diff --git a/libs/linear/Control/Linear/LIO.idr b/libs/linear/Control/Linear/LIO.idr
index 30488381fd..1fbbd1fa03 100644
--- a/libs/linear/Control/Linear/LIO.idr
+++ b/libs/linear/Control/Linear/LIO.idr
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 module Control.Linear.LIO
 
+import Data.Linear.Notation
+
 ||| Like `Monad`, but the action and continuation must be run exactly once
 ||| to ensure that the computation is linear.
 public export
 interface LinearBind io where
-  bindL : (1 _ : io a) -> (1 _ : a -> io b) -> io b
+  bindL : io a -@ (a -> io b) -@ io b
 
 export
 LinearBind IO where
@@ -71,7 +73,7 @@ RunCont Unrestricted t b = t -> b
 -- concrete type of the continuation is.
 runK : {use : _} ->
        LinearBind io =>
-       (1 _ : L io {use} a) -> (1 _ : RunCont use a (io b)) -> io b
+       L io {use} a -@ RunCont use a (io b) -@ io b
 runK (Pure0 x) k = k x
 runK (Pure1 x) k = k x
 runK (PureW x) k = k x
@@ -86,7 +88,7 @@ runK (Bind {u_act = Unrestricted} act next) k = runK act (\x => runK (next x) k)
 ||| underlying context
 export
 run : Applicative io => LinearBind io =>
-      (1 _ : L io a) -> io a
+      L io a -@ io a
 run prog = runK prog pure
 
 export
@@ -110,12 +112,12 @@ export
 export %inline
 (>>=) : {u_act : _} ->
         LinearBind io =>
-        (1 _ : L io {use=u_act} a) ->
-        (1 _ : ContType io u_act u_k a b) -> L io {use=u_k} b
+        L io {use=u_act} a -@
+        ContType io u_act u_k a b -@ L io {use=u_k} b
 (>>=) = Bind
 
 export
-delay : {u_act : _} -> (1 _ : L io {use=u_k} b) -> ContType io u_act u_k () b
+delay : {u_act : _} -> L io {use=u_k} b -@ ContType io u_act u_k () b
 delay mb = case u_act of
   None => \ _ => mb
   Linear => \ () => mb
@@ -124,8 +126,8 @@ delay mb = case u_act of
 export %inline
 (>>) : {u_act : _} ->
         LinearBind io =>
-        (1 _ : L io {use=u_act} ()) ->
-        (1 _ : L io {use=u_k} b) -> L io {use=u_k} b
+        L io {use=u_act} () -@
+        L io {use=u_k} b -@ L io {use=u_k} b
 ma >> mb = ma >>= delay mb
 
 export %inline
@@ -133,9 +135,13 @@ pure0 : (0 x : a) -> L io {use=0} a
 pure0 = Pure0
 
 export %inline
-pure1 : (1 x : a) -> L io {use=1} a
+pure1 : a -@ L io {use=1} a
 pure1 = Pure1
 
