CPGB Perspectives 2023
Introduced, debated, amended and agreed at February 12 AGM of CPGB members. This document as well as a report of the AGM was published in Weekly Worker 1430
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Joint Statement: Social-imperialism is betrayal
Joint statement was issued by the CPGB’s Provisional Central Committee and the Board of the Communist Platform (Netherlands-Belgium) after they met on January 18 to discuss Ukraine and the necessity of combatting social-imperialism
OCF video – ‘Zionism during the holocaust’ book launch with Tony Greenstein
Tony Greenstein addresses the December 11 Online Communist forum with a talk on his new book ‘Zionism during the holocaust: the weaponisation of memory in the service of state and nation’. Comrade Tony has written many articles for the Weekly Worker on the subject of Israel, Zionism, and much more
OCF video – ‘US midterms and the bursting of Trump’s bubble’ with Daniel Lazare
Daniel Lazare addresses the November 13th Online Communist Forum on the results of the 2022 US midterm elections and gives his assessment
OCF video – ‘Giorgia Meloni and Italian fascism’ with David Broder
David Broder addresses the November 6th Online Communist Forum on the history of Italian ‘post-fascism’, the election of Giorgia Meloni and the ‘anti-fascism’ of the left.
OCF video – ‘Protests in Iran shake the regime but what are the prospects for radical change?’ with Yassamine Mather
Yassamine Mather addresses the October 16th Online Communist Forum on the ongoing protest movement in Iran
OCF video – ‘Labour conference 2022 assessed and dissected’ with Kevin Bean
Kevin Bean reports on the 2022 Labour Party conference. This talk follows from his article, ‘Political wing of capitalist class’, in Weekly Worker 1412
OCF VIDEO – Some new translations of Die Gleichheit, the German Marxist women’s paper
Ben Lewis addresses the June 26th Online Communist Forum on the little explored paper Die Gleichheit, its role in the women’s movement in Germany and the Second International as well as its legacy for communists today
OCF video – ‘Northern Ireland elections: crisis in permanence’
Kevin Bean and Anne McShane address the May 15th Online Communist Forum on the result of the Stormont elections in the Six Counties as well as the wider constitutional crisis, the state of the left north and south of the border, and the prospects for Irish unification.
OCF video – ‘Imperialism and the state’
Mike Macnair introduces his recent ‘Imperialism and the state’ series of Weekly Worker articles to the CPGB’s May 8th Online Communist Forum. Mike’s four-part series is essential background reading for this talk, they can be found as supplements to Weekly Worker 1387-1391