Socialism 2026

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Ron Neimark

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2:30pm CDT

A University Fit For Our Dreams: Abolitionist Higher Education TBASofya Aptekar • Lucien Baskin • Saudi Garcia • Phil McHarris • Jason Wozniak • Scholars for Social Justice and Coalition Against Campus Debt Community Lessons for Fighting Fascism: In Honor of Amisha Patel TBATBD • Truthout

4:30pm CDT

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

6:00pm CDT

Welcome Happy Hour

7:30pm CDT

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

10:00am CDT

Health Fascism, Body Politics, and the Anti-State State (Health Fascism Series) TBABeatrice Adler-Bolton • Da’Shaun L. Harrison • Artie Vierkant • Death Panel Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World's Most Powerful Industry TBAClarissa Redwine • JS Tan Labor at the Margins TBAKatherine Passley • Kim Kelly • TBD

12:00pm CDT

Socialist Fiscal Strategy for the 21st Century: Dispatches from New York City’s New Era TBAElizabeth Cooper • Ciarán Finlayson • Zainab Firdausi Rank and File Lessons from a New York Nurses Strike in the Mamdani Era TBARoxana Garcia • Beth Loudin • TBD What Is the Muslim Left? TBAEman Abdelhadi • TBD • Acacia Magazine

3:00pm CDT

Resisting Attacks on Schools, from Gaza to Chicago TBAEmmaia Gelman • Nora Lester Murad • TBD • Chicago Educators for Palestine • DropTheADL from Schools • Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism How the Left Takes on AI Will Determine the Future TBASasha 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 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 Who Moves America: Film Screening and Discussion TBAYael Bridge “As Goes the South”: Building Multiracial Working-Class Solidarity in the South for a Socialist Future TBABeth Howard • Chris Kutalik • Jerome Scott • SURJ

8:00pm CDT

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

10:00am CDT

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

12:00pm CDT

Sumud in Praxis: Teaching for Solidarity from Turtle Island to Palestine TBAAnita Fernández • Zeiad Abbas Shamrouch • Samia Shoman • Jenine Wehbeh Resisting MAHA & Building Environmental & Reproductive Justice TBAJudith Clerjeune • Dr. Sydney Curtis • Abhinaya Narayanan • Briana Perry The State of Worker Organizing in the South and the Southern Workers Assembly TBAjames pope • Abdul Alkalimat • Destiny Blackwell • Mike Goldfield • Southern Workers Assembly Socialize the Grid: Data Centers and Translocal Organizing TBADavid 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 TBAAshik Siddique • Cihan Tekay Liu • Kelsea Bond • Alex Brower • DSA The Politics of Debt: Organizing in the Age of Finance TBABraxton Brewington • René Christian Moya • Lindsey Muniak • Debt Collective Turn Illness Into A Weapon: Autonomous Health Organizing in Times of Rising Fascism (Health Fascism Series) TBAzara raven • Beatrice Adler-Bolton • Tea Burns • TBD • Death Panel Radicalizing Labor Unions: A Balance Sheet of Reform, Class Struggle, and Rank-and-file Movement-Building TBAAndrew Bergman • Nelson Lichtenstein • Luigi Morris • Margie Thornton Data Centers, Class Politics, and Socialist Strategy TBANathan Kim • Austin Kral • Jasmine Lu • Cella Sum • Yvette Vargas Revolutionary Socialists and the Fight Against War and Authoritarianism TBANdindi Kitonga • Pepper Macias • Meg • Bill Mullen • Kirstin Roberts • United Left Platform

5:00pm CDT

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

7:00pm CDT

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

8:00pm CDT

Democratic Socialists of America Meet-Up TBADSA Radical Healthcare Workers and Friends Meet Up TBADebt Collective’s Healthcare Worker Solidarity Collective

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

12:00pm CDT

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