Socialism 2025: Full Schedule

4:30pm CDT

Defeating the End Times Triad: Christian Zionists, Christian Nationalists, and Technofascists

Thursday July 3, 2025 4:30pm - 6:00pm CDT

In our dystopian conjuncture Christian Zionism, Christian nationalism and End-Times technofascism work together to further genocidal aggression in Palestine alongside the entrenchment of authoritarian repression in the US and worldwide. We’ll work together to understand these movements at the intersections of theology and politics, and explore opportunities for Left strategy and faith and community organizing in the time of monsters.

Speakers

Adam Vander Tuig

Adam Vander Tuig was born and raised in rural Nebraska and currently works as the Faith-Based Educator and Researcher at the Highlander Center in New Market, TN. A recent graduate of Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York (PhD), he organizes with Christians for a Free... Read More →

Ash Bohrer

Ash Bohrer (they/them) is an academic and activist based in Chicago. They are a Board Member and Chapter Leader at Jewish Voice for Peace. Their first book, Marxism and Intersectionality, was shortlisted for the Deutscher Prize, and their next book, Capitalism and Confinement is forthcoming... Read More →

Ben Lorber

Ben Lorber is co-author of Safety through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism. He works as a senior researcher at Political Research Associates, where he provides movement analysis and strategic support on countering antisemitism and its weaponization, white Christian... Read More →

Crystal Silva-McCormick

Crystal Silva-McCormick is a native of El Paso, Texas. She is an Assistant Professor at Austin Seminary and Director of Latinx Studies. Crystal has been a scholar with the Hispanic Theological Initiative (HTI) and is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. She is an organizer... Read More →

Annie Wilkinson

Annie Wilkinson, PhD (she/they) is a scholar-activist, feminist political anthropologist, and movement-based opposition researcher and strategist. She leads Political Research Associate's work on gender and authoritarianism as a senior research analyst, where she provides analysis... Read More →

Sponsors

Political Research Associates

Thursday July 3, 2025 4:30pm - 6:00pm CDT
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Fighting the Right

10:00am CDT

All You Fascists Bound To Lose: The Left’s Role During Repression

Friday July 4, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT

TBA

We are in a period of instability and suppression. The white Christian nationalist right, alongside their billionaire partners, have launched unprecedented assaults on hard-won rights and protections. Our duty is to undermine their neo-fascist agenda. This panel will explore how the Left in South Africa, India, and the U.S. resisted, and in some cases, overcame eras of right-wing repression.

Speakers

Steve Williams

Steve Williams is the National Secretary of North Star Socialist Organization. Trained as a community organizer, he worked for more than 20 years doing multi-racial grassroots organizing at POWER to win working-class power, alongside issues of anti-displacement, welfare and immigrant... Read More →

Amit S

Amit S is a long-time immigrant labor organizer and movement strategist. Amit S is a long-time immigrant labor organizer and movement strategist. He splits his time between India and the United States.

Hannah Sassaman

Hannah Sassaman is a leader with over 20 years of experience organizing for community power and tech justice. She built and won seminal campaigns expanding community radio, cementing affordable internet access, and accountability from Fortune 50 telecom corporations. She currently... Read More →

Sponsors

North Star Socialist Organization

Friday July 4, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA

Fighting the Right

12:00pm CDT

Blocking the Right, Building the Base: The Work of Left Unity in 2025

Friday July 4, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT

TBA

How can organizers take on bold, strategic work to strengthen left-led base building within a broad anti-fascist united front? Our panelists debate the “build” component of a shared “Block and Build” strategic orientation, drawing on their experience in different sectors of the socialist, social movement, and labor left.

Speakers

David Duhalde

David Duhalde is a lifelong democratic socialist organizer who has held positions in both the Democratic Socialist of America and its sister nonprofit the DSA Fund at the staff and volunteer leadership levels. Duhalde has worked in both labor and electoral action and is a public advocate... Read More →

Montague Simmons

Montague Simmons is a community organizer, movement builder and strategist. A native of St. Louis, Montague has worked to build movements locally and nationally that are rooted in building Black political power and self-determination, advancing the leadership of oppressed nationalities... Read More →

Jayanni Webster

Jayanni Webster is a member and national leader of North Star Socialist Organization. As a southern-based organizer, she has 15+ years of experience in labor, housing, and community organizing. She is a committed social-movement leftist, Black feminist, and internationalist.

