Socialism 2026

RL

Robert Lewis

2:30pm CDT

Confronting Colonialism: Race, Indigeneity, and Liberation TBAKyle T. Mays • Michael Staudenmaier The Threat of Geoengineering and the Socialist Response TBAT Callahan • Ashwin Shantha • TBD • Science for the People From a Marxist Feminist Point of View: Freedom, Rationality and Human Nature TBANancy Holmstrom • Phil Gasper • Alex Holmstrom-Smith • Rose Lenehan Mother Jones and the Early Socialist Movement: Lessons for Today TBARosemary Feurer • Joseph Rathke • Mother Jones Heritage Project We Keep Us Safe: De-Escalation Training TBAbrian bean • Haymarket Books

4:30pm CDT

Unveiling the Prophet: Anti-Labor Secret Societies and Their Activist Enemies TBAKim Kelly • Devin Thomas O'Shea Workers Deserve More! A Program for a Future Beyond Capitalism TBAAshik Siddique • Michaela Brangan • Frances Gill • Megan Romer • DSA Why Eugene Debs Matters TBAAllison Duerk • Shawn Gude Political Education 1: What Are We Up Against? TBAGeo Maher • Chris Rogers • Ant Smith • B-REAL • Center for Political Education • W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School

7:30pm CDT

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 Health Fascism, Body Politics, and the Anti-State State (Health Fascism Series) TBABeatrice Adler-Bolton • Da’Shaun L. Harrison • Artie Vierkant • Death Panel Labor at the Margins TBAKatherine Passley • Kim Kelly • TBD 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

Debates in Prison Abolitionist Theory and Practice TBAAmna Akbar • Amelia Kirby • Silky Shah • Jack Norton • Zohra Ahmed 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

3:00pm CDT

Land and Abolition TBARuth Wilson Gilmore Ocean Deep Solidarity: Reparations, LANDBACK, and Collective Liberation TBADr. Aymar Jean Escoffery • Matthew Harvey • Claire Maracle • Justin Morgan • Raven Schwam-Curtis • BLIS Collective Printing the Revolution: The Role of Art in Organizing and Building Community Resistance TBADio Cramer • Ricardo Levins Morales • Pilsen Community Books Connecting with Coworkers to Form Your Union TBAAK Alilonu • Araya Barnes • Atulya Dora-Laskey • Rumin Sarwar • Dawn Tefft • EWOC 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 Black Left Feminism and the Fight Against Fascism: Lessons and Assignments TBABarbara Ransby The Revolutionary Legacies and Lineages of Grace Lee Boggs TBALily Luo How the Left Takes on AI Will Determine the Future TBASasha Costanza-Chock • Sarah Hamid • Tawana Petty • Edith Romero

5:00pm CDT

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 Young Lords Speak: Building Revolution on the Streets of Chicago TBAJacqueline Lazú • Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez Spirit of Justice TBAnyle fort • Michelle Alexander • Rami Nashashibi • Spirit of Justice The False Choice Between Identity Politics and Class Struggle TBAMike McCarthy

6:30pm CDT

Songs for Liberation

10:00am CDT

The Old Being Reborn: The Revival of Socialist Organizations in US and Belgium TBADavid Duhalde • Joe Todd • RLS 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 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

12:00pm CDT

Why Socialism Requires Abolition TBAZohra Ahmed • Kelly Gillespie • Ruth Wilson Gilmore • Vanessa Thompson Palestinian Revolutionary Thought and the Prisoners’ Movement TBADanya al-Saleh • Jenan Awaida • Ribhi Hussein • People's Center for Palestine Black History is for Everyone TBABrian Jones Sumud in Praxis: Teaching for Solidarity from Turtle Island to Palestine TBAAnita Fernández • Zeiad Abbas Shamrouch • Samia Shoman • Jenine Wehbeh Intro: Harm Reduction and Solidarity with Unsheltered Neighbors TBARachel Shearer • Luna Bender • Andrew Atkinson Bernd • Alexa Gold • Lucy Morales Psychic Militancy TBALara Sheehi • Pluto Press Documenting Actions, Activism, and Activists’ Lives: Strategies for Preserving Personal and Organizational Archives TBAKate Stewart The Present State of People’s History TBAIsaac Silver • Peter Cole • Matthew Ray • Left in the Bay Rosa Luxemburg and Frantz Fanon on Imperialism—Its Lessons for Today TBAAlex Adamson • Peter Hudis • Ndindi Kitonga • International Marxist-Humanist Organization Necessary Trouble: Movement-Building since the Financial Crisis TBAAlex Hanna • Sarah Jaffe • Chenjerai Kumanyika • Yotam Marom

3:00pm CDT

Three Generations in the Struggle for Socialism and Black Liberation TBAJesse Hagopian • Miles Hagopian • Gerald Lenoir Bodies, Bodies, Bodies TBAAsya Sağnak • TBD • Lux Revolutionary Socialists and the Fight Against War and Authoritarianism TBANdindi Kitonga • Pepper Macias • Meg • Bill Mullen • Kirstin Roberts • United Left Platform

5:00pm CDT

Are All Cops Bastards? TBAbrian bean • Anderson Bean Socialism Beats Fascism: Organizing for a Post-Trump America TBAGriffin Mahon • Eleanor Babaev • Bol B • Eman Abdelhadi • DSA People's Movement Assembly 101: Building Insurgent Democracies in the US South TBADenzel Caldwell • Black Nashville Assembly Unruly Subjects LIVE: A Reckoning with our Moment TBARuth Wilson Gilmore • Chenjerai Kumanyika • Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò

8:00pm CDT

Democratic Socialists of America Meet-Up TBADSA Public Educators Meet-Up TBA

10:00am CDT

The Left and the National Question: Building Solidarity without Exception TBAEman Abdelhadi • Reza Rezaian • Simon Rodriguez • Tanya Vyhovksy • The Ukraine Soilidarity Network (US) Mayor Mamdani vs. Wall Street. Sewer Socialism and Municipal Financing—Which Way Forward? TBADavid Backer • Sylvia Kidder • Michael Reagan Creating Emotional and Spiritual Support Groups for Activists TBAAtena Danner • Kelly Hayes • Tanuja Jagernauth Insurgent Spiritualities for Revolutionary Struggle TBABenji Hart • Joy James • Andrew Krinks • Belkis Terán Neoliberalism, Fascism, Feudalism...or Socialism? What Lies Ahead TBAJasper Bernes • Nathan Kim • Erin McElroy • Justine Zhang