How Workers Can Shut Down the System
10am-11:30am
About
The working class has the capacity to challenge the system because it creates all wealth in society. When workers organise to withhold their labour – to stop work and go on strike – they can quickly inflict huge damage on our rulers in a way that no other group can.
Readings
What’s so special about the working class by Ben Hillier and D.Taylor
Workers power: what every struggle needs by April Holcombe
What is Socialism and how do we get there
11:45am-1:15pm
About
The definition of socialism is contested, as is the strategy to get there. Genuine socialism is premised on working class control over production. We need a revolution to win socialism – a society of genuine democracy and liberation.
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Readings
Revolution is the heart of socialism by Sarah Garnham
What’s the way to get to socialism by Eleanor Morley
What a socialist world would look like by Sarah Garnham
The Socialist Strategy for Ending Oppression
2pm-3:30pm
About
Socialists have a unique argument about oppression, that we can not only fight to lessen oppression, but by removing the capitalist system we can remove the heart of why oppression exists and ultimately do away with it.
Readings
How oppression can be ended by Louise O’Shea
How the Palestine solidarity movement destroys identity politics by Louisa O’Shea
Closing Session
Why We Need a Mass Socialist Party
3:30pm-5pm
About
To defeat capitalism, anti-capitalists need to be organised. Socialism must become a mass organised force. A socialist organisation is the key means by which the most radical workers and students can act to build class consciousness and maximise the possibility that workers’ struggles become a challenge to the system rather than an isolated episode.
Socialism Summer School 2026 