Communist Forum

Online Communist Forum - 6-2-2022 by CPGB-PCC

Kevin Bean addresses the January 30th Online Communist Forum on the 50th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday massacre in Derry. This talk follows on from comrade Bean’s article in Weekly Worker 1380: https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1380/sheer-unadulterated-murder/

Debate between Tony Greenstein and Jack Conrad.

1 (0.00) Trump’s attempted coup one year on 2 (17.30) The standing army and the right to bear arms 3 (21.35) Chile: don’t expect another Pinochet 4 (29.55) Maxwell trial: wider questions posed 5 (41.50) January 1 temperature: climate change and the working class 6 (47.20) James Webb space telescope: endless frontier?

Jack Conrad, member of the CPGB Provisional Central Committee and author of ‘Fantastic Reality’ (2012), addressed the December 19th OCF on the life of Jesus and the evolution of the ‘Jesus Party’ inside and outside of Judea, as well as the development of modern Judaism and Christianity in this period. Jack Conrad argues that religion should not be dismissed as mere false consciousness, religions r...

1 (0.00) Covid hypocrisy: ‘Do as we say, not as we do’. 2 (14.20) Liquidation of LAW: where next for the Labour left? 3 (30.20) The continuing ‘war on drugs’ and our response 4 (39.10) Trump’s attempted coup: more details come to light. 5 (46.10) The USSR and the left’s ossification 6 (58.05) BDS: a question of solidarity

1 (0.00) Labour reshuffle: More pro-establishment gestures 2 (16.50) Which way for the Labour left post-LAW? 3 (27.05) Down with the fascist right, but no to state bans 4 (42.55) JCPA: US hypocrisy on display 5 (52.05) SWP and China: hint of contradiction 6 (59.15) SWP and Covid: not just about profit

Dr. Mohsen Shahmanesh, expert in HIV epidemiologist who has previously written for the Weekly Worker, looks at a number of pandemics through human history and analyses their social causes and effects.

1 (0.00) Labour: delusions of the left 2 (17.05) Covid: mistrust of governments v collective responsibility 3 (27.35) ‘migrant crisis’ and the crimes of imperialism 4 (41.00) Ongoing threat to democracy

Mike Macnair, regular contributor to the Weekly Worker and author of Revolutionary Strategy (2009), addressed the November 14th OCF on the history and nature of constitutions of minority class rule and the proletarian constitution of the future. A supplementary article based on this talk was also published in the Weekly Worker: https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1372/in-modern-times/

1 (0.00) Cop26 and climate change: working class parties needed 2 (16.20) Climate change: Greta Thunberg not the answer 3 (23.55) USA: Biden’s triumph and what lies ahead 4 (30.40) Freedom of speech: rational debate needed 5 (41.35) Tory sleaze fiasco 6 (46.55) Greens adopt IHRA ‘definition’ 7 (52.50) Weekly Worker letters: the party question

Lars T. Lih, who has previously written for the Weekly Worker and is author of the infamous Lenin Rediscovered: 'What is to be Done?' in Context (published in paperback by Haymarket in 2008), addressed the October 31st OCF on his concept of ‘agreementism’ in Russia between the February and October Revolutions of 1917.

1 (0.00) Cop26: expect nothing much 2 (16.25) Covid: disastrous inaction 3 (22.15) ‘No offence’ equals censorship 4 (32.45) USA: Steve Bannon and January 6 5 (38.50) China: hypersonic hype 6 (45.30) Turkey: embassy crisis 7 (47.40) Assange:@ free him now 8 (48.40) Labour: left putrification

1 (0.00) Insulate Britain: counterproductive methods 2 (6.45) Climate change: civilisation breakdown? 3 (15.05) Killing of David Amess: underlying realities 4 (21.00) Brexit and Ireland: ongoing contradictions 5 (27.00) Afghanistan: no peace in sight 6 (30.15) CPB protocol: Lenin would have been excluded

1 (0.00) UK’s ‘biodiversity’: no surprise 2 (7.00) USA: Trump’s continuing legacy 3 (13.25) China: cold war continues 4 (23.40) Lebanon: latest ‘failed state’ 5 (25.20) UKL’s pending energy crisis 6 (30.05) Sport: Saudi and Dubai aristocrats

With Kevin Bean for the Labour Party Marxist Steering Committee

1 (0.00) Labour conference: Starmer safe as leader – for now 2 (12.00) USA: instability continues post-Trump 3 (19.30) Dealing with China: ‘war socialism’ and ‘climate socialism’ combined?

1 (0.00) UN, climate change and COP26: expect ‘hot air’ 2 (24.10) Aukus: new anti-China pact 3 (32.30) China: contradictions and divisions 4 (35.20) ‘Levelling up’ fiasco and rail shambles 5 (38.25) Russia and gas: ‘perfect storm’ 6 (40.10) Taliban split? Where next for Afghanistan? 7 (43.10) Monarchy farce 8 (50.35) Labour conference: Starmer’s next steps and ongoing struggle

1 (0.00) Al Qa’eda: the story of 9/11 2 (34.40) Peru, ‘people’s war’ and genuine socialism 3 (51.40) Labour: a reliable second eleven or a working class party?

1 (0.00) Afghanistan: what next? 2 (23.30) German elections: red-green-red coalition? 3 (31.45) Tax the rich? 4 (35.00) Real anti-Semitism and its various forms 5 (40.35) Trade unionism (and its limits) 6 (43.55) Texas anti-abortionists and working class independence 7 (46.55) The politics of climate change 8 (53.40) China: ‘turning back to socialism’?

1 (0.00) Afghanistan: the humiliating collapse and what it tells us 2 (44.50) Unite union election and Labour 3 (55.10) Labour Against the Witchhunt: weaknesses of ‘official left’ thinking

1 (0.00) Afghanistan: strategic regroupment? 2 (23.35) Climate change: capitalism and pseudo-solutions 3 (39.50) Labour: Stamer’s ‘safe pair of hands’

1 (0.00) Climate change: a paradigm shift? 2 (33.30) Tories: an advisory board with ‘no influence’? 3 (39.50) Cash-strapped Labour 4 (52.15) SWP internal discipline: two opposite and equally unprincipled approaches 5 (60.30) SPEW: silence is significant

1 (0.00) Space race - extravagant waste 2 (9.50) Dominic Cummings: fuss about nothing 3 (11.40) Pegasus: imperialism and spyware 4 (22.45) Iranian strikes and their significance 5 (28.50) Covid and the response: ‘attack on liberty’? 6 (39.00) Labour purge: demonstrating Starmer’s reliability to capital 7 (50.50) Youth: naturally anti-capitalist

Ruben Markarian is a socialist Iranian activist, member of Rahe Kargar (Organisation of Revolutionary Workers of Iran).