Long booms, the welfare state and social contracts are over. Inequality is deepening, and the ruling class is on the offensive. Learn how Marxism explains the dynamics of class war and the strategies we need to win.

The genocide in Gaza has exposed the brutal realities of imperialism and capitalism. Explore the Marxist analysis and left-wing history of the Palestinian liberation movement.

The far right is gaining strength and Trump runs the most powerful empire on Earth. Marxists and revolutionaries have always been at the forefront of the fight against fascism. Find out why, and how we resist today.

Everyone knows capitalism must be resisted – but how do we fight? This conference is a space to debate strategies and tactics, and to hear the revolutionary Marxist case for the organisations we need to turn anger into action.

An essential introduction to Marxism for activists, students, and anyone curious about socialist ideas. This stream explores the foundations of Marxist theory, the history of class struggle, the workings of capitalism, and the strategies socialists have used to organise and fight back. Build your understanding of the ideas, debates, and tools that shape the struggle for a socialist future.

From strikes to rank-and-file organising, this stream shows how the working class fights, builds power, and challenges the limits of union bureaucracy. With Marxist analysis of history, theory, and strategy, we explore the lessons for socialists today in rebuilding solidarity and collective strength.

Bring the class war to life by exploring core sections of the global working class- from sweatshops and care work to farms, docks, public services, and the gig economy. This stream looks at the political economy of these industries, with a focus on the workers within them- from the ways they are exploited to their struggles, stories, and resistance.

Global capitalism is in crisis, and the world is more turbulent than ever. From the cost of living and trade wars to authoritarianism, imperialist conflict, and the rise of AI, this stream examines the economic and political forces shaping our lives. Sessions explore US and European politics, China, Venezuela, the environment, and anti-war struggles, offering a Marxist perspective on the challenges and opportunities for the left today.

Across Australia—from rural mining towns to the offices of Melbourne and Sydney—capital has shaped a society of class inequality and class struggle. This stream uses Marxist political‑economy to map how Australia’s working class was formed, how the Liberal and Labor parties guard the interests of the bosses, and how neoliberalism has accelerated growth and inequality over the past three decades. We’ll examine the role of mining, migration, housing, healthcare, imperialism and civil‑liberties in the Australian capitalist system. If you want to fight the class war, you have to know your closest enemies and closest allies.

The movement in solidarity with Palestine has mobilised millions around the world. It stands in total opposition to the priorities of Western capitalism, which values its international allies more than the lives of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. These sessions will discuss the impact of the movement, and a number of questions that have arisen within it.

This stream offers a Marxist introduction to the far right, exploring its historical roots, class basis, and relationship to capital.

From the streets of Europe to the halls of power in the US, India, and Russia, the far right is reshaping politics worldwide. This stream examines how parties like Reform UK, the AFD, and the Republicans have grown, how leaders from Trump to Modi and Putin wield power. It is also about understanding the connnections between fascists, the far right and the mainstream right, and the different ideologies and tactics they deploy. This stream is not just analysis but is, importantly, about the strategies and politics needed to confront the all present threat of fascism in our lifetimes.

How can revolutionaries organise effectively to challenge capitalism and build a socialist alternative? This stream explores the key questions of revolutionary organisation drawing on debates and strategies from the revolutionary Marxist tradition. This stream is reccommended for people with some familiarity with the politics of party building.

From Latin America to Europe, Asia to Australia, revolutionaries are grappling with how to build parties rooted in struggle and socialist politics. This stream brings together organisers from around the world to discuss their experiences, strategies, and lessons in constructing revolutionary organisation in a time of global crisis and resistance.

1968 was the year of revolutionary hope. Across the globe masses of workers and students rose up against war and oppression, and, in the hope of a revolutionary transformation. Out of the movements of the 60s and 70s, new left ideas and formations grew, many rapidly. This stream will focus on the developments and challenges of the far left in this radical era.

This stream looks back at some of the most inspiring and militant strikes — from Flint and Broadmeadows to timberworkers, and women miners, and the strikes that won us equal pay. Uncovering the stories and lessons of these struggles is precious content for those wanting to rebuilding working-class organisation, confidence and power.

From the struggles of the Workers’ Opposition and the Decists to debates over soviets, trade unions, and the pressures of civil war, we explore the tensions between socialist democracy, bureaucratisation, and the survival of the revolution. This stream is aimed at people with knowledge of the 1917 revolution and the Bolsheviks.

From the trenches of the First World War to the global struggles against fascism, imperialism, and superpower domination, revolutionary socialists have consistently stood against war and for the working class. This stream explores how socialists fought to end WWI, resisted the rise of fascism in WWII, challenged imperialist conflict during the Cold War, and opposed the Vietnam War—always placing class struggle, international solidarity, and revolutionary strategy at the centre. These sessions show that real peace can only be won through the organised power of workers, not the lies of governments or the compromises of liberal reformism.

Liberal ideas have too much influence over the left. But liberal ideas do not challenge capitalism; they reinforce it. Liberalism elevates the individual over collective power. It offers only superficial changes and reforms at best, and reaction and elitism at worst.. This stream is about exploring the limitations of liberalism and the Marxist alternative. Marxism insists on the working class as the social agent of change and on capitalism as the root of exploitative global order, and it provides real anti-capitalist solutions for the oppressed