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 →

Cayden Mak

Cayden Mak is the publisher at Convergence Magazine and the host of Block & Build: Roadmaps for the Left. Prior to Convergence, Cayden spent nearly a decade in various roles at 18 Million Rising, including five years as executive director. His other work has included organizing with... Read More →

Sponsors

Convergence Magazine

Liberation Road

Rising Majority

Friday July 4, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
TBA

Fighting the Right

12:00pm CDT

Rethinking Antifascism

Friday July 4, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT

TBA

A conversation with veteran anti-fascists about what it means to scale-up an anti-fascist movement when the forces we're fighting have taken the power of the state.

Speakers

Andrea J. Ritchie

Andrea J. Ritchie (she/her) is an abolitionist Black lesbian immigrant survivor who has been documenting, organizing, advocating, litigating and agitating around policing and criminalization of Black women, girls, trans, and gender nonconforming people for the past three decades... Read More →

Ari Bloomekatz

Ari Bloomekatz is Executive Editor at In These Times. He was previously the Managing Editor of Rethinking Schools and Tikkun magazines, and spent several years as a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times. Follow him @bloomekatz... Read More →

Shane Burley

Shane Burley is a journalist and filmmaker based in Portland, Oregon. He is the author, co-author, and editor of four books, including Safety Through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism (Melville House, 2024) and Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It (AK Press, 2017). His work has been featured in NBC News, Al Jazeera, Jewish Currents, The Daily Beast, Jacobin, The Baffler, Yes! magazine and the Oregon Historical Quarterly. Follow him on Twitter @shane_burley1 and Instagram @shaneburley... Read More →

Michael Staudenmaier

Michael Staudenmaier is a veteran of many anti-fascist, anti-imperialist, and anarchist projects over the past quarter century, including work with ARA Chicago in the 1990s and 2000s. He is the author of Truth & Revolution: A History of the Sojourner Truth Organization, 1969–1986... Read More →

Kelly Hayes

Kelly Hayes is a Menominee author, organizer, movement educator and photographer. She is the host of Truthout‘s podcast Movement Memos and co-author of the book Let This Radicalize You, with Mariame Kaba. Kelly also is also the creator of Organizing My Thoughts, a weekly newsletter... Read More →

Rick Perlstein

Rick Perlstein is the author of a four-book series on the rise of conservatism in America. The first, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, won the Los Angeles Times Book Award in 2001. The second, third, and fourth made the New York Times bestseller... Read More →

Sponsors

In These Times

Friday July 4, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
TBA

Fighting the Right

8:00pm CDT

Fighting Fascism: Lessons from the Colonies

Friday July 4, 2025 8:00pm - 9:30pm CDT

TBA

Aimé Césaire cut through the mythologies to show that fascism in Europe was no anomaly, it was the boomerang effect of brutal European colonialism abroad coming home. The fight against fascism cannot be successful without understanding the powerful struggles against colonialism from the 20th century to today.

Speakers

Robin D.G. Kelley

Robin D. G. Kelley is Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. He is the author of Hammer and Hoe, Race Rebels, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, and Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original, among other titles. His writing... Read More →

Friday July 4, 2025 8:00pm - 9:30pm CDT
TBA

Fighting the Right

10:00am CDT

The Rise of Right-Wing Politics In Working-Class Communities

Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT

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Far-right leaders and parties throughout the world are winning the support of large sectors of the working class and represent a deadly threat to democracy and social justice. How can we explain this upsurge in support? Join the Daniel Singer Foundation and winners of this year's Daniel Singer Prize contest on this topic for an important discussion.

Moderators

Sarah Leonard

Sarah Leonard is the editor in chief of Lux.

Speakers

David Broder

Meagan Day

Sponsors

Daniel Singer Prize

Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA

Fighting the Right

1:00pm CDT

Disaster Nationalism: Trump and the Downfall of Liberal Civilization

Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT

TBA

While the spotlight often shines on charismatic new far-right leaders, like Donald Trump, Richard Seymour argues that the true peril lies elsewhere. These leaders are merely the embodiment of profound forces that are rarely understood: a seething cauldron of societal despair, fear, isolation and sparks of individual and collective violence against perceived enemies. Unless we understand these deeper forces propelling the far-right resurgence, we have little chance of stopping it.

Speakers

Richard Seymour

Richard Seymour is a writer and broadcaster from Northern Ireland and the author of numerous books about politics including Disaster Nationalism, Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics, and The Twittering Machine. His writing appears in the The New York Times, the London... Read More →

Sponsors

Salvage

Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
TBA

Fighting the Right

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

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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

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 →

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

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 →

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.

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 →

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