Socialism 2026

Natasha Norton

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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 Why Does Capitalism Suck and Why Does it Fail? An Introduction to Marxist Economics TBACharlie Post

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Welcome Happy Hour

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

10:00am CDT

The Black Path to Socialism TBAKali Akuno • India • Brian Kwoba • Erica Ryan

12:00pm CDT

Art and Propaganda: On Learning from Paul Robeson, Why the Artist must Take Sides TBASaul Williams

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Land and Abolition TBARuth Wilson Gilmore Black Left Feminism and the Fight Against Fascism: Lessons and Assignments TBABarbara Ransby

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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 They Called Us Non-Compliant: The (Sedated) History of Psychiatric Resistance TBASarah Broas • Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu • Heena Sharma • Project LETS “As Goes the South”: Building Multiracial Working-Class Solidarity in the South for a Socialist Future TBABeth Howard • Chris Kutalik • Jerome Scott • SURJ

6:30pm CDT

Abolitionist Zine Writing Workshop

8:00pm CDT

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

10:00am CDT

Care Networks, Abolition, and the Fight Against Border Policing (Health Fascism Series) TBABeatrice Adler-Bolton • A. Naomi Paik • Silky Shah • Death Panel The General Strike and How to Build a Stronger, Bolder, and Bigger Pro-Democracy Labor Movement TBASean Fulkerson • Griffin Mahon • Jessica Tang • May Day Strong

12:00pm CDT

Why Socialism Requires Abolition TBAZohra Ahmed • Kelly Gillespie • Ruth Wilson Gilmore • Vanessa Thompson Black History is for Everyone TBABrian Jones

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The Politics of Debt: Organizing in the Age of Finance TBABraxton Brewington • René Christian Moya • Lindsey Muniak • Debt Collective Data Centers, Class Politics, and Socialist Strategy TBANathan Kim • Austin Kral • Jasmine Lu • Cella Sum • Yvette Vargas

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Socialism Beats Fascism: Organizing for a Post-Trump America TBAGriffin Mahon • Eleanor Babaev • Bol B • Eman Abdelhadi • DSA

6:30pm CDT

Tarot for socialists!

7:00pm CDT

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

10:00am CDT

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

12:00pm CDT

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