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Manchester Class Struggle Forum #6 - Class Struggle In China
The next meeting of the Manchester Class Struggle Forum will take place on the subject of class struggle in China.
Recent years have seen a rise in class conflict in China, as workers in "the sweatshop of the world" become increasingly confident in asserting their demands against an authoritarian state, multinational corporations, and servile trade unions. We will be discussing the implications of these developments, and what lessons we can draw from them for the future.
Manchester Class Struggle Forum: Anarcho-Syndicalism
The next meeting of the Manchester Class Struggle Forum will be on the subject of Anarcho-Syndicalism.
What is anarcho-syndicalism? How do anarcho-syndicalist unions differ from existing workers' organisations? Do anarcho-syndicalist strategies have any value in 21st Century Britain, or are they 80 years out of date and several countries out of place? Or are anarcho-syndicalist strategies the tool we need to fight back in a period of savage cuts and declining living standards?
Manchester Class Struggle Forum #4 - The Organisation Question
The next Manchester Class Struggle Forum will host a forum on the organisation question.
Some things to consider:
- Do we need a party?
- Centralism vs Federalism, what do we mean by centralism?
- What kind of party? Mass? Vanguard? Substitutionist?
- Role of the party.
- Basis for Unity.
Stimulating literature:
'The Commune, Paris 1871', published in Solidarity and jointly written by Philippe Guillaume - http://www.marxists.org/archive/brinton/1961/05/paris-commune.htm
Manchester Class Struggle Forum #3 - National Liberation and Internationalism
The third Manchester Class Struggle Forum will host a discussion on national liberation and internationalism, with a lead off from the World Revolution group.
From the IRA, MPLA and the Viet Minh, to Hezbollah, Hamas and the Tamil Tigers. All these anti-working class groups received support from a number of leftist in the 20th and 21st Centuries.
Manchester Class Struggle Forum #2 - Class struggle and trade unions
The second Manchester Class Struggle Forum will host a discussion on trade unions, trade unionism and class struggle.
After the collapse of the global financial bubble, the working class is being made to pay. In Britain workers have started to fight back, in the form of a series of strikes and workplace occupations. There are stories in the media warning of a return to 'union power', but what does this mean and is it a good thing for the working class?
First forum: Elections and revolutionary politics
The first meeting of the Manchester Class Struggle Forum takes place on Wednesday the 24th of February.
The meeting will take place at the Friends Meeting House in Manchester City Centre, from 7-9 p.m.
Who We Are
The Manchester Class Struggle Forum is an open coming together of workers, students and unemployed persons from different backgrounds and class struggle political tendencies in the North West - Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire. It is a meeting place open to all who wish to discuss and debate political questions from radical perspectives in a friendly atmosphere.
