“Celebrating 1917”

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  • #85709
    jondwhite
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    Leopards don't change their spots and the SWP still love Lenin

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    Saturday 4 November 2017 • Central London • 10:30am-5:30pm

    A one-day conference to debate and discuss the legacy of 1917 on the hundredth anniversary of the Russian Revolution.

     

    Meetings:

     

    Why Celebrate 1917?

    • Dave Sherry, author of Russia 1917: Workers' Revolution and Festival of the Oppressed
    • John Molyneux, author of Lenin for Today
    • Sally Campbell, editor of Socialist Review

     

    The Bolsheviks and 1917

    • Kevin Corr & Gareth Jenkins, contributors to International Socialism

     

    Culture and Revolution

    • Cathy Porter, author of Alexandra Kollontai: A Biography
    • Roger Huddle, editor of Reminiscences of RAR

     

    The Festival of the Oppressed

    • Judith Orr, author of Marxism and Women's Liberation

     

    How the Revolution was Lost

    • Esme Choonara, author of A Rebel's Guide to Trotsky

     

    The Revolution and its Relevance Today

    • Steve Smith, author of Russia in Revolution
    • Alex Callinicos, author of Imperialism and Global Political Economy
    • Amy Leather, national secretary of the SWP

     

    Tickets are £10/£5 concessions.

    To book your place at this conference,click here or phone 020 7840 5600.

    #129257
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    I remember that the MLPUSA started to raised questions against Stalin and Enver Hoxha, when they started to question Lenin, the party was vanished by their own members. 

    #129258
    jondwhite
    Participant

    I don't understand, what does a party being vanished by their own members entail?

    #129259
    Anonymous
    Inactive
    jondwhite wrote:
    I don't understand, what does a party being vanished by their own members entail?

    It menas that, if the left starts to question Leninism and the Bolsheviks experience, the whole movement will fall apart. Any group which departs from the experience of the Bolsheviks will always end in wrong clonclusions. When the Soviet Union collapssed there was a big stampede, and when Enver Hoxha and Mao Tse Tung were questioned there was a big stampede too. Personally, I was able to see all that around me. The great fervor of that time was based on wrong principles, and they continue basing themselves on the same wrong principles  

    #129260
    jondwhite
    Participant

    I don't know if anyone here reads IS Review (ISR) but the Fall 2017 issue is about the Russian Revolutionhttps://isreview.org/issue/106

    #129261
    jondwhite
    Participant

    The uk branch of the IS, the SWP have published their main statement on the centenary, a long essay by Callinicos, the editor of ISJhttp://isj.org.uk/the-orphaned-revolution/We should try and promote our case at their anniversary event

    #129262
    jondwhite
    Participant

    Anyone know if Eric Blanc is IS/SWP?

    #129263
    jondwhite
    Participant

    Socialist Worker specialhttps://socialistworker.co.uk/special/170/x

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