Communist University 2012 (1 Viewer)

[Psycho Punk]

"The real Lenin"-I would love to know if this was critical or laudatory.

Its not up yet, probably still trying to scrub TBP from the soundtrack.

There are a few up though:

The left in Scotland: what happened?
Speakers: Gregor Gall (author of 'Tommy Sheridan: from hero to zero?') and Sarah McDonald (CPGB). This meeting was part of the Communist University 2012, the annual school of the CPGB.

Topics: Left unity, Communist University 2012, Gregor Gall

Liberating women: the Bolshevik experience
Speaker: Anne McShane, Weekly Worker Ireland. This meeting was part of Communist University 2012, the annual school organised by the CPGB.

Topics: Women, Communist University 2012, Anne McShane

Eden: Did primitive communism ever really exist?
Speaker: Lionel Sims (Radical Anthropology Group). This meeting was part of Communist University 2012, the annual school organised by the CPGB.

Topics: Science, Communist University 2012, Lionel Sims

Has the Arab Spring turned to Winter?
Speakers: Mohammad Reza Shalgouni, Rahe Kargar, and Moshe Machover, Israeli anti-Zionist author. This meeting took place as part of Communist University 2012, which is the annual school organised by the CPGB.

Topics: Middle East, Communist University 2012, Moshe Machover,Mohammad Reza Shalgouni

Why Hands Off the People of Iran opposes the "Iran Tribunal"
Yassamine Mather and Mark Fischer of Hands Off the People of Iran explain why the so-called "Iran Tribunal" that has been taking place in London, should not be supported by socialists and communists: because of its financial support from the US government and its silence on the threat of war it is implicitly acting in a pro-imperialist manner. The tens of thousands of communists and socialists who were murdered by the regime, on the other hand, were always clear that they were opposing two enemies: the theocracy AND imperialism.

Topics: Political economy, Yassamine Mather, Mark Fischer

http://www.cpgb.org.uk/home/videos

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

The glorious leader should take precedence over such trifling matters.

 

[Psycho Punk]

The glorious leader should take precedence over such trifling matters.

I fear that vid may never surface. Just think, the speaker competing with Teddy Bears Picnic, do you want that?

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

Hmmm,probably not.
You reckon it'll be transcribed anywhere or am I hoping for too much?

 

[Psycho Punk]

Hmmm,probably not.
You reckon it'll be transcribed anywhere or am I hoping for too much?

It may be transcribed. It would be unbearable if it wasn't.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

Exactly.How am I to argue against it otherwise?

 

[Psycho Punk]

The latest WW.

Weekly Worker issue 933 - October 11 2012
http://www.cpgb.org.uk/home/weekly-worker/933

US elections: Crazy politics and class forces
Jim Creegan examines the campaign of the Republican Party in the 2012 presidential elections

Letters
Mild peril; Arrogant; Marginalisation; Abject; Left masters; Taken to Tusc; Resist; Reinstate Ian; Mangle angle;

Early promise
Robbie Rix gives Weekly Worker readers a big thank you

NUS: Unreason all the way down
The National Union of Students no-platforms George Galloway, Galloway sues the NUS, the left talks nonsense throughout and Paul Demarty wonders what the hell is going on

Progress: Capitalism’s Trojan horse
Attacks on Progress should be welcomed, but should the left vote for Aslef’s rule change? Stan Keable of Labour Party Marxists looks at the issues

Obituary: Unrepentance of Eric Hobsbawm
Harley Filben casts an eye over Hobsbawm's legacy

Sex: Accepting assertion as fact
Sarah McDonald reviews: Dr Brooke Magnanti The sex myth: why everything we’re told is wrong Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2012, pp272, £14.99

The Left: There’s no success like failure
Tony Greenstein bemoans the continuing self-marginalisation of Britain’s far left

SWP: Annual show of ‘democracy’
This years first Internal Bulletin is a CC dominated token effort at democratic debate. WIll this change, wonders Peter Manson?

 

[Psycho Punk]

Exactly.How am I to argue against it otherwise?

But you might agree with it.

Anyway, there are two more sessions by Paul LeBlanc which are teddy bear free.

 

[Psycho Punk]

Some people here expressed an interest in Mark Fischer. He was unable to attend the cU but will speak at the meeting below which hopefully will be filmed.

'Capitalist realism and education' with Mark Fisher

Author of 'Capitalist Realism. Is there no alternative?', Mark Fisher is the speaker at this meeting jointly organised by the CPGB and Communist Students. All are welcome, and there will be plenty of time for discussion. Mark sent us this intro, which gives a taster of his talk.

Recent changes in the funding of higher education in the UK have been used to further embed 'capitalist realism' - the widespread view that there is no alternative to capitalism and that the only 'realistic' thing to do is adapt to a world dominated by capital.

The massive increase of fees in HE has nothing to do with 'paying down the deficit' and everything to do with enslaving the young into psychological and economic dependence on capital.

The student movement of 2010 saw the beginnings of a struggle against this capitalist realism in education, but the students failed in their aim to block the fee increase. What can be done now to continue - and eventually win - the fight?

Facebook event

Location: Calthorpe Arms, 252 Grays Inn Road, London WC1X 8JR Map

Starts: 19:00, Monday 22 October 2012

Ends: 21:00, Monday 22 October 2012

http://www.cpgb.org.uk/home/action/capitalist-realism-and-education-with-mark-fisher

 

[Psycho Punk]

At last! Specially for Theo.

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Speaker: Paul LeBlanc, author of 'Lenin and the Revolutionary Party'. This meeting was part of Communist University 2012, the annual school of the Communist Party of Great Britain (cpgb.org.uk)

More vids at: http://vimeo.com/cpgb/videos