Register now for our unique, four-part lecture series on why capitalism is broken and how we can overthrow it! Join us to grow your knowledge, build power and deliver a radical just transition!

Our society is in crisis. While coronavirus has caused the tragic loss of thousands of lives, it has also revealed the deep flaws in our neoliberal capitalist system. Together, the grim legacy of austerity, privatisation, and decades of assaults on workers’ rights, is making itself felt in the interlocking crises we now face.

The climate crisis, health crisis, economic crisis, employment crisis: each demand that we take a radical step away from the existing political and economic order.

But how did we get here and how do we overthrow this broken system? Where does our power lie? What can we learn from historical and present progressive movements? And what does a radically transformed, democratic and just society actually look like?

This unique weekly four-part lecture series will explore these vital questions, and provide you with a foundational understanding of how our society has been organised over the last four decades, why this is, how it is flawed, and how we can resist it.

Sessions will be 90 minutes long, include interactive elements and Q&As alongside lecture content and cover:

Part 1: Neoliberalism, privatisation and austerity
(Catch up and watch the recording here)

This session sets out the history of how neoliberalism as a distinctive form of capitalism emerged across the world, with privatisation, austerity and deregulation at its core. It explains the impacts of these policies, and how this political order has become so embedded that it is hard to even imagine an alternative system.

Part 2: The changing state of democracy in the UK
(Catch up and watch the recording here)

This session will explore how democracy in the UK obscures the reality of where power lies. It will show how many of the issues of modern democracy in the UK are rooted in the history of how it developed from an imperial nation state.

Part 3: People power! How we change the world when we work together
(Catch up and watch the recording here)

This session will show how it’s not just elites who make history, and how popular movements have created the society we have today. It will explore working class movements for democracy, the struggle for trade unions, and the height of working class power demanding liberation of women, LGBTIQA+ communities and people of colour. Finally, we’ll ask what current movements like Black Lives Matter and the climate strikers need to win?

Part 4: Bringing it all together - envisioning a radically just and transformed society
7pm, Monday 22 February 2021

Finally we’ll be asking what this all has to do with Green politics and what do we actually mean by a radically transformed society? We’ll be introducing ideas like eco-socialism and social ecology and looking at why any environmental politics that neglects where power lies is doomed to failure. We’ll look at how radical democracy is the solution to both the climate crisis and ending systems of oppression, and why that means we need to build people power right now.

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This political education programme is open to all, whether you are a member of the party or interested in learning more. You can read more here on the series, our facilitator and what you’ll get out of attending.

Register now and join us for the first in the series next week!

This project is supported by the European Youth Foundation of the Council of Europe.