Communist Forum

OCF 1-12-24 Ian Spencer: Marxism and Psychoanalysis by CPGB-PCC

OCF Syria Yassamine Mather on the Fall of Assad by CPGB-PCC

1 Ukraine stalemate: NATO boots on the ground? 2 (28.40) Assisted dying: global political question 3 (40.25) Farming: defend small farmers against big capital 4 (48.50) Cop29: increased climate threat under Trump 5 (51.55) ICC arrest warrants: symbolic blow to Israel

1 Justin Welby and the Church of England: representative of the establishment's nation-state 2 (21.30) Trump's appointees: collection of lackeys and oddballs 3 (36.50) Ukraine: enforced peace deal? 4 (43.30) Foreign policy unpredictability, but opposition to China the key

1 Trump's election: what to expect 2 (30.40) Middle East: great danger 3 (35.40) Ukraine: supporting the war in a more aggressive way 4 (46.50) 'Drill, baby, drill': speeding up climate change 5 (49.40) Era of global instability: where is the left?

OCF 27-10-24 by CPGB-PCC

1 Ukraine 'victory plan': a Nato war on Russia? 2 (21.35) Ukraine and the US presidential elections 3 (32.20) Ukraine, US and Europe 4 (35.20) Middle East: assassination of Sinwar - a blow against Hamas? 5 (47.35) Lammy in China: 'century of humiliation' 5 (51.15) SWP: problems with the 'broad front' anti-racism policy

1 Global warming: nearing the tipping point 2 (13.50) Israel and Ukraine: increased danger of nuclear war 3 (42.20) USA: democracy endangered not only by Trump 4 (48.00) Death of Alex Salmond: separatism and left idiocy 5 (57.45) Comrades Tom May and Kevin Bean: sadly missed

Moshé Machover: What's really behind the war in the Middle East? by CPGB-PCC

1 Rightwing riots and the demonisation of migrants. 2 (24:15) Ukraine: Zelensky's gamble on a Trump victory? 3 (35.10) Biden and Gaza: symbolic landmark and the polio risk 4 (48.00) Free speech clampdown: not just the Tories!

1 US presidential elections: don't expect much change if Harris wins 2 (19.05) BBC propaganda for Democrats 3 (22.50) Trump's likely changes 4 (33.20) Ukraine: still dominated by US global aims 5 (46.40) Venezuela and RCP fantasy 6 (54.55) Police brutality 7 (57.00) Fascist demo and left response to immigration 8 (60.35) 'Overtourism': sold a dream 9 (62.45) Trans rights and our minimum programme

OCF 21-7-24 by CPGB-PCC

1 France: original popular front and its government 2 (25.15) Reaction to latest popular front 3 (39.10) This time around following French election results 4 (49.50) USA: Trump assassination attempt; and threat from the state

OCF 7-7-24: The UK General Election 2024 by CPGB-PCC

1 Biden/Trump - whatever next? 2 (10.00) UK elections: competing anti-migrant reactionaries 3 (19.40) Moving right across the board 4 (30.20) Polls and the left 5 (35.00) France: as in the UK, rightward shift 6 (44.50) Netanyahu's top war aim: a Greater Israel 7 (56.40) Starvation and genocide 8 (59.45) Iran: regime unchallenged

1 Election campaign: Tory disaster 2 (10.30) Farage on Ukraine: media outcry 3 (16.45) Lebanon: Israel's second front? 4 (18.10) France: bourgeois deal with National Rally? 5 (20.35) Workers Party: highly critical support

1 Biden 'plan for Gaza': more concerned about presidential election 2 (16.35) Starmer and Palestine: keeping in line with the US 3 (18.45) General election: Labour and the left 4 (30.40) Tories and Reform UK: where next? 5 (39.20) International move to the right 6 (53.55) South Africa: SACP has totally abandoned working class principles 6 (57.10) Ukraine: breakthrough nowhere in sight

Sima Asvadi - Thinking through Artificial Intelligence by CPGB-PCC

1 General election: Tories' disastrous start 2 (13.20) National service: desperate stuff! 3 (24.00) Migration and small boats: workers' organisation needed 4 (26.40) Other election issues 5 (35.05) Vote left if you can; make demands on Labour left candidates 6 (50.45) Sparts: 'frustrating' 7 (56.05) Gaza: ICC and ICJ reactions 8 (57.50) Ukraine: still a proxy US war? 9 (61.20) Climate: beyond huma...

1 London demonstration: further clampdown on the cards 2 (8.25) Israeli split: permanent occupation of Gaza? 3 (20.40) Steve Freeman's delusional 'solution' 4 (34.55) Ukraine: military incompetence 5 (43.20) Corbyn: where is the anti-Starmer movement? 6 (49.30) Starmer: 'ocean apart' from the Tories? 7 (52.30) SWP: new internal procedure?

OCF 12-5-24 by CPGB-PCC

General election 2024 and communist perspectives - discussion and debate between the Spartacist League and the CPGB

OCF 28-3-24 by CPGB-PCC

OCF 14-4-24 by CPGB-PCC

1 Gaza: 'sympathy' and hypocrisy 2 (19.22) Labour resignations and 'bullying' 3 (23.32) Thames Water: wreckage from the failure of privatisation 4 (28.47) Global warming: dismal capitalist failure 5 (34.22) 'Anti-hate legislation': defend free speech 6 (40.07) Anti-Semitism and CPB: joining in pro-Zionist propaganda