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Category: CU 2010

All videos from the Communist University in 2010.

Posted on September 7, 2010September 7, 2019

EDL, BNP and the left: what fascism is, what it is not, and the tactical blunders of the left

 

Posted on September 7, 2010September 7, 2019

Bourgeois elections: an instrument of deception or an instrument of liberation?

Posted on September 7, 2010September 7, 2019

What do Marxists mean by the decline of capitalism?

Posted on September 7, 2010September 7, 2019

Lenin Rediscovered: What is to be done? Myth and reality

In the first of three talks at Communist University 2010, historian Lars T Lih talks about Lenin’s famous pamphlet, What is to be done?

 

Posted on September 7, 2010September 7, 2019

Permanent Revolution: Myths and Reconsiderations

 

Posted on September 7, 2010September 7, 2019

Socialism and Democracy – Moshe Machover (part 1)

This is part of 1 of Moshe Machover’s talk, ‘Socialism and Democracy’, held at Communist University 2010.

Posted on September 7, 2010September 7, 2019

Socialism and Democracy – Moshe Machover (part 2)

This is part two of Moshe Machover’s talk, ‘Socialism and democracy’, given at Communist University 2010.

Posted on September 7, 2010September 7, 2019

The CPGB Draft Programme: what programmes are, how they should be organised, and why they are important

Jack Conrad addresses Communist University 2010 on the nature of communist programmes and the thinking behind the new CPGB Draft Programme.

 

Posted on September 7, 2010September 7, 2019

Iran: why a colour revolution from above would be so dangerous

Hands Off the People of Iran chair Yassamine Mather assesses the current situation in Iran at Communist University 2010.

Posted on September 7, 2010September 7, 2019

The CPGB Draft Programme: The transition from capitalism to communism

Jack Conrad speaks to Communist University 2010 on the CPGB draft programme and the vision it outlines for the transition from capitalism to communism

Posted on September 7, 2010September 7, 2019

Lenin Rediscovered: ‘The April Theses’ Myth and Reality

In the second of three talks in his series on rediscovering Lenin, historian Lars T Lih looks at Lenin’s April Theses and some of the myths and misunderstandings surrounding it.

Posted on September 7, 2010September 7, 2019

Lenin Rediscovered: The changing role of political freedom

Historian Lars T Lih addresses Communist University 2010 on the thorny question of Lenin, the Bolsheviks and political freedom. Taking a historical perspective, he traces the role of political freedom from Marx and Engels onwards.

Posted on September 7, 2010September 7, 2019

Primitive communism and the matriarchal family: are they Marxist myths?

 

 

Posted on September 7, 2010September 7, 2019

Marxism and science

Chris Knight of the Radical Anthropology Group addresses Communist University 2010 on the subject of marxism and science

Posted on September 7, 2010September 7, 2019

Why Marx expected the proletariat to be socialist

Historian Marc Mulholland talks about Marx’s understanding of the proletariat at Communist University 2010

Posted on September 7, 2010September 7, 2019

The present economic crisis in historical perspective

In the second of three presentations held at Communist University, Hillel Ticktin speaks about the economic crisis in historical perspective.

Posted on September 7, 2010September 7, 2019

Grigory Zinoviev in Halle

Ben Lewis addresses Communist University 2010 on the significance of Grigory Zinoviev’s famous four-hour speech held at Halle congress of the German Independent Social Democrats (USPD) in October 1920.

Posted on September 7, 2010September 7, 2019

Why the age of bureaucratic centralism and the confessional left wing sect needs to end

A panel discussion with Mike Macnair (CPGB); Moshe Machover (Israeli socialist) and Hillel Ticktin (editor of Critique) held at Communist University 2010.

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