Socialism 2025

Socialism 2025

9:30am CDT

Historic Bike Tour: Chicago Race Riot 1919 Commemoration Project TBA

10:00am CDT

Reproductive Justice Strategy Session TBA Marxism Education SeriesMichael A. McCarthy • Eric Maroney • Natalia Tylim • David McNally • Vanessa Wills • Paul Fleckenstein • Haley Pessin • Kristen Godfrey

2:30pm CDT

Reproductive Justice, Family Policing, and Abolition TBAJosie Pickens • connease warren • upEND Movement Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism TBAEve L. Ewing • Bill Ayers Country Queers: A Conversation About Community Care and Memory Work in End Times TBARae Garringer • Dao X. Tran The Proletariat Has No Homeland: Property and the Surplus Class TBABeatrice Adler-Bolton • Tracy Rosenthal • Marques Vestal • Death Panel Politics on the Job, Politics from the Job TBAJason Flynn • Sarah Mason • Dylan Davis • Long-Haul magazine Mask off Maersk TBARoua Daas • Lea Kayali • Palestinian Youth Movement Eugene Debs: From Rail Labor Organizer to Socialist Agitator – Lessons for Today TBAMark Burrows • Guy Miller • Allison Duerk • Railroad Workers United We Keep Us Safe: De-Escalation Training TBAbrian bean • Haymarket Books Political Education 1: Basics of Materialist Analysis TBAB-REAL Academy • CPE • KC Defender • Du Bois Movement School • Claudia Jones School • B-REAL Academy • KC Defender • Center for Political Education • Claudia Jones School • W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School AI and the Techo-Fascist Power Grab for our Data, Lives, and Resources TBAMyaisha Hayes • Irna Landrum • Alli Finn • Kairos Action

4:30pm CDT

Abolitionist Organizing Under Authoritarianism TBAAndrea J. Ritchie • Lewis Raven Wallace • Maria Thomas • Eva Nagao Power Lines: Building a Climate-Labor Justice Movement TBALauren Bianchi • Jeff Ordower • Marcie Pedraza • Climate and Community Institute Art and Communism TBABoots Riley Defeating the End Times Triad: Christian Zionists, Christian Nationalists, and Technofascists TBAAdam Vander Tuig • Ash Bohrer • Ben Lorber • Crystal Silva-McCormick • Annie Wilkinson • Political Research Associates Abortion Bans as State Gender-Based Violence TBAKylie Cheung • Pluto United Struggles: Intersectional Resistance to Bodily Autonomy Restrictions TBATBD • Lyra McMillan • Lyra Spencer • DSA Ukraine Betrayed: Trump, Putin and the Struggle for Self-Determination TBABill Fletcher Jr. • Denys Bondar • Elias Seidel • Ukraine Solidarity Network-U.S. Building an Internationalist Left Through Diaspora Mobilization: From South Asian North America TBAAman Bardia • Maithreyi Rajeshkumar • Raza Gillani • Mohiba Ahmed • SALAM Lessons from ACT UP for Today's Solidarity Movements TBASarah Schulman • Natalie Adler Becoming Working Class Revolutionaries: Lessons from the League of Revolutionary Black Workers for Today’s Class War TBAJerome Scott • walda katz-fishman The Struggle for Collective Liberation: Class, Oppression, and the Politics of Resistance TBAEric Maroney • Jesse Sharkey • Donna Murch • Spectre Journal

