Uncaptive Minds Discussion Forum
Twenty Years after the “Collapse of
Communism”
legacy, lessons, towards an emancipitory communism for
the 21st Century
Twenty years ago a revolutionary wave on the scale of 1848 and 1919 swept
across Eastern Europe and the
What happened to the radical ideals of the freedom movements of workers and intellectuals which challenged the old regimes, which called for workers self-management, and end to all forms of oppression and alienation, which opposed the ruling bureaucracy and the restoration of capitalism. The legacy of totalitarian “communism” still hangs over us all; amidst the worse crisis of capitalism in decades there remains a real crisis of confidence in a viable alternative to this system.
Did communism really collapse? Can we develop a vision of an emancipatory communism in the 21st century? Uncaptive Minds is hosting a forum to address these questions, speakers are:
Marko
Bojcun, a writer and a leading activist in the collectives which
published the journals Dialoh and META which stood for “democracy and
socialism in an independent
Allan
Armstrong is a member of the National Council of the
Scottish Socialist Party and is a member of the Republican Communist Network, a
platform of the SSP.
Chris Kane, is a member of The Commune, he was a solidarity
activist with workers in the Eastern Bloc in the 1980’s and writes on Ukrainian
labour history and politics.
Thursday 25th June 7:00 PM
Artillery Arms