Socialism 2026

Montague Simmons

Movement for Black Lives

Director of Strategic Partnerships

National

m4bl.org

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Life After Death Row Clark ABCMumia Abu-Jamal • Kenny Collins • Stanley Howard • Mike Stark Introduction to Theatre of the Oppressed Jackson Park CDouglas Paterson People Over Mega-Events: Organizing for Housing, Workers, and Communities Beyond the World Cup Hyde Park BKelsea Bond • Matthew Nursey • Mariah Parker • Michael Collins • Play Fair ATL Political Education 1: What Are We Up Against? Dusable ABCGeo Maher • Chris Rogers • Ant Smith • B-REAL • Center for Political Education • W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School

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The Black Path to Socialism W190AKali Akuno • India • Brian Kwoba • Erica Ryan Journalism, Authoritarianism and Struggles Against ICE Hyde Park AAdam Goodman • Memo Torres • Diane de Vignemont • Daniel Singer Foundation Song for a Hard-Hit People: Building Anti-Racist Solidarity in Appalachia Jackson Park CBeth Howard • Jerome Scott

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Art and Propaganda: On Learning from Paul Robeson, Why the Artist must Take Sides Grant Park ABSaul Williams Class Struggle Infrastructure: Tenant Unions and Socialism Jackson Park AChicago Union of Tenants • Chicago Union of Tenants Socialism, Liberation Theology, and the Black Church: Lessons from Black Socialist Preachers Past and Present Hyde Park AAndrew Reginald Hairston • Charles Holm

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"Finding Our Place in the Sun:" A Black Socialists Meetup Burnham ABC

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Land and Abolition W190BRuth Wilson Gilmore Black Left Feminism and the Fight Against Fascism: Lessons and Assignments Grant Park ABBarbara Ransby • Sarah Haley

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“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 Spirit of Justice: Building Beloved Community, Embodying Revolutionary Love Grant Park ABnyle fort • Michelle Alexander • Saul Williams • Rami Nashashibi • Spirit of Justice

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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 Protecting Our Own: Shifting from State Intervention to Community Care in Crisis Times Jackson Park Cjaboa lake • Erica Meiners • Shannon Perez-Darby 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

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Why Socialism Requires Abolition Grant Park ABZohra Ahmed • Kelly Gillespie • Ruth Wilson Gilmore • Vanessa Thompson

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BIPOC Social Jackson Park BBlack Youth Project 100

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Three Generations in the Struggle for Socialism and Black Liberation Clark ABCJesse Hagopian • Miles Hagopian • Gerald Lenoir Care Networks, Abolition, and the Fight Against Border Policing (Health Fascism Series) W190BBeatrice Adler-Bolton • Silky Shah • A. Naomi Paik • Death Panel Left Insurgents and Liberal Exhaustion: Consolidating Power from Below W190AHasan Piker • Chenjerai Kumanyika • Hammer & Hope • Unruly Subjects

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Socialism Beats Fascism: Organizing for a Post-Trump America W190BGriffin Mahon • Eleanor Babaev • Bol B • Eman Abdelhadi • DSA People's Movement Assembly 101: Building Insurgent Democracies in the US South Hyde Park ADenzel Caldwell • Black Nashville Assembly 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

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The Roots of Punishment, The Seeds of Abolition: Organizing Against State Violence From the Ground Up Jackson Park DML Smith • Tiara Cooper • Furonda Brasfield • U.S. Campaign to Abolish the Death Penalty