+export %inline
+bang : L IO t -@ L1 IO (!* t)
+bang io = io >>= \ a => pure1 (MkBang a)
+
 export
 (LinearBind io, HasLinearIO io) => HasLinearIO (L io) where
   liftIO1 p = Action (liftIO1 p)
diff --git a/libs/linear/System/Concurrency/Linear.idr b/libs/linear/System/Concurrency/Linear.idr
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3884ce0b2f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libs/linear/System/Concurrency/Linear.idr
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+module System.Concurrency.Linear
+
+import Control.Linear.LIO
+
+import Data.Linear.Notation
+import System.Concurrency
+
+||| Run two linear computations in parallel and return the results.
+export
+par1 : L1 IO a -@ L1 IO b -@ L1 IO (LPair a b)
+par1 x y
+  = do aChan <- makeChannel
+       bChan <- makeChannel
+       aId <- liftIO1 $ fork $ withChannel aChan x
+       bId <- liftIO1 $ fork $ withChannel bChan y
+       a <- channelGet aChan
+       b <- channelGet bChan
+       pure1 (a # b)
+
+  where
+
+  -- This unsafe implementation temporarily bypasses the linearity checker.
+  -- However `par`'s implementation does not duplicate the values
+  -- and the type of `par` ensures that client code is not allowed to either!
+  withChannel : Channel t -> L1 IO t -@ IO ()
+  withChannel ch = assert_linear $ \ act => do
+    a <- LIO.run (act >>= assert_linear pure)
+    channelPut ch a
+
+||| Run two unrestricted computations in parallel and return the results.
+export
+par : L IO a -@ L IO b -@ L IO (a, b)
+par x y = do
+  (MkBang a # MkBang b) <- par1 (bang x) (bang y)
+  pure (a, b)
diff --git a/libs/linear/System/Concurrency/Session.idr b/libs/linear/System/Concurrency/Session.idr
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..041d3a030c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libs/linear/System/Concurrency/Session.idr
@@ -0,0 +1,226 @@
+module System.Concurrency.Session
+
+import Control.Linear.LIO
+
+import Data.Linear.Notation
+import Data.List.AtIndex
+import Data.Nat
+
+import Data.OpenUnion
+import System
+import System.File
+import System.Concurrency as Threads
+import System.Concurrency.Linear
+
+import Language.Reflection
+
+%default total
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+-- Session types
+
+namespace Session
+
+  ||| A session type describes the interactions one thread may have with
+  ||| another over a shared bidirectional channel: it may send or receive
+  ||| values of arbitrary types, or be done communicating.
+  public export
+  data Session : Type where
+    Send : (ty : Type) -> (s : Session) -> Session
+    Recv : (ty : Type) -> (s : Session) -> Session
+    End  : Session
+
+  ||| Dual describes how the other party to the communication sees the
+  ||| interactions: our sends become their receives and vice-versa.
+  public export
+  Dual : Session -> Session
+  Dual (Send ty s) = Recv ty (Dual s)
+  Dual (Recv ty s) = Send ty (Dual s)
+  Dual End = End
+
+  ||| Duality is involutive: the dual of my dual is me
+  export
+  dualInvolutive : (s : Session) -> Dual (Dual s) === s
+  dualInvolutive (Send ty s) = cong (Send ty) (dualInvolutive s)
+  dualInvolutive (Recv ty s) = cong (Recv ty) (dualInvolutive s)
+  dualInvolutive End = Refl
+
+||| We can collect the list of types that will be sent over the
+||| course of a session by walking down its description
+||| This definition is purely internal and will not show up in
+||| the library's interface.
+SendTypes : Session -> List Type
+SendTypes (Send ty s) = ty :: SendTypes s
+SendTypes (Recv ty s) = SendTypes s
+SendTypes End = []
+
+||| We can collect the list of types that will be received over
+||| the course of a session by walking down its description
+||| This definition is purely internal and will not show up in
+||| the library's interface.
+RecvTypes : Session -> List Type
+RecvTypes (Send ty s) = RecvTypes s
+RecvTypes (Recv ty s) = ty :: RecvTypes s
+RecvTypes End = []
+
+||| The types received by my dual are exactly the ones I am sending
+||| This definition is purely internal and will not show up in
+||| the library's interface.
+RecvDualTypes : (s : Session) -> RecvTypes (Dual s) === SendTypes s
+RecvDualTypes (Send ty s) = cong (ty ::) (RecvDualTypes s)
+RecvDualTypes (Recv ty s) = RecvDualTypes s
+RecvDualTypes End = Refl
+
+||| The types sent by my dual are exactly the ones I receive
+||| This definition is purely internal and will not show up in
+||| the library's interface.
+SendDualTypes : (s : Session) -> SendTypes (Dual s) === RecvTypes s
+SendDualTypes (Send ty s) = SendDualTypes s
+SendDualTypes (Recv ty s) = cong (ty ::) (SendDualTypes s)
+SendDualTypes End = Refl
+
+namespace Seen
+
+  ||| The inductive family (Seen m n f) states that the function `f`
+  ||| was obtained by composing an interleaving of `m` receiving
+  ||| steps and `n` sending ones.
+  public export
+  data Seen : Nat -> Nat -> (Session -> Session) -> Type where
+    None : Seen 0 0 Prelude.id
+    Recv : (ty : Type) -> Seen m n f -> Seen (S m) n (f . Recv ty)
+    Send : (ty : Type) -> Seen m n f -> Seen m (S n) (f . Send ty)
+
+||| If we know that `ty` is at index `n` in the list of received types
+||| and that `f` is a function defined using an interleaving of steps
+||| comprising `m` receiving stepsx then `ty` is at index `m + n` in `f s`.
+atRecvIndex : Seen m _ f ->
+          (s : Session) ->
