Socialism Conference

The Socialism Conference is an annual conference in Chicago sponsored by Haymarket Books.

2023 Speakers

• Eman Abdelhadi
• Mohamed Abdou
• Maryam Abidi
• Ray Acheson
• Beatrice Adler-Bolton
• Mizue Aizeki
• Shireen Akram-Boshar
• Muzan Alneel
• Vicko Alvarez
• Frances Amador
• Aaron Amaral
• Nisha Atalie
• Wayne Au
• Veronica Avendano
• Jonah ben Avraham
• Sumaya Awad
• Bill Ayers
• Aditi Bansal
• Melanie Barron
• brian bean
• Mike Beggs
• Liat Ben-Moshe
• Andrew Bergman
• Salonee Bhaman
• Mikayla Biggers
• Elizabeth Blaney
• Denys Bondar
• Mary Bowman
• Johanna Bozuwa
• Rose Brewer
• Guy Brown
• Mal Burns
• Leigh Brownhill
• Alexandra Bruns-Smith
• Ilya Budraitskis
• Denzel Burke
• Mark Burrows
• Rachel CAidor
• Sarah Callahan
• Lenny Cane
• Ramsin Canon
• Maria Isabelle Carlos
• R. Ya’iyr Carter
• Abby Cartus
• Hélène Cavat
• Justin Charles
• Maddy Clifford
• Lo Coffman
• Jared Coles
• Cliff Connolly
• Adam Cooper
• Joe Cronin
• Robert Cuffy
• Molly Culhane
• Amelia Davenport
• Angela Y. Davis
• Ben Davis
• Gina Dent
• Dan Denvir
• Tara Donnelly
• Emily Drabinski
• Fritz Edler
• Mohammed El-Kurd
• Nisrin Elamin
• Brooke Eliazar-Macke
• Rabab Elnaiem
• Noura Erakat
• Woods Ervin
• Azad Essa
• Sean Estelle
• Daniel Faber
• Jason Farbman
• Grayson Flood
• Rachel Foran
• Josh Frank
• Chris Furino
• Chanelle Gallant
• Tefa Galvis
• Phil Gasper
• Sydney Ghazarian
• Dina Gilio-Whitaker
• Jules Gill-Peterson
• Rachel Gilmer
• Ruth Wilson Gilmore
• Esteban Giron
• Kristen Godfrey
• Eliza Gonring
• Anand Gopal
• Gustavo Gordillo
• Vivianne Guevarra
• Ashley “AG” Green
• Michelle Grier
• Annabelle Guptill
• Allison Guttu
• Tommy Hagan
• Jesse Hagopian
• Alex Han
• Briana Hanny
• J. Hollis Harris
• Leah Harris
• Malcolm Harris
• Da’Shaun Harrison
• Hayden Harwood
• Saaday Hashamiyan
• Shira Hassan
• Matt Haugen
• Kelly Hayes
• Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson
• Kristian Hernandez
• Micah Herskind
• Marc Lamont Hill
• Nate Holdren
• Michael Hollingsworth
• Terri Houldieson
• Renaldo Hudson
• Sarah Hurd
• guney Isikara
• Erica Jackson
• Raphel Jackson
• Aaron Jamal
• Brendan James
• Jawanza James
• Emily Janakiram
• Bonnie Jin
• Angela Jones
• Avery Jones
• Guerline Jozef
• Erica Jung
• Graham K
• Mariame Kaba
• Miles Kampf-Lassin
• Hafsa Kanjwal
• Danny Katch
• Robin DG Kelley
• Alice Kim
• Mimi Kim
• Daniel Kisslinger
• Naomi Klein
• Eric Kobesak
• Stephanie Kollgaard
• Dennis Kosuth
• Adam Kotsko
• Patty Krawec
• Noah Kulwin
• Djamil Lakhdar-Hamina
• Elene Lam
• Melinda Lavon
• Steven Lazarov
• Paul LeBlanc
• Aaron Lecklider
• N’Tanya Lee
• Rose Lenehan
• Megan Lessard
• Cate Levinson
• Deana Lewis
• Sophie Lewis
• Promise Li
• Alona Liasheva
• Philip Locker
• Damon Locks
• Cheryl Looney
• Bettina Love
• JP Lyninger
• Evelyn Majid
• Brandon Mancilla
• Thomas Mariadason
• Tristian Martinez
• Santera Matthews
• Robyn Maynard
• Zhang Mazi
• David McNally
• Justine Medina
• Erica R. Meiners
• Natalie Midiri
• Guy Miller
• Mon Mohaptara
• Yordanos
• Aja Monet
• Vesper Moor
• Kaili Moss
• Rene Christian Moya
• Lindsay Muniak
• Naomi Murakawa
• Donna Murch
• Premilla Nadasen
• Eva Nagao
• Santiago Narvaez
• Hayley Neiling
• Safaer Ness
• Aerris Newton
• Miliaku Nwavueze
• M. E. O’Brien
• Brendan O’Connor
• Eric O’Hara
• Elizabeth Oh
• Josh On
• Sean Orr
• Robert Ovetz
• Zafiro Patino
• Hanna Perekhoda
• Joseph Perez
• Haley Pessin
• Destine Phillips
• Nevena Philpovic-Wengler
• Daisy Pitkin
• Fawn Pochel
• Michaelangelo Pomarico
• Molly Porzig
• Charlie Post
• Jackson Potter
• Farima Pour-Khorshid
• Annie Powers
• Alex N. Press
• Jasbir Puar
• Sandra Puebla
• Derecka Purnell
• Dyland Pyles
• Alex Q
• Anthony Guezada
• Linda Quiquivix
• Darakshan Raja
• Barbara Ransby
• Asha Ransby-Sporn
• Noah Ranz-Lind
• Elce Redmond
• Beth E. Richie
• Hector Rincon
• Hector A. Rivera
• Philip Rocco
• Megan Romer
• Julian Rose
• Tracy Rosenthal
• Anne Rumberger
• Sozan Savehilaghi
• Maya Schenwar
• Christina Schlegal
• David K Seitz
• Jesse Sharkey
• Ashik Siddique
• Katy Slinginger
• Ashley Smith
• Danez Smith
• Kristen Smith
• Soleil Smith
• Connor Spence
• Ari Springer
• Jessica Stites
• Shelton Stromquist
• Bhaskar Sunkara
• Simon Swartzman
• Jessica Phoeix Sylvia
• Olufemi O. Taiwo
• Sanrda Tamari
• Astra Taylor
• Joshua Taylor
• Dawn Tefft
• Steven W. Trasher
• Alberto Toscano
• Tea S. Troutman
• Delaney VAndergrift
• Jimena Vergara
• Artie Vierkant
• Suchitra Vijayan
• Dan Vincente
• Tony Viola
• Alex S. Vitale
• Harsha Walia
• Thomas Walker
• Erik Wallenberg
• Rosie Warren
• Durrell Washington
• Quentin Washington
• Nikia Watkins
• Cea Weaver
• Jayanni Webster
• Rey Wences
• Lee Wengraf
• David Whitehouse
• Damon Williams
• Stevie Wilson
• Gabriel Winant
• Judy Wraight
• Kang Yang
• Janene Yazzie
• Jung Yoon
• Leo Zeilig
• Mary Zerkel
• Dave Zirin

