Category: Meetings
The Silence of Oppression
Hugh Brody and Merilyn Moos discuss how the experiences of imperialism and of exile from Nazism generate and rely on silences in both personal and political realms.
Hugh Brody’s books include Living Arctic, Maps And Dreams,The Other Side of Eden and Landscapes of Silence; his films include Nineteen Nineteen, England’s Henry Moore and Tracks Across Sand.
Read on ... “Uncomradely and un-communist”- the CPGB and CPA Debate, 1947-1948
Speaker: Gregory Billam
The Communist Parties of Great Britain and Australia until May 1943 were dutiful members of the Comintern, however, when this body was disbanded by Stalin, both Parties were notably excluded from the newly established Cominform in late 1947. Deemed to be on the periphery of international communism, this newly found ‘independence’ prompted a turn towards Communist Parties developing their own ‘roads’ to socialism, and by extension unofficial organising hubs or spheres of influence. Read on ...
Labour Revolt in Britain 1910-14
The Labour revolt that swept Britain in the years before the First World War was one of the most sustained outbreaks of industrial militancy and social revolt the country has ever experienced
The industrial militancy involved large-scale strikes by miners, seamen, dockers, railway workers and many others, and was dominated by unskilled and semi-skilled workers, many acting independently of trade-union officials.
Read on ... Commemorating Charlie Hutchison and other Black British Communists
10 May 2023 7:00 pm
David Horsley will be speaking on
Charlie Hutchison and other Black British Communists
Free to attend, but you will need to register in advance:
https://communistparty-org-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4_ZGd48jSzGTr8sY493yrw#/registration
At the age of 18, Charlie Hutchison volunteered to join the International Brigades to fight for the nascent Spanish Republic, being the only Black British citizen to do so. Read on ...
Unfinished business? The ongoing break-up of the USSR’
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When the USSR ceased to exist at the end of 1991, many observers remarked on how peaceful the break-up seemed to be, compared with the violent disintegration of the former socialist Yugoslavia then taking place in the Balkans. Read on ...