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Sunday, July 6
 

10:00am CDT

Challenging Mass Surveillance in the Time of Trump
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
Police agencies at all levels are rapidly adopting new digital surveillance tools and using these systems to intensify oppression and repression. This panel will look at how these tools are transforming policing, patterns in where and how they are adopted, and ways that we can organize against the alignment of state and corporate power that is fueling this era of mass surveillance.
Moderators
EV

Ed Vogel

Lucy Parsons Labs
Speakers
SG

Selinda Guerrero

Millions for Prisoners.
FA

Fatema Ahmad

Muslim Justice League.
JA

Je Amaechi

Unite Oregon.
NP

Nat Palmer

BYP100.
Sponsors
avatar for Southerners Against Surveillance Systems & Infrastructure
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Abolition

10:00am CDT

Let It Be a Tale: A Writing Space
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
This session is for everyone—whether you consider yourself a writer (of any genre) or not. Join us as we take a moment to sit with what we’ve learned over the conference weekend and find words for our rage, heartbreak, love, grief, curiosity, steadfastness, and all that we’re carrying with us in this struggle for a better world.
Moderators
NA
MI
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Culture and Art

10:00am CDT

Fake Work: What a Fake Job Dedicated to Solving a Fake Crisis Can Teach Us About Financialized Capitalism
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
At the end of the last century, predictions about the destructive potential of the Y2K bug were everywhere. As the clocks ticked closer to the prophesied end-times, Capitalism—then in the rapturous throes of a global tech bubble—did what it does best: created a whole cottage industry of consultants dedicated not to preventing the apocalypse, but to ensuring the steady flow of profits. Join Leigh Claire La Berge as she dissects her time as one of these management consultants, offering an inside look at the absurd cultural and political economic consequences of Capitalism's singular focus on the bottom line.
Speakers
LC

Leigh Claire La Berge

Leigh Claire La Berge is Professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, and author of Wages Against Artwork: Decommodified Labor and the Claims of Socially Engaged Art , Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary, and, most recently, Fake Work... Read More →
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Economics

10:00am CDT

Fascists Are Trying To Recruit You!: Antisemitism, Conspiracism, and the Anti-Woke Left
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
As Trump persecutes migrants, trans people, and other scapegoats, the left faces a choice: echo his anti-woke populism, or fight for collective liberation. This session will look at the dangers of antisemitic, conspiracist politics in movements across the political spectrum – and how we keep the focus on capitalism, not cabals.
Speakers
NB

Naomi Bennet

Naomi Bennet is an anti-fascist activist and political educator based in Chicago. Her work focuses on the structural life of antisemitism in the United States and combating the far right. Her writing can be found in Jewish Currents, Truthout, Tempest, New Politics, and elsewhere... Read More →
DK

Danny Katch

Danny Katch is an educator, writer, and organizer in New York City. He's the author of Socialism...Seriously and Why Bad Governments Happen to Good People, and has been a frequent contributor to Truthout, Jacobin, and The Indypendent.
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Fighting the Right

10:00am CDT

NOT my Parental Rights Movement! Resisting the Criminalization of Care and the Evangelical Right
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
Whether it is fighting child services, surviving childbirth, resisting police violence, challenging settler politics, or building community care networks, marginalized mamas and caregivers have been resisting criminalization for decades. How do our campaigns continue to uplift these fights against criminalization while expanding the framework for family protection beyond the nuclear paradigm? What are we seeing as potential threats from the conservative "Parental rights" movement and how are our campaigns and projects that overlap with "parental rights" strategizing within this discursive landscape to build both collective and public spaces and the kinship networks we need and want, while pushing back on narratives and mobilizations that are toxic?
Speakers
UA

Ujju Aggarwal

Ujju Aggarwal is an organizer and educator based in New York City. For over two decades her work has been rooted in building organizations and organizing for educational justice, immigrants’ rights, and abolition as well as projects at the intersection of arts and social justice... Read More →
EM

Erin Miles Cloud

Erin Miles Cloud is a civil rights attorney. She is the co-founder of Movement for Family Power, and a former family defense public defender. She is also the mother of two beautiful children.
EM