Sponsors of the 2023 Socialism Conference

• 33rd Ward Working Families
• Abolitionist Teaching Network
• Afrosocialists and Socialists of Color Caucus
• Autonomous Tenants Union Network
• Butterfly
• Capitalism Nature Socialism
• Center for Political Education
• City Life/ Vida Urbana
• Community Exchange
• Cosmonaut Magazine
• CouterPUnch
• Critical Resistance
• Death Panel
• Debt Collective
• Decarerate Kansas City
• Dissenters
• Dream Defenders
• Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
• EWOC
• Highlander
• In These Times
• Jacobin
• KC Tenants
• Lakota Youth Development
• Left Voice
• LeftRoots
• Liberation Library
• Liberation Road
• Los Angeles Tenants Union
• Lux Magazine
• Muslim Abolitionist Futures
• Muslims for Just Futures
• National Women’s Liberation
• Network to Advance Abolitionist Social Work
• New York Collective of Radical Educators
• Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste
• NYC for Abortion Rights
• Pinko
• Pluto Press
• Prison + Neighborhood Arts Project
• Railroad Workers United
• Rampent
• Red Canary Song
• Red Pine
• Respair Media
• Rethinking Schools
• Salvage
• Scalawag
• Science for the People
• Solidarity
• Spectre
• Surveillance Resistance Lab
• Survived & Punished
• Tempest
• The Dig
• The New Inquiry
• The REAL Youth Initiative
• Verso
• Worker’s Voice

