Branch meetings: Wednesdays, 7:30pm at SOAS student union (map)
Our London branch has planned a series of meetings and events over the next two months which are listed below. Our discussion topics are based around the ideas of Party -how revolutionaries should organise- and Programme -what we should fight for. All are welcome to these meetings, and we are also building two public meetings, on women’s liberation and anarchism. We are inviting guest speakers to these meetings and aiming for a debate format.
We are also planning film showings, and to coincide with the week of action organised by ‘Hands Off the People of Iran’, CS members are organising a gig on Friday 19th Feb to raise money for Worker’s Fund Iran. More info on these soon.
Meeting programme for February and March:
Meetings are Wednesdays, at 7:30pm in SOAS students union. Call or text Laurie to find out room number and get signed in if necessary: 07514 500 298.
Or join our Facebook group for weekly updates.
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.
All welcome- tell your friends! Note that this meeting is in room G52 in the main SOAS building.
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