Communist Forum

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).

1 (0.00) Covid ‘Freedom Day’ irresponsibility 2 (16.30) ‘Space tourism’: perverse wastage 3 (22.00) Afghanistan: imperial humiliation 4 (25.25) SWP and by-election: don’t mention Galloway! 5 (53.05) ‘Population Matters’: don’t blame the people; blame capital

1 (0.00) Batley and Spen: never ‘make or break’ for Starmer 2 (13.50) Workers Party of Britain: never an alternative 3 (25.30) Climate change: protest not enough 4 (39.05) Motor industry: boost in UK 5 (43.25) China: SWP and ‘state capitalism’

1 (0.00) Batley and Spen by-election: George Galloway’s ‘strategic vision’ and ours 2 (20.25) The ‘Labour’ Campaign for ‘Free Speech’? 3 (35.30) Black Sea provocation 4 (37.20) Hungary and gay rights 5 (39.00) Communist Party of China – 100 years of contradiction

Mike Macnair speaks on bourgeois law, campus culture wars, toppling statues, freedom of the press and no-platforming.

Chris Knight reviews his book "Blood relations: menstruation and the origins of culture" 30 years on.

1 (0.00) G7, Biden and John McDonnell’s ‘socialism’ 2 (7.05) Covid and the ‘wonders of organisation’ 3 (12.15) Covid and ‘dark plots’ 4 (16.20) UFOs: holding up a mirror 5 (20.40) Israel: steady drift to right 6 (35.35) Iran’s ‘elections’ 7 (39.30) Labour’s bogus ‘anti-Semitism training’ 8 (46.50) Starmer’s ‘fundamental change’: Blairism mark two

Hillel Ticktin addresses the May 30 Online Communist Forum

1 (0.00) UK elections – ‘long Brexit’ 2 (27.30) Scotland – no Catalonia here! 3 (35.30) Elections, class and the left

1 (0.00) Football – unity in opposites 2 (48.00) Sleaze – unlikely to cost the Tories May elections 3 (51.35) ‘Unite for Freedom’ demo – anti-Covid measures still very much needed 4 (1.03.00) Extinction Rebellion trial – solidarity verdicts

1 (0.00) Monarchy death: everything must stop 2 (15.05) Local elections: vote Labour (but ...) 3 (17.55) Scotland: ‘safe in SNP hands’ 4 (13.55) Ireland: divisions from Good Friday agreement 5 (29.10) Sexism in schools 6 (30.45) Iran: Israeli provocations 7 (33.35) Cuba: where next after Raúl? 8 (38.30) Covid: ‘social murder’

1 (0.00) ‘Ethnic disparities’ report: class, not race 2 (36.05) Blasphemy: religious rights, not impositions 3 (50.20) David Cameron and ‘normal’ corruption 4 (59.15) Iran deal: ‘three rooms’ 5 (60.50) TV: fascists in the monarchy