2024 Speakers

• Iskander Abbasi
• Eman Abdelhadi
• Mohamed Abdou
• Rasha Abdulhadi
• Hanif Abdurraqib
• Maryam Abidi
• George Abraham
• Ray Acheson
• Beatrice Adler-Bolton
• Mohiba Ahmed
• Mizue Aizeki
• Ariel Ajeno
• Amna Akbar
• Shireen Akram-Boshar
• David Albright
• Ines Alcazar
• Lama Alhasn
• AK Alilonu
• Jose Manuel Almanza
• Frances Amador
• Jessica Anderson
• Nisha Atalie
• Jonah ben Avraham
• Sumaya Awad
• Ela Banerjee
• Dan Bannoura
• Aline Baratseh
• Bill Barclay
• Aman Bardia
• Tim Barker
• Andrew Basta
• brian bean
• Anderson Bean
• Liat Ben-Moshe
• Andrew Bergman
• Rafael Bernabe
• Michael Lujan Bevacqua
• Vincent Bevins
• Patrick Bigger
• Taras Bilous
• Jennifer Bing
• Martha Biondi
• Ed Blair
• Denys Bondar
• Johanna Bozuwa
• Renette Bradley
• Ko Bragg
• Furonda Brasfield
• Rose M. Brewer
• Clarissa Brooks
• Billy Che Brooks
• Cherrell Brown
• Sherronda J. Brown
• Denzel Burke
• Mark Burrows
• Robert Capistrano
• Bennett Carpenter
• Yaiyr Carter
• Beth Castle
• J. Mijin Cha
• Judith Chavarria
• Tiara Cooper
• Alice Costas
• Joe Cronin
• Marla Cruz
• Robert Cuffy
• Roshan Dadoo
• Ashley Dawson
• Madi Day
• Damiana Dendy
• Daniel Denvir
• Alan Dettlaff
• Eva Dickerson
• Ryan Doerfler
• Lexi Dotson-Dufault
• Emily Drabinski
• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
• Nada Elia
• Catherine Elias
• Sai Englert
• Christian Ephraim
• Noura Erakat
• Woods Ervin
• Nick Estes
• Jason Farbman
• Marwa Fatafta
• Shannon Fauwkes
• Liz Oliva Fernandez
• Monaeka Flores
• Aricka Foreman
• Nyle Fort
• Max Fox
• Joshua Frank
• Julio César Gambina
• Mara Garcia
• Phil Gasper
• Shahinaz Geneid
• Jules Gill-Peterson
• Nate Gilliam
• Rachel Gilmer
• Sebastian Fernandez  Giraldo
• Kristen Godfrey
• Tami Gold
• Aparna Gopalan
• Saoirse Gowan
• Sharlyn Grace
• Alexis Pauline Gumbs
• Hialy Gutierrez
• Alex Han
• Dawn Harrington
• Jerry Harris
• Leah Ida Harris
• Da’Shaun Harrison
• Renee Hatcher
• Kelly Hayes
• Mary Heglar
• Ashley Hemmers
• Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson
• Rachel Herzing
• Nancy Holmstrom
• Jeanelle K. Hope
• Tara Houska
• Beth Howard
• Sarah Hurd
• Volodymyr Ishchenko
• Miikka Jaarte
• Lynette Jackson
• Sarah Jaffe
• Farhat Jahan
• Emily Janakiram
• Cheryl Johnson
• Elise Joshi
• Mariame Kaba
• Jessie Kelly
• Sam Kimball
• Daniel Kisslinger
• Lara Kiswani
• Dennis Kosuth
• Patty Krawec
• Tom Ladendorf
• Rob Larson
• Victoria Law
• Jacqueline Lazu
• Julie Lee
• Tony LeMerise
• Megan Lessard
• Michael Letwin
• Emily Likins-Ehlers
• Kevin Lin
