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August 8-15, South London. Book Now!

Global economc crisis and Marx back in the mainstream press. Huge nationalisations and bailouts for the financial system. Millions in Europe and the US face layoffs, repossessions and poverty. Countries like Pakistan face total societal breakdown. Whatever the immediate dynamics of the global economic crisis, the type of capitalism we will face when the dust settles will be very different. Revolutionaries need to both think afresh as well as rediscover the healthy traditions of our movement. That's what Communist University 2009 is all about - big answers for the big questions.

Those confirmed thus far include:

Lars T Lih - Author of the excellent Lenin Rediscovered: What is to be done? in context
Hillel Tickin - Editor of Critique
Boris Kargalitsky - Russian Marxist, author of Empire of the periphery: Russia and the world system
Moshe Machover - Israeli anti-Zionist and Matzpen founder
Lionel Sims - Author and member of the Radical Anthropology Group
Yassamine Mather - CPGB, exiled Iranian revolutionary
Mike Macnair - CPGB, author of Revolutionary Strategy
Jack Conrad - CPGB, author of Fantastic Reality: Marxism and the politics of religion
Jean-Michel Edwin - Marxist involved in the NPA in France

Check out this video from last year's CU, in which CPGB national organiser Mark Fischer explains why Communist University is very different to the 'educational' events put on by much of the left.