The talk will explore the reasons why so many people believe that socialist revolution is no longer possible in the 21st century and try to show why they are wrong. Among the reasons which it will discuss and reject are disillusion with the prospects of an alternative to capitalism following the collapse of the Stalinist regimes and claims that the working class has been fundamentally weakened by neoliberalism. It will show that the working class has certainly changed under neoliberalism, but that this need not be an obstacle to to new revolutions if socialists can find ways of relating to the new conditions.