Who’s Afraid of the Working Class? – The Power of Working Class Activism

***UPDATE*** The recording of the panel discussion can be viewed here.

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.

Despite this, broad sections of the left continue to operate as spaces of exclusion by frequently disregarding working-class perspectives when they are voiced. But how are the working class themselves resisting this and mobilising for progressive change amongst themselves? And how can the left cater better to, and support, voices who sit outside of the white, middle class and global North demographic?

For this panel discussion our speakers will be Antonio Salvador M. Alcazar III, PhD candidate in politics at Central European University, visiting research fellow at Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals and co-founder of the South/South Movement , Iris Duane, socialist and feminist activist, Niall Christie, trade unionist and socialist activist, and Andya Paz, co-organiser at the South/South Movement, decolonial scholar, PhD candidate in Environmental Sciences and Policy at Central European University (CEU).