Working Class School of Politics Discussion Class

dublin | anti-capitalism | event notice Wednesday September 03, 2008 18:32 by Dexter - CYM

The Connolly Youth Movement's "Working Class School of Politics" is launching another course starting this coming Monday 8th of September at 6pm in Connolly Bookshop, East Essex Street, Temple Bar. Classes taking place every two weeks.

The theme of this course is Imperialism and Anti-Imperialist Struggle.

The nature of Imperialism as a system is increasingly important to study and understand with recent developments in Europe, former Yugoslavia and far east bringing it to the fore in young peoples minds, whether realising it or not. Concrete analysis and strategy must be our goal.

Class 1 - Marxist Analysis of Imperialism
Suggested reading is Chp 7 of Lenin’s Imperialism: The Highest State of Capitalism (1916)

Class 2 - Connolly on Imperialism and Freedom
Suggested reading is an article by Connolly entitled Socialism and Nationalism (1897)

Class 3 - Anti-Imperialist Struggle
Suggested reading is an article entitled African Socialism Revisited (1967) by Kwame Nkrumah

Class 4 - Nature of Imperialism Today
Suggested reading is an article entitled Empire of Barbarism (2004) by Foster and Clarke printed in Monthly Review

Class 5 - The European Union, An Imperialist Entity
Suggested reading for this class is policy statements from both the Communist Party of Ireland and the Greek Communist Party. The General Secretary of the CPI, Eugene Mc Carten, will present at this class.

For more information or for the texts mentioned above, contact:
Gareth Murphy
CYM Gen. Sec.
connollyyouth@hotmail.com
087-7540547