Socialism 2026

Leigh Smith

New York

https://leighsmith.com

About me

Music and machine learning, technology and politics, socialism and music.

2:30pm CDT

Abolitionist Campaigns in Hostile Terrains: Fighting Against Immigrant Detention in NY TBAViju Mathew • Sophia Gurule • Critical Resistance Confronting Colonialism: Race, Indigeneity, and Liberation TBAKyle T. Mays • Michael Staudenmaier Sing, Struggle, Organize: Movement Songs, Political Education, and Collective Power TBASteff Reed From Prairie to Poppy: How Struggles for Land, War, and Farming Are Connected from Chicago to Palestine TBAHeather Aubry • A. Funk • Rumsha S. • Dissenters Mother Jones and the Early Socialist Movement: Lessons for Today TBARosemary Feurer • Joseph Rathke • Mother Jones Heritage Project

4:30pm CDT

Life After Death Row TBAMumia Abu-Jamal • Kenny Collins • Stanley Howard • Mike Stark Confronting Zionism: Decolonizing Palestine and Building the World Anew TBANoura Erakat • Brekhna Aftab Introduction to Theatre of the Oppressed TBADouglas Paterson Why Eugene Debs Matters TBAAllison Duerk • Shawn Gude

6:00pm CDT

Welcome Happy Hour

7:30pm CDT

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

9:30pm CDT

Radical trivia night!

10:00am CDT

Journalism, Authoritarianism and Struggles Against ICE TBAAdam Goodman • Memo Torres • Diane de Vignemont • Daniel Singer Foundation Building the Anti-War Movement: Identifying and Organizing Against U.S. Military Subcontractors TBAMatt Fiorillo • Joseph Gumina • Julia Mente • Valerie Wallach • BDS Pittsburgh Crisis in Venezuela: Socialist Perspectives TBAAnderson Bean • Gonzalo Gómez • Emiliano Terán Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World's Most Powerful Industry TBAClarissa Redwine • JS Tan Attention Economics for Organizers: How Big Tech Hijacked Our Attention & How We’re Fighting Back TBASarah Jaffe • Cayden Mak • Delaney Vandergrift • Convergence Magazine Lessons of the Russian Revolution TBAPhil Gasper • Suzi Weissman • Critique • New Politics Political Education 2: Understanding Dialectics TBASamer 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 TBASaul Williams Socialist Fiscal Strategy for the 21st Century: Dispatches from New York City’s New Era TBAElizabeth Cooper • Ciarán Finlayson • Zainab Firdausi Revolutionary Socialism from Below: Strategies to Build the Resistance TBAAaron Amaral • Kristen Guptill-Godfrey • Tempest What Is the Muslim Left? TBAEman Abdelhadi • TBD • Acacia Magazine Che’s “New Man” and The Bodhisattva Revolutionary TBABreht O’Shea • Rev Left Radio AI Extractivism: Global Systems, Local Processes TBAShiera S. al-Malik • V'cenza Cirefice • Marta Cook • Fawn E. Pochel

1:30pm CDT

Socialist Horizon Meet-up TBA

3:00pm CDT

All Socialism, No Government: An Introduction to Anarchist Theory and Strategy TBAHeb Braggs • Ben Eager • Jeremy Jewitt • Juan Gonzalez Valdivieso • Black Rose / Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation How the Left Takes on AI Will Determine the Future TBASasha Costanza-Chock • Sarah Hamid • Tawana Petty • Edith Romero

5:00pm CDT

Building the People's Embargo for Palestine: Strategy, Assessment, and the Path to Freedom During the Time of Genocide TBATBD • Palestinian Youth Movement • People's Embargo for Palestine War, Capitalism, and Navigating the Climate Crisis TBAJoshua Frank • Tori Tsui • CounterPunch • Pilsen Community Books • Science for the People The US and China: Imperial Rivalry in a Multipolar World TBATobita Chow • Ashley Smith The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn TBABrian Jones • Dave Zirin

6:30pm CDT

Songs for Liberation

8:00pm CDT

Neighbors Get Ready: Forging New Solidarities and Defeating ICE TBASilky Shah • TBD

10:00am CDT

Russian Neofascism: Imperialism Abroad & Repression at Home TBARobert Brenner • Ilya Budraitskis • Ilya Matveev • Daria Saburova • Boris Kagarlitsky International Solidarity Campaign From Exploitation to Replacement? Workers in the New Political Economy of AI TBAAlex 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 TBAIzzy Mustafa • Edith Romero • Eric Sype • Adalah Justice Project

12:00pm CDT

Palestinian Revolutionary Thought and the Prisoners’ Movement TBADanya al-Saleh • Jenan Awaida • Ribhi Hussein • People's Center for Palestine Sumud in Praxis: Teaching for Solidarity from Turtle Island to Palestine TBAAnita Fernández • Zeiad Abbas Shamrouch • Samia Shoman • Jenine Wehbeh Cuba Under Siege: A Round Table Discussion TBATBD • Justine Medina • Helen Yaffe • Chicago Cuba Coalition Socialize the Grid: Data Centers and Translocal Organizing TBADavid Cobb • Johanna Epke • Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright • India Willi • Black Alliance for Peace Rosa Luxemburg and Frantz Fanon on Imperialism—Its Lessons for Today TBAAlex Adamson • Peter Hudis • Ndindi Kitonga • International Marxist-Humanist Organization

3:00pm CDT

Our International Struggles Cannot be Confined to the Capitalists’ National Elections TBALaura R • Jolene S • Tom T • Speak Out Socialists Data Centers, Class Politics, and Socialist Strategy TBANathan Kim • Austin Kral • Jasmine Lu • Cella Sum • Yvette Vargas

5:00pm CDT

The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took over the World TBADaniella Mazzio • Vicky Osterweil Socialism Beats Fascism: Organizing for a Post-Trump America TBAGriffin Mahon • Eleanor Babaev • Bol B • Eman Abdelhadi • DSA

7:00pm CDT

Steal This Story: Film Screening and Discussion TBAAmy Goodman • Tia Lessin

8:00pm CDT

Democratic Socialists of America Meet-Up TBADSA Tech Worker Meetup TBA

9:00pm CDT

The Neo-Futurists present THE INFINITE WRENCH

10:00am CDT

Art is Politics: Making Movements Irresistible TBAWilliam Estrada • Margaret Vail Palmquist • Roger Peet The Left and the National Question: Building Solidarity without Exception TBAEman Abdelhadi • Reza Rezaian • Simon Rodriguez • Tanya Vyhovksy • The Ukraine Soilidarity Network (US) Neoliberalism, Fascism, Feudalism...or Socialism? What Lies Ahead TBAJasper Bernes • Nathan Kim • Erin McElroy • Justine Zhang

12:00pm CDT

We Want it All: Reclaiming the World from the Rich and the RightKelly Hayes • Beth Howard • TBD