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.

Confirmed speakers include Boris Kagarlitsky, Hillel Ticktin, Mike Macnair, Simon Pirani, Jack Conrad and Moshe Machover. The timetable is still being tweaked and sessions juggled, but the opening weekend is settled now:

Saturday August 9 2008

• from 12.30
  registration
• 2pm – 4.15pm
  ‘Iran: fighting on two fronts’.
  With Yassamine Mather (Workers Left Unity – Iran), Stuart King (Permanent Revolution) and Chris Strafford (CPGB).
• 4.45pm – 7pm
  ‘Ireland and the evolution Sinn Fein’s politics’
  With Kevin Bean author of the new book ‘The New Politics of Sinn Fein’

Sunday, August 10 features speakers from the Radical Anthropology Group

• 10am-12.30pm
  ‘Primitive communism: myth or reality?’
  Chris Knight
• 2pm-4.15pm
  ‘Neanderthals’
  Camilla Power
• 4.45pm-7pm
  ‘Stonehenge, Engels and the Neolithic counter-revolution’
  Lionel Sims

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.

Click here to contact CS about travel / accommodation / other issues

Click here to book on the CPGB website