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Socialism 2026

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2:30pm CDT

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 We Keep Us Safe: De-Escalation Training Clark ABCbrian bean • Haymarket Books

4:30pm CDT

Life After Death Row Clark ABCMumia Abu-Jamal • Kenny Collins • Stanley Howard • Mike Stark Confronting Zionism: Decolonizing Palestine and Building the World Anew Grant Park ABNoura Erakat • Brekhna Aftab Why Does Capitalism Suck and Why Does it Fail? An Introduction to Marxist Economics Burnham ABCCharlie Post Femme-inism Against Cisness: Bread, Roses, and Hormones, Too Field ABCA.J. Bohrer • Sophie Lewis

7:30pm CDT

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

10:00am CDT

Gender and Accumulation Jackson Park DEric Maroney Health Fascism, Body Politics, and the Anti-State State (Health Fascism Series) Grant Park ABBeatrice Adler-Bolton • Da’Shaun L. Harrison • Artie Vierkant • Death Panel Building the Anti-War Movement: Identifying and Organizing Against U.S. Military Subcontractors Burnham ABCMatt Fiorillo • Joseph Gumina • Julia Mente • Valerie Wallach • BDS Pittsburgh Labor at the Margins Field ABCMaya Tatum • Katherine Passley • Kim Kelly Lessons of the Russian Revolution Jackson Park BPhil Gasper • Suzi Weissman • Critique • New Politics

12:00pm CDT

Debates in Prison Abolitionist Theory and Practice W190AAmna Akbar • Amelia Kirby • Silky Shah • Jack Norton • Zohra Ahmed The Merciless Society: Incarceration, Dehumanization, and American Empire Burnham ABCLyle May Revolutionary Socialism from Below: Strategies to Build the Resistance W190BAaron Amaral • Kristen Guptill-Godfrey • Tempest What Is the Muslim Left? Hyde Park BAshik Siddique • Maryam Adamu • TBD • Eman Abdelhadi • Acacia Magazine

3:00pm CDT

Land and Abolition W190BRuth Wilson Gilmore Ocean Deep Solidarity: Reparations, LANDBACK, and Collective Liberation Adler ABCDallas Goldtooth • Dr. Aymar Jean Escoffery • Matthew Harvey • Claire Maracle • Raven Schwam-Curtis • BLIS Collective 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 Funding Until It’s Free: Building a Movement for Tomorrow While Fundraising for Today Hyde Park BMary Coleman • Maheen • Qudsiyyah Shariyf • Em Gonzalez • Lawrence • Lux • Chicago For Abortion Rights Trans Care in the Age of Health Fascism (Health Fascism Series) Jackson Park CBeatrice Adler-Bolton • S. Lamble • Vicky Osterweil • Death Panel All Socialism, No Government: An Introduction to Anarchist Theory and Strategy Field ABCHeb 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 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 How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention Jackson Park DJohn Washington • Johannes Favi How the Left Takes on AI Will Determine the Future W190ASasha 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 Jackson Park DAustin Kral • Tynetta Hill-Muhammad • Navjot Heer • nat palmer • Breanna Champion • Lucy Parsons Lab War, Capitalism, and Navigating the Climate Crisis Adler ABCJoshua Frank • Tori Tsui • CounterPunch • Pilsen Community Books • Science for the People 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 Who Moves America: Film Screening and Discussion Clark ABCJesse Sharkey • Yael Bridge The False Choice Between Identity Politics and Class Struggle Jackson Park AMichael A. McCarthy

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 Refusing Erasure: Justice, Accountability and Historical Memory in the War on Terror Clark ABCNegin Owliaei • Mansoor Adayfi • Maha Hilal • Rashida James Saadiya • Muslim Counterpublics Lab Russian Neofascism: Imperialism Abroad & Repression at Home ErieIlya Budraitskis • Ilya Matveev • Robert Brenner • Yulia Yurchenko • Boris Kagarlitsky International Solidarity Campaign Protecting Our Own: Shifting from State Intervention to Community Care in Crisis Times Jackson Park Cjaboa lake • Erica Meiners • Shannon Perez-Darby 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

