January 2026 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 9 January 7.30pm
HAVE YOU HEARD THE NEWS? (Zoom)
Open discussion on recent events.
ARE WE LEFTWING …OR RIGHTWING? (Zoom)
Here do others perceive us on the left/right spectrum? Does that spectrum make sense anyway?
Speaker: Kevin Cronin
Friday 23 January 7.30pm
ALIENATION: WHAT IT IS. WHAT IT FEELS LIKE. HOW TO END IT. (Zoom)
Speaker: Danny Vogel
ART AND ENTERTAINMENT IN CAPITALISM AND SOCIALISM (Zoom)
Speaker: Howard Moss
SOCIALIST PARTY IN-PERSON MEETINGS
MANCHESTER
Saturday 10 January, 2pm
WHAT DOES GERRARD WINSTANLEY HAVE TO SAY TO US?
Friends Meeting House, Mount Street, central Manchester
The great and good of his day say of Winstanley, ‘How knows this man letters, seeing he has never learned?’ And yet he has studied and learned, only not at their feet. A man of the 17th century, he couches his thoughts naturally in religious language, but he makes it plain that by following our own reason we can see through the deceit of the world we live in, just as he has. His knowledge brings a lonely burden to this ‘friend to love, wading through the bondage of the world,’ and yet at the same time it gives him hope. Winstanley can see that the fire of reason can consume the thorn bush, whose ashes will fertilise the ground for the olive tree.
There are two words which had not yet been coined in Winstanley’s day: ‘Capitalism,’ and ‘Socialism.’ And yet he talks to us about both across four centuries.
LONDON
WHO THE FUCKAREWE? WHAT ARE WE WORTH? WHAT’S THE POINT?
Speaker: Danny Lambert (with an introduction by Marx)
Socialist Party premises, 52 Clapham High St, London SW4 7UN.
Cardiff Street Stall
Every Saturday 1 – 3pm
Capitol Shopping Centre
Queen Street (Newport Road end)
Weather permitting
¿Sabe que ya existe un sitio web que explica los argumentos básicos en contra del capital y en favor del socialismo mundial? Por favor, consúltelo aquí www.worldsocialist.org/?lang=es-ES.
Make a New Year’s resolution to learn about the basics of Marx’s economics!
New Capital volume 1 online reading group starting in January – depending on take-up. Contact spgb.ed@worlsocialism.org