Forthcoming Events on Discord June 2020

NATIONAL LIBERATION

National independence or liberation groups can be locked tightly into their own perspective especially when it features a strong sense of victimhood, which can make constructive communication difficult. Anyone got any useful tips?

THE AMERICAN DREAM

Which, goes the saying, you have to be asleep to experience. Why are poor workers so angrily insistent that capitalism is a world of opportunity? Is it just because they fear socialism might be something far worse? .

EMMA GOLDMAN – AN EXCEEDINGLY DANGEROUS WOMAN

‘This is an English language version of the film EMMA GOLDMAN – AN EXCEEDINGLY DANGEROUS WOMAN which explores the incredible, yet troubled life of one of the world’s most extraordinary women.’

WHAT HAVE YOU GOT AGAINST RELIGION?

Where do you start? Where do you stop? Is there even any point? What killer arguments have you come across, and did they do any good?

HOW WOULD DEMOCRACY WORK IN SOCIALISM?

Being too prescriptive is obviously not a good idea, but looking as if you don’t know can look even worse. What’s the best way to go about answering this?

To be arranged.

GERMAINE GREER

‘In spite of a widespread feeling of complacency that suggests that the woman question is answered, and the battle is won, what started in the 60s as a movement for liberation has been sidetracked. What women have been duped into settling for is a spurious version of equality’
(Cover notes from The Whole Woman, 1999) .

HUMAN NATURE

The all-time favourite objection, with a million possible responses, but which ones are most likely to work?