First time at Socialism? Stop by the Welcome Happy Hour to connect with new comrades and get excited for the weekend. Join us on the hotel patio (or at the bar, weather-depending), across the skyway from registration and downstairs.
Conference attendees will get a discount on beer and wine by showing their conference badge at the ARC Bar!
Socialist Horizon is an independent class struggle organization with branches and members across the U.S. Socialist Horizon is a member of the United Left Platform and is the U.S. section of the International Socialist League. Socialist Horizon meet-up with conference attendees will discuss the group's political orientation and collaboration with other Socialist groups, as well as prospects for mass organizing and socialist intervention in the coming year.
Saturday September 5, 2026 1:30pm - 3:00pm CDT TBA
The United Left Platform, a coalition of six U.S.-based Socialist groups (Tempest, Solidarity, Workers’ Voice, Speak Out Socialists, International Marxist Humanist Organization, Socialist Horizon) was founded at the 2025 Socialism Conference in Chicago. The ULP has worked over this past year to create a non-sectarian space for socialist organizing, self-defense, and political intervention. The ULP meet-up will share its accomplishments and hold a public conversation with conference attendees about prospects for building out a broader space for mass organizing and socialist intervention in the coming year.
Saturday September 5, 2026 6:30pm - 8:00pm CDT TBA
Looking for likeminded community in you neighborhood? Curious about political organizations in your area? Come connect with fellow Chicagoans building local movements!
If you are an artist or someone who is curious about realizing the revolutionary possibilities of art, please join us at the Cultural Workers Meet-Up. This will be a space where artists and creatives can exchange ideas about how to meaningfully connect their creative labor to organized struggle and discuss what it means to create with radical intent.
It’s no surprise to movement journalists when billionaires take over mainstream outlets, layoff hundreds of workers and censor stories critical of an authoritarian government. For years, movement media makers have been ringing the alarm on the decades of corporate consolidation and harmful narratives that uplift those in power and further manufacture consent for state-sanctioned violence. For the 3rd year in a row, The Movement Media Alliance would like to host a meet-up and workshop where attendees can discuss how movement media is an essential part of anti-fascist movement building toolkit to make change happen and activate the broader public into organizing work.
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 and two as Chief Technology Officer, developing... Read More →
Join this meet up to strategize and build solidarity with other teachers on the front lines of the struggle to fight the dismantling of public education under the Trump administration.
We all know our healthcare system is rotten at its roots due to its profit centered motive. It can feel isolating working under increasingly precarious conditions with patients' lives in our hands. Patients suffer and we do too. But we must build networks of solidarity because it is only through our collective power that we can win the healthcare system we all deserve. Come meet radical healthcare workers, medical debt abolitionists and disability justice activists to connect, scheme and dream!
Join seasoned organizers who are building worker power across the tech industry, from the very first wall to wall union at Kickstarter to the massive solidarity union at Google. Chat about emerging strategy, hear highlights from the wider tech labor movement, and share tactics for common challenges like organizing remotely.
Are you from the South of the US? Join fellow conference participants from the South to meet each other, talk about your organizing, and make connections for future struggles!
