CS London

CS London branch meets weekly.

Contact: Callum on 07597589562 for details or email info[at]communiststudents.org.uk

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Past Meetings:

9th Oct: London Communist Forum
‘Capitalist crisis and the communist alternative’
University of London Union, 12 noon, Saturday October 9
Plenty of time for discussion and to get ot know CS members and supporters
Nearest tube: Goodge Street/Russel Square
Map:
For more info email info@communiststudents.org.uk or call 07792282830

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3rd Feb: ‘Broad’ and revolutionary parties

#Reading 1: John Rees, ‘The broad party, the revolutionary party and the united front’
http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/isj97/rees.htm

#Reading 2: Conditions of Admission to the Communist International
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-one_Conditions

Optional reading: Mike Macnair, ‘Reform coalition or mass strike?

http://communiststudents.org.uk/files/3-reform-or-strike.rtf

10th Feb: The Marxist party

#Reading 1: Karl Kautsky, ‘Sects or class parties’
http://marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1909/07/unions.htm

#Reading 2: Mike Macnair, ‘Unity in diversity’
http://communiststudents.org.uk/files/6-unity-in-diversity.rtf

17th Feb: UNI READING WEEK: NO MEETING

24th Feb: Public meeting on feminism

Can women ever liberate themselves under capitalism? This public forum will see Mary Partington (Feminist Fightback and LRC, personal capacity), Finn Mackay from the London Feminist Network, and a member of Communist Students speak on the causes of women’s oppression and how it can be abolished.

All welcome- tell your friends! Note that this meeting is in room G52 in the main SOAS building.

3rd Mar: Do we need a Programme?

#Reading 1: John Molyneux, ‘The necessity of Respect’
http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/article.php?articlenumber=8764

#Reading 2: Jack Conrad, ‘Programme and its structure’
http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker2/index.php?action=viewarticle&article_id=455

10th Mar: The Transitional Programme

#Reading: Err, the Transitional Programme
http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1938/tp/index.htm

17th Mar: Dilution and dogmatism; ‘broad’ and ‘fat’ programmes

#Reading 1: Platform of TUSC (Trade Unionist & Socialist coalition)
http://www.tusc.org.uk/policy.php

#Reading 2: Contents page of Bukharin’s ‘ABC’s of communism’
http://marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1920/abc/index.htm
And in particular Section 84: ‘Extra-scholastic instruction':
http://marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1920/abc/10.htm#084

24th Mar: Public meeting on anarchism

Abolishing capitalism: how do we need to organise?

With veteran anarchist Martin Lux and a speaker from Communist Students.