‘Their socialism and ours’
January 13 -15
CPGB and LPM are proud to announce that we will once again be holding a special winter school – Communist University Winter 2023.
From January 13-15 there will be 7 sessions all centred around the theme of ‘Their socialism and ours’. All sessions will be held online via Zoom. Registration will be required in advance.
CU 2023 Winter TIMETABLE
Date |
Start time (GMT) |
Session |
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Friday 13th |
19:00 | Marx and his dictatorship of the proletariat Speaker: Marc Mulholland [Register here] |
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Saturday 14th |
10:00 |
Original Communism: When everyone is King, no-one is King Speaker: Chris Knight (Radical Anthropology Group) [Register here] |
|
14:00 |
The USSR and Bureaucratic Socialism Speaker: Jack Conrad [Register here] |
|
| 17:00 |
Whatever happened to ‘third world socialism’? |
|
| Sunday 15th | 10:00 |
Climate socialism |
| 14:00 |
Labour’s ‘Socialism’ |
|
| 17:00 |
Our Socialism |
*** This timetable is only provisional and maybe subject to change ***
Fringe meetings
We are proud to announce that after a long absence due to Covid, fringe meetings are making a return to Communist University.
The Marxist Unity Reading Group will host a special one-off online discussion of Mike Macnair’s 2011 Critique article ‘Historical blind alleys: Arian kingdoms, Signorie, Stalinism‘.
Time: January 14th, 20:00 PM (London time)
Zoom joining link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84355464699?pwd=a2JQQmZhMEk0V1k1TGZ6VHhNdXFRZz09
You can download a Word file of the text here
Join the Marxist Unity Reading Group Discord server: https://discord.gg/Db7wSJ67KN
For a flavour of previous years, check out the videos in our CU video archive