• Peter Linebaugh
• Byron Sigcho Lopez
• Ben Lorber
• Olena Lyubchenko
• Ben Mabie
• Matt Mahmoudi
• Regina Mahone
• Brandon Mancilla
• Gerardo Marciano
• Amir Marshi
• Julio Mateo
• Ilya Matveev
• Robyn Maynard
• Colin McLaughlin
• Lex McMennamin
• David McNally
• Steve Meacham
• Mandy Medley
• Rubi Mendez
• Blanca Missé
• Mon Mohapatra
• Micah Clark Moody
• Maria Moreno
• Divyani Motla
• Bill V. Mullen
• John Mullen
• Lindsey Muniak
• Naomi Murakawa
• Nadine Naber
• Nourah Nabulsi
• Premilla Nadasen
• Jonathan Nagy
• Safear Ness
• August Nimtz
• Beto O’Byrne
• Rebecca O’Keeffe
• Leena Odeh
• Sian Miranda Singh ÓFaoláin
• Jonah Olsen
• Jeff Ordower
• Aidan Orly
• Emma P
• A. Naomi Paik
• Ilan Pappé
• Renée Paradis
• Mina Parkison
• Zafiro Patiño
• Janie Paul
• Marcelina Pedraza
• Alex Pellitteri
• Lydia Pelot-Hobbs
• Maya Pendleton
• Meropi Peponides
• Jasson Perez
• Destine Phillips
• Justin Piché
• Josie Pickens
• Nevena Pilipović-Wengler
• Pierre Pinson
• Fawn E. Pochel
• Zakhar Popovych
• Anna Popovych
• Molly Porzig
• Jackson Potter
• Katrina Powell
• Alex Press
• Anthony Quezada
• Gladys Radek
• Tiera Rainey
• Bati Bai Rajak
• M.V. Ramana
• Eric Ramos
• Barbara Ransby
• Sherena Razek
• Thea Riofrancos
• Rossana Rodríguez
• Khem Rogaly
• Megan Romer
• Magdaleno Rosales
• Sara Roschdi
• Rabbi Brant Rosen
• Adam Rosenberg
• Tracy Rosenthal
• Sarah Rothschild
• Miriam Ruiz
• Arsalan Samdani
• Oscar Sanchez
• Linda Sarsour
• Maya Schenwar
• Jeff Schuhrke
• Dan Scoggins
• Ian Scott
• Silky Shah
• Jesse Sharkey
• Renee Bracey Sherman
• Helen Shiller
• Josue Sica
• Ashik Siddique
• Rev. Cristal Silva-McCormick
• Kate Sim
• Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
• Shanti Singh
• Dr. Santiago Slabodsky
• Michelle Smith
• Ashley Smith
• Pranay Somayajula
• Nikita Sonavane
• James Soto
• Peg Strobel
• Emma Tai
• Abdel Razzaq Takriti
• Sandra Tamari
• Peter Tanaka
• Emma Teitelman
• Madonna Thunder Hawk
• Verónica Tirado
• Dao Tran
• Tea Troutman
• Natalia Tylim
• Adam Vander Tuig
• Alvin Velazquez
• Artie Vierkant
• Leonardo Vilchis
• Rebecca Vilkomerson
• Alex Vitale
• Ed Vogel
• Harsha Walia
• Lewis Wallace
• Sasha Warren
• Rev. Dr. Naomi Washington-Leaphart
• Sarah Wattar
• Jeffery R. Webber
• Lois Weiner
• Suzi Weissman
• Eric Wellers
• Lee Wengraf
• Clarence White
• Damon Williams
• Kim Wilson
• Ruth Wilson Gilmore
• James Wilt
• Gabriel Winant
• Maya Wind
• Rabbi Alissa Wise
• Lara Witt
• Helen Yaffe
• Gabriel Yancy
• Janene Yazzie
• Allison Zec
• Mary Zerkel
• Yueran Zhang
• Dave Zirin

