Socialism 2026

From a Marxist Feminist Point of View: Freedom, Rationality and Human Nature 2:30pm - 4:00pm

Workers Deserve More! A Program for a Future Beyond Capitalism 4:30pm - 6:00pm

Welcome Happy Hour 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Reproductive Justice Strategy Session 10:00am - 1:00pm

Abolitionist Campaigns in Hostile Terrains: Fighting Against Immigrant Detention in NY 2:30pm - 4:00pm

Why Does Capitalism Suck and Why Does it Fail? An Introduction to Marxist Economics 4:30pm - 6:00pm

We Keep Us Safe: De-Escalation Training 2:30pm - 4:00pm

Life After Death Row 4:30pm - 6:00pm

Organizing Social Workers for Abolition Summit 10:00am - 2:00pm

The Threat of Geoengineering and the Socialist Response 2:30pm - 4:00pm

Political Education 1: What Are We Up Against? 4:30pm - 6:00pm

Community Lessons for Fighting Fascism: In Honor of Amisha Patel 2:30pm - 4:00pm

How Veterans & Labor Are Fighting VA Union Busting And Privatization 4:30pm - 6:00pm

Femme-inism Against Cisness: Bread, Roses, and Hormones, Too 4:30pm - 6:00pm

Marxism Education Series 9:30am - 4:00pm

Confronting Zionism: Decolonizing Palestine and Building the World Anew 4:30pm - 6:00pm

New People Meet-Up, Find a Friend 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Transformative Rural Organizing 4:30pm - 6:00pm

People Over Mega-Events: Organizing for Housing, Workers, and Communities Beyond the World Cup 4:30pm - 6:00pm

Unveiling the Prophet: Anti-Labor Secret Societies and Their Activist Enemies 4:30pm - 6:00pm

From Prairie to Poppy: How Struggles for Land, War, and Farming Are Connected from Chicago to Pa... 2:30pm - 4:00pm

What We Saw in Chicago: From Midway Blitz to New Forms of Community Defense 4:30pm - 6:00pm

Sing, Struggle, Organize: Movement Songs, Political Education, and Collective Power 2:30pm - 4:00pm

Introduction to Theatre of the Oppressed 4:30pm - 6:00pm

Mother Jones and the Early Socialist Movement: Lessons for Today 2:30pm - 4:00pm

Abolition Judaism: The Revolutionary Possiblities of Diaspora 4:30pm - 6:00pm

Radical Trivia Night! 9:30pm - 11:00pm

Radical Game Night! 9:30pm - 11:00pm

Inside Organizing 101 2:30pm - 4:00pm

Why Eugene Debs Matters 4:30pm - 6:00pm

Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Palestine, Internationalism, Abolition 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World's Most Powerful Industry 10:00am - 11:30am

Rank and File Lessons from a New York Nurses Strike in the Mamdani Era 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Ocean Deep Solidarity: Reparations, LANDBACK, and Collective Liberation 3:00pm - 4:30pm

War, Capitalism, and Navigating the Climate Crisis 5:00pm - 6:30pm

Building the Anti-War Movement: Identifying and Organizing Against U.S. Military Subcontractors 10:00am - 11:30am

The Merciless Society: Incarceration, Dehumanization, and American Empire 12:00pm - 1:30pm

"Finding Our Place in the Sun:" A Black Socialists Meetup 1:30pm - 3:00pm

Solidarity Across the Walls and Beyond: Conversation on Inside/Outside Collaborations 3:00pm - 4:30pm

They Called Us Non-Compliant: The (Sedated) History of Psychiatric Resistance 5:00pm - 6:30pm

AI Extractivism: Global Systems, Local Processes 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Labor for Palestine National Network Meet-Up 1:30pm - 3:00pm

Connecting with Coworkers to Form Your Union 3:00pm - 4:30pm

Who Moves America: Film Screening and Discussion 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Political Education 2: Understanding Dialectics 10:00am - 11:30am

Cross-Walls Solidarity Against Carceral Infrastructure 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Political Education 3: Slavery, Colonialism, and Primitive Accumulation 3:00pm - 4:30pm