+          AtIndex ty (RecvTypes s) n ->
+          AtIndex ty (RecvTypes (f s)) (m + n)
+atRecvIndex None accS accAt = accAt
+atRecvIndex (Recv ty s) accS accAt
+  = rewrite plusSuccRightSucc (pred m) n in
+    atRecvIndex s (Recv ty accS) (S accAt)
+atRecvIndex (Send ty s) accS accAt
+  = atRecvIndex s (Send ty accS) accAt
+
+||| If we know that `ty` is at index `n` in the list of sent types
+||| and that `f` is a function defined using an interleaving of steps
+||| comprising `m` sending steps then `ty` is at index `m + n` in `f s`.
+atSendIndex : Seen _ m f ->
+          (s : Session) ->
+          AtIndex ty (SendTypes s) n ->
+          AtIndex ty (SendTypes (f s)) (m + n)
+atSendIndex None accS accAt = accAt
+atSendIndex (Recv ty s) accS accAt
+  = atSendIndex s (Recv ty accS) accAt
+atSendIndex (Send ty s) accS accAt
+  = rewrite plusSuccRightSucc (pred m) n in
+    atSendIndex s (Send ty accS) (S accAt)
+
+
+||| A (bidirectional) channel is parametrised by session it must respect.
+|||
+||| It is implemented in terms of two low-level channels: one for sending
+||| and one for receiving. This ensures that we never are in a situation
+||| where a thread with session (Send Nat (Recv String ...)) sends a natural
+||| number and subsequently performs a receive before the other party
+||| to the communication had time to grab the Nat thus receiving it
+||| instead of a String.
+|||
+||| The low-level channels can only carry values of a single type. And so
+||| they are given respective union types corresponding to the types that
+||| can be sent on the one hand and the ones that can be received on the
+||| other.
+||| These union types are tagged unions where if `ty` is at index `k` in
+||| the list of types `tys` then `(k, v)` is a value of `Union m tys`
+||| provided that `v` has type `m ty`.
+|||
+||| `sendStep`, `recvStep`, `seePrefix`, and `seen` encode the fact that
+||| we have already performed some of the protocol and so the low-level
+||| channels' respective types necessarily mention types that we won't
+||| see anymore.
+export
+record Channel (s : Session) where
+  constructor MkChannel
+  {sendStep     : Nat}
+  {recvStep     : Nat}
+  {0 seenPrefix : Session -> Session}
+  0 seen        : Seen recvStep sendStep seenPrefix
+
+  sendChan : Threads.Channel (Union (SendTypes (seenPrefix s)))
+  recvChan : Threads.Channel (Union (RecvTypes (seenPrefix s)))
+
+||| Linear version of `die`
+export
+die1 : LinearIO io => String -> L1 io a
+die1 err = do
+  x <- die err
+  pure1 x
+
+||| Consume a linear channel with a `Recv ty` step at the head of the
+||| session type in order to obtain a value of type `ty` together with
+||| a linear channel for the rest of the session.
+export
+recv : LinearIO io =>
+  Channel (Recv ty s) -@
+  L1 io (Res ty (const (Channel s)))
+recv (MkChannel {recvStep} seen sendCh recvCh) = do
+  x@(Element k prf val) <- channelGet recvCh
+  -- Here we check that we got the right message by projecting out of
+  -- the union type using the current `recvStep`. Both ends should be
+  -- in sync because of the `RecvDualTypes` and `SendDualTypes` lemmas.
+  let Just val = prj (recvStep + 0) (atRecvIndex seen (Recv ty s) Z) x
+    | Nothing => die1 "Error: invalid recv expected \{show recvStep} but got \{show k}"
+  pure1 (val # MkChannel (Recv ty seen) sendCh recvCh)
+
+
+||| Consume a linear channel with a `Send ty` step at the head of the
+||| session type in order to send a value of type `ty` and obtain a
+||| linear channel for the rest of the session.
+export
+send : LinearIO io =>
+  (1 _ : Channel (Send ty s)) ->
+  ty ->
+  L1 io (Channel s)
+send (MkChannel {sendStep} seen sendCh recvCh) x = do
+  let val = inj (sendStep + 0) (atSendIndex seen (Send ty s) Z) x
+  channelPut sendCh val
+  pure1 (MkChannel (Send ty seen) sendCh recvCh)
+
+||| Discard the channel provided that the session has reached its `End`.
+export
+end : LinearIO io => Channel End -@ L io ()
+end (MkChannel _ _ _) = do
+  pure ()
+
+||| Given a session, create a bidirectional communiaction channel and
+||| return its two endpoints
+export
+makeChannel :
+  LinearIO io =>
+  (0 s : Session) ->
+  L1 io (LPair (Channel s) (Channel (Dual s)))
+makeChannel s = do
+  sendChan <- Threads.makeChannel
+  recvChan <- Threads.makeChannel
+  let 1 posCh : Channel s
+    := MkChannel None sendChan recvChan
+  let 1 negCh : Channel (Dual s)
+    := MkChannel None
+         (rewrite SendDualTypes s in recvChan)
+         (rewrite RecvDualTypes s in sendChan)
+  pure1 (posCh # negCh)
+
+||| Given a session and two functions communicating according to that
+||| sesion, we can run the two programs concurrently and collect their
+||| final results.
+export
+fork : (0 s : Session) ->
+       (Channel       s  -@ L IO a) -@
+       (Channel (Dual s) -@ L IO b) -@
+       L IO (a, b)
+fork s kA kB = do
+  let 1 io = makeChannel s
+  (posCh # negCh) <- io
+  par (kA posCh) (kB negCh)
diff --git a/libs/linear/linear.ipkg b/libs/linear/linear.ipkg
index cd7cbe5f2c..311910e107 100644
--- a/libs/linear/linear.ipkg
+++ b/libs/linear/linear.ipkg
@@ -15,4 +15,7 @@ modules = Control.Linear.LIO,
           Data.Linear.LMaybe,
           Data.Linear.LNat,
           Data.Linear.LVect,
-          Data.Linear.Notation
+          Data.Linear.Notation,
+
+          System.Concurrency.Linear,
+          System.Concurrency.Session