Communist University 2008
August 9 - 16, south London

Places are limited, so book your ticket now!

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.

The timetable for this year's event is still being tweaked and sessions juggled, but the opening weekend is settled now:

• The school opens at 12.30pm on Saturday, August 9 with a session on 'Iran: fighting on two fronts'. The speakers will be Yassamine Mather (Workers Left Unity - Iran), Stuart King (Permanent Revolution) and Chris Strafford (CPGB).
  
  
• Next comes an opening on Ireland and the evolution Sinn Fein's politics by Kevin Bean.
  
  
• Sunday, August 10 is given over the Radical Anthropology Group
  
  
  • 10am-12.30pm - Chris Knight, 'Primitive communism: myth or reality?'
    
    
  • 2pm-4.15pm - Camilla Power on 'Neanderthals'.
    
    
  • 4.45pm-7pm - Lionel Sims, 'Stonehenge, Engels and the Neolithic counter-revolution'.
    
    

Location, prices etc

Raymont Hall, 63 Wickham Road, New Cross, London SE4 - click here for a map
20 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 - £160 (£120 unwaged; £80 for comrades prepared to share a room)
first weekend, incl. one night's accommodation - £35 (£20);
day - £10 (£5); session - £5 (£3);
whole week, no accommodation: £60 (£30).

To reserve your place, please pay a minimum £30 - but if you can, please pay the whole amount to firmly book your place.

Please send cheques and postal orders to CPGB, BCM Box 928, London WC1N 3XX (please mark the back with 'CU 2008'). 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.

 

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Previous universities

If you haven't been before, check out the timetables from previous years for a flavour of the event. Click on the links below for:

Communist University 2007

Communist University 2006

Communist University 2005

Communist University 2004

Communist University 2003

Communist University 2002

Communist University 2001

Communist University 2000