Dear friends and
comrades,
Uncaptive Minds
Discussion Forum
Twenty Years after the “Collapse of
Communism” legacy, lessons, towards an ecamcipatory communism for the
21 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 The meeting is on Thursday 25th June from 7pm at the Artillery Arms, 102 Bunhill Row, near London’s Old Street station (map below) The Commune - for workers' self-management and communism from below |