6:00pm CDT

Welcome Happy Hour TBA

7:30pm CDT

Labor and Community Organizing Against the MAGA Billionaire Agenda TBATBD

9:30pm CDT

Radical Game Night! TBA Radical Trivia Night! TBA

8:30am CDT

Morning Yoga TBA

10:00am CDT

No New Cages: Lessons from Organizers Resisting Carceral Infrastructure TBAZhandarka Kurti • Mon Mohapatra • Hannah Riley • Stevie Wilson • Community Justice Exchange BLM Under Trump: Where Do We Go from Here? TBARobert Cuffy • Jessica Garraway • New Politics Zine Making for Social Justice TBADanielle Bullock All You Fascists Bound To Lose: The Left’s Role During Repression TBASteve Williams • Amit S • Hannah Sassaman • North Star Socialist Organization Gender and the Rising Right TBARae Garringer • Andrea J. Ritchie • Sophie Lewis • Sarah Leonard • TBD • Lux Deny, Defend, Depose: Health Struggle After Luigi TBABeatrice Adler-Bolton • Artie Vierkant • Vicky Osterweil • Death Panel ⁠You Cannot Evict a Movement: Tenant Fights That Catalyze, Mobilize, and Win TBAStephen Gurney • Amadi Ozier • Khadija Haynes • Trevor-Anastacio Ortega • Autonomous Tenant Union Network Bottom Up for Liberation: An Anti-Imperialist Strategy for our Movement TBASal Ami • Rebecca John • Carl Redwood • Sara Roschdi • Bottom Up for Liberation Indigenous Grounded Solidarity, Then and Now TBAGlen Coulthard Putin’s Anti-War Political Prisoners in Russia TBASuzi Weissman • Ksenia Kagarlitskaya • Boris Kagarlitsky • Grusha Gilaeva • Simon Pirani Showdown in Germany: The Left Party and the Fight Against Fascism in 2025 TBASpeaker from marx21 Germany • TBD The Use of Political Education in Union Campaigns TBAG. Paul Blundell • Ira Pollock • Logistics Workers League Build & Fight: A Strategy to Meet the Moment TBAKamau Franklin • Kali Akuno • David Cobb • Johanna Epke • Community Movement Builders • Build and Fight Building Durable Power: Lessons from Jewish Voice for Peace TBAShelby Handler • Michael Wolfe • CP • Jewish Voice for Peace

12:00pm CDT

Fighting Carceral Infrastructure to End Mass Incarceration TBAMicah Herskind • James "Jimmy" Soto • Avalon Betts-Gaston • Alicia Brown • Institute to End Mass Incarceration Climate Action to Transform Our World TBAKylie Cheung • Mikaela Loach Gulf to Gaza: No Sacrifice Zones TBAChloe Torres • Jenny Espino Make a Community Constellation: Quilting WorkshopLucian Walkowicz How to Democratize Everything TBAMichael A. McCarthy Blocking the Right, Building the Base: The Work of Left Unity in 2025 TBADavid Duhalde • Montague Simmons • Jayanni Webster • Bennett Carpenter • Cayden Mak • Convergence Magazine • Rising Majority • Liberation Road Rethinking Antifascism TBAAndrea J. Ritchie • Ari Bloomekatz • Shane Burley • Michael Staudenmaier • Kelly Hayes • Rick Perlstein • In These Times Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health TBAMicha Frazer-Carroll • Pluto Socialism and the Long March of the Left in Mexico TBAArturo Ramos • Maria-Teresa Lechuga Debt is a Labor Issue: Unions and Debt Abolition TBAJasson Perez • Lindsey Muniak • Jason Wozniak • Jeannine Woods • Debt Collective From the River to The World TBAMalak Afaneh • Helyeh Doutaghi • Taylor Fox • Rifqa Falaneh • The Palestine Center for Public Policy Literacy is the Foundation of a Revolution!: The Radical History of the 1961 Cuban Literacy Campaign TBASohini Das • Yaania Bell • Kayla Wiliams • Shaquille Williams Political Education 2: Slavery, Colonialism, and Primitive Accumulation TBAB-REAL Academy • CPE • KC Defender • Du Bois Movement School • Claudia Jones School • B-REAL Academy • KC Defender • Center for Political Education • Claudia Jones School • W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School The Left and the Family: A Roundtable TBAEman Abdelhadi • TBD • Olivia Katbi • Katie Gibson The Dig LIVE: Notes on The New Regime TBARobin D.G. Kelley • Gabriel Winant • Asli Ü. Bâli • Dan Denvir

