Chicago's unruly events calendar.https://www.thejungle.events/https://www.thejungle.events/posts/dzBn5n27M7s3hx/https://www.thejungle.events/posts/dzBn5n27M7s3hx/[June 8 @ 7:00 PM until 9:00 PM | Pilson Community Books, 1531 W. 18th St. ] Come watch two surreal compilations of media footage of revolts that have occurred inside and outside of the St. Louis jails over the course of 10 years. Tue, 19 May 2026 20:51:58 GMThttps://www.thejungle.events/posts/9pFfaaoA75NRdx/https://www.thejungle.events/posts/9pFfaaoA75NRdx/[June 9 @ 6:30 PM until 9:30 PM | Haymarket House, 800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL] Join us for a four-week intensive seminar on the thought of Rosa Luxemburg led by Audrey Nicolaides. This is a four-week course, meeting once-weekly between June 9 and June 30 on Tuesday evenings, 6:30pm – 9:30pm. Students are expected to participate in all four sessions. Syllabus and readings will be sent out upon registration. Space is limited, so register to secure your spot. For Rosa Luxemburg, civilization faced a choice: “socialism or barbarism.” But how to actually achieve socialism was the driving preoccupation of Luxemburg’s life. Economist, journalist, politician, and streetfighter, Luxemburg threw herself into the great debates that roiled the international Marxist movement. She was a vociferous critic of parliamentary reformism, developing instead a singularly powerful internationalist and mass participatory theory of socialist revolution centered on the mass strike. She debated Lenin on problems of political organization and was the first to warn against the authoritarian degeneration of Bolshevism. An acute political economist, she wrote what stands as the first major Marxist attempt to grapple with the centrality of imperialism to the global capitalist system, The Accumulation of Capital. Over two decades of intense political and theoretical activity, she earned the admiration of her allies, the begrudging respect of her adversaries, and the mortal hatred of her enemies (who murdered her in 1919). To this day, Rosa Luxemburg continues to inspire leftists all over the world. But her theoretical and political legacy is also haunted by the failure of the political project she championed. How can we understand Luxemburg’s theoretical and polemical work in the light of the collapse of socialist revolution and internationalism? Is Luxemburg’s revolutionary vision, encapsulated in her famous slogan, still plausible today, with liberal democracy under siege by the reactionary and neo-fascist far-Right? In this course, we will read Luxemburg’s work against its immediate historical and political context: the imperialist build-up to World War I, the rise and fall of German Social Democracy and the Second International, and the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917. We will ask: What is Luxemburg’s account of imperialism and what are its implications for Marxist theorizing? How did Luxemburg understand the revolutionary politics of her day? What can her decades-long but ultimately failed efforts to steer the ship of German Social Democracy toward revolution tell us about the nature of mass socialist politics? What were Luxemburg’s blindspots and what do they reveal about the limits of Second International Marxism? And what remains alive in her work today? In tackling these questions, we will survey her entire body of work including but not limited to Reform or Revolution?, The Mass Strike, The Accumulation of Capital, The Junius Pamphlet and her extensive writings on Russia. We will supplement these readings with selected correspondence, news articles, pamphlets, and later scholarship as well as writings from her contemporaries and interlocutors including Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Eduard Bernstein, Karl Kausty, Rudolf Hilferding, Karl Liebknecht, Paul Levi, and Lenin. We will outline Luxemburg’s singular contributions to Marxist theory and socialist politics and consider their implications, resonances, and continued relevance for the twenty-first century.Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:12:45 GMThttps://www.thejungle.events/posts/ciuHTMysKF82Pr/https://www.thejungle.events/posts/ciuHTMysKF82Pr/[June 10 @ 6:30 PM until 8:00 PM | Skunk Cabbage Books, 2826 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60618] Join us to celebrate the release of Alice Stoehr's Again, Harder with Alice in conversation with Sloane Murphy. Again, Harder, from Feminist Press, gathers the uncompromising short fiction of Alice Stoehr, which investigates the inner lives, evolving relationships, and often violent marginalization of a community of trans women in a large Midwestern town. Again, Harder is the sardonic heartbeat of a new generation of American trans women. Alice Stoehr is a writer and bookseller living in Minneapolis. She has self-published four books of short fiction. Sloane Murphy drives a pick-up truck in the midwest. She writes short fiction about women who live there. Her fiction has appeared in Joyland Magazine, Picnic Magazine, and a few zines. Her short story collection, Shut Up, I Love You, I'll Call You Tomorrow, is forthcoming in November from Little Puss Press.Thu, 28 May 2026 18:16:11 GMThttps://www.thejungle.events/posts/kTvTelq4PhyWgk/https://www.thejungle.events/posts/kTvTelq4PhyWgk/[June 15 @ 6:00 PM until 8:00 PM | PO Box Collective, 6900 N Glenwood Ave Chicago, IL 60626] Come make stuff in a respectful community. Bring your project, snacks, ideas, kindly disposition. Introverts welcome. The first Friday & third Monday of every month. Masks required for all attendees including presenter The PO Box Collective is accessible by ramp with an accessible bathroom and we have 2 air purifiers running.Thu, 28 May 2026 17:45:28 GMThttps://www.thejungle.events/posts/ACj0u6UZbirhvN/https://www.thejungle.events/posts/ACj0u6UZbirhvN/[June 16 @ 6:30 PM until 9:30 PM | Haymarket House, 800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL] Join us for a four-week intensive seminar on the thought of Rosa Luxemburg led by Audrey Nicolaides. This is a four-week course, meeting once-weekly between June 9 and June 30 on Tuesday evenings, 6:30pm – 9:30pm. Students are expected to participate in all four sessions. Syllabus and readings will be sent out upon registration. Space is limited, so register to secure your spot. For Rosa Luxemburg, civilization faced a choice: “socialism or barbarism.” But how to actually achieve socialism was the driving preoccupation of Luxemburg’s life. Economist, journalist, politician, and streetfighter, Luxemburg threw herself into the great debates that roiled the international Marxist movement. She was a vociferous critic of parliamentary reformism, developing instead a singularly powerful internationalist and mass participatory theory of socialist revolution centered on the mass strike. She debated Lenin on problems of political organization and was the first to warn against the authoritarian degeneration of Bolshevism. An acute political economist, she wrote what stands as the first major Marxist attempt to grapple with the centrality of imperialism to the global capitalist system, The Accumulation of Capital. Over two decades of intense political and theoretical activity, she earned the admiration of her allies, the begrudging respect of her adversaries, and the mortal hatred of her enemies (who murdered her in 1919). To this day, Rosa Luxemburg continues to inspire leftists all over the world. But her theoretical and political legacy is also haunted by the failure of the political project she championed. How can we understand Luxemburg’s theoretical and polemical work in the light of the collapse of socialist revolution and internationalism? Is Luxemburg’s revolutionary vision, encapsulated in her famous slogan, still plausible today, with liberal democracy under siege by the reactionary and neo-fascist far-Right? In this course, we will read Luxemburg’s work against its immediate historical and political context: the imperialist build-up to World War I, the rise and fall of German Social Democracy and the Second International, and the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917. We will ask: What is Luxemburg’s account of imperialism and what are its implications for Marxist theorizing? How did Luxemburg understand the revolutionary politics of her day? What can her decades-long but ultimately failed efforts to steer the ship of German Social Democracy toward revolution tell us about the nature of mass socialist politics? What were Luxemburg’s blindspots and what do they reveal about the limits of Second International Marxism? And what remains alive in her work today? In tackling these questions, we will survey her entire body of work including but not limited to Reform or Revolution?, The Mass Strike, The Accumulation of Capital, The Junius Pamphlet and her extensive writings on Russia. We will supplement these readings with selected correspondence, news articles, pamphlets, and later scholarship as well as writings from her contemporaries and interlocutors including Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Eduard Bernstein, Karl Kausty, Rudolf Hilferding, Karl Liebknecht, Paul Levi, and Lenin. We will outline Luxemburg’s singular contributions to Marxist theory and socialist politics and consider their implications, resonances, and continued relevance for the twenty-first century.Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:12:45 GMThttps://www.thejungle.events/posts/pajHJNvcgs8q3m/https://www.thejungle.events/posts/pajHJNvcgs8q3m/[June 18 @ 6:30 PM until 9:30 PM | PO Box Collective, 6900 N Glenwood Ave Chicago, IL 60626] The PO Box Poetry Series was started in the spring of 2022. We bring poets local to the neighborhood together with poets from across Chicago and beyond to form a stronger community through poetry. The readings and writing workshops are free & open to the public. 6:30pm - 7:30pm — Join our generative writing workshop and fuel your creativity with free pizza. 7:30pm - 8:00pm — Hang out, grab a drink, and socialize with other poetry lovers. 8:00pm - 9:00pm — Sit back and enjoy this month's featured poets - TBA!Thu, 28 May 2026 17:47:14 GMThttps://www.thejungle.events/posts/2Vjune40QrLFcA/https://www.thejungle.events/posts/2Vjune40QrLFcA/[June 23 @ 6:30 PM until 9:30 PM | Haymarket House, 800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL] Join us for a four-week intensive seminar on the thought of Rosa Luxemburg led by Audrey Nicolaides. This is a four-week course, meeting once-weekly between June 9 and June 30 on Tuesday evenings, 6:30pm – 9:30pm. Students are expected to participate in all four sessions. Syllabus and readings will be sent out upon registration. Space is limited, so register to secure your spot. For Rosa Luxemburg, civilization faced a choice: “socialism or barbarism.” But how to actually achieve socialism was the driving preoccupation of Luxemburg’s life. Economist, journalist, politician, and streetfighter, Luxemburg threw herself into the great debates that roiled the international Marxist movement. She was a vociferous critic of parliamentary reformism, developing instead a singularly powerful internationalist and mass participatory theory of socialist revolution centered on the mass strike. She debated Lenin on problems of political organization and was the first to warn against the authoritarian degeneration of Bolshevism. An acute political economist, she wrote what stands as the first major Marxist attempt to grapple with the centrality of imperialism to the global capitalist system, The Accumulation of Capital. Over two decades of intense political and theoretical activity, she earned the admiration of her allies, the begrudging respect of her adversaries, and the mortal hatred of her enemies (who murdered her in 1919). To this day, Rosa Luxemburg continues to inspire leftists all over the world. But her theoretical and political legacy is also haunted by the failure of the political project she championed. How can we understand Luxemburg’s theoretical and polemical work in the light of the collapse of socialist revolution and internationalism? Is Luxemburg’s revolutionary vision, encapsulated in her famous slogan, still plausible today, with liberal democracy under siege by the reactionary and neo-fascist far-Right? In this course, we will read Luxemburg’s work against its immediate historical and political context: the imperialist build-up to World War I, the rise and fall of German Social Democracy and the Second International, and the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917. We will ask: What is Luxemburg’s account of imperialism and what are its implications for Marxist theorizing? How did Luxemburg understand the revolutionary politics of her day? What can her decades-long but ultimately failed efforts to steer the ship of German Social Democracy toward revolution tell us about the nature of mass socialist politics? What were Luxemburg’s blindspots and what do they reveal about the limits of Second International Marxism? And what remains alive in her work today? In tackling these questions, we will survey her entire body of work including but not limited to Reform or Revolution?, The Mass Strike, The Accumulation of Capital, The Junius Pamphlet and her extensive writings on Russia. We will supplement these readings with selected correspondence, news articles, pamphlets, and later scholarship as well as writings from her contemporaries and interlocutors including Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Eduard Bernstein, Karl Kausty, Rudolf Hilferding, Karl Liebknecht, Paul Levi, and Lenin. We will outline Luxemburg’s singular contributions to Marxist theory and socialist politics and consider their implications, resonances, and continued relevance for the twenty-first century.Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:12:45 GMThttps://www.thejungle.events/posts/xIVzEX2tZUvJii/https://www.thejungle.events/posts/xIVzEX2tZUvJii/[June 26 @ 6:30 PM until 9:00 PM | Pilsen Community Books, 1531 W. 18th St, Chicago] Friday June 26th, 2026 @ 6:30PM - 9:00PM Library workers, join us for an evening with radical publishers! We'll hear about new releases, chat about libraries and the publishing ecosystem, and party together! Featuring Haymarket, Seven Stories, Akashic, The New Press, One Signal, Scribe, Feminist Press and others. Snacks and drinks will be provided.Thu, 28 May 2026 18:42:57 GMThttps://www.thejungle.events/posts/rb3ekyCGJPidTB/https://www.thejungle.events/posts/rb3ekyCGJPidTB/[June 26 @ 8:00 PM until 11:00 PM | Dulce Leche Café , 3441 W. Lawerence Ave., Chicago, IL 60625] @hijas.del.pueblo @the_gostem @semillas_del_futuro @unidos_sembrando_futuro Hello, Hijas del Pueblo is a grassroots org from Franklin Park, IL. After the senseless and unjust murder of our neighbor, Sliverio Villegas Gonzalez , by ICE on 9/12/25. A single father who leaves behind a 3&7 year old. HDP members have been tending his vigil in hopes for a permanent site and calling for justice. This is our first fundraising night with three other great orgs focused on equitable education and advocacy for immigrants. Funds will be used to maintain Silverio’s vigil site and help with the continued community programming for all four organizations. Thank you, Para un Pueblo unido, Hijas del Pueblo Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:03:20 GMThttps://www.thejungle.events/posts/yhOKj2inAiQbjs/https://www.thejungle.events/posts/yhOKj2inAiQbjs/[June 30 @ 6:30 PM until 9:30 PM | Haymarket House, 800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL] Join us for a four-week intensive seminar on the thought of Rosa Luxemburg led by Audrey Nicolaides. This is a four-week course, meeting once-weekly between June 9 and June 30 on Tuesday evenings, 6:30pm – 9:30pm. Students are expected to participate in all four sessions. Syllabus and readings will be sent out upon registration. Space is limited, so register to secure your spot. For Rosa Luxemburg, civilization faced a choice: “socialism or barbarism.” But how to actually achieve socialism was the driving preoccupation of Luxemburg’s life. Economist, journalist, politician, and streetfighter, Luxemburg threw herself into the great debates that roiled the international Marxist movement. She was a vociferous critic of parliamentary reformism, developing instead a singularly powerful internationalist and mass participatory theory of socialist revolution centered on the mass strike. She debated Lenin on problems of political organization and was the first to warn against the authoritarian degeneration of Bolshevism. An acute political economist, she wrote what stands as the first major Marxist attempt to grapple with the centrality of imperialism to the global capitalist system, The Accumulation of Capital. Over two decades of intense political and theoretical activity, she earned the admiration of her allies, the begrudging respect of her adversaries, and the mortal hatred of her enemies (who murdered her in 1919). To this day, Rosa Luxemburg continues to inspire leftists all over the world. But her theoretical and political legacy is also haunted by the failure of the political project she championed. How can we understand Luxemburg’s theoretical and polemical work in the light of the collapse of socialist revolution and internationalism? Is Luxemburg’s revolutionary vision, encapsulated in her famous slogan, still plausible today, with liberal democracy under siege by the reactionary and neo-fascist far-Right? In this course, we will read Luxemburg’s work against its immediate historical and political context: the imperialist build-up to World War I, the rise and fall of German Social Democracy and the Second International, and the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917. We will ask: What is Luxemburg’s account of imperialism and what are its implications for Marxist theorizing? How did Luxemburg understand the revolutionary politics of her day? What