Socialism 2026

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Tina Beacock

4:30pm CDT

Unveiling the Prophet: Anti-Labor Secret Societies and Their Activist Enemies Jackson Park AKim Kelly • Devin Thomas O'Shea Workers Deserve More! A Program for a Future Beyond Capitalism Adler ABCHasan Piker • Ashik Siddique • Michaela Brangan • Frances Gill • Megan Romer • DSA

7:30pm CDT

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

10:00am CDT

The Black Path to Socialism W190AKali Akuno • India • Brian Kwoba • Erica Ryan No Such Thing As NIMBY: The Fight to Protect Our Water Hyde Park BJenny Espino • Jake Hernandez • Chloe Torres 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 Crisis in Venezuela: Socialist Perspectives ErieSimón Rodríguez • Anderson Bean • Gonzalo Gómez Chicago's Educators and Families Defending Communities Against ICE Jackson Park ALisset G • Kobi Guillory • Raul Islas • Kathryn Zamarron

12:00pm CDT

State Fiscal Strategy for the 21st Century: Dispatches from New York's New Era Jackson Park CElizabeth Cooper • Ciarán Finlayson Sex for Pleasure: Controlling your Reproduction Under a Pro-Natalist Regime Jackson Park BEmily Likins-Ehlers Class Struggle Infrastructure: Tenant Unions and Socialism Jackson Park AChicago Union of Tenants • Chicago Union of Tenants Revolutionary Socialism from Below: Strategies to Build the Resistance W190BAaron Amaral • Kristen Guptill-Godfrey • Tempest Socialism, Liberation Theology, and the Black Church: Lessons from Black Socialist Preachers Past and Present Hyde Park AAndrew Reginald Hairston • Charles Holm AI Extractivism: Global Systems, Local Processes Clark ABCShiera S. al-Malik • V'cenza Cirefice • Marta Cook • Fawn E. Pochel

1:30pm CDT

Letter Writing to Incarcerated Comrades Michigan/Huron Labor for Palestine National Network Meet-Up Clark ABC

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 Connecting with Coworkers to Form Your Union Clark ABCDawn Tefft • Araya Barnes • Rumin • AK Alilonu • Atulya Dora-Laskey • EWOC 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 How the Left Takes on AI Will Determine the Future W190ASasha Costanza-Chock • Sarah Hamid • Tawana Petty • Edith Romero Political Education 3: Slavery, Colonialism, and Primitive Accumulation Dusable ABCGeo Maher • Chris Rogers • Ant Smith • B-REAL • Center for Political Education • W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School

5:00pm CDT

War, Capitalism, and Navigating the Climate Crisis Adler ABCJoshua Frank • Tori Tsui • CounterPunch • Pilsen Community Books • Science for the People “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 Movement Lawyering in Times of Retrenchment Hyde Park BLeena Odeh • Christian Snow • Morgan Wilson • Law 4 Black Lives When Socialists Turned to the Factory Floor SuperiorCandace Cohn • Jack Weinberg • Solidarity

6:30pm CDT

Songs for Liberation Outside on the lawn (weather-permitting)

7:00pm CDT

Minnesota 15 Anti-Repression Committee Meet Up Hyde Park A

10:00am CDT

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 The Forgotten History of the Civil Rights Movement’s Fight for Economic Justice—and Why It Matters Today Jackson Park ABrian Jones • Nancy MacLean • Jeanne Theoharis • Elizabeth Todd-Breland • Hammer & Hope

12:00pm CDT

Palestinian Revolutionary Thought and the Prisoners’ Movement Hyde Park ADanya al-Saleh • Jenan Awaida • Ribhi Hussein • People's Center for Palestine 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 Documenting Actions, Activism, and Activists’ Lives: Strategies for Preserving Personal and Organizational Archives ErieKate Stewart The Present State of People’s History SuperiorIsaac Silver • Peter Cole • Matthew Ray • Left in the Bay

3:00pm CDT

Our International Struggles Cannot be Confined to the Capitalists’ National Elections MichiganLaura R • Tom T • Jolene S • Speak Out Socialists 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

Tempest Meet-Up Michigan Steal This Story, Please! Film Screening and Discussion W190AAmy Goodman • Juan González • Carl Deal

8:00pm CDT

Chicago IPO/Neighborhood Org Social Dusable ABC33rd Ward Working Families Jewish Voice for Peace Meet-Up Jackson Park BJVP

9:00pm CDT

The Neo-Futurists present THE INFINITE WRENCH Jackson Park CD

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