Socialism 2026

Elizabeth Lalasz

Chicago, Illinois

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9:30am CDT

Marxism Education Series Grant Park ABMichael A. McCarthy • Amna Akbar • Eman Abdelhadi

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

10:00am CDT

Gender and Accumulation Jackson Park DEric Maroney Crisis in Venezuela: Socialist Perspectives ErieSimón Rodríguez • Anderson Bean • Gonzalo Gómez 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 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

Art and Propaganda: On Learning from Paul Robeson, Why the Artist must Take Sides Grant Park ABSaul Williams Rank and File Lessons from a New York Nurses Strike in the Mamdani Era Adler ABCRoxana Garcia • Beth Loudin • TBD 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 Migra Watch Training for Illinois Residents ErieDiego Morales • PUÑO

3:00pm CDT

Ocean Deep Solidarity: Reparations, LANDBACK, and Collective Liberation Adler ABCDallas Goldtooth • Dr. Aymar Jean Escoffery • Matthew Harvey • Claire Maracle • Raven Schwam-Curtis • BLIS Collective Printing the Revolution: The Role of Art in Organizing and Building Community Resistance Jackson Park BAmos Paul Kennedy Jr. • Dio Cramer • Ricardo Levins Morales • Pilsen Community Books • Under the Tree Podcast Trans Care in the Age of Health Fascism (Health Fascism Series) Jackson Park CBeatrice Adler-Bolton • S. Lamble • Vicky Osterweil • Death Panel Revolutionary Socialists and the Fight Against War and Authoritarianism Jackson Park ANdindi Kitonga • Bill Mullen • Kirstin Roberts • Pepper Macias • Meg • United Left Platform The Revolutionary Legacies and Lineages of Grace Lee Boggs ErieLily Luo How the Left Takes on AI Will Determine the Future W190ASasha Costanza-Chock • Sarah Hamid • Tawana Petty • Edith Romero Propaganda Printmaking Michigan/HuronDanielle Bullock

5:00pm CDT

War, Capitalism, and Navigating the Climate Crisis Adler ABCJoshua Frank • Tori Tsui • CounterPunch • Pilsen Community Books • Science for the People “As Goes the South”: Building Multiracial Working-Class Solidarity in the South for a Socialist Future Jackson Park BBeth Howard • Jerome Scott • Walda Katz-Fishman • SURJ The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn Dusable ABCBrian Jones • Dave Zirin When Socialists Turned to the Factory Floor SuperiorCandace Cohn • Jack Weinberg • Solidarity The False Choice Between Identity Politics and Class Struggle Jackson Park AMichael A. McCarthy

7:00pm CDT

Minnesota 15 Anti-Repression Committee Meet Up Hyde Park A

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

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 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

Why Socialism Requires Abolition Grant Park ABZohra Ahmed • Kelly Gillespie • Ruth Wilson Gilmore • Vanessa Thompson Intro: Harm Reduction and Solidarity with Unsheltered Neighbors Hyde Park BRachel Shearer • Luna Bender • Andrew Atkinson Bernd • Alexa Gold • Lucy Morales The State of Worker Organizing in the South and the Southern Workers Assembly Field ABCjames pope • Abdul Alkalimat • Destiny Blackwell • Mike Goldfield • Southern Workers Assembly The Muslim Left, NYC, and Zohran Mamdani’s Victory HuronAshik Siddique • Iskander Abbasi • Asad Dandia • Aber Kawas Socialize the Grid: Data Centers and Translocal Organizing Burnham ABCDavid Cobb • Johanna Epke • Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright • India Willi • Black Alliance for Peace Necessary Trouble: Movement-Building since the Financial Crisis W190ACat Salonek Schladt • Chenjerai Kumanyika • Alex Hanna • Sarah Jaffe • Yotam Marom

3:00pm CDT

Three Generations in the Struggle for Socialism and Black Liberation Clark ABCJesse Hagopian • Miles Hagopian • Gerald Lenoir 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

5:00pm CDT

The Strike that Shook the Bay: San Francisco’s Historic 2026 Educator Strike and the Coming California Strike Wave Field ABCYajaira 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 Burnham ABCJustin Akers Chacón • Lucia Flores • Victor Rodríguez • Dan Troccoli • Workers Voice 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

7:00pm CDT

Tempest Meet-Up Michigan