The Communist
University 2007
Saturday August 11 - Saturday
August 18
New: extra meetings on 'Introduction to Marxism
and the CPGB' - see below for details
Program now also available in farsi - click here
to download the file in word
or PDF
Available online: A4
poster, A3 poster
and A5 leaflet
A
week of debate and controversy for the thinking
left. Hosted
by the Communist Party of Great Britain and sponsored
by Critique,
the Organisation of Revolutionary Workers in
Iran, Iran
Bulletin - Middle East Forum, the Campaign
for a Marxist Party, the Radical
Anthropology Group and Workers
Left Unity Iran
The CPGB's annual school - the Communist
University - is different. It features sharp clashes
of opinion on the revolutionary left, not dull lectures
by left 'professors'. This educates the audience
and the speakers. And who can doubt that the entire
left needs some serious re-thinking? The CU features
real debates - a genuine festival of ideas. We do
not want another century like the last - we need
clarity, unity and purpose. We need genuine communist
politics again.
Highlights
Critique editor Hillel Ticktin gives
a three part 'Introduction to Marxist political
economy'
Russian Marxist Boris Kagarlitsky talks on
'Post-soviet capitalism'
Moshe Machover on 'The Israeli-Palestinian
conflict in a regional context'
Said Ferjani (Muslim Association of Britain
and Muslim Council of Britain) debates with the
CPGB's Mike Macnair the question of 'Muslims,
communists and democrats: alliances and solidarity
work'
Chris Knight (Radical Anthropoloy Group)
on 'The origins of language'
Camilla Power (Radical Anthropoloy Group)
discuss if Engels was right about the leading role
of women in primitive communism
Introduction
to Marxism and the CPGB
In addition, we will be running a number of more
informal meetings specifically designed to give
an introduction to basic principles of Marxism and
the politics of the CPGB.
We recommend that comrades interested in attending
those read Lenin's
short pamphlet Karl Marx in preparation
for those meetings
Summer
Offensive meal
On the evening of Friday, August 17, we will be
celebrating the end of our Summer Offensive fundraising
drive with a meal in Raymont Hall. This is our last
push to make our £25,000 target (tickets cost
£25 or £50 solidarity price, cheaper
tickets available for students and unemployed).
All welcome to attend.
Location,
prices etc
Raymont Hall, 63 Wickham Road, New Cross, London
SE4 - click
here for a map
15 min walk from New Cross tube station (East
London line)
5 min walk from Brockley railway station
- there are trains leaving London Bridge Station
every 10-15 minutes)
full week, incl. self-catering accommodation
in single ensuite rooms - £140 (£100
unwaged);
first weekend, incl. one night's accommodation
- £35 (£20);
day - £10 (£5); session
- £5 (£3);
whole week, no accommodation: £60 (£30).
To book your place, send a cheque or postal order
to BCM Box 928, London WC1N 3XX (please mark the
back with 'CU 2007'). Alternatively, you can use
your debit or credit card to pay via PayPal. Just
click the button below - and make sure you tell
that this payment is for CU.
Full
programme
- please note that this
timetable might be subject to change
- download programme as RTF
file
- download programme as PDF
file
Saturday
August 11 |
4.45pm
- 7pm