Socialism 2026

elizaBeth Simpson

Cooperative Conflict

PhD Student

Urbana, IL

About me

I came to TO in 1999.

2:30pm CDT

Sing, Struggle, Organize: Movement Songs, Political Education, and Collective Power Jackson Park CSteff Reed Community Lessons for Fighting Fascism: In Honor of Amisha Patel ErieMaya Schenwar • Juliet DeJesus Alejandre • Tanuja Jagernauth • Katelyn Johnson • Rocío García • Truthout 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 Mother Jones and the Early Socialist Movement: Lessons for Today Jackson Park DRosemary Feurer • Joseph Rathke • Mother Jones Heritage Project

4:30pm CDT

Life After Death Row Clark ABCMumia Abu-Jamal • Kenny Collins • Stanley Howard • Mike Stark Introduction to Theatre of the Oppressed Jackson Park CDouglas Paterson Femme-inism Against Cisness: Bread, Roses, and Hormones, Too Field ABCA.J. Bohrer • Sophie Lewis Workers Deserve More! A Program for a Future Beyond Capitalism Adler ABCHasan Piker • Ashik Siddique • Michaela Brangan • Frances Gill • Megan Romer • DSA Why Eugene Debs Matters SuperiorAllison Duerk • Shawn Gude Abolition Judaism: The Revolutionary Possiblities of Diaspora Jackson Park DRabbi Andrue Kahn • Dania Rajendra • Benjamin Balthaser • Maurice BP-Weeks Balthazar • JVP

6:00pm CDT

Welcome Happy Hour Bar/Patio

7:30pm CDT

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

9:30pm CDT

Radical Game Night! Michigan/Huron

10:00am CDT

The Black Path to Socialism W190AKali Akuno • India • Brian Kwoba • Erica Ryan 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 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 Song for a Hard-Hit People: Building Anti-Racist Solidarity in Appalachia Jackson Park CBeth Howard • Jerome Scott

12:00pm CDT

Cross-Walls Solidarity Against Carceral Infrastructure Dusable ABCKendra Drysdale • Berty Hernandez • Mon Mohapatra • TBD • Community Justice Exchange 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 Art and Propaganda: On Learning from Paul Robeson, Why the Artist must Take Sides Grant Park ABSaul Williams Sex for Pleasure: Controlling your Reproduction Under a Pro-Natalist Regime Jackson Park BEmily Likins-Ehlers

3:00pm CDT

Land and Abolition W190BRuth Wilson Gilmore

5:00pm CDT

Prison Papers in Action: Activating Archives with Walls Turned Sideways Michigan/HuronMira Simonton-Chao • Carlos Ayala • Walls Turned Sideways 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 Spirit of Justice: Building Beloved Community, Embodying Revolutionary Love Grant Park ABnyle fort • Michelle Alexander • Saul Williams • Rami Nashashibi • Spirit of Justice

6:30pm CDT

Abolitionist Zine Writing Workshop Michigan/Huron Songs for Liberation Outside on the lawn (weather-permitting)

10:00am CDT

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 Trust in God and Keep the Powder Dry: A Short History of Leftwing Religious Non-Nonviolence Hyde Park AAdam Vander Tuig • Highlander

12:00pm CDT

Why Socialism Requires Abolition Grant Park ABZohra Ahmed • Kelly Gillespie • Ruth Wilson Gilmore • Vanessa Thompson Unsafe: The Carceral Roots of the Anti-Trans Backlash W190BS. Lamble • Sophie Lewis Psychic Militancy Jackson Park CLara Sheehi • Pluto Press Organizing 101: a Black Youth Project 100 Joint Jackson Park BBYP100 Members • Black Youth Project 100

3:00pm CDT

Redefining Family: Intro to Family Abolition and Creating Abundant Care Dusable ABCAlanah Armstead • Marin Hart • Kuluntu Reproductive Justice Center

6:30pm CDT

Tarot for Socialists! Grant Park AB

7:00pm CDT

Steal This Story, Please! Film Screening and Discussion W190AAmy Goodman • Juan González • Carl Deal

8:00pm CDT

Cultural Worker Meet-Up Field ABC

9:00pm CDT

The Neo-Futurists present THE INFINITE WRENCH Jackson Park CD

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