo Gómez Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World's Most Powerful Industry Adler ABCClarissa Redwine • JS Tan

12:00pm CDT

Art and Propaganda: On Learning from Paul Robeson, Why the Artist must Take Sides Grant Park ABSaul Williams State Fiscal Strategy for the 21st Century: Dispatches from New York's New Era Jackson Park CElizabeth Cooper • Ciarán Finlayson Break the Board: Neoliberalism in Crisis and the Popular University as Abolition Field ABCAdam • Alex • Fiona • Laith • National Students for Justice in Palestine Revolutionary Socialism from Below: Strategies to Build the Resistance W190BAaron Amaral • Kristen Guptill-Godfrey • Tempest AI Extractivism: Global Systems, Local Processes Clark ABCShiera S. al-Malik • V'cenza Cirefice • Marta Cook • Fawn E. Pochel

3:00pm CDT

Land and Abolition W190BRuth Wilson Gilmore Solidarity Across the Walls and Beyond: Conversation on Inside/Outside Collaborations Burnham ABCNick 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 Jackson Park BAmos Paul Kennedy Jr. • Dio Cramer • Ricardo Levins Morales • Pilsen Community Books • Under the Tree Podcast Revolutionary Socialists and the Fight Against War and Authoritarianism Jackson Park ANdindi Kitonga • Bill Mullen • Kirstin Roberts • Pepper Macias • Meg • United Left Platform How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention Jackson Park DJohn Washington • Johannes Favi The Revolutionary Legacies and Lineages of Grace Lee Boggs ErieLily Luo How the Left Takes on AI Will Determine the Future W190ASasha Costanza-Chock • Sarah Hamid • Tawana Petty • Edith Romero Propaganda Printmaking Michigan/HuronDanielle Bullock

5:00pm CDT

Fighting the Surveillance Apparatus: Connecting ALPRs to Larger Networks of Policing & How to Build Past Them Jackson Park DAustin Kral • Tynetta Hill-Muhammad • Navjot Heer • nat palmer • Breanna Champion • Lucy Parsons Lab The US and China: Imperial Rivalry in a Multipolar World Jackson Park CTobita Chow • Ashley Smith They Called Us Non-Compliant: The (Sedated) History of Psychiatric Resistance Burnham ABCSarah Broas • Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu • Heena Sharma • Project LETS The Young Lords Speak: Building Revolution on the Streets of Chicago Field ABCJacqueline Lazú • Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez

8:00pm CDT

Neighbors Get Ready: Forging New Solidarities and Defeating ICE W190John Washington • Silky Shah • Chris Newman • Tania Wolf • Cat Salonek Schladt

10:00am CDT

Fighting for Trans Liberation in the Midwest: Organizing Under Hostile State Governments Jackson Park DColleen McRoberts • Dr. Emerson Cram • V Fixmer-Oraiz • Rev. Sean McRoberts • Mandi Remington Protecting Our Own: Shifting from State Intervention to Community Care in Crisis Times Jackson Park Cjaboa lake • Erica Meiners • Shannon Perez-Darby From Exploitation to Replacement? Workers in the New Political Economy of AI Field ABCAlex 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 Clark ABCReed Lindsey • Helen Yaffe • Justine Medina • Chicago Cuba Coalition Psychic Militancy Jackson Park CLara Sheehi • Pluto Press Organizing 101: a Black Youth Project 100 Joint Jackson Park BBYP100 Members • Black Youth Project 100 Socialize the Grid: Data Centers and Translocal Organizing Burnham ABCDavid Cobb • Johanna Epke • Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright • India Willi • Black Alliance for Peace Rosa Luxemburg and Frantz Fanon on Imperialism—Its Lessons for Today Jackson Park DAlex Adamson • Peter Hudis • Ndindi Kitonga • International Marxist-Humanist Organization

1:30pm CDT

On the Mend: A Sashiko Workshop Lake Shore Drive Boardroom

3:00pm CDT

Redefining Family: Intro to Family Abolition and Creating Abundant Care Dusable ABCAlanah Armstead • Marin Hart • Kuluntu Reproductive Justice Center Care Networks, Abolition, and the Fight Against Border Policing (Health Fascism Series) W190BBeatrice Adler-Bolton • Silky Shah • A. Naomi Paik • Death Panel Protecting Our Neighbors: DIY Community Defense Street Tactics from Midway Blitz Field ABCG.R.I.P. • G.R.I.P.

5:00pm CDT

We Are Each Other's Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities Clark ABCMoya Bailey • Rachel Kuo