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

Posted on 18 January 202120 May 2021 by Ollie

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[…]

Report of Communist University Winter 2021

Posted on 14 January 20216 March 2021 by Ollie

This report was originally published in WW1330, which can be found here Open and honest debate Last weekend saw the first Winter Communist University, conducted under the broad heading, ‘After the US presidential election: consequences and considerations’. The CPGB’s Communist University has been a regular feature of the leftwing summer for more than 30 years, Read more about Report of Communist University Winter 2021[…]

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

Posted on 12 January 202118 January 2021 by Ollie

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

Posted on 27 December 202020 May 2021 by Ollie

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

Posted on 14 December 202020 May 2021 by Ollie

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

Posted on 28 November 202020 May 2021 by Ollie

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[…]

Report on the November 15 joint meeting of CPGB and Labour Party Marxists

Posted on 21 November 20206 March 2021 by Ollie

The November 15 2020 CPGB aggregate included CPGB members as well as non voting guests and LPM comrades. This report was originally published in WW1324, which can be found here Our strategic orientation The meeting of CPGB and LPM comrades, which took place online on November 15, focused on two recent key events: the US Read more about Report on the November 15 joint meeting of CPGB and Labour Party Marxists[…]

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

Posted on 2 November 202020 May 2021 by Ollie

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[…]

OCF video – ‘The Bolshevik Path to Power’ with Lars T Lih

Posted on 29 October 202020 May 2021 by Ollie

On the 103rd anniversary of the Russian Revolution, historian Lars T Lih outlines how the underlying strategic unity of the Bolsheviks marked them out as an organisation in 1917, allowing them to set the revolutionary agenda and take power in October For more videos from the CPGB, check out our YouTube page here And don’t Read more about OCF video – ‘The Bolshevik Path to Power’ with Lars T Lih[…]

First English translation: Zinoviev’s Halle speech

Posted on 13 October 202016 October 2020 by Ollie

‘World revolution and the Third International’ Grigory Zinoviev’s speech to the pivotal Halle Congress of the Independent Social Democratic party of Germany on October 20 1920. To commemorate the centenary of Zinoviev’s speech we publish it in English online for the first time thanks to Ben Lewis. You can also find his corresponding Weekly Worker Read more about First English translation: Zinoviev’s Halle speech[…]