06.08.2026

Communist University 2026

See the full timetable for the CPGB's annual school.

For registration details and timetable updates, visit: https://www.communistuniversity.uk/timetable

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 Will AI save capitalism?
with Michael Roberts

3.30-5.30pm Lenin and the current double crisis of capitalism and labour. A long view
with Marcel van der Linden

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 Boudens, 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