Kent Communist Group

[Socialist Party Head Office]

Hi,

On Friday 25th November Kent Communist Group are holding a public meeting at the University of Kent on “the anti-parliamentary tradition in Britain”.

Details are available on our Blog and on Facebook.

http://kentcommunistgroup.blogspot.com/

https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=251067238275950

Comradely Regards

Matt

[Anonymous]

Socialist Party Head Office wrote:

Hi,On Friday 25th November Kent Communist Group are holding a public meeting at the University of Kent on “the anti-parliamentary tradition in Britain”.Details are available on our Blog and on Facebook.http://kentcommunistgroup.blogspot.com/https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=251067238275950Comradely RegardsMatt

 Please be reminded of this event; at least two members from Kent & Sussex Regional will be attending but the more the merrier.A lift to the venue at the University of Kent in Canterbury will be available from South London.  Contact Dan Lambert on 07904 003603 to arrange.

[Anonymous]

There’s a report of this meeting on the ICC website, written by the main speaker. Here’s an extract:”Despite being held at 6.30pm on a Friday night in an out-of-the-wayuniversity lecture hall some distance from the town centre, November’s meeting attracted around 20 people. In addition to members of the KCG these included representatives from the ICC, the Communist Workers’ Organisation, the Anarchist Federation, Socialist Party of Great Britain and The Commune, as well as former members of the ICC and half a dozen other students from the university….  Instead, the discussion that followed was around two main areas.The first was dominated by the SPGB whose interventions focused on the need for us today to work in bourgeois parliaments in order to achieve a majority vote to peacefully overthrow capitalism. ‘Why not use parliaments?’ was the question asked by one SPGB speaker. This argument, which has been consistently advocated by this group since 1904, allowed other speakers to repeat the answer given by the left communists of the 1920s:  because firstly the power of the bourgeoisie no longer resides in parliaments but rather in the executive apparatus of the state, and secondly because the exploiting class will never willingly give up its power peacefully through some simple vote.  The peddling of such arguments today can only help to spread illusions in bourgeois democracy at a time when the power of this mystification is being unmasked by the realities of the economic crisis and increasing examples of mass revolt against it, in Greece, Spain, the Middle East…”  

[Anonymous]

pfbcarlisle wrote:

There’s a report of this meeting on the ICC website, written by the main speaker. Here’s an extract:

 Thanks for that, Rob, which is very timely.  Kent and Sussex Regional is meeting later today (8th). It’ll give us something to chew over :)http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/event/kent-and-sussex-regional-branch-maidstone-1

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