The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn 5:00pm - 6:30pm

Crisis in Venezuela: Socialist Perspectives 10:00am - 11:30am

Migra Watch Training for Illinois Residents 12:00pm - 1:30pm

The Revolutionary Legacies and Lineages of Grace Lee Boggs 3:00pm - 4:30pm

How to Close a Camp Study Session 6:30pm - 8:00pm

Labor at the Margins 10:00am - 11:30am

Break the Board: Neoliberalism in Crisis and the Popular University as Abolition 12:00pm - 1:30pm

All Socialism, No Government: An Introduction to Anarchist Theory and Strategy 3:00pm - 4:30pm

The Young Lords Speak: Building Revolution on the Streets of Chicago 5:00pm - 6:30pm

Health Fascism, Body Politics, and the Anti-State State (Health Fascism Series) 10:00am - 11:30am

Art and Propaganda: On Learning from Paul Robeson, Why the Artist must Take Sides 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Black Left Feminism and the Fight Against Fascism: Lessons and Assignments 3:00pm - 4:30pm

Spirit of Justice: Building Beloved Community, Embodying Revolutionary Love 5:00pm - 6:30pm

Journalism, Authoritarianism and Struggles Against ICE 10:00am - 11:30am

Socialism, Liberation Theology, and the Black Church: Lessons from Black Socialist Preachers Pas... 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Building the People's Embargo for Palestine: Strategy, Assessment, and the Path to Freedom Durin... 5:00pm - 6:30pm

Minnesota 15 Anti-Repression Committee Meet Up 7:00pm - 8:00pm

No Such Thing As NIMBY: The Fight to Protect Our Water 10:00am - 11:30am

What Is the Muslim Left? 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Funding Until It’s Free: Building a Movement for Tomorrow While Fundraising for Today 3:00pm - 4:30pm

Movement Lawyering in Times of Retrenchment 5:00pm - 6:30pm

Chicago's Educators and Families Defending Communities Against ICE 10:00am - 11:30am

Class Struggle Infrastructure: Tenant Unions and Socialism 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Revolutionary Socialists and the Fight Against War and Authoritarianism 3:00pm - 4:30pm

The False Choice Between Identity Politics and Class Struggle 5:00pm - 6:30pm

Lessons of the Russian Revolution 10:00am - 11:30am

Sex for Pleasure: Controlling your Reproduction Under a Pro-Natalist Regime 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Printing the Revolution: The Role of Art in Organizing and Building Community Resistance 3:00pm - 4:30pm

“As Goes the South”: Building Multiracial Working-Class Solidarity in the South for a Socialist... 5:00pm - 6:30pm

Song for a Hard-Hit People: Building Anti-Racist Solidarity in Appalachia 10:00am - 11:30am

State Fiscal Strategy for the 21st Century: Dispatches from New York's New Era 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Socialist Horizon Meet-up 1:30pm - 3:00pm

Trans Care in the Age of Health Fascism (Health Fascism Series) 3:00pm - 4:30pm

The US and China: Imperial Rivalry in a Multipolar World 5:00pm - 6:30pm

United Left Platform Meet-up 6:30pm - 8:00pm

Gender and Accumulation 10:00am - 11:30am

Che’s “New Man” and The Bodhisattva Revolutionary 12:00pm - 1:30pm

How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention 3:00pm - 4:30pm

Fighting the Surveillance Apparatus: Connecting ALPRs to Larger Networks of Policing & How to Bu... 5:00pm - 6:30pm

Letter Writing to Incarcerated Comrades 1:30pm - 3:00pm

Propaganda Printmaking 3:00pm - 4:30pm

Prison Papers in Action: Activating Archives with Walls Turned Sideways 5:00pm - 6:30pm

