Who’s afraid of the working class? The left’s failure to address class politics (part one)

Unless leftist movements include the working class in discussions and decision-making processes, building a mass movement capable of transformative change remains an impossible task. Broad sections of the left continue to operate as spaces of exclusion, disregarding working class perspectives when they are voiced and perpetuating a distorted narrative of the class struggle as something that exists solely between the global population and the bourgeoisie, whilst ignoring the class struggle that manifests between the working and middle classes.

We were joined by Payal Parekh, climate scientist turned climate justice activist; Assad Shoaib, London based development researcher; Matt Huber, professor of geography at Syracuse University; and Michael Albert, author at ZNetwork.