Sponsors/Endorsing Organizations of the 2024 Socialism Conference

• #StopShotSpotter National Coalition
• 33rd Ward Working Families
• Adalah Justice Project
• Against the Current
• Arab Resource & Organizing Center
• Autonomous Tenants Union Network
• Autonomous University of Social Movements
• Between the Lines
• Black Men Build
• Black Rose Anarchist Federation
• Bottom Up Liberation
• Capitalism Nature Socialism Journal
• Center for Political Education
• Chi Nations Youth Council
• Chicago Cuba Coalition
• Chicago for Abortion Rights
• Chicago Torture Justice Memorials Foundation
• City Life Vida Urbana
• Civil Rights Corps
• Climate and Community Institute
• Community Justice Exchange
• Cooperation Milwaukee
• CounterPunch
• Critical Resistance
• Daniel Singer Millenium Prize
• Death Panel
• Debt Collective
• Decarcerate KC
• Detention Watch Network
• Dissent
• Dissenters
• Dream Defenders
• DSA
• DSA Socialist Majority
• Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee
• Firebrand
• Free Hearts
• Giniw Collective
• Hammer & Hope
• Haymarket Books
• Highlander
• Hindus for Human Rights
• In the Belly
• In These Times
• Indigenous Grounds
• Jewish Currents
• Jewish Voice for Peace
• Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative
• Kashmir Gulposh Collective
• LA Tenants Union
• Law & Political Economy
• Liberation Road
• Lux Magazine
• Media Against Apartheid and Displacement
• Midnight Sun
• Milwaukee Freedom Fund
• Missouri Justice Coalition
• Missourians to Abolish the Death Penalty
• Mondoweiss
• Muslims for Just Futures
• New Politics
• Noose to Needle – 8th Amendment Project
• North Star Socialist Organization
• NYC for Abortion Rights
• Palestinian Feminist Collective
• Pilsen Community Books
• Pinko
• Pluto Press
• PM Press
• Political Research Associates
• Radical Evolution
• Railroad Workers United
• Rampant Magazine
• REAL Youth Initiative
• Reform & Revolution
• Religion Dispatches
• Respair Media
• Rethinking Schools
• SALAM (South Asian Left Activist Movement)
• Salon Kawakib
• Salvage
• Scalawag
• Science for the People
• Seven Stories
• Social Justice Initiative
• Solidarity
• Spectre
• Stand with Kashmir
• Study and Struggle
• Surveillance Resistance Lab
• Tempest
• The Dig
• The Forge Organizing
• The International Marxist-Humanist Organization
• The Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project
• The New Inquiry
• The New Press
• The Policing and Social Justice Project
• The Public Eye
• The Real News Network
• TRNN
• Truthout
• Tucson Bail Fund
• UAW Labor for Palestine
• Ukraine Solidarity Network
• upEND Movement
• Verso
• Visualizing Palestine
• Voice of Witness
• W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School
• Workers’ Voice Writer’s Against the War on Gaza