We are living through multiple crises, economic, political and environmental.

Trade unions are under siege from corporate power, hostile governments, and a resurgent far right exploiting working-class anger. Union density is falling. Wages are stagnant. The bosses are on the offensive.

But we are not powerless. We're not outnumbered, we're just out organised. As part of our struggle we need dedicated political education that equips workers with the means to understand the world as it is and organise collectively to change it.

Workers Academy exists to do that, every worker deserves access to the ideas, history and analysis that help us make sense of power and act on it.

This is political education for trade unionists, organisers, reps and staff that builds working-class confidence and pushes back against the far-right narratives designed to divide us.

The far right is gaining ground, not by accident, but because four decades of neoliberalism have hollowed out working-class communities, weakened collective bargaining and dismantled the public institutions workers depend on. Unions have been forced onto the back foot, while corporations rewrite the rules of the economy in their own interests.

We cannot win this fight with policy tweaks or retreat. We need bold ideas, radical political education and the confidence to speak the language of class.

As climate breakdown accelerates, we must ensure the transition to a low-carbon economy delivers justice for workers and communities and advocates for greater democratic control over the economy. The struggle for a just transition is central to rebuilding working-class power.

Political Education developed by Trademark Belfast, grounded in anti-sectarian, anti-racist, and Marxist traditions building class analysis for today's crises. The period since the 2008 financial crash represents a historical interregnum in which neoliberalism is dying but a new social order cannot yet be born. One of the reasons for the historic weakness and fragmentation of the left is the lack of political education among activists and the working class more broadly. These courses are a resource for trade unions, social movements and communities, providing education and analysis on history, political thought, contemporary political economy and alternative futures.

The Digital Mass Line developed by Jarrow Insights teaches unions how to listen, analyse and organise in digital space. Through social listening, audience research and creative campaign design, Jarrow equips organisers with the tools to understand where workers are, what they're saying, and how to reach them, before the far right does. Their approach combines real-time social monitoring, A/B tested campaign content, building campaigns that are shaped by workers' actual concerns rather than top-down messaging.

The Workers Academy is not just a training programme. It's a political intervention.

We're helping build a labour movement with the confidence to name its enemies and the tools to fight them, the corporations rewriting the rules of the economy, the landlords extracting wealth from working-class communities, and the politicians who serve them both.

That means political education rooted in class analysis and the realities workers face today. It means building digital capacity for a movement that can't afford to cede the internet to the far right. And it means the kind of solidarity that confronts those who divide us and builds the collective power to win.