ABSTRACT
At the turn of the century, socialist scholar and revolutionary, and university and college union (UCU) activist Tom Hickey (2000, p. 177) declared
that young workers in Britain “will carry, as did their forebears, a political potential of historic importance.” Hickey was referring to the role of the working class as agents of the revolutionary transition to socialism. He concluded that “[i]t is a potential, however, of which they might spend their lives in ignorance” (p. 177).
