Marx 101, Monday 7th January 6pm @ 108 Cromer Street, Camden Town,

Marx 101, Monday 7th January 6pm @ Firebox, 108 Cromer Street, Camden Town,

Marx 101 is a series of short introductory courses for new activists who want to use the Marxist tradition in the fight for change

To change the world, we have to understand it. Our rulers want to keep things as they are, so the mass media offers disjointed bits of random information which don’t show how the system as a whole works.

Marxists have been working to understand the capitalist system since the 1840s. They have created a set of ideas designed to explain the world and provide activists with a guide to action.

Marx 101 is a series of short introductory courses for new activists who want to use the Marxist tradition in the fight for change.

The new series will look at three sets of ideas embodied in three classic texts. State and Revolution is about why we need revolution. The Mass Strike is about the kind of movement we need to achieve it. And Left-wing Communism is a critique of activists who prefer slogans and stunts to building mass movements.

Each session will include introductory lecture, workshop session, and plenary discussion. Join us, and start learning Marxism – the theory and practice of anti-capitalist revolution. All welcome.

Organised by Counterfire at Firebox

Marx 101: January 2012:

Lenin’s State and Revolution

Introduced by Neil Faulkner

Monday 7 January

Rosa Luxemburg’s The Mass Strike

Introduced by Alastair Stephens

Monday 14 January

Lenin’s Left-wing Communism

Introduced by Elaine Graham-Leigh

Monday 21 January

Time: start 6pm prompt and finish 8pm latest.

Place: Downstairs, Firebox, 106-108 Cromer Street, WC1

Food and drink available before start of meeting.