Timetable
please note that the timetable might change - keep checking back
Saturday August 8
1-3pm Panel: How to get to the mass Communist Party we need?
Mike Macnair (CPGB), Roxy Hall (Communist Unity, Australia) ,
J.Levi (Communist Platform, Netherlands), Matthew Campbell-Strupp (Marxist Unity Group, USA)
3:30-5.30pm Should we support ‘degrowth communism’?
with Ted Reese
6-7pm Culture: Launch of the Diderot Gesellschaft Movement
Sunday August 9
10am-12noon Iran war and revolutionary defencism
with Yassamine Mather
1-3pm What’s wrong with identity politics?
with Roxy Hall
3.30-5.30pm Socialist Alliance, Your Party, Green Party: why history keeps repeating itself
with Tina Becker and Marcus Strom
6-7pm Culture: Darko Days 1: A sprechgesang exploration of Darko's recent essay on the legendary solidarity song O Bella Ciao.
Monday August 10
10am-12noon Ireland: the rise of right wing nationalism, Sinn Fein and the collapse of PBP’s left government strategy
with Anne McShane
1-3pm Lenin and the current double crisis of capitalism and labour. A long view
with Marcel van Der Linden
3.30-5.30pm Will AI save capitalism?
with Michael Roberts
6-7pm Culture: Hegelian Alienation in Glasgow Spirit & Opium
Tuesday August 11
10am-12noon 'How to Make a Revolution: The Organisational Resources that Overthrew Landlordism in Ireland', with Marc Mulholland
1-3pm Combatting social-imperialism and social-pacifism and the demand for a workers’ militia
Floris B, Communist Platform (Netherlands) and Marcus Strom
3.30-5.30pm Can workers benefit from the exploitation of other workers? Colonial profits and unequal exchange in historical perspective
with Marcel van der Linden
6-7pm Culture: William Burroughs Caught in Possession of the Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Metabolic Rift
WednesdayAugust 12
10am-12noon Socialism, virtue and Alasdair MacIntyre
with Paul Demarty
1-3pm Why just getting rid of capitalism will not save the planet
with Jack Conrad
3.30-5.30pm Can geo-engineering save the planet?
with Bill McGuire
6-7pm Culture: Dramatised reading of Bill Mcguire's social science fiction short story ‘The Fix exploring the potential horrors of geo-engineering’
with Bill McGuire
Thursday August 13
10am-12noon Climate crisis: past, present and future
with Bill McGure
1-3pm USSR: a Marxist post-mortem
with Jack Conrad
3.30-5.30pm Who's working class and why does it matter strategically?
with Vincent David, Spartacist League and Mike Macnair (CPGB)
6-7pm Culture: Darko Days 2: Presentation of poetry & parables by Darko Suvin & fragments of his Brecht.
Friday August 14
10am-12noon The Revolutionary Origins of Language
with Chris Knight, Radical Anthropology Group
1-3pm Chomsky and Epstein
with Chris Knight, Radical Anthropology Group
3.30- 5.30pm Prometheus bound by Aeschylus- reading of the play and debate - patron saint or menstrual male like Jesus?
Camilla Power, Radical Anthropology Group
6pm No culture event
Saturday August 15
10am-12noon The Zionist colonisation project: where is it heading?
with Moshé Machover
1-3pm Why no platforming and speech control strengthen the right
with Mike Macnair (CPGB)
3pm CU evaluation
What is Communist University?
CU is different from the run-of-the-mill schools put on by other left groups, in that plenty of time is allocated to contributions from the floor. Controversial debate is positively welcomed and, needless to say, there are no one-minute time limits. Moreover, critical thinking is encouraged.
This year, many of the sessions will look at the difficult situation the left finds itself in after the implosion of Jeremy Corbyn’s Your Party. We will also discuss the climate catastrophe and the programme communists should adopt. Other sessions will look at the situation in the Middle East and every evening, there will be a cultural programme.
The full timetable is coming very soon! Keep on checking back
If you cannot be there in person, but still want to tune in, register here to join via Zoom: https://tinyurl.com/Communist-University-2026