February 2025 events

Some Socialist Party meetings/talks/discussions are online via Jitsi, and some are in-person. Certain branch and committee meetings are held on Discord. Please contact spgb.discord@worldsocialism.org for instructions on how to join Discord.
Our general discussion meetings are held on Zoom. To connect to a Zoom meeting, click https://zoom.us/j/7421974305 (or type the address into your browser address field). Then wait to be admitted to the meeting.
Details of EC and branch business meetings can be found here


 
WORLD SOCIALIST MOVEMENT ONLINE MEETINGS

Friday 7 February 19.30 (GMT)
Subject to be announced

Friday 14 February 19.30 (GMT)
HAVE YOU HEARD THE NEWS?
Discussion of recent events
Host: Dougie Mclellan

Friday 21 February 19.30 (GMT)
EMPLOYMENT (Zoom)
Speaker: John Cumming
Employment seems to be our main purpose in life according to our masters and their media machine. Woe betide any wage slave who finds him or herself surplus to an employer’s requirements. The torments in store for the unemployed are even worse than those suffered by the employed wage slave. In addition to being blamed for their own misfortune and stigmatised as “shirkers”, they will be forced on to schemes which are alleged to “help them back into work”! What is the alternative to this mad cycle of misery, whether employed or unemployed?

Friday 28 February 19.30 (GMT)
PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE (Zoom)
Speaker: Richard Field


SOCIALIST PARTY IN-PERSON MEETINGS

Manchester

Saturday 15 February, 2pm
WORK
Friends Meeting House, Mount Street, city centre, M2 5NS
Studs Terkel’s book Working begins, ‘This book, being about work, is, by its very nature, about violence – to the spirit as well as to the body … To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us.’ This talk will look at one form of work, employment under capitalism, and will mainly make use of the words of workers themselves, as recorded by Terkel and others. We’ll ask why employment is like this, and whether it is necessary.

LONDON

Sunday 23 February 3pm
WHO’S AFRAID OF DONALD TRUMP?
Speaker: Adam Buick
Socialist Party Head Office, 52 Clapham High Street, London SW4 7UN. Nearest tube: Clapham North. Nearest rail station: Clapham High Street.

Cardiff Street Stall
Every Saturday 1 – 3pm
Capitol Shopping Centre
Queen Street (Newport Road end)
Weather permitting

Socialist Standard indexes
The indexes of articles in the Socialist Standard in 2023 and 2024 are now available. Send a stamped addressed to Socialist Standard, 52 Clapham High Street, London SW4 7UN.


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