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Socialism Conference 2026 • September 4-7 • Chicago, IL Updates and further info at socialismconference.org

Featured Session Unruly Subjects LIVE: A Reckoning with our Moment Chenjerai Kumanyika, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò From indiscriminate warfare to an AI-fueled tech oligarchy and sprawling new punishment systems, our moment poses new challenges that demand new answers: What are the key features of our political landscape? What solidarities remain untapped? How do we stop the oligarchs and the fascists? Socialism 2026 September 4-7 Chicago, IL
Featured Speaker: Noura Erakat Socialism 2026 September 4 -7 Chicago, IL
Endorsing Organizations: Palestinian Youth Movement Long-Haul DSA Afrosocialists Pilsen Community Books Rethinking Schools RevLeft Radio Network to Advance Abolitionist Social Work Truthout Scalawag
Early Bird Deadline Friday, June 19th Socialism 2026 Chicago September 4-7
Featured Speaker Ruth Wilson Gilmore Socialism 2026 September 4-7 Chicago IL
Featured Speaker Dave Zirin Socialism 2026 September 4-7 Chicago, IL
Deadline Extended! Socialism 2026 Chicago September 4-7
Featured Speaker Sarah Jaffe Socialism September 4-7 Chicago, IL
Featured Speaker: Sophie Lewis Socialism 2026 Chicago, IL September 4-7
Featured Speaker Saul Williams Socialism 2026 September 4-7 in Chicago
Featured Speakers: Dorothy Roberts Socialism 2026 September 4-7 Chicago IL
Featured Speaker: Angela Y. Davis Socialism Conference September 4-7 Chicago, IL
Politics · Education · Community Propose a Session! Submit your proposal before our May deadline. Socialism Chicago · September 4–7
Politics · Education · Community Register today! Register online by Friday, June 19th for the early bird discount Socialism Chicago · September 4–7
Socialism 2025 image announcing sessions from this year are now being published to our podcast feed
Social Distancing & Outdoor Space at Socialism 2025: The conference schedule will have ample opportunities for attendees to go outdoors for breaks between sessions. We encourage attendees to hold group meet-ups and gatherings outdoors in order to minimize the risk of infection.
COVID-19 TESTING: All attendees are encouraged to test themselves for COVID-19 prior to making their way to the conference. Free tests will also be available on site.
Masking at Socialism 2025: Attendees are required to wear a mask (N95 or K95) over their mouth and nose while indoors at the conference. Masks will be provided for those who do not have a mask.
COVID-19 Precautions at Socialism 2025
featured session at Socialism 2025 in Chicago from July 3- 6. Vicky Osterweil, Beatrice Adler-Bolton, and Artie Vierkant Deny, Defend, Depose: Health Struggle After Luigi Join us for a discussion of what the fight for health communism can look like under the current regime, and what strategies and forms of politics may help us move forward.
Featured session: The State of the State How should socialists and abolitionists relate to the state? How can we organize collectively against capitalist exploitation and state violence in an era of emboldened fascism and right-wing reaction?
Socialism 2025 Childcare Registration Deadline Reminder
features session Reclaiming the Future: Outer Space as a Site of Organizing and Imagination Chanda Prescod-Weinstein and Lucian Walkowicz
Featured Session How to Democratize Everything Michael A. McCarthy
Decades ago, the great anti-colonial writer Aimé Césaire cut through mythologizing explanations to show that fascism in Europe was no anomaly—it was the boomerang effect of brutal European colonialism abroad coming home. Building on this still crucial insight, join Robin D.G. Kelley for a timely and expansive exploration of the key lessons from anti-colonial struggles, past and present, for today’s fight against fascism. Don’t miss it! Register for Socialism 2025 by May 9th for the early bird discounted rate!
Socialism 2025 Sessions Preview • The Blunt-Force Assault on Education: Resistance to Fascism • Sexual Democracy, Moral Panics, and Trans Politics • Debt is a Labor Issue: Unions and Debt Abolition • “Sick, Twisted Freedom”: Inside-Out Lessons in Disability Justice • AI and the Techo-Fascist Power Grab for our Data, Lives, and Resources • Nos Defendemos: Community Deportation Defense from Workplaces to Neighborhoods • Their End is Our Beginning: Cops, Capitalism, and Abolition • The Palestine Crisis in Liberal Institutions and the Trump Moment • Social Reproduction Theory and Practice And many more.....
Why is Sex a "thing?" Making Relations Against Settler-Colonialism Join Dr. Kim TallBear as she draws on the insights of critical Indigenous and sexuality studies to offer alternative ways of thinking and doing intimacy.
We have extended the Early Bird Discount until Friday, May 9th!
How Worker-to-Worker Unionism Can Transform America Eric Blanc What are the key lessons of the bottom-up unionization surge that has swept the US since 2021, and how this grassroots labor momentum can be maintained under the new Trump administration. Socialism 2025
featured session Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education In the face of relentless attacks on antiracist education, a much-needed reckoning with the roots of this latest wave of censorship and an urgent call to action to defend education
featured session Sophie Lewis Enemy Feminisms: Reckoning with TERFs, Policewomen, & Zionist Feminists By way of a reckoning of two hundred years of enemy feminisms, this session will make the case for the bold, liberatory, antifascist feminist politics we need instead. Socialism 2025
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Audience member asking a question to a panel at the Socialism Conference
POLITICS • EDUCATION • COMMUNITY SOCIALISM 2O25 CHICAGO • JULY 3-6
POLITICS • EDUCATION • COMMUNITY SOCIALISM 2O25 CHICAGO • JULY 3-6
Panel at Socialism 2024 titled: Worker Say: End U.S. Aid to Israel