REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALISM VERSUS LEFT-WING REFORMISM -- AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT
Saturday 17 November 11am - 4.30pm Friends House, 173 Euston Rd, NW1, (opposite station) 11-12.15 Labouring in Vain - a brief history of Labour Party reformism 1.15-2.30 Leninism in Practice - The Russian Revolution 2.45-4.15 The Socialist Party - a History of No Compromise ALL WELCOME -- ADMISSION FREE 020 7622 3811 www.worldsocialism.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] LABOURING IN VAIN - Everyone from Roy Hattersley to Tony Benn berate Blair's New Government for abandoning the founding principles of the Labour Party and the wider Labour movement. Darren O'Neil, in giving a brief history of the Labour Party, details the continuous thread running all throuhg the history of the Labour Party; from MacDonald to Blair, from Snowden to Brown, a Party commited to the smooth running of capitalism. LENINISM IN PRACTICE - The recent "anti-globalisation demos around the world have seen the reappearance of "vanguardist chic", with T-Shirts and banners reviving Che Guevara and Mao Tse-Tung as icons of the revolution. Ten years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and eighty years after Krondstadt, Rob Worden will speak on the October Revolution, an historical example of Leninism in practice. THE SOCIALIST PARTY - Dick Donnely, speaking on the history of the Socialist Party, reveals that thin red line of revolutionary socialism which consistently gone beyond the elitism of Leninism and the dead end sterility of Labourism. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