1:30pm CDT

Letter Writing to Incarcerated Comrades TBA

3:00pm CDT

Caregiving Toward Abolition: Workshop and Story Circles TBANadine Naber • Kim Wilson • Maya Schenwar “Texas is infamous for its taste for death:” Lethal Practices in the Lone Star State TBATony Ford • Howard Guidry • Tania Siddiqi • Obie Weathers • Texas People's Tribunal The Role of Black Media Under Fascism TBADa'Shaun Harrison • Tea Troutman • Ko Bragg • Aurielle Marie • Scalawag Beyond Climate Despair: Rebuilding a Revolutionary Left in the Face of Catastrophe TBAWen Stephenson • Batul Hassan • Anthony Rogers-Wright • Ray Acheson You Are Not a Loan: Debtors' Assembly TBAEmily Birnbaum • Richelle Brooks • Debt Collective Labor and the Struggle for Higher Education TBAJason Wozniak • Chenjerai Kumanyika • Gabriel Winant • Sherry Wolf Green Social Housing TBARenette Bradley • Matthew Nursey • Sebastian FG • Nicole Murray • DSA An Injury To One Is An Injury To All: Intergenerational Reflections on International Solidarity TBAMon Mohapatra • Safear Ness • Bill Ayers • James Kilgore • Dawn Harrington • Community Justice Exchange Public Workers and the Public Good TBALindsey Muniak • Kathryn Zamarrón • Margaret Palmquist • Loreen Targos • Colin Smalley • In These Times Migrant Sex Workers Against Fascism: Lessons from 150 Years of Resistance TBAYves Tong Nguyen • Chanelle Gallant • Elene Lam • Emi Koyama The Palestine Crisis in Liberal Institutions and the Trump Moment TBAAlex Kane • Mari Cohen • Jewish Currents Revolutionary Socialist Youth Organizing in the 1970s: The Red Tide and the Battle to Free Gary Tyler TBAGary Tyler • Arnita Dobbins • Kyle Hopkins • Michael Letwin Wages for Housework: The Feminist Fight Against Unpaid Labor TBASarah Leonard • Emily Callaci Collective Liberation through Sex Education: How Sex Education Should be at the Root of All Organizing Spaces TBAElhom Karbassi • Thalía Chicojay • Sexpectations Chicago Political Education 3: Abolition & Reconstruction Today TBANneka Azuka • Talia Charidah • DJ Graves • Geo Maher • Chris Rogers • Ant Smith • B-REAL Academy • KC Defender • Center for Political Education • Claudia Jones School • W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School “The Same Old Tools Don’t Work Here”: The Role of Rural Organizing in Defeating Authoritarianism TBARae Garringer • Beth Howard • Shawn Sebastian • Stephen Smith • Showing Up For Racial Justice • Rural Defenders Union

5:00pm CDT

Prison Made Us Militants: A Conversation with In The Belly TBASafear Ness • R. Ya'iyr Carter • Pierre Pinson • In the Belly • Study & Struggle Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry TBAGeorge Abraham • Tariq Luthun • Lamise Noor Shawahin Gender, Sexuality, Reproduction and the State: Fighting Back Against the So-Called Law TBASophie Lewis • Beatrice Adler-Bolton • Melissa Gira Grant • Death Panel Reviving the Bandung Spirit: Why Anti-Imperialism Still Matters TBAPranay Somayajula State Violence and GI Resistance TBAArti Walker-Peddakotla • Aaron Hughes • About Face: Veterans Against the War Demon Mineral: Film Screening and Discussion TBAJoshua Frank • Janene Yazzie • Hadley Austin • Roger Peet • CounterPunch • Science for the People I Didn't Come Here to Lie: The Life and Legacy of Karen Lewis TBATBD • Elizabeth Todd-Breland Workers Deserve More: DSA's National Labor Program TBATBD • Shay • Sarah Hurd • DSA Nos Defendemos: Community Deportation Defense from Workplaces to Neighborhoods TBAHector Rincon • Jorge Mujica • Jazmin Tlaxcala • Workers' Voice Anti-Colonial Political Education: Amílcar Cabral and the PAIGC TBASalon Kawakib speakers • TBD • Eman Abdelhadi • Salon Kawakib Against Abandonment: DIY Approaches to Clean Air Justice TBASarah Doherty • Sharon Kim • Sean Rule-Hoffman • Sam Wrigglesworth • Ohio Clean Air Coalition Fighting Fragmentation: Building Cross-Sectoral Social Movements TBABri M. • Yasser Munif • Felix T. • Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation Hope at the Edge of the Abyss: The Case for Revolution TBATBD • Natalia Tylim • David McNally • Tempest Collective Reclaiming the Future: Outer Space as a Site of Organizing and Imagination TBAChanda Prescod-Weinstein • Lucian Walkowicz

