OCF video – ‘NEP, the banning of factions and Kronstadt – the turning point in the Russian Revolution?’ With Mike Macnair

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[…]

OCF video – ‘The Misuses of Antonio Gramsci’ with David Broder

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[…]

OCF video – ‘50 years since Siakhal, 42 years since the Iranian Revolution’ organised by Hands Off the People of Iran

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[…]

OCF video – ‘The Anthropology of David Graeber’ with Chris Knight

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[…]

OCF video – ‘The Netherlands: the Struggle for Marxism in the Socialist Party’ with Emil and Agata

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[…]

Communist University Winter 2021 – videos now available on our YouTube channel

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[…]

OCF video – ‘The Revolutionary Jesus’ with Jack Conrad

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[…]

OCF video – ‘Ireland’s conservative revolution’ with Marc Mulholland

Oxford University historian Dr Marc Mulholland speaks at the Sunday 14 December 2020 Online Communist Forum on the subject of ‘Ireland’s conservative revolution’ and whether or not we should describe the movement in the 1920s as a revolution or war. For more videos from the CPGB,  check out our YouTube page here And don’t forget to Read more about OCF video – ‘Ireland’s conservative revolution’ with Marc Mulholland[…]

OCF video – ‘The Mental World of the Pre-1914 SPD’ with Andrew Bonnell

Australian historian Andrew Bonnell speaks at the Sunday 22 November 2020 Online Communist Forum to introduce his newly published study, ‘Red Banners, Books and Beer Mugs: The Mental World of German Social Democrats, 1863-1914’. The hardback is available to buy on Amazon and an affordable paperback version will be published by Haymarket Books in Autumn Read more about OCF video – ‘The Mental World of the Pre-1914 SPD’ with Andrew Bonnell[…]

OCF video – ‘The US Elections and the crisis in the Democratic Socialists of America’ with Parker McQueeny and Jonah Martell

In the run-up to the US Presidential Elections, American comrades Parker McQueeny and Jonah Martell of Cosmonaut Magazine addressed an Online Communist Forum co-organised by the CPGB and Labour Party Marxists For more videos from the CPGB,  check out our YouTube page here And don’t forget to tune in to all our upcoming events live, you Read more about OCF video – ‘The US Elections and the crisis in the Democratic Socialists of America’ with Parker McQueeny and Jonah Martell[…]