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    jondwhite
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    http://cpgb.org.uk/pages/news/107/communist-university-2017/

    Although there's nothing here, it's been stated that the SPGB are doing a fringe talk at this event

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    What would a real Socialist revolution look like?

    Party fringe meeting at the Communist University 2017 in London next Monday, 14 August @ 8pm

    https://www.meetup.com/The-Socialist-Party-of-Great-Britain/events/242326511/

    #129112
    Anonymous
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    jondwhite wrote:
     the SPGB are doing a fringe talk at this event

    I can just imagine a small group in the corner with hair cuts like the  Beatles. I would go but my hairs too short In fact here is the fringe meeting

    #129113
    Anonymous
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    jondwhite wrote:
    http://cpgb.org.uk/pages/news/107/communist-university-2017/Although there's nothing here, it's been stated that the SPGB are doing a fringe talk at this event

    Yes, it's been stated on this sub-forum…http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/forum/world-socialist-movement/party-fringe-meeting-communist-university-2017

    #129114
    jondwhite
    Participant

    My mistake! Sorry.

    #129115
    ALB
    Keymaster

    The meeting did take please yesterday evening, though it took us 20 minutes to get past security. 15 people there including 5 members. Discussion more about Russian Revolution than socialist revolution, with them challenging the view that it should be judged by its results and not by what it said it was doing. Ironically, they think Russia under Stalin was a system of State slavery, i.e something worse than capitalism. Ironic because that makes its outcome even worse.  We said it was still capitalism because it was based on wage-labour and that the result of the anti-feudal Russian Revolution of which the Bolshevik coup was a point had been to spread the wages system and production for profit in Russia, and that in event the Russian Revolution, as a minority-led revolution that led to minority class rule, was not a model to follow. The discussion on our (and Marx's later) position was: what was more likely and sensible — using the ballot box or civil war? A no-brainer of course. Not that they  practice what they preach, i.e weapon training was not part of their University and they're all in the Labour Party.Three of us stayed on afterwards for a drink in their canteen. Discussion on Chris Knight's theory of the origin of our species. Apparently they accept it. Personally I think (and said) that Chris Harman won the argument with Knight, despite being  an SWPer.

    #129116
    jondwhite
    Participant

    Thanks for the report. Shame that they gave us barely a mention both last time and in their program this time. So much for an open press.

    #129117
    Anonymous
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    Who ever departs from the experience of the Soviet Union will always end making mistakes. A coup can not be called a revolution

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