Communist University Weekend - Oct 08

FRIDAY OCTOBER 17

Rally for Liberation:
'Fighting for Bread—and Roses Too' 7.30 pm:
Chair: Anita Halpin Sue Webb, Joanne Stevenson, Azar Sephr, Lynda Walker, Mary Davis

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SATURDAY OCTOBER 18
10am Plenary 2:
PHILOSOPHY, WHO NEEDS IT?
Erwin Marquit, Martin Levy, Mary Davis
Chair: Marj Mayo

11.30am Workshops 2A-2C
2A: Women, race and class Joginder Bains
2B: Race and pseudo-science Roger Fletcher
2C: Nationalism and national liberation Lynda Walker

1.15pm Briefing 1: All change in the White House? Sue Webb

2pm Plenary 3:
CRISIS FOR CAPITALISM - OPPORTUNITY FOR THE LEFT?
Eugene McCartan, John Haylett, George Waterhouse
Chair: Emily Mann

3.45pm Workshops 3A-3C
3A: Socialism, Communism and the withering away of the state John Foster
3B: Is China socialist? Jennie Clegg
3C: May 1968—lessons from history Nick Wright

4.45 pm Question Time, Our History:
CLASS STRUGGLE ON TWO FRONTS - THE COMMUNIST PARTY IN BRITAIN 1952-64
Panel: Jean Turner, Graham Stevenson, Kevin Halpin, Ben Stevenson
Chair: Robert Griffiths

6.30pm DVD screening: Political Annie's Off Again (a film about women fighting for equal pay in the south Wales valleys)

7.45pm till late COMMUNIST UNIVERSITY SOCIAL EVENT




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SUNDAY OCTOBER 19
10am Plenary 5:
CHALLENGING IMPERIALISM, SAVING THE WORLD
Harriet Roethling, Manfred Idler, Derek Wall
Chair: John Foster

11.30am Workshops 5A-5C
5A: 'Peak Oil' Carol Turner
5B: Health care and education—commodities? Bill Greenshields
5C: The European Union v The People Eugene McCartan

1.15pm Briefing 2: Colombia's trade unions against neo-liberalism Liam Craig-Best
Briefing 3: Autonomy and state power in Euzkadi speakers from BAITOKIA-Basque Human Rights Watch

2pm Plenary 6:
FOR A CHANGE OF COURSE, FOR A MASS PARTY OF LABOUR
Moz Greenshields, Robert Griffiths, John McDonnell, Bob Crow

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[MrArthddu]

Marxism is the rebellious son of capitalism and the model of communisum seen in the USSR is "totalitarian" by enslaving the Person to the state. In paticular, the communist notion of class struggle destroys the cooperation essential between all classes.

Communist elites claim to act on behalf of workers, but are in practice not answerble to them.

[Abnihilius]

@jesusiseverything2me Er... This video is about the UK communist party, are you suggesting an american reactionary movement in a foreign country?--Let me tell you, it's been done before, and it never leads anywhere good. If you are talking about communism in America, well, I hope you mean fight back against the parasites, the capitalists, the bourgeois. Otherwise, your choice of meta-physical accompaniment is rather inappropriate.

[Abnihilius]

@BloodNorseGods Hey, now, comrade, no need for all the antagonism! Throwing around epithets won't "cure" me of my sanguine. Why fuck communism when you can liberate it?

[Abnihilius]

@nationaldab I can't justify it, but I believe it was about maintaining power. (Y so off topic?)

[nationaldab]

Why did Stalin kill tens of millions of people, mostly Russians?

[TheRNP93]

@BloodNorseGods fuck you capitalist twat, you dont know whats good for the people

[BloodNorseGods]

@TheRNP93 Go to CUba you shithead, Fuck Communism

[TheRNP93]

communism is what this country needs. i support you robert :)

[jesusiseverything2me]

HUH? What is going on in this nation? Time to fight back America!