Abolitionist Zine Writing Workshop 6:30pm - 8:00pm

Morning Yoga 8:30am - 9:30am

Songs for Liberation 6:30pm - 8:00pm

Resisting Attacks on Schools, from Gaza to Chicago 3:00pm - 4:30pm

When Socialists Turned to the Factory Floor 5:00pm - 6:30pm

Neighbors Get Ready: Forging New Solidarities and Defeating ICE 8:00pm - 9:30pm

The Black Path to Socialism 10:00am - 11:30am

Debates in Prison Abolitionist Theory and Practice 12:00pm - 1:30pm

How the Left Takes on AI Will Determine the Future 3:00pm - 4:30pm

Hustle Culture vs. Solidarity 10:00am - 11:30am

Revolutionary Socialism from Below: Strategies to Build the Resistance 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Land and Abolition 3:00pm - 4:30pm

Black History is for Everyone 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Liberatory Spirit, the Spirit of Liberation: Multi-tradition Conversation on How We Get Free 3:00pm - 4:30pm

The Power of Speculative Fiction in a Shifting Political Climate 5:00pm - 6:30pm

Organizer Happy Hour 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Socialize the Grid: Data Centers and Translocal Organizing 12:00pm - 1:30pm

The Politics of Debt: Organizing in the Age of Finance 3:00pm - 4:30pm

Mass Labor Action in Defense of Immigrant Workers: Why We Need It and How We Can Get there 5:00pm - 6:30pm

The South Meet Up 8:00pm - 9:00pm

Refusing Erasure: Justice, Accountability and Historical Memory in the War on Terror 10:00am - 11:30am

Cuba Under Siege: A Round Table Discussion 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Three Generations in the Struggle for Socialism and Black Liberation 3:00pm - 4:30pm

We Are Each Other's Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities 5:00pm - 6:30pm

En español: El levantamiento de Bolivia: causas, contradicciones y lecciones 10:00am - 11:30am

Sumud in Praxis: Teaching for Solidarity from Turtle Island to Palestine 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Redefining Family: Intro to Family Abolition and Creating Abundant Care 3:00pm - 4:30pm

Imagine a Future Without Family Policing! 5:00pm - 6:30pm

Chicago IPO/Neighborhood Org Social 8:00pm - 9:00pm

Russian Neofascism: Imperialism Abroad & Repression at Home 10:00am - 11:30am

Documenting Actions, Activism, and Activists’ Lives: Strategies for Preserving Personal and Orga... 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Using Historical Ephemera for Political Education 3:00pm - 4:30pm

From Exploitation to Replacement? Workers in the New Political Economy of AI 10:00am - 11:30am

The State of Worker Organizing in the South and the Southern Workers Assembly 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Protecting Our Neighbors: DIY Community Defense Street Tactics from Midway Blitz 3:00pm - 4:30pm

The Strike that Shook the Bay: San Francisco’s Historic 2026 Educator Strike and the Coming Cali... 5:00pm - 6:30pm

Cultural Worker Meet-Up 8:00pm - 9:00pm

The General Strike and How to Build a Stronger, Bolder, and Bigger Pro-Democracy Labor Movement 10:00am - 11:30am

Why Socialism Requires Abolition 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Data Centers, Class Politics, and Socialist Strategy 3:00pm - 4:30pm

Unruly Subjects LIVE: A Reckoning with our Moment 5:00pm - 6:30pm

Tarot for Socialists! 6:30pm - 8:00pm

The Muslim Left, NYC, and Zohran Mamdani’s Victory 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Trust in God and Keep the Powder Dry: A Short History of Leftwing Religious Non-Nonviolence 10:00am - 11:30am

Palestinian Revolutionary Thought and the Prisoners’ Movement 12:00pm - 1:30pm

People's Movement Assembly 101: Building Insurgent Democracies in the US South 5:00pm - 6:30pm

Library Workers Meetup 8:00pm - 9:00pm

Intro: Harm Reduction and Solidarity with Unsheltered Neighbors 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Poetry for the People: Creating Your Own Community-Based Poetry Workshop, A Training for Facilit... 3:00pm - 4:30pm

South Asian Solidarity Meet-Up 8:00pm - 9:00pm

The Forgotten History of the Civil Rights Movement’s Fight for Economic Justice—and Why It Matte... 10:00am - 11:30am

