Socialism 2026

Dave Crockett

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 Political Education 1: What Are We Up Against? Dusable ABCGeo Maher • Chris Rogers • Ant Smith • B-REAL • Center for Political Education • W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School

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Welcome Happy Hour Bar/Patio

7:30pm CDT

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

10:00am CDT

Chicago's Educators and Families Defending Communities Against ICE Jackson Park ALisset G • Kobi Guillory • Raul Islas • Kathryn Zamarron Political Education 2: Understanding Dialectics Dusable ABCSamer Araabi • Thomas Mariadason • Chika Okoye • B-REAL • Center for Political Education • W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School

12:00pm CDT

Class Struggle Infrastructure: Tenant Unions and Socialism Jackson Park AChicago Union of Tenants • Chicago Union of Tenants AI Extractivism: Global Systems, Local Processes Clark ABCShiera S. al-Malik • V'cenza Cirefice • Marta Cook • Fawn E. Pochel

1:30pm CDT

"Finding Our Place in the Sun:" A Black Socialists Meetup Burnham ABC

3:00pm CDT

Resisting Attacks on Schools, from Gaza to Chicago SuperiorHadeil M. Abdelfattah, Ed.D • David Stovall, Ph.D • Nora Lester Murad • Chicago Educators for Palestine • DropTheADL from Schools • Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism Black Left Feminism and the Fight Against Fascism: Lessons and Assignments Grant Park ABBarbara Ransby • Sarah Haley

5:00pm CDT

War, Capitalism, and Navigating the Climate Crisis Adler ABCJoshua Frank • Tori Tsui • CounterPunch • Pilsen Community Books • Science for the People

10:00am CDT

The General Strike and How to Build a Stronger, Bolder, and Bigger Pro-Democracy Labor Movement Grant Park ABSean Fulkerson • Griffin Mahon • TBD • May Day Strong The Forgotten History of the Civil Rights Movement’s Fight for Economic Justice—and Why It Matters Today Jackson Park ABrian Jones • Nancy MacLean • Jeanne Theoharis • Elizabeth Todd-Breland • Hammer & Hope 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

Socialize the Grid: Data Centers and Translocal Organizing Burnham ABCDavid Cobb • Johanna Epke • Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright • India Willi • Black Alliance for Peace

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BIPOC Social Jackson Park BBlack Youth Project 100

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Three Generations in the Struggle for Socialism and Black Liberation Clark ABCJesse Hagopian • Miles Hagopian • Gerald Lenoir The Politics of Debt: Organizing in the Age of Finance Burnham ABCBraxton Brewington • René Christian Moya • Lindsey Muniak • Debt Collective Data Centers, Class Politics, and Socialist Strategy Grant Park ABNathan Kim • Austin Kral • Jasmine Lu • Cella Sum • Yvette Vargas Left Insurgents and Liberal Exhaustion: Consolidating Power from Below W190AHasan Piker • Chenjerai Kumanyika • Hammer & Hope • Unruly Subjects

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Unruly Subjects LIVE: A Reckoning with our Moment Grant Park ABRuth Wilson Gilmore • Chenjerai Kumanyika • Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò • Hammer & Hope • Unruly Subjects

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Organizer Happy Hour Bronzeville WineryScalawag • The Forge

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Chicago IPO/Neighborhood Org Social Dusable ABC33rd Ward Working Families

10:00am CDT

RePRESSion: Press Censorship in the Time of Fascism and Increasing Media Illiteracy Burnham ABCSherronda J. Brown • Da'Shaun L. Harrison • Aarohi Sheth • Tea Troutman • Scalawag

12:00pm CDT

We Want it All: Reclaiming the World from the Rich and the Right W190Damon Williams • Tori Tsui • Beth Howard • Kelly Hayes • Jaz Brisack