Erica Meiners

Erica R. Meiners is a writer, educator and organizer in Chicago, Illinois. Lucky to think and write with wonderful folks across several book projects including the forthcoming How to End Family Policing: From Outrage to Action (Haymarket 2025) they currently work with a number of... Read More →
PX

Paula X. Rojas

Paula X. Rojas is a Chilean-born community organizer, licensed midwife and social justice trainer grew up in Texas, and spent formative years as a youth back in Chile learning from grassroots revolutionary movements at the end of the military dictatorship. For the last 30 years, she... Read More →
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Fighting the Right

10:00am CDT

Reproductive Justice Means Palestinian Liberation and Abolition
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
Reproductive justice is deeply intertwined with the struggle for a free Palestine and for a world free of colonial violence. How can the power of the reproductive justice framework help us build an intersectional movement that encompasses police and prison abolition, Palestinian liberation and abortion access and bodily autonomy for all? Speakers explore the coalitions being built between feminists in Chicago and internationally, organizing for reproductive justice in its most expansive form.
Speakers
T
NH

Noor Hasan

Noor (she/her) is a member of the Palestinian Feminist Collective. Noor is a long time Chicagoan and community health researcher. Her last presentation at the Socialism Conference followed the 1936-1939 Revolution in Palestine through a feminist lens! To learn more about the Palestinian... Read More →
EB

Erica Bentley

Erica Bentley (she/they) is a co-director of Mamas Activating Movements for Abolition & Solidarity, where she works primarily with mothers of incarcerated police torture survivors. Her ideologies are deeply rooted in collective liberation and informed by ongoing study and relationship-building... Read More →
Sponsors
avatar for Chicago for Abortion Rights
MA
avatar for Palestinian Feminist Collective
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Gender-Sexuality-Liberation

10:00am CDT

“Sick, Twisted Freedom”: Inside-Out Lessons in Disability Justice
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
In prison and jail where people must put themselves at risk to have their basic needs met, how do we think about disability? We will challenge people to see how incarceration disables and how disabled people inside lead, build power, and care for one another—teaching outsiders to do the same.
Speakers
AL

A’Keisha Lee

A’Keisha Lee is proudly and originally from Lansing, IL. She started organizing in college at the University of Illinois, where she focused on improving enrollment rates for black students and funding for the Black and Afro Studies program. A’Keisha moved to Chicago after completing... Read More →
HP

Harley Pomper

Harley Pomper is a PhD student in Social Work at the University of Chicago. A co-founder of the Jail Solidarity Network, they organize across jail walls to report on carceral injustices and political repression. Their research centers on incarceration, care, disability, and dissent... Read More →
RY

Raymond Youngblood

Raymond “Suey” Youngblood is a leader, mentor, and interviewer. Suey experienced and analyzed the physical and spiritual violence of prison on himself and in caring for the people around him during 21 years and 5 months in prison and jail. Suey was wrongfully convicted. Today... Read More →
Sponsors
JS
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Health Politics & Disability Justice

10:00am CDT

Under Death Squads and a Dictator's Son: Organizing a Left Alternative in the Philippines
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
From the weaponization of Facebook to successive elections of authoritarian leaders; the Philippines has been a testing ground for the Far-Right. How have the left been able to fight back under such conditions? Hear insights and perspectives from a representative from the newly formed Partido Sosyalista of the Philippines.
Speakers
PD
Sponsors
avatar for Partido Sosyalista
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  International Politics

10:00am CDT

Immigration Detention, Inc.
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
While immigration detention is central to Trump's mass deportation plans, the U.S. detention system has been growing for decades. In addition to private prison operators, a whole range of companies and local governments are cashing in. As detention capacity increases, so do webs of economic dependence – and stakeholders who advocate for locking up migrants.
Speakers
NH

Nancy Hiemstra

Nancy Hiemstra is a political geographer whose research focuses on US immigration enforcement policies. She is the author of Detain and Deport: The Chaotic U.S. Immigration Enforcement Regime and co-editor of Intimate Economies of Immigration Detention. She is Associate Professor... Read More →
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Migrant Justice, Intro

