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Chris Di Pasquale

Understanding workers' power: Unions, councils and revolutionary democracy

Socialism 2017

Why do Marxists talk about the working class so much? This session will explore the unique power that workers have to both bring down the capitalist system and create something new. It will also draw on stories and examples from history to explain why it is that workers' organisations are always the most democratic and inclusive institutions in all of society, from unions all the way through to revolutionary councils.