Communist Forum

1 By-elections: a very likely Labour government 2 (8:15) Israel/Palestine: 'terrorism' and propaganda 3 (26:15) Ukraine: the 'forgotten war'

1 Aims of Hamas and Israel 2 (13.45) Reactionary response to protests 3 (18.45) Where next in the conflict? 4 (35.20) SWP nonsense 5 (42.20) Hamas: support and politics 6 (47.25) Left response: working class solution needed. 7 (60.15) Australia referendum 8 (61.00) Russia? Ukraine 9 (61.45) Prepare for the most rightwing ever Labour government

1 Ukraine: continued stalemate 2 (17.15) US presidency: Trump victory? 3 (29.00) Tory conference: Sunak's idiocy 4 (41.40) Labour conference: preparing for a Starmer government

1 Climate: Sunak's U-turn 2 (19.40) Demography crisis: prioritise social needs 3 (30.50) Ukraine: continuing stalemate 4 (38.20) Russell Brand: celebrity culture of abuse 5 (45.45) Comrade Downing's misunderstandings

1 Trump vs Biden - then what? 2 (13.05) TUC congress: positive and negative 3 (25.40) Continued anti-left campaign 4 (33.45) Labour left confusion 5 (37,55) Russia/North Korea: response to US hegemony 6 (43.20) Iran protests: symbol of the veil 7 (45.20) Russell Brand: entertainment and power 8 (50.00) HS2: railway madness 9 (53.30) 'Anti-Semitism': false accusations exposed 10 (55.50) Misundersta...

Fifty years since the overthrow of Salvador Allende’s Popular Unity government in Chile. Speaker: Mike Macnair

1 Ukraine: ongoing stalemate 2 (12.55) Biden's visit to Vietnam and US anti-China strategy 3 (20.50) Current strikes: purely defensive action 4 (28.20) Party finances: bourgeois support for Starmer's Labour 5 (33.30) Chile: 50th anniversary of anti-Allende coup 6 (39.20) Proud Boys and Trump: follow-on from US constitutional crisis 7 (44.20) Scotland: a pro-EU SNP and an SWP popular front

1 Trump charged: constitutional crisis? 2 (14.45) Sunak's pledges: NHS shambles 3 (34.45) Climate chaos 4 (40.40) Ukraine stalemate 5 (46.50) Transform: worthless popular front

1 Climate change: quantity and quality 2 (15.00) By-elections: most conservative ever Labour government on the cards 3 (34.05) Ukraine: fragility of the regime 4 (47.35) Spain: march of the right 5 (53.35) Israel: crucial vote

1 Israel: colonial-settler expansionism 2 (13.55) BDS: SCG disgrace 3 (16.20) Israel-Palestine: regional solution essential 4 (30.00) Ukraine: Russia's damp-squib offensive 5 (42.40) Climate change: huge global disruption 6 (51.00) Scotland drug laws: legality essential everywhere 7 (58.10) The left and the police: people's militia needed 8 (59.30) Migration: 'small boat problem' will remain

1 Ukraine: war of attrition 2 (13.45) Boris Johnson: still a 'somebody' 3 (20.10) Iran/Israel: don't count on 'peace' 4 (25.10) China: USA timing things carefully 5 (28.40) Abortion: a woman's right to choose 6 (31.45) Migration: principled response needed 7 (38.50) Tories: BDS equals 'anti-Semitism' 8 (43.10) Strike wave: resisting pay cuts

1 Climate change: why 1.5 degrees matters 2 (19.00) Ukraine: 'armchair general' scepticism 3 (33.20) Turkish and Greek elections: what about the working class? 4 (40.00) Northern Ireland: Sinn Fein advances at unionist expense 5 (47.10) National Conservatives and 'cultural Marxism' 6 (62.20) Degas sculpture: judge by artistic quality

