Socialism 2026

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JeeYeun Lee

9:30am CDT

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

2:30pm CDT

Sing, Struggle, Organize: Movement Songs, Political Education, and Collective Power Jackson Park CSteff Reed

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 Workers Deserve More! A Program for a Future Beyond Capitalism Adler ABCHasan Piker • Ashik Siddique • Michaela Brangan • Frances Gill • Megan Romer • DSA

7:30pm CDT

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

10:00am CDT

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

Revolutionary Socialism from Below: Strategies to Build the Resistance W190BAaron Amaral • Kristen Guptill-Godfrey • Tempest

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 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 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 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 Political Education 3: Slavery, Colonialism, and Primitive Accumulation Dusable ABCGeo Maher • Chris Rogers • Ant Smith • B-REAL • Center for Political Education • W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School

5:00pm CDT

War, Capitalism, and Navigating the Climate Crisis Adler ABCJoshua Frank • Tori Tsui • CounterPunch • Pilsen Community Books • Science for the People The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn Dusable ABCBrian Jones • Dave Zirin 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 The False Choice Between Identity Politics and Class Struggle Jackson Park AMichael A. McCarthy

6:30pm CDT

Songs for Liberation Outside on the lawn (weather-permitting)

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 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 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 The Deadly Tech Exchange: How Tech Companies are Profiting from Genocide and Anti-Immigrant Violence Jackson Park BIzzy Mustafa • Edith Romero • Eric Sype • Adalah Justice Project

12:00pm CDT

Why Socialism Requires Abolition Grant Park ABZohra Ahmed • Kelly Gillespie • Ruth Wilson Gilmore • Vanessa Thompson Weaponizing Antisemitism: An Interactive History MichiganAdam Sanchez • Rethinking Schools Socialize the Grid: Data Centers and Translocal Organizing Burnham ABCDavid Cobb • Johanna Epke • Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright • India Willi • Black Alliance for Peace Rosa Luxemburg and Frantz Fanon on Imperialism—Its Lessons for Today Jackson Park DAlex Adamson • Peter Hudis • Ndindi Kitonga • International Marxist-Humanist Organization

1:30pm CDT

On the Mend: A Sashiko Workshop Lake Shore Drive Boardroom

3:00pm CDT

The Politics of Debt: Organizing in the Age of Finance Burnham ABCBraxton Brewington • René Christian Moya • Lindsey Muniak • Debt Collective Our International Struggles Cannot be Confined to the Capitalists’ National Elections MichiganLaura R • Tom T • Jolene S • Speak Out Socialists Data Centers, Class Politics, and Socialist Strategy Grant Park ABNathan Kim • Austin Kral • Jasmine Lu • Cella Sum • Yvette Vargas Liberatory Spirit, the Spirit of Liberation: Multi-tradition Conversation on How We Get Free Adler ABCAutumn Brown • Rev. Jinzu Minna Jain • Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg • JVP

10:00am CDT

Art is Politics: Making Movements Irresistible Dusable ABCWilliam Estrada • Margaret Vail Palmquist • Roger Peet The Long Struggle for UAW Divestment From Israel Bonds, and the Future of Labor for Palestine ErieBill Mullen • Andrew Bergman • Sophia Gurule • Michael Letwin • Labor for Palestine National Network 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) Mayor Mamdani vs. Wall Street. Sewer Socialism and Municipal Financing—Which Way Forward? Adler ABCDavid Backer • Sylvia Kidder • Michael Reagan Creating Emotional and Spiritual Support Groups for Activists Jackson Park AAtena Danner • Kelly Hayes • Tanuja Jagernauth

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