Resisting MAHA & Building Environmental & Reproductive Justice 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Organize or Burn: Sewer Socialism for Climate Survival in the 21st Century 3:00pm - 4:30pm

Standing Up to the National Security State: Collective Defense against Political Repression 5:00pm - 6:30pm

Radical Healthcare Workers and Friends Meet Up 8:00pm - 9:00pm

The Deadly Tech Exchange: How Tech Companies are Profiting from Genocide and Anti-Immigrant Viol... 10:00am - 11:30am

Organizing 101: a Black Youth Project 100 Joint 12:00pm - 1:30pm

BIPOC Social 1:30pm - 3:00pm

Radicalizing Labor Unions: A Balance Sheet of Reform, Class Struggle, and Rank-and-file Movement... 3:00pm - 4:30pm

The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took over the World 5:00pm - 6:30pm

Jewish Voice for Peace Meet-Up 8:00pm - 9:00pm

Protecting Our Own: Shifting from State Intervention to Community Care in Crisis Times 10:00am - 11:30am

Psychic Militancy 12:00pm - 1:30pm

The Neo-Futurists present THE INFINITE WRENCH 9:00pm - 10:00pm

Fighting for Trans Liberation in the Midwest: Organizing Under Hostile State Governments 10:00am - 11:30am

Rosa Luxemburg and Frantz Fanon on Imperialism—Its Lessons for Today 12:00pm - 1:30pm

On the Mend: A Sashiko Workshop 1:30pm - 3:00pm

Weaponizing Antisemitism: An Interactive History 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Our International Struggles Cannot be Confined to the Capitalists’ National Elections 3:00pm - 4:30pm

Tempest Meet-Up 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Morning Yoga 8:30am - 9:30am

Democratic Socialists of America Meet-Up 7:00pm - 9:30pm

The Old Being Reborn: The Revival of Socialist Organizations in US and Belgium 10:00am - 11:30am

The Present State of People’s History 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Inquilab Zindabad: Bhagat Singh and the Revolutionary Left during South Asian Independence 3:00pm - 4:30pm

Firebrands: the Organizing RPG | Actual Play Session! 6:30pm - 9:30pm

Necessary Trouble: Movement-Building since the Financial Crisis 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Left Insurgents and Liberal Exhaustion: Consolidating Power from Below 3:00pm - 4:30pm

Are All Cops Bastards? 5:00pm - 6:30pm

Steal This Story, Please! Film Screening and Discussion 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Unsafe: The Carceral Roots of the Anti-Trans Backlash 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Care Networks, Abolition, and the Fight Against Border Policing (Health Fascism Series) 3:00pm - 4:30pm

Socialism Beats Fascism: Organizing for a Post-Trump America 5:00pm - 6:30pm

Mayor Mamdani vs. Wall Street. Sewer Socialism and Municipal Financing—Which Way Forward? 10:00am - 11:30am

RePRESSion: Press Censorship in the Time of Fascism and Increasing Media Illiteracy 10:00am - 11:30am

Neoliberalism, Fascism, Feudalism...or Socialism? What Lies Ahead 10:00am - 11:30am

Art is Politics: Making Movements Irresistible 10:00am - 11:30am

The Long Struggle for UAW Divestment From Israel Bonds, and the Future of Labor for Palestine 10:00am - 11:30am

Insurgent Spiritualities for Revolutionary Struggle 10:00am - 11:30am

Madness, Capitalism and Psychiatric Abolition 10:00am - 11:30am

How Communities Become Targets: Somalis in Minnesota and the Policing of Black Muslim Life 10:00am - 11:30am

Creating Emotional and Spiritual Support Groups for Activists 10:00am - 11:30am

End the Genocide Behind Bars: Freedom for Palestinian Political Prisoners 10:00am - 11:30am

The Left and the National Question: Building Solidarity without Exception 10:00am - 11:30am

The Roots of Punishment, The Seeds of Abolition: Organizing Against State Violence From the Grou... 10:00am - 11:30am

A Shit Deal: Capitalism's Ecological Rift 10:00am - 11:30am

We Want it All: Reclaiming the World from the Rich and the Right 12:00pm - 1:30pm