The next open discussion meeting of the Midlands Discussion Forum will be 2-6pm at 'The Woodman' pub, New Canal Street (next to the parkway at the Curzon St end), Birmingham, B5 5LG, (15min walk from New Street or Moor Street Station)
The headline title is 'Corbynism, Anarchism and the Left - Something New or Something old?' and will try to look at the apparent 'anti-austerity change of mood' amongst many workers as reflected in the improved Labour Party vote and street anger following the Grenfell tower disaster but with a still persisting low level of effective collective class struggle.
To help the discussion along maybe read these short texts beforehand;
http://libcom.org/blog/anarcho-corbynism-support-labour-09062017 and an anarchist criticism of it here:
https://nothingiseverlost.wordpress.com/2017/06/12/scattered-thoughts-on-anarcho-corbynism-abstracto-communism-and-unconvincing-arguments/
Other arguments against supporting and voting Labour are collected here;
http://libcom.org/library/arguments-against-jeremy-corbyn-labour-party
All welcome.
I could also add this
I could also add this secondary text which although overly 'wordy', and needing to reinforce it's arguments by reference to the authors extensive academic reading list!, does make some interesting points along the way and reminds us that Corbynism seems to have inspired discussion beyond UK shores :
http://libcom.org/blog/are-we-all-corbynistas-now-16062017
And there are a few good points made in the introduction to this;
http://libcom.org/blog/solidarity-networks-class-organisation-times-labour-hallucinations-24062017
Bump: Next Saturday 15th. see
Bump: Next Saturday 15th. see above for details.
How did it go?
How did it go?
Well fair to say that it was
Well fair to say that it was very poorly attended compared to most of our previous meetings in the recent past due in part to some unavoidable absences of a number of otherwise regular supporters - so just 5 of us including 2 newer attendees, but everyone contributed to a lively discussion which still lasted 3.5 hours!