12:00pm CDT

Why Socialism Requires Abolition Grant Park ABZohra Ahmed • Kelly Gillespie • Ruth Wilson Gilmore • Vanessa Thompson Palestinian Revolutionary Thought and the Prisoners’ Movement Hyde Park ADanya al-Saleh • Jenan Awaida • Ribhi Hussein • People's Center for Palestine Weaponizing Antisemitism: An Interactive History MichiganAdam Sanchez • Rethinking Schools Unsafe: The Carceral Roots of the Anti-Trans Backlash W190BS. Lamble • Sophie Lewis Psychic Militancy Jackson Park CLara Sheehi • Pluto Press The Muslim Left, NYC, and Zohran Mamdani’s Victory HuronAshik Siddique • Iskander Abbasi • Asad Dandia • Aber Kawas Rosa Luxemburg and Frantz Fanon on Imperialism—Its Lessons for Today Jackson Park DAlex Adamson • Peter Hudis • Ndindi Kitonga • International Marxist-Humanist Organization Necessary Trouble: Movement-Building since the Financial Crisis W190ACat Salonek Schladt • Chenjerai Kumanyika • Alex Hanna • Sarah Jaffe • Yotam Marom

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 Inquilab Zindabad: Bhagat Singh and the Revolutionary Left during South Asian Independence SuperiorViral Mistry Our International Struggles Cannot be Confined to the Capitalists’ National Elections MichiganLaura R • Tom T • Jolene S • Speak Out Socialists Radicalizing Labor Unions: A Balance Sheet of Reform, Class Struggle, and Rank-and-file Movement-Building Jackson Park BToni Gilpin • Andrew Bergman • Nelson Lichtenstein • Luigi Morris • Margie Thornton Data Centers, Class Politics, and Socialist Strategy Grant Park ABNathan Kim • Austin Kral • Jasmine Lu • Cella Sum • Yvette Vargas Protecting Our Neighbors: DIY Community Defense Street Tactics from Midway Blitz Field ABCG.R.I.P. • G.R.I.P.

5:00pm CDT

Are All Cops Bastards? W190Abrian bean • Anderson Bean The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took over the World Jackson Park BDaniella Mazzio • Vicky Osterweil We Are Each Other's Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities Clark ABCMoya Bailey • Rachel Kuo Standing Up to the National Security State: Collective Defense against Political Repression Jackson Park ATom Alter • Yarden Azoulay Katz • Diana Rueda • Treasure Thoreson • United Left Platform 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 Steal This Story, Please! Film Screening and Discussion W190AAmy Goodman • Juan González • Carl Deal

9:00pm CDT

The Neo-Futurists present THE INFINITE WRENCH Jackson Park CD

10:00am CDT

The Roots of Punishment, The Seeds of Abolition: Organizing Against State Violence From the Ground Up Jackson Park DML Smith • Tiara Cooper • Furonda Brasfield • U.S. Campaign to Abolish the Death Penalty End the Genocide Behind Bars: Freedom for Palestinian Political Prisoners Jackson Park BNawaf A • Jenan A • Palestinian Youth Movement • Freedom for Palestinian Political Prisoners A Shit Deal: Capitalism's Ecological Rift SuperiorT Callahan 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 Madness, Capitalism and Psychiatric Abolition Grant Park ABStefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu • Nze Okoronta • Leah Harris • Liat Ben-Moshe • Death Panel The Left and the National Question: Building Solidarity without Exception Jackson Park CEman Abdelhadi • Reza Rezaian • Simón Rodríguez • Tanya Vyhovksy • The Ukraine Soilidarity Network (US) Neoliberalism, Fascism, Feudalism...or Socialism? What Lies Ahead Clark ABCHagen Blix • Jasper Bernes • Nathan Kim • Erin McElroy