1.
Socialism

2.
Freedom without socialism is
privilege and injustice and Socialism
without freedom is slavery and
brutality. M.Bakunin

3.
Socialism
Democratic
Libertarian
Revolutionary

4.
It's much easier to imagine the
end of all life on earth than a
much more modest radical
change in capitalism.
S Zizek

5.
Visions of a new world

6.
The end of socialism?
Loss of vision
Loss of belief
Loss of optimism

7.
The future Socialism in the
present (and the past)
• The Paris Commune of 1870
• The Soviets of 1905 and 1917
• Spanish Revolution of 1936-38
• Portugal’s 1974 Revolution
• Zapatista community rebellion 1994-Present
• Worker controlled factories Argentina
• Workers self-management in the Bolivarian
Revolution

8.
The content of Socialism
• Worker and community (generalised) self-
management of the workplace and society
• Directly democratic structures of
administration
• Transformation of social relations
• Abolition of wage labour

9.
Socialist Transformation is not a
Party Affair
• Politics too important to be left to
politicians
• Plurality of social movements and socialist
organisations
• Centrality of autonomous activity ‘from
below’
• Pre-figurative organisations

10.
• Can the trade unions really be ‘schools of socialism’?
• Do the trade unions need to be transformed into vehicles
for socialist transformation? Is it possible?
• Is another (democratic, libertarian, revolutionary)
unionism possible?
• The global working class: inside, outside and beyond the
trade unions?
Some questions for our movement