can her decades-long but ultimately failed efforts to steer the ship of German Social Democracy toward revolution tell us about the nature of mass socialist politics? What were Luxemburg’s blindspots and what do they reveal about the limits of Second International Marxism? And what remains alive in her work today? In tackling these questions, we will survey her entire body of work including but not limited to Reform or Revolution?, The Mass Strike, The Accumulation of Capital, The Junius Pamphlet and her extensive writings on Russia. We will supplement these readings with selected correspondence, news articles, pamphlets, and later scholarship as well as writings from her contemporaries and interlocutors including Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Eduard Bernstein, Karl Kausty, Rudolf Hilferding, Karl Liebknecht, Paul Levi, and Lenin. We will outline Luxemburg’s singular contributions to Marxist theory and socialist politics and consider their implications, resonances, and continued relevance for the twenty-first century.Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:12:45 GMThttps://www.thejungle.events/posts/a3fy9HmuU8gI8V/https://www.thejungle.events/posts/a3fy9HmuU8gI8V/[July 1 @ 6:30 PM until 8:30 PM | Qamaria Yemeni Coffee, 4728 N Kedzie] Body doubling session. Lets write together forma more impact and community.Fri, 29 May 2026 00:33:51 GMThttps://www.thejungle.events/posts/6XNG1ShAYa0GRU/https://www.thejungle.events/posts/6XNG1ShAYa0GRU/[July 5 @ 6:00 PM until 11:00 PM | Logan Boulevard Skate Park, W Logan Blvd & N Western Ave Chicago, IL 60647] Free event - NA Bev. All Ages - Queer. DONATIONS 100% TO BANDS/ARTISTTue, 19 May 2026 17:09:41 GMThttps://www.thejungle.events/posts/8w2v8v5kdrECCQ/https://www.thejungle.events/posts/8w2v8v5kdrECCQ/[August 5 @ 6:30 PM until 8:30 PM | Qamaria Yemeni Coffee, 4728 N Kedzie] Body doubling session. Lets write together forma more impact and community.Fri, 29 May 2026 00:33:51 GMThttps://www.thejungle.events/posts/nPnAt4d2Ex1IQV/https://www.thejungle.events/posts/nPnAt4d2Ex1IQV/[September 2 @ 6:30 PM until 8:30 PM | Qamaria Yemeni Coffee, 4728 N Kedzie] Body doubling session. Lets write together forma more impact and community.Fri, 29 May 2026 00:33:51 GMThttps://www.thejungle.events/posts/bPdF9gR8mvPfix/https://www.thejungle.events/posts/bPdF9gR8mvPfix/[October 7 @ 6:30 PM until September 30 @ 8:30 PM | Qamaria Yemeni Coffee, 4728 N Kedzie] Body doubling session. Lets write together forma more impact and community.Fri, 29 May 2026 00:33:51 GMThttps://www.thejungle.events/posts/biAJqIB1wVORNg/https://www.thejungle.events/posts/biAJqIB1wVORNg/[November 4 @ 5:30 PM until 7:30 PM | Qamaria Yemeni Coffee, 4728 N Kedzie] Body doubling session. Lets write together forma more impact and community.Fri, 29 May 2026 00:33:51 GMThttps://www.thejungle.events/posts/ABLioii8stRFrw/https://www.thejungle.events/posts/ABLioii8stRFrw/[December 2 @ 5:30 PM until 7:30 PM | Qamaria Yemeni Coffee, 4728 N Kedzie] Body doubling session. Lets write together forma more impact and community.Fri, 29 May 2026 00:33:51 GMThttps://www.thejungle.events/posts/fH6kqV0SPbfTUU/https://www.thejungle.events/posts/fH6kqV0SPbfTUU/[January 6 2027 @ 5:30 PM until 7:30 PM | Qamaria Yemeni Coffee, 4728 N Kedzie] Body doubling session. Lets write together forma more impact and community.Fri, 29 May 2026 00:33:51 GMThttps://www.thejungle.events/posts/lksMXMZp66bFge/https://www.thejungle.events/posts/lksMXMZp66bFge/[February 3 2027 @ 5:30 PM until 7:30 PM | Qamaria Yemeni Coffee, 4728 N Kedzie] Body doubling session. Lets write together forma more impact and community.Fri, 29 May 2026 00:33:51 GMThttps://www.thejungle.events/posts/8CriDbyzJUtL6N/https://www.thejungle.events/posts/8CriDbyzJUtL6N/[March 3 2027 @ 5:30 PM until 7:30 PM | Qamaria Yemeni Coffee, 4728 N Kedzie] Body doubling session. Lets write together forma more impact and community.Fri, 29 May 2026 00:33:51 GMThttps://www.thejungle.events/posts/uipgiJJszWxEjt/https://www.thejungle.events/posts/uipgiJJszWxEjt/[April 7 2027 @ 6:30 PM until March 31 @ 8:30 PM | Qamaria Yemeni Coffee, 4728 N Kedzie] Body doubling session. Lets write together forma more impact and community.Fri, 29 May 2026 00:33:51 GMThttps://www.thejungle.events/posts/8wbT1114L3l4PD/https://www.thejungle.events/posts/8wbT1114L3l4PD/[May 5 2027 @ 6:30 PM until 8:30 PM | Qamaria Yemeni Coffee, 4728 N Kedzie] Body doubling session. Lets write together forma more impact and community.Fri, 29 May 2026 00:33:51 GMT