October 2024 events
Some Socialist Party meetings/talks/discussions are online via Jitsi, and some are in-person. Certain branch and committee meetings are held on Discord. Please contact spgb.discord@worldsocialism.org for instructions on how to join Discord.
Our general discussion meetings are held on Zoom. To connect to a Zoom meeting, click https://zoom.us/j/7421974305 (or type the address into your browser address field). Then wait to be admitted to the meeting.
Details of EC and branch business meetings can be found here
WORLD SOCIALIST MOVEMENT ONLINE MEETINGS
Friday 4 October 19.30 (GMT + 1)
DID YOU SEE THE NEWS? (Zoom)
Discussion of recent subjects in the news.
CAPITALISM AND THE GRENFELL TOWER FIRE (Zoom)
Speaker: Anthony Thomas
REFLECTIONS ON GEORGES SOREL (Zoom)
Speaker: Joe White
Talk on Georges Sorel (1847-1922), the French revolutionary syndicalist thinker.
Saturday 26 October 10.30 to 17.00 (GMT +1)
OCTOBER PLANNING MEETING (Hybrid)
Hybrid meeting to discuss Party activities in 2025 (see physical meetings below).
Sunday 27 October 12.30 (GMT)
North East Branch members meeting via Zoom
Friday 1 November 19.30 (GMT)
BIG TECH AND THE STATE (Zoom)
Speaker: Piers Hobson
Despite all the artificial intelligence, corporations bigger than states, and assertions of ‘technofeudalism’ replacing capitalism, the capitalist still seeks to maximise profits by exploitation and the state still acts as the executive committee of the whole capitalist class.
SOCIALIST PARTY IN-PERSON MEETINGS
LONDON
Saturday 26 October
OCTOBER PLANNING MEETING 10.30 to 17.00.
This is a meeting of all Party members to discuss activities in 2025. Following a Conference resolution carried this year, it replaces the Autumn Delegate Meeting. It will be a meeting of Party members, not of Branch delegates, so anyone can attend and speak and vote as of right. It will be a hybrid meeting, held in person at Head Office and online over Zoom. As for all our meetings it is open to non-members.
Socialist Party Head Office, 52 Clapham High Street, London SW4 7UN. Nearest tube: Clapham North. Nearest rail station: Clapham High Street.
Daunted by the prospect of reading Marx on economics? This mini-series might be for you. It’s an introduction to key aspects of capitalist economics, so no previous knowledge necessary.
Using a free study document (PDF) of 9,500 words, the series will not be ‘taught’. You will need to read a section of the document before each session and bring any questions or observations to the group.
Depending on progress, we expect the group to run over 4 evenings only, so it isn’t a huge commitment.
Starts Wednesday 17 October at 7.30pm. All welcome.
To attend, send an email to spgb.asstsec@worldsocialism.org, using the subject line: ‘How capitalism works’
Cardiff Street Stall
Every Saturday 1 – 3pm
Capitol Shopping Centre
Queen Street (Newport Road end)
Weather permitting
Alan joined the Edinburgh Branch in 1970 while a teenager and rejoined in 2003. Before his retirement he worked for Royal Mail and was an active member of the Communication Workers Union.
If anyone has any information about him or his whereabouts could they please get in touch with us.