Socialism 2026

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Joe Moses

2:30pm CDT

The Threat of Geoengineering and the Socialist Response Dusable ABCAdam Schneider • T Callahan • Ashwin Shantha • Science for the People

4:30pm CDT

Life After Death Row Clark ABCMumia Abu-Jamal • Kenny Collins • Stanley Howard • Mike Stark Unveiling the Prophet: Anti-Labor Secret Societies and Their Activist Enemies Jackson Park AKim Kelly • Devin Thomas O'Shea Workers Deserve More! A Program for a Future Beyond Capitalism Adler ABCHasan Piker • Ashik Siddique • Michaela Brangan • Frances Gill • Megan Romer • DSA Why Eugene Debs Matters SuperiorAllison Duerk • Shawn Gude

6:00pm CDT

Welcome Happy Hour Bar/Patio

7:30pm CDT

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

9:30pm CDT

Radical Trivia Night! Lobby ConcourseChicago For Abortion Rights

10:00am CDT

Hustle Culture vs. Solidarity W190BNatalie Bencivega • Chenjerai Kumanyika • Demetrius Noble Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World's Most Powerful Industry Adler ABCClarissa Redwine • JS Tan Chicago's Educators and Families Defending Communities Against ICE Jackson Park ALisset G • Kobi Guillory • Raul Islas • Kathryn Zamarron Song for a Hard-Hit People: Building Anti-Racist Solidarity in Appalachia Jackson Park CBeth Howard • Jerome Scott

12:00pm CDT

Che’s “New Man” and The Bodhisattva Revolutionary Jackson Park DBreht O’Shea • Rev Left Radio AI Extractivism: Global Systems, Local Processes Clark ABCShiera S. al-Malik • V'cenza Cirefice • Marta Cook • Fawn E. Pochel

3:00pm CDT

Land and Abolition W190BRuth Wilson Gilmore 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

Who Moves America: Film Screening and Discussion Clark ABCJesse Sharkey • Yael Bridge 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 Spirit of Justice: Building Beloved Community, Embodying Revolutionary Love Grant Park ABnyle fort • Michelle Alexander • Saul Williams • Rami Nashashibi • Spirit of Justice

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

12:00pm CDT

Weaponizing Antisemitism: An Interactive History MichiganAdam Sanchez • Rethinking Schools 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 Organize or Burn: Sewer Socialism for Climate Survival in the 21st Century Jackson Park AAber Kawas • Ashik Siddique • Cihan Tekay Liu • Kelsea Bond • Alex Brower • DSA Left Insurgents and Liberal Exhaustion: Consolidating Power from Below W190AHasan Piker • Chenjerai Kumanyika • Hammer & Hope • Unruly Subjects

5:00pm CDT

The Power of Speculative Fiction in a Shifting Political Climate Adler ABCVaishnavi Patel • Sareena Kamath Socialism Beats Fascism: Organizing for a Post-Trump America W190BGriffin Mahon • Eleanor Babaev • Bol B • Eman Abdelhadi • DSA Unruly Subjects LIVE: A Reckoning with our Moment Grant Park ABRuth Wilson Gilmore • Chenjerai Kumanyika • Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò • Hammer & Hope • Unruly Subjects

7:00pm CDT

Steal This Story, Please! Film Screening and Discussion W190AAmy Goodman • Juan González • Carl Deal

9:00pm CDT

The Neo-Futurists present THE INFINITE WRENCH Jackson Park CD

10:00am CDT

Mayor Mamdani vs. Wall Street. Sewer Socialism and Municipal Financing—Which Way Forward? Adler ABCDavid Backer • Sylvia Kidder • Michael Reagan

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