6:30pm CDT

Songs for Liberation TBA

8:00pm CDT

Fighting Fascism: Lessons from the Colonies TBARobin D.G. Kelley

8:30am CDT

Morning Yoga TBA

10:00am CDT

Stop Cop City: Lessons From the Movement TBAKamau Franklin • Micah Herskind • Mariah Parker Free the Presses TBATBD • Tracy Rosenthal • WAWOG Community as Rebellion: Building Networks of Resistance Inside and Outside the University TBALorgia García Peña The Rise of Right-Wing Politics In Working-Class Communities TBASarah Leonard • David Broder • Meagan Day • Daniel Singer Prize Making Sense of the Anti-Trans Turn TBADanielle Bullock • Eric Maroney Healthcare is a Human Right: Confronting Disparities From Chicago to Gaza TBAHana Masud • Ezekiel Richardson • Caesar Thompson A War Where All Wars Fit TBAAshanti Alston • Mohamed Abdou • Linda Quiquivix After the Fall of Assad: The Struggle for a Free Syria TBALeila al-Shami • Ramah Kudaimi • Yasser Munif Flores Magón, Workers Centers and Direct Action TBACristobal Cavazos • Gaby Hernandez Chico • Casa Dupage Workers Center BDS: Building People Power for Palestinian Liberation TBAOmar Barghouti Hindu Supremacy and the Multiracial Far-Right TBAPranay Somayajula • Safa Ahmed • Dhruv M. • Savera: United Against Supremacy Revolutionary Accompaniment: Holding Each Other When Things Fall Apart TBAEman Abdelhadi • Kelly Hayes • Tanuja Jagernauth Social Reproduction Theory and Practice TBASean K. Isaacs Socialist (Humanism) or Barbarism: On Political Education, Democratic Rights and Where We Go Next TBAMichaela Brangan • Steve Fraser • Sarah Hurd • Mie Inouye • DSA

1:00pm CDT

Survival and Resistance Behind Bars TBAAsha Ransby-Sporn • James "Jimmy" Soto • Stanley Howard • Renaldo Hudson • Alice Kim Their End is Our Beginning: Cops, Capitalism, and Abolition TBAbrian bean • Chenjerai Kumanyika Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism TBARobin D.G. Kelley • Brian Kwoba Logoff and Meetup: The Fight for Third Spaces in a Turbulent World TBAMandy Medley • Casey O'Grady • Allyn Maxfield Steele • TBD • Pilsen Community Books • Highlander Center • Haymarket House Fiscal Fascism: How to Make Sense of Chaotic Policy as Activists and Organizers TBANoel Barrera • Elizabeth Cooper • Nathan Tankus • Notes on the Crises Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education TBAJesse Hagopian • Rethinking Schools Disaster Nationalism: Trump and the Downfall of Liberal Civilization TBARichard Seymour • Salvage Carceral Natalism: Technology and Surveillance in the Post-Dobbs Era TBAEmily Janakiram • Megan Lessard • NYC for Abortion Rights Lessons from Below: Learn from/with Palms Unhoused Mutual Aid (PUMA) and Build your own Abolitionist Network of Care TBANdindi Kitonga The Battle for Global Hegemony: Trump and the US China Rivalry TBATobita Chow • Carmen Phanuelle Delgra • Ashley Smith • JM Wong A Time of Monsters: What Indigenous Horror Can Teach Us About Resistance TBARobyn Bourgeois • Patty Krawec • Kali Simmons The Border is Everywhere; The Border is the Crisis TBAAngélica Cházaro • Sergio González • Silky Shah • John Washington • Detention Watch Network “Our Goal is to Dismantle the Whole Violent System”: Abolition Feminist Organizing in the 1970s TBAEmily Thuma DIY Abortion TBAKiah Abbey • Emily Likins Ehlers

3:00pm CDT

One Million Experiments: Redefining and Creating Abolition Five Years After Uprising TBALewis Raven Wallace • Eva Nagao • Damon Williams • Daniel Kisslinger • Interrupting Criminalization Skyscraper Jails: The Abolitionist Fight Against Jail Expansion in New York City TBAZhandarka Kurti • Jarrod Shanahan Fanon at 100: Insights for Today's Anti-Colonial Struggles TBANdindi Kitonga • Ricado Jacobs • Peter Hudis • International Marxist-Humanist Organization What's at Stake: Organizing for Climate Armageddon TBAAshley Dawson • Joshua Frank • Silky Shah • Janene Yazzie • CounterPunch Love in a F*cked Up World: Community Care in the Face of Collapse TBABeatrice Adler-Bolton • Dean Spade • Death Panel Mapping Landlords and Their Technologies for Housing Justice and Rent Abolition TBABenjamin Bartu • Nathan Kim • Erin McElroy • Anti-Eviction Mapping Project • Landlord Tech Watch Refusing + Resisting Anti-Kashmiri Racism for a Free Kashmir TBABinish Ahmed • Kashmir Gulposh Borders vs. The Working Class: An Internationalist Perspective TBAMeg C • Franzi R • Damien S • Speak Out Socialists How Worker-to-Worker Unionism Can Transform America TBAEric Blanc • Jasson Perez • Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee Building Abolitionist Campaigns To End Migrant Detention: Case Study on Dignity Not Detention (Free them all!) TBASophia Gurule • Viju Mathew • Critical Resistance What Can Students Achieve? Analyzing the Possibilities and Limits of the Student Intifada TBASid • Alex • Rahaf • Noor • National Students for Justice in Palestine Harm in A Time of Collapse: Practicing Responses to Harm in Leftist Spaces TBAEm Gonzalez • Elon Nnakwe-Sloan Organizing, Religion, and Revolutionary Love TBAJoy James • Adam Vander Tuig • Highlander Center Roundtable: Political Education in the Time of Monsters TBAAllyn Maxfield Steele • Melissa Ferrer Civil • Lo Cropper • Geo Maher • Thomas Mariadason • Center for Political Education • W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School