25 years of the Good Friday Agreement by CPGB-PCC

1 Jeremy Corbyn: pro-establishment campaign continues. 2 (8.35) SNP v Labour: anti-Toryism. 3 (14.55) SWP: elections v strikes 4 (25.55) US decline: significance of Trumpism 5 (34.10) War on drugs 6 (42.45) Elon Musk and artificial intelligence: moral panic 7 (50.55) Teachers: right not to be overworked 8 (56.35) Slave trade: reparations diversion

1 Climate change: IPCC's 'runaway train syndrome' 2 (14.45) Banking crisis: which way out? 3 (23.20) Ukraine stalemate: we need revolutionary defeatism 4 (28.50) French pensions: retirement and our demands 5 (34.25) Strikes: political strategy needed 6 (39.55) Met report: institutional racism and the nature of the police 7 (47.55) Teachers and Ofsted bureaucrats

1 Saudi-Iran deal: 'great-power' as well as regional crisis 2 (14.45) Small boats and asylum-seekers: for free movement and workers' organisation 3 (31.30) Gary Lineker: not just 1930s Germany 4 (42.15) Strikes: syndicalism or principled political unity? 5 (48.55) PCC statement: free speech, not 'safe spaces'

Comrade Kevin Bean addresses the March 5th Online Communist Forum Kevin's talk follows on from his recent article in the Weekly Worker: https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1432/sunaks-brexit-deal/ Organised by CPGB (www.communistparty.co.uk) and Labour Party Marxists (www.labourpartymarxists.org.uk)

1 Proxy war in Ukraine and China's '12-point plan'. 2 (18.05) London demonstration: 'Peace' or 'Arm Ukraine'! 3 (27.15) Northern Ireland protocol: divisions within establishment 4 (30.35) Scotland: the culture war and SNP divisions

1 Sturgeon's resignation: end of an era for SNP? 2 (15.20) Starmer's move against Corbyn: aimed at remaining Labour left 3 (36.45) Anti-jury moves: in the interests of the establishment 4 (42.55) Ukraine, Russia and Iran: danger of wider war 5 (48.20) Northern Ireland protocol: making Brexit work 6 (50.30) Trans rights and trouble on the left: need for free expression

Comrade Moshé Machover addresses the January 5th Online Communist Forum Moshé Machover, born in Tel Aviv in 1936, is a mathematician and socialist activist who has been active in and written extensively on Middle-Eastern politics. You can read his articles in the weekly worker here: https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/authors/moshe-machover/ Organised by CPGB (www.communistparty.co.uk) and Labour Pa...

1 Tanks for Ukraine: significant impact on Germany 2 (27.50) Israel/Palestine: regional solution needed 3 (37.25) Transgender controversy: opportunity for the Tories to do down the SNP 4 (45.05) Strikes: principled strategy needed 5 (49.10) Tories, the rich and tax evasion 6 (53.10) Labour: remember the central question - the need for a mass Communist Party

1 Tanks and Ukraine: red line crossed 2 (13.40) Gender recognition culture war: attempt to do down SNP 3 (27.20) Abolish the police - and then what? 4 (37.10) Tory self-serving 'careless mistakes' v workers' discontent

Online Communist Forum - 9-1-2023 by CPGB-PCC

Jack Conrad addresses the December 18th Online Communist Forum on the subject of Jesus as an apocalyptic revolutionary. Comrade Conrad has written extensively on Marxism and Religion in the weekly Worker (https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/authors/jack-conrad/) and in his 2012 book 'Fantastic Reality' (https://communistparty.co.uk/resources/library/jack-conrad/) Organised by CPGB (https://communist...

THE VIEWS IN THIS VIDEO ARE NOT REPRESENTATIVE OF THOSE OF THE CPGB Tony Greenstein addresses the December 11 Online Communist forum with a talk on his new book 'Zionism during the holocaust: the weaponisation of memory in the service of state and nation'. Comrade Tony has written many articles for the Weekly Worker on the subject of Israel, Zionism, and much more. You can find his pieces here: ht...