10:00am CDT

From Turtle Island to Palestine: The Many Ways of Indigenous Resistance to Settler Colonialism
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
As the world witnesses a live-streamed genocide, we face burning questions of how to combat fascism, white supremacy, religious fundamentalism, and settler colonialism. Two activists, authors, and scholars from Turtle Island and Palestine will discuss the long history of Indigenous resistance including the strategies and tactics that build solidarity and the possibility for a better world.
Speakers
RB
Sponsors
avatar for Pilsen Community Books
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Palestine

10:00am CDT

What is Antiracism? And Why it means Anticapitalism
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
Drawing lessons from a long tradition of anticolonial, anti-imperialist, and Marxist intellectuals and movements, Arun Kundnani will discuss how racism and capitalism are indivisible parts of one global system. And unless we can see the whole, we'll never know how to fight.
Speakers
AK

Arun Kundnani

Arun Kundnani is a writer interested in race, Islamophobia, surveillance, political violence, and radicalism. Born in London, Kundnani moved to New York in 2010 and now lives in Philadelphia. The Guardian has described him as “one of Britain’s best political writers.” Kundnani... Read More →
Sponsors
avatar for Verso
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Racism and Anti-Racism, Intro

10:00am CDT

De-Arrest Training
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
As the struggle against emboldened fascism continues, we need to know how to protect each other from state repression and capture. Join us for an interactive training on de-arrest, where participants will teach each other strategy and tactics of de-arrest calisthenics. 
Sponsors
avatar for In the Belly
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Skill Sharing, Intro

10:00am CDT

Left-Internationalism from the Imperial Core: Then and Now
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
This lecture will retrace the theoretical and historical evolution of left-internationalism from the mid-19th century onward, paying particular attention to the problem of practicing international solidarity from within the imperial core. What is left internationalism? How has it evolved over time? And how should we practice it in the present?
Speakers
AN

Audrey Nicolaides

Audrey Nicolaides is a Chicago-based critical theorist committed to public-facing scholarship. She is Core Faculty and Chicago Coordinator at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University where she specialized in political... Read More →
Sponsors
B
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Socialist and Marxist Theory, Intro

10:00am CDT

Debate: Socialists, Independent Politics, and the Democratic Party
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
Speakers
AS
T
BC

Bennett Carpenter

Bennett Carpenter is a queer Southern trainer, movement strategist, and member of the National Executive Committee of Liberation Road. They've run campaigns to win participatory budgeting and community based alternatives to policing, elect movement candidates to local and state office... Read More →
HH
Sponsors
avatar for Groundwork DSA
avatar for Solidarity
Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA
  Socialist Strategy

12:00pm CDT

All Our Movements in this Together
Sunday July 6, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
Amid relentless authoritarian attacks and power grabs, it will take all our movements to bring down the oligarchs and build a different kind of future. Join us for the Socialism 2025 final plenary as we confront a pivotal political moment and ground ourselves to come out stronger on the other side.
Speakers
MP

Mariah Parker

Mariah Parker is an emcee and labor organizer born and raised in the South. Their cultural work and organizing have been featured in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Teen Vogue, SPIN, Al Jazeera, Scalawag and Hammer & Hope. They are a co-editor of No Cop City, No Cop World... Read More →
T
SS

Silky Shah

Silky Shah has been working as an organizer on issues related to racial and migrant justice for over two decades. Originally from Texas, she began fighting the expansion of immigrant jails on the US-Mexico border in the aftermath of 9/11. In 2009, she joined the staff of Detention... Read More →
ML

Mikaela Loach

Mikaela Loach is a climate justice organizer, speaker, and the author of Climate Is Just the Start. She is the co-director of the AWETHU School of Organising and co-hosts the YIKES podcast.
EA

Eman Abdelhadi

Eman Abdelhadi is a scholar, organizer and writer in the movement for Palestinian liberation.  
Sunday July 6, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
  Socialist Strategy
 
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