5:00pm CDT

Emblems of Solidarity: Union Buttons and Labor History TBAIsaac Silver • Buttons of the Left Chicago IPO / Neighborhood Organizations Meet-Up TBA33rd Ward Working Families Covering Fascism While Surviving Fascism: A Media Meet-Up TBADa'Shaun Harrison • Cayden Mak • Maya Schenwar • Lara Witt • Movement Media Alliance Democratic Socialists of America Meet-Up TBADSA Let This Radicalize You Study Session TBABooks Against Borders Political Educators Meet-Up TBA Rabble Rousers’ Git’ Down: Social with Incarcerated AbolitionistsIn the Belly Tarot… for Socialists! TBA Tenant Organizer Meet-UpAutonomous Tenant Union Network Workers Voice Meet-Up: We need revolutionary mass action!Workers' Voice

7:00pm CDT

The Trump-Musk Payments Crisis: The Wonky Constitutional Crisis the Left Should Care About TBANathan Tankus The Blunt-Force Assault on Education: Resistance to Fascism TBABill Ayers • Wayne Au • Davarian Baldwin • Jesse Hagopian • Barbara Ransby • David Stovall Enemy Feminisms: Reckoning with TERFs, Policewomen, and Zionist Feminists TBASophie Lewis Sexual Democracy, Moral Panics, and Trans Politics TBAPaisley Currah Why Is Sex a “Thing”? Making Relations against Settler-Colonialism TBAKim TallBear On Pan-Africanism: Past and Present TBAAdom Getachew UNION: Film Screening and Discussion TBAEric Blanc • Connor Spence • TBD What's Next for the Palestine Solidarity Movement? TBASahar • Eman Abdelhadi • Olivia Katbi • Nashwa Bawab The State of the State TBAAndrea J. Ritchie • Robin D.G. Kelley • Geo Maher • David McNally

9:00pm CDT

The Neo-Futurists present THE INFINITE WRENCHThe Neo-Futurists The Encampments: Film Screening TBA

10:00am CDT

Challenging Mass Surveillance in the Time of Trump TBAEd Vogel • Selinda Guerrero • Fatema Ahmad • Je Amaechi • Nat Palmer • Southerners Against Surveillance Systems & Infrastructure Let It Be a Tale: A Writing Space TBANisha Atalie • Maria Isabelle Carlos Fake Work: What a Fake Job Dedicated to Solving a Fake Crisis Can Teach Us About Financialized Capitalism TBALeigh Claire La Berge Fascists Are Trying To Recruit You!: Antisemitism, Conspiracism, and the Anti-Woke Left TBANaomi Bennet • Danny Katch NOT my Parental Rights Movement! Resisting the Criminalization of Care and the Evangelical Right TBAUjju Aggarwal • Erin Miles Cloud • Erica Meiners • Paula X. Rojas Reproductive Justice Means Palestinian Liberation and Abolition TBATBD • Noor Hasan • Erica Bentley • Palestinian Feminist Collective • Chicago for Abortion Rights • Mamas Activating Movements for Abolition & Solidarity “Sick, Twisted Freedom”: Inside-Out Lessons in Disability Justice TBAA’Keisha Lee • Harley Pomper • Raymond Youngblood • Jail Solidarity Network Under Death Squads and a Dictator's Son: Organizing a Left Alternative in the Philippines TBAPang Delgra • Partido Sosyalista Immigration Detention, Inc. TBANancy Hiemstra From Turtle Island to Palestine: The Many Ways of Indigenous Resistance to Settler Colonialism TBARamzy Baroud • Pilsen Community Books What is Antiracism? And Why it means Anticapitalism TBAArun Kundnani • Verso De-Arrest Training TBAIn the Belly Left-Internationalism from the Imperial Core: Then and Now TBAAudrey Nicolaides • BISR Debate: Socialists, Independent Politics, and the Democratic Party TBAAshik Siddique • TBD • Bennett Carpenter • Howie Hawkins • Solidarity • Groundwork DSA

12:00pm CDT

All Our Movements in this TogetherTBD

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