Do you want to be part of building the socialist opposition that we need to end austerity, poverty, climate crisis, racism and discrimination, and war?

Taking place on Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 November, the Socialism 2025 weekend will arm you with the ideas to fight back under the Starmer government against the capitalist system it defends.

Join hundreds of trade unionists, students, community campaigners, and those who just want to find out about socialist ideas to discuss and debate ideas to change the world.

The centrepiece of the event will be the main rally on the Saturday evening where you will hear from leading socialists. There will be over 40 workshops running throughout Saturday and Sunday on all sorts of topics. And there will be closing rallies on the Sunday afternoon.

Smash racism

Large protests point to the potential to build an anti-racist movement. We must challenge attempts by racists and the populist and far right to take advantage of the anger at Starmer’s attacks on living standards. The workshops in this theme are an opportunity to look at the ideas needed to do that:

• You can’t have capitalism without racism: The origins of racism and the struggle to end it today
• Capitalism and Islamophobia
• After the riots: the role of the trade unions in a Community Defence Stewards organisation

Middle east: failed by capitalism

Workshops in this theme will ask:

• How can a Palestinian state be realised?
• Where now for the Iranian revolution?
• What role can the Israeli working class play

A voice for the working class

The 2024 general election and the events since have shown yet again that the working class needs its own political voice as part of the struggle for what we need – jobs, homes, public services and against war and oppression. The workshops in this theme will be an opportunity to discuss:

• What role will the Green Party play in the fight against Starmer’s austerity
• Post-2007 great recession: whatever happened to the ‘new left’ parties?
• Will the trade unions build a new workers’ party?

Grassroots power

How does a workers’ party link to working class communities? Looking at Labour’s history and of the Socialist Party and its forerunner Militant, we will discuss:

• Origins of the Labour Party: a Marxist approach
• Community organisation: the route to a new party?

A new era of struggle

• Tasks for socialists under Starmer
• Could AI and a green new deal give capitalism a new lease of life?
• Do we face an authoritarian future?

End oppression

• Is misogyny becoming more prevalent – and how do we fight back?
• After the Cass Review: the battle for trans rights
• Will a Starmer government help disabled people?

Trade unions – what next?

After the strike wave, how can the mass workers’ organisations be built:

• PCS in turmoil: defending fighting traditions
• Do the trade unions need to fight under Labour?

A world in crisis

The crisis of capitalism is finding expression in every corner of the planet. At Socialism 2024 there will be workshops to discuss the situation in:

• The USA – just days after the presidential election
• Nigeria
• Bangladesh – and more

Understanding Marxism

At Socialism 2024, Marxism will be a theme running throughout, but we will also take time to introduce the basic ideas of Marxism and their use in the fight to change the world today with workshops on:

• A Marxist understanding of the state;
• Marxist economics;
• Historical materialism;
• Dialectics