Socialism 2026

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2:30pm CDT

From a Marxist Feminist Point of View: Freedom, Rationality and Human Nature TBANancy Holmstrom • Phil Gasper • Alex Holmstrom-Smith • Rose Lenehan We Keep Us Safe: De-Escalation Training TBAbrian bean • Haymarket Books

4:30pm CDT

Confronting Zionism: Decolonizing Palestine and Building the World Anew TBANoura Erakat • Brekhna Aftab Why Does Capitalism Suck and Why Does it Fail? An Introduction to Marxist Economics TBACharlie Post Femme-inism Against Cisness: Bread, Roses, and Hormones, Too TBAA.J. Bohrer • Sophie Lewis Unveiling the Prophet: Anti-Labor Secret Societies and Their Activist Enemies TBAKim Kelly • Devin Thomas O'Shea What We Saw in Chicago: From Midway Blitz to New Forms of Community Defense TBAJuliet DeJesus Alejandre • Antonio Gutierrez • TBD • Rey Wences • ICIRR • OCAD

7:30pm CDT

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

10:00am CDT

Gender and Accumulation TBAEric Maroney Health Fascism, Body Politics, and the Anti-State State (Health Fascism Series) TBABeatrice Adler-Bolton • Da’Shaun L. Harrison • Artie Vierkant • Death Panel Building the Anti-War Movement: Identifying and Organizing Against U.S. Military Subcontractors TBAMatt Fiorillo • Joseph Gumina • Julia Mente • Valerie Wallach • BDS Pittsburgh Labor at the Margins TBAKatherine Passley • Kim Kelly • TBD Lessons of the Russian Revolution TBAPhil Gasper • Suzi Weissman • Critique • New Politics

12:00pm CDT

Debates in Prison Abolitionist Theory and Practice TBAAmna Akbar • Amelia Kirby • Silky Shah • Jack Norton • Zohra Ahmed The Merciless Society: Incarceration, Dehumanization, and American Empire TBALyle May Break the Board: Neoliberalism in Crisis and the Popular University as Abolition TBAAdam • Alex • Fiona • Laith • National Students for Justice in Palestine Sex for Pleasure: Controlling your Reproduction Under a Pro-Natalist Regime TBAEmily Likins-Ehlers Revolutionary Socialism from Below: Strategies to Build the Resistance TBAAaron Amaral • Kristen Guptill-Godfrey • Tempest What Is the Muslim Left? TBAEman Abdelhadi • TBD • Acacia Magazine

3:00pm CDT

Land and Abolition TBARuth Wilson Gilmore Ocean Deep Solidarity: Reparations, LANDBACK, and Collective Liberation TBADr. Aymar Jean Escoffery • Matthew Harvey • Claire Maracle • Justin Morgan • Raven Schwam-Curtis • BLIS Collective Resisting Attacks on Schools, from Gaza to Chicago TBAEmmaia Gelman • Nora Lester Murad • TBD • Chicago Educators for Palestine • DropTheADL from Schools • Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism Funding Until It’s Free: Building a Movement for Tomorrow While Fundraising for Today TBAMary Coleman • Lawrence Koval • Qudsiyyah Shariyf • Em Gonzalez • Lux • Chicago For Abortion Rights Trans Care in the Age of Health Fascism (Health Fascism Series) TBABeatrice Adler-Bolton • S. Lamble • Vicky Osterweil • Death Panel All Socialism, No Government: An Introduction to Anarchist Theory and Strategy TBAHeb Braggs • Ben Eager • Jeremy Jewitt • Juan Gonzalez Valdivieso • Black Rose / Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation Black Left Feminism and the Fight Against Fascism: Lessons and Assignments TBABarbara Ransby How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention TBAJohn Washington • Johannes Favi How the Left Takes on AI Will Determine the Future TBASasha Costanza-Chock • Sarah Hamid • Tawana Petty • Edith Romero

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 War, Capitalism, and Navigating the Climate Crisis TBAJoshua Frank • Tori Tsui • CounterPunch • Pilsen Community Books • Science for the People The US and China: Imperial Rivalry in a Multipolar World TBATobita Chow • Ashley Smith They Called Us Non-Compliant: The (Sedated) History of Psychiatric Resistance TBASarah Broas • Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu • Heena Sharma • Project LETS Who Moves America: Film Screening and Discussion TBAYael Bridge The False Choice Between Identity Politics and Class Struggle TBAMike McCarthy Standing Up to the National Security State: Collective Defense against Political Repression TBATom Alter • TBD • United Left Platform

10:00am CDT

The Power of Speculative Fiction in a Shifting Political Climate TBASareena Kamath • Vaishnavi Patel 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 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 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 Weaponizing Antisemitism: An Interactive History TBAAdam Sanchez • Rethinking Schools Unsafe: The Carceral Roots of the Anti-Trans Backlash TBAS. Lamble • Sophie Lewis Psychic Militancy TBALara Sheehi • Pluto Press The Muslim Left, NYC, and Zohran Mamdani’s Victory TBAIskander Abbasi • Asad Dandia • Aber Kawas • TBD 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 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

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 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 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

9:00pm CDT

The Neo-Futurists present THE INFINITE WRENCH

10:00am CDT

The Roots of Punishment, The Seeds of Abolition: Organizing Against State Violence From the Ground Up TBAML Smith • Tiara Cooper • Furonda Brasfield • U.S. Campaign to Abolish the Death Penalty End the Genocide Behind Bars: Freedom for Palestinian Political Prisoners TBANawaf A • Jenan A • Palestinian Youth Movement • Freedom for Palestinian Political Prisoners A Shit Deal: Capitalism's Ecological Rift TBAT Callahan RePRESSion: Press Censorship in the Time of Fascism and Increasing Media Illiteracy TBASherronda J. Brown • Da'Shaun L. Harrison • Aarohi Sheth • Tea Troutman • Scalawag Madness, Capitalism and Psychiatric Abolition TBAStefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu • Leah Harris • Nze Okoronta • Jess Stohlmann-Rainey • Death Panel The Left and the National Question: Building Solidarity without Exception TBAEman Abdelhadi • Reza Rezaian • Simon Rodriguez • Tanya Vyhovksy • The Ukraine Soilidarity Network (US) Neoliberalism, Fascism, Feudalism...or Socialism? What Lies Ahead TBAJasper Bernes • Nathan Kim • Erin McElroy • Justine Zhang