Communist University 2015

Which way forward for the left? The Communist Party's summer school takes place August 15-22

A week of discussion and debate

Surrey House,
80 Lewisham Way,
New Cross,
London SE14 6PB
 

Saturday August 15

10am-12.30pm: Registration and, from 12.30pm, access to accommodation for CU boarders
2pm-4.15pm: Salman Shaheen/Jack Conrad, ‘The right to bear arms’
4.45pm-7pm: Ian Birchall, ‘Lessons of the Third Comintern Congress’

Sunday August 16

10am-12.30pm: Pat Smith, Hull North CLP (personal capacity), ‘Corbyn and Labour’
2pm-4.15pm: Yassamine Mather, ‘The US and wars in the Middle East’
4.45pm-7pm: Guglielmo Carchedi, ‘Mental labour, value and video games’

Monday August 17

10am-12.30pm: Hillel Ticktin, ‘Crisis’
2pm-4.15pm: Guglielmo Carchedi, ‘Was the great recession a crisis of profitability?’
4.45pm-7pm: Kevin Bean, 'The British state and its national questions'

Tuesday August 18

10am-12.30pm: Hillel Ticktin, ‘Transition’
2pm-4.15pm: Michael Roberts, ‘The future of the Eurozone single currency ’
4.45pm-7pm: Marc Mulholland, ‘Gifted and talented: Socialists and the problem of unequal abilities - a history'

Wednesday August 19

10am-12.30pm: Paul Demarty, ‘The future of art and the art of the future’
2pm-4.15pm: Hillel Ticktin, ‘Socialism’
4.45pm-7pm: Chris Knight, 'What is Marxist anthropology?’

Thursday August 20

10am-12.30pm: Chris Knight, ‘Singing and the origins of language’
2pm-4.15pm: Spencer Leonard (Platypus Affiliated Society), ‘The Present Misery of the Hindoo: Marx on the Imperialism of Free Trade’
4.45pm-7pm: Mike Macnair, ‘Aspirational politics? The Maximum Programme in Marxist theory and practice’

Friday August 21

10am-12.30pm: Moshe Machover, ‘Decolonization of Palestine: a socialist view’
2pm-4.15pm:  Mike Macnair, ‘Entryism and the Labour Party’
4.45pm-7pm: James Heartfield, ‘Who’s afraid of the Easter rising?’

Saturday August 22

10am-12.30pm: Yassamine Mather, 'The internet of all things: capitalism and IT'
1pm-3pm: Jack Conrad, ‘The April thesis and 1917’
3.30pm-4pm: Evaluation of school

Prices:

Full week, including accommodation - £250 (£150 no income, £300 solidarity)

First / final weekend, including one night's accommodation - £60 (£30)

Full week, no accommodation - £60 (£30)

Day - £10 (£5)

Session - £5 (£3)