Dr Kevin Bean addresses the May 16 Online Communist Forum on ‘The crisis of Ulster unionism’. More videos of our special OCFs are available on the CPGB YouTube channel and audio recordings of the CPGB PCC political reports can be found on our Soundcloud, Spotify and Apple Podcasts pages Don’t forget to tune in to Read more about OCF video – ‘The crisis of Ulster unionism’[…]
Dr Mohsen Shahmanesh addresses the April 11 Online Communist Forum. You can find articles written by Mohsen on the Weekly Worker website here more videos of our special OCFs are available on the CPGB YouTube channel And don’t forget to tune in to all our upcoming events live, you can find out more on Read more about OCF video – ‘Covid-19 update: will it be over by Christmas?’ With Dr Mohsen Shahmanesh[…]
This week marks the centenary of the German Communist Party’s fateful ‘March Action’, which led to around one hundred deaths, the arrest of thousands of working-class militants and around 100,000 people resigning from the party. To mark the anniversary, Ben Lewis spoke at a special Online Communist Forum dedicated to the issue. To read Paul Read more about OCF video – ‘German Communism and the March Action of 1921’ With Ben Lewis[…]
Mike Macnair addresses the 7 March Online Communist Forum. Mike Macnair is a member of the Provisional Central Committee of the CPGB and is also a prolific writer for the Weekly Worker, you can find his may articles on the WW archive. He is the author of the book Revolutionary Strategy (2008) which is available Read more about OCF video – ‘NEP, the banning of factions and Kronstadt – the turning point in the Russian Revolution?’ With Mike Macnair[…]
Jacobin’s Europe Editor David Broder addresses the Online Communist Forum on Sunday February 21 2021. For more from David Broder, you can find his recent articles in the Weekly Worker here You can find more videos from the CPGB on our YouTube page here And don’t forget to tune in to all our upcoming events live, you Read more about OCF video – ‘The Misuses of Antonio Gramsci’ with David Broder[…]
This is the video of a Webinar organised by Hands Off the People of Iran to commemorate two significant events in modern Iranian history. The speakers are Yassamine Mather and Hamed Sheibani. For more Marxist analysis of Iran and the Middle East from Yassamine mather, see her recent articles in the Weekly Worker here Hands Read more about OCF video – ‘50 years since Siakhal, 42 years since the Iranian Revolution’ organised by Hands Off the People of Iran[…]
Chris Knight addresses the Online Communist Forum on January 24 2021 on the anthropology of the late David Graeber (1959-2020). Chris Knight is a British anthropologist and high-profile political activist. He became a lecturer in anthropology at the University of East London in 1989 and a professor at the same institution in 2000. Knight is a Read more about OCF video – ‘The Anthropology of David Graeber’ with Chris Knight[…]
Agata and Emil, Marxist activists in the Socialist Party in the Netherlands, address the January 17 2021 Online Communist Forum about the recent crisis that has engulfed the party. This crisis has followed from the expulsion of mainly younger and critical members, as well as the party leadership’s removal of funding for ROOD, the party’s Read more about OCF video – ‘The Netherlands: the Struggle for Marxism in the Socialist Party’ with Emil and Agata[…]
Session 1 – ‘The crisis in the United States and Prospects for the Left’ with Donald Parkinson from Cosmonaut magazine Session 2 – ‘System and hegemons – can relative decline be reversed?’ with Hillel Ticktin from Critique magazine Session 3 – ‘The continuing ethnic cleansing of Palestine’ with Author and Historian Ilan Pappé Session 4 Read more about Communist University Winter 2021 – videos now available on our YouTube channel[…]
Jack Conrad was the founder editor of The Leninist, which was first published in November 1981. He has contributed numerous articles to the Weekly Worker and written a number of books and pamphlets, the latest being the second edition of ‘Fantastic reality‘, his book on Marxism and the politics of religion. For more videos from Read more about OCF video – ‘The Revolutionary Jesus’ with Jack Conrad[…]