Communists in the French Resistance

Manchester CS has kicked off the ‘Revolutionary France’ series with a discussion on the lessons of the Paris Commune of 1871, after reading chapter 5 of Karl Marx’s ‘Civil War in France’. Around 20 attended and debated the National Question, a programme to win the Peasantry, the revolutionary party and why such history is not taught in schools. The voice files of the meeting can be found at mcrcommuniststudents.podbean.com.

Next week we are discussing the student and worker uprising in 1968, Mark Harrison from the Commune group will be speaking. And we have put back our French Resistance meeting as our speaker Matthew Cobb is only able to speak on the 24 November. We will be reading an article from issue 9 of the Permanent Revolution journal called ‘France 1968: Barricades close streets but show the way’ you can access it here: http://www.permanentrevolution.net/entry/2356. We will also be having a quick introduction on understanding Class in capitalist society.

The remaining meetings are as followed:
17/11 – 6PM: Close to power? The revolt of 1968
University of Manchester Student’s Union Meeting Room 2

24/11 – 6PM: Communists in the French Resistance with Matthew Cobb author of ‘The Resistance: The French Fight Against the Nazis’
University of Manchester Students’ Union Meeting Room 4

8/12 – 6PM: The New Anti-Capitalist Party, a new way forward? with Tina Purcell who attended the founding congress of the NPA and reported on it for the Permanent Revolution journal.
University of Manchester Students’ Union Meeting Room TBC

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