diff --git a/django_q/brokers/__init__.py b/django_q/brokers/__init__.py
index e9130e5..167ff62 100644
--- a/django_q/brokers/__init__.py
+++ b/django_q/brokers/__init__.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ from django.core.cache import caches, InvalidCacheBackendError
 from django_q.conf import Conf
 
 
-class Broker(object):
+class Broker:
     def __init__(self, list_key=Conf.PREFIX):
         self.connection = self.get_connection(list_key)
         self.list_key = list_key
diff --git a/django_q/cluster.py b/django_q/cluster.py
index 4457cee..e9dac34 100644
--- a/django_q/cluster.py
+++ b/django_q/cluster.py
@@ -1,9 +1,3 @@
-# Future
-from __future__ import absolute_import
-from __future__ import division
-from __future__ import print_function
-from __future__ import unicode_literals
-
 import ast
 
 # Standard
@@ -36,7 +30,7 @@ from django_q.signing import SignedPackage, BadSignature
 from django_q.status import Stat, Status
 
 
-class Cluster(object):
+class Cluster:
     def __init__(self, broker=None):
         self.broker = broker or get_broker()
         self.sentinel = None
@@ -120,7 +114,7 @@ class Cluster(object):
         return self.start_event is None and self.stop_event is None and self.sentinel
 
 
-class Sentinel(object):
+class Sentinel:
     def __init__(
         self,
         stop_event,
diff --git a/django_q/conf.py b/django_q/conf.py
index baa4671..3c0b6a1 100644
--- a/django_q/conf.py
+++ b/django_q/conf.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ except ImportError:
     psutil = None
 
 
-class Conf(object):
+class Conf:
     """
     Configuration class
     """
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ if not logger.handlers:
 
 
 # Error Reporting Interface
-class ErrorReporter(object):
+class ErrorReporter:
 
     # initialize with iterator of reporters (better name, targets?)
     def __init__(self, reporters):
diff --git a/django_q/humanhash.py b/django_q/humanhash.py
index feac001..a7ba160 100644
--- a/django_q/humanhash.py
+++ b/django_q/humanhash.py
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ DEFAULT_WORDLIST = (
     'zulu')
 
 
-class HumanHasher(object):
+class HumanHasher:
 
     """
     Transforms hex digests to human-readable strings.
diff --git a/django_q/queues.py b/django_q/queues.py
index 20f082f..978b068 100644
--- a/django_q/queues.py
+++ b/django_q/queues.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import multiprocessing
 import multiprocessing.queues
 
 
-class SharedCounter(object):
+class SharedCounter:
     """ A synchronized shared counter.
 
     The locking done by multiprocessing.Value ensures that only a single
diff --git a/django_q/signing.py b/django_q/signing.py
index 2460aaa..474d0cf 100644
--- a/django_q/signing.py
+++ b/django_q/signing.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ from django_q.conf import Conf
 BadSignature = signing.BadSignature
 
 
-class SignedPackage(object):
+class SignedPackage:
 
     """Wraps Django's signing module with custom Pickle serializer."""
 
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ class SignedPackage(object):
                              serializer=PickleSerializer)
 
 
-class PickleSerializer(object):
+class PickleSerializer:
 
     """Simple wrapper around Pickle for signing.dumps and signing.loads."""
 
diff --git a/django_q/status.py b/django_q/status.py
index f3f9450..7f0fa8f 100644
--- a/django_q/status.py
+++ b/django_q/status.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ from django_q.conf import Conf, logger
 from django_q.signing import SignedPackage, BadSignature
 
 
-class Status(object):
+class Status:
     """Cluster status base class."""
 
     def __init__(self, pid, cluster_id):
diff --git a/django_q/tasks.py b/django_q/tasks.py
index ccc333b..1d9780a 100644
--- a/django_q/tasks.py
+++ b/django_q/tasks.py
@@ -480,7 +480,7 @@ def async_chain(chain, group=None, cached=Conf.CACHED, sync=Conf.SYNC, broker=No
     return group
 
 
-class Iter(object):
+class Iter:
     """
     An async task with iterable arguments
     """
@@ -550,7 +550,7 @@ class Iter(object):
         return len(self.args)
 
 
-class Chain(object):
+class Chain:
     """
     A sequential chain of tasks
     """
@@ -634,7 +634,7 @@ class Chain(object):
         return len(self.chain)
 
 
-class AsyncTask(object):
+class AsyncTask:
     """
     an async task
     """
diff --git a/django_q/tests/test_cluster.py b/django_q/tests/test_cluster.py
index c39b717..97d320a 100644
--- a/django_q/tests/test_cluster.py
+++ b/django_q/tests/test_cluster.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ from django_q.tests.tasks import multiply, TaskError
 from django_q.queues import Queue
 
 
-class WordClass(object):
+class WordClass:
     def __init__(self):
         self.word_list = DEFAULT_WORDLIST
 
diff --git a/runtests.py b/runtests.py
index 4ecd607..a31b744 100644
--- a/runtests.py
+++ b/runtests.py
@@ -3384,7 +3384,7 @@ import sys
 import base64
 import zlib
 
-class DictImporter(object):
+class DictImporter:
     def __init__(self, sources):
         self.sources = sources