<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[the commune]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://thecommune.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[internationalcommunist]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://thecommune.wordpress.com/author/internationalcommunist/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[tonight&#8217;s london reading group on communist&nbsp;organisation]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>The last in our current series of London reading groups on &#8216;communism from below&#8217; will take place on Monday 13th July from 7pm at the Artillery Arms, 102 Bunhill Row, near Old Street station. It is on the subject of &#8216;communist organisation today&#8217;. We will be discussing the issues:</p>
<p>&#8211; Can communists with different ideas and perspectives co-exist in the same organisation? Is &#8216;forgetting our differences&#8217; and &#8216;leaving past baggage at the door&#8217; a precondition of left unity?<br />
&#8211; Should we organise for specifically communist positions, or establish a broader &#8216;left&#8217; presence filling some of the political space abandoned by Labour?<br />
&#8211; Should we concentrate on propaganda and ideological struggle, or workplace and community activism&#8230; or can we integrate both?<br />
&#8211; What useful role can communists play in solidarising with resistance to the recession?<!--more--></p>
<p>The recommended reading includes <a href="https://thecommune.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/drapersectism.doc"> this section</a> of Hal Draper&#8217;s <em>Anatomy of the Micro-sec</em>t &#8211; <a href="https://thecommune.wordpress.com/2008/09/05/hal-draper-anatomy-of-the-micro-sect/">(click here to read his work in full</a>) as well as the section <a href="https://thecommune.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/buildinglefttoday1.doc">&#8216;building a revolutionary socialist left today</a>&#8216; of an article on organisation by Solidarity USA <a href="http://www.solidarity-us.org/sot">(click here to read in full)</a></p>
<p>All welcome. Email uncaptiveminds@gmail.com for more info or to be sent printed copies of the texts. See map of the venue below.</p>
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