Socialism 2026

Dana Cloud

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Dana Cloud is a professor of communication at Syracuse University, author of the forthcoming book Reality Bites: Rhetoric and the Circulation of Truth Claims in US Political Culture from Ohio State. University Press. She is a longtime member of the ISO.

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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

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Confronting Zionism: Decolonizing Palestine and Building the World Anew Grant Park ABNoura Erakat • Brekhna Aftab Introduction to Theatre of the Oppressed Jackson Park CDouglas Paterson

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New People Meet-Up, Find a Friend Grant Park AB Welcome Happy Hour Bar/Patio

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

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Radical Trivia Night! Lobby ConcourseChicago For Abortion Rights

8:30am CDT

Morning Yoga Outside on the lawn (weather-permitting)

10:00am CDT

The Black Path to Socialism W190AKali Akuno • India • Brian Kwoba • Erica Ryan Gender and Accumulation Jackson Park DEric Maroney Crisis in Venezuela: Socialist Perspectives ErieSimón Rodríguez • Anderson Bean • Gonzalo Gómez

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Art and Propaganda: On Learning from Paul Robeson, Why the Artist must Take Sides Grant Park ABSaul Williams Revolutionary Socialism from Below: Strategies to Build the Resistance W190BAaron Amaral • Kristen Guptill-Godfrey • Tempest

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Land and Abolition W190BRuth Wilson Gilmore Black Left Feminism and the Fight Against Fascism: Lessons and Assignments Grant Park ABBarbara Ransby • Sarah Haley Revolutionary Socialists and the Fight Against War and Authoritarianism Jackson Park ANdindi Kitonga • Bill Mullen • Kirstin Roberts • Pepper Macias • Meg • United Left Platform

5:00pm CDT

They Called Us Non-Compliant: The (Sedated) History of Psychiatric Resistance Burnham ABCSarah Broas • Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu • Heena Sharma • Project LETS Who Moves America: Film Screening and Discussion Clark ABCJesse Sharkey • Yael Bridge The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn Dusable ABCBrian Jones • Dave Zirin

8:00pm CDT

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

8:30am CDT

Morning Yoga Outside on the lawn (weather-permitting)

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

12:00pm CDT

Psychic Militancy Jackson Park CLara Sheehi • Pluto Press

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Data Centers, Class Politics, and Socialist Strategy Grant Park ABNathan Kim • Austin Kral • Jasmine Lu • Cella Sum • Yvette Vargas

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The Power of Speculative Fiction in a Shifting Political Climate Adler ABCVaishnavi Patel • Sareena Kamath Unruly Subjects LIVE: A Reckoning with our Moment Grant Park ABRuth Wilson Gilmore • Chenjerai Kumanyika • Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò • Hammer & Hope • Unruly Subjects

7:00pm CDT

Tempest Meet-Up Michigan

9:00pm CDT

The Neo-Futurists present THE INFINITE WRENCH Jackson Park CD

10:00am CDT

Madness, Capitalism and Psychiatric Abolition Grant Park ABStefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu • Nze Okoronta • Leah Harris • Liat Ben-Moshe • Death Panel