Socialism 2026

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Tina B.

Artemis Singers

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Chicago

2:30pm CDT

From a Marxist Feminist Point of View: Freedom, Rationality and Human Nature Adler ABCNancy Holmstrom • Phil Gasper • Alex Holmstrom-Smith • Rose Lenehan • Daniel Singer Foundation • New Politics

4:30pm CDT

Unveiling the Prophet: Anti-Labor Secret Societies and Their Activist Enemies Jackson Park AKim Kelly • Devin Thomas O'Shea

7:30pm CDT

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

10:00am CDT

Journalism, Authoritarianism and Struggles Against ICE Hyde Park AAdam Goodman • Memo Torres • Diane de Vignemont • Daniel Singer Foundation Building the Anti-War Movement: Identifying and Organizing Against U.S. Military Subcontractors Burnham ABCMatt Fiorillo • Joseph Gumina • Julia Mente • Valerie Wallach • BDS Pittsburgh 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

12:00pm CDT

Class Struggle Infrastructure: Tenant Unions and Socialism Jackson Park AChicago Union of Tenants • Chicago Union of Tenants

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 to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention Jackson Park DJohn Washington • Johannes Favi

6:30pm CDT

Songs for Liberation Outside on the lawn (weather-permitting) United Left Platform Meet-up Jackson Park C

7:00pm CDT

Minnesota 15 Anti-Repression Committee Meet Up Hyde Park A

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

En español: El levantamiento de Bolivia: causas, contradicciones y lecciones Dusable ABCLena • Emilio • Blanca Misse Russian Neofascism: Imperialism Abroad & Repression at Home ErieIlya Budraitskis • Ilya Matveev • Robert Brenner • Yulia Yurchenko • Boris Kagarlitsky International Solidarity Campaign 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

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 Our International Struggles Cannot be Confined to the Capitalists’ National Elections MichiganLaura R • Tom T • Jolene S • Speak Out Socialists 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 Left Insurgents and Liberal Exhaustion: Consolidating Power from Below W190AHasan Piker • Chenjerai Kumanyika • Hammer & Hope • Unruly Subjects

5:00pm CDT

Standing Up to the National Security State: Collective Defense against Political Repression Jackson Park ATom Alter • Yarden Azoulay Katz • Diana Rueda • Treasure Thoreson • United Left Platform

7:00pm CDT

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

10:00am CDT

RePRESSion: Press Censorship in the Time of Fascism and Increasing Media Illiteracy Burnham ABCSherronda J. Brown • Da'Shaun L. Harrison • Aarohi Sheth • Tea Troutman • Scalawag The Long Struggle for UAW Divestment From Israel Bonds, and the Future of Labor for Palestine ErieBill Mullen • Andrew Bergman • Sophia Gurule • Michael Letwin • Labor for Palestine National Network Mayor Mamdani vs. Wall Street. Sewer Socialism and Municipal Financing—Which Way Forward? Adler ABCDavid Backer • Sylvia Kidder • Michael Reagan