On Sunday 5 October at 2pm, we will launch the first edition of our Capital Reading Sessions, beginning with Volume I of Marx’s Capital.
Capitalism shapes every aspect of our lives: it rests on the systematic exploitation of workers and the expropriation of the surplus value they create for profit, while driving up rents and inflation, deepening inequality, pushing us into precarious work, privatising essential services, commodifying even our basic needs, and accelerating the destruction of our environment.
Why read Capital? It will be a long and demanding journey, but we believe that Marx’s Capital remains the most powerful tool for exposing how capitalism really works. In Volume I, Marx lays bare the mechanisms of exploitation: how profit is drawn from workers’ labour, and why this inevitably generates inequality, crises, and class struggle. For our organisation, reading Capital is not an academic exercise but a way to connect theory with practice: to see that the struggles taking place in our society are not separate, but expressions of the same class conflict – a conflict that cannot be resolved within capitalism itself. Capital is therefore our guide to uncover the material foundations that bind these struggles together, and to equip ourselves for our central task: uniting the working class against capital.
Join us as we work through Capital page by page with a collective live reading, starting from Chapter I – Commodities. Send us a DM for details.