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Socialism 2026

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Ron Neimark

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Community Lessons for Fighting Fascism: In Honor of Amisha Patel ErieMaya Schenwar • Juliet DeJesus Alejandre • Tanuja Jagernauth • Katelyn Johnson • Rocío García • Truthout

4:30pm CDT

Confronting Zionism: Decolonizing Palestine and Building the World Anew Grant Park ABNoura Erakat • Brekhna Aftab Introduction to Theatre of the Oppressed Jackson Park CDouglas Paterson How Veterans & Labor Are Fighting VA Union Busting And Privatization ErieStuart Hall • Dan Blough • Grace Neudek • Lisa Dadabo • Veterans Healthcare Policy Institute Abolition Judaism: The Revolutionary Possiblities of Diaspora Jackson Park DRabbi Andrue Kahn • Dania Rajendra • Benjamin Balthaser • Maurice BP-Weeks Balthazar • JVP

7:30pm CDT

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

10:00am CDT

Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World's Most Powerful Industry Adler ABCClarissa Redwine • JS Tan Labor at the Margins Field ABCMaya Tatum • Katherine Passley • Kim Kelly

12:00pm CDT

State Fiscal Strategy for the 21st Century: Dispatches from New York's New Era Jackson Park CElizabeth Cooper • Ciarán Finlayson Rank and File Lessons from a New York Nurses Strike in the Mamdani Era Adler ABCRoxana Garcia • Beth Loudin • TBD

3:00pm CDT

Resisting Attacks on Schools, from Gaza to Chicago SuperiorHadeil M. Abdelfattah, Ed.D • David Stovall, Ph.D • Nora Lester Murad • Chicago Educators for Palestine • DropTheADL from Schools • Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism Revolutionary Socialists and the Fight Against War and Authoritarianism Jackson Park ANdindi Kitonga • Bill Mullen • Kirstin Roberts • Pepper Macias • Meg • United Left Platform How the Left Takes on AI Will Determine the Future W190ASasha 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 Hyde Park ALena E • Laith A • Palestinian Youth Movement • People's Embargo for Palestine They Called Us Non-Compliant: The (Sedated) History of Psychiatric Resistance Burnham ABCSarah Broas • Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu • Heena Sharma • Project LETS Who Moves America: Film Screening and Discussion Clark ABCJesse Sharkey • Yael Bridge “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

8:00pm CDT

Neighbors Get Ready: Forging New Solidarities and Defeating ICE W190John Washington • Silky Shah • Chris Newman • Tania Wolf • Cat Salonek Schladt

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 Protecting Our Own: Shifting from State Intervention to Community Care in Crisis Times Jackson Park Cjaboa lake • Erica Meiners • Shannon Perez-Darby 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 The Deadly Tech Exchange: How Tech Companies are Profiting from Genocide and Anti-Immigrant Violence Jackson Park BIzzy Mustafa • Edith Romero • Eric Sype • Adalah Justice Project

12:00pm CDT

Sumud in Praxis: Teaching for Solidarity from Turtle Island to Palestine Dusable ABCAnita Fernández • Zeiad Abbas Shamrouch • Samia Shoman • Jenine Wehbeh Resisting MAHA & Building Environmental & Reproductive Justice Jackson Park AJudith Clerjeune • Dr. Sydney Curtis • Abhinaya Narayanan • Briana Perry The State of Worker Organizing in the South and the Southern Workers Assembly Field ABCjames pope • Abdul Alkalimat • Destiny Blackwell • Mike Goldfield • Southern Workers Assembly Socialize the Grid: Data Centers and Translocal Organizing Burnham ABCDavid Cobb • Johanna Epke • Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright • India Willi • Black Alliance for Peace

3:00pm CDT

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 The Politics of Debt: Organizing in the Age of Finance Burnham ABCBraxton Brewington • René Christian Moya • Lindsey Muniak • Debt Collective Radicalizing Labor Unions: A Balance Sheet of Reform, Class Struggle, and Rank-and-file Movement-Building Jackson Park BToni Gilpin • Andrew Bergman • Nelson Lichtenstein • Luigi Morris • Margie Thornton Data Centers, Class Politics, and Socialist Strategy Grant Park ABNathan Kim • Austin Kral • Jasmine Lu • Cella Sum • Yvette Vargas

5:00pm CDT

Socialism Beats Fascism: Organizing for a Post-Trump America W190BGriffin Mahon • Eleanor Babaev • Bol B • Eman Abdelhadi • DSA

7:00pm CDT

Democratic Socialists of America Meet-Up RSVP to receive location infoDSA Steal This Story, Please! Film Screening and Discussion W190AAmy Goodman • Juan González • Carl Deal

8:00pm CDT

Radical Healthcare Workers and Friends Meet Up Jackson Park ADebt Collective’s Healthcare Worker Solidarity Collective

10:00am CDT

The Left and the National Question: Building Solidarity without Exception Jackson Park CEman Abdelhadi • Reza Rezaian • Simón Rodríguez • Tanya Vyhovksy • The Ukraine Soilidarity Network (US) 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