Audio index 2010-2019

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‘NEWSRAID’ ELECTION BROADCAST (16 mins)
Election broadcast aired in the London area
Date: 28th April 2010 Party speaker is Danny Lambert


INTERVIEW ON V-RADIO (120 mins)
Venus Project-inspired ‘V RADIO’ interview with Paddy Shannon
Date: May 17, 2010


SLUMS AND SLUMPS (24 mins)
Manchester branch meeting
Date: 26th July 2010 Speaker – Paul Bennett


MARX AND ECONOMICS (28 mins)
From the Party dayschool – ‘Marx: A Vision for Today’
Venue: Head Office
Date: 17th September 2011
Speaker: Darren Poynton
Pt 2 (31 mins)
Pt 3 (34 mins)


BANKS AND BANKING SERVICES (52 mins)
Glasgow branch meeting
Date: 16th November 2011
Speaker: Vic Vanni


CAPITALIST PROPAGANDA AND THE MASS MEDIA (49 mins)
Venue: Head Office
Date: 15th January, 2012
Speaker: Rob Worden
Pt 2 (49 mins)


SECRETS OF THE FINANCIAL WORLD (37 mins)
Glasgow branch meeting
Date: 15th February 2012
Speaker: Vic Vanni


Z-DAY 2012 (33 mins)
Venue: Cardiff
Date: 11th March 2012
Speaker: Adam Buick
(See the video here)


BEYOND THE GLASS CEILING (33 mins)
Venue: Head Office
Date: 18th March 2012
Speaker: Pat Deutz
Pt 2 (47 mins)


CAPITALISM – AN UNHEALTHY OPTION (52 mins)
Venue: Hotel Nelson, Norwich
Date: 31st March 2012
Speaker: Dick Field
Pt 2 (27 mins)
Pt 3 (53 mins)
Pt 4 (54 mins)


CRITIQUE OF ‘MONEY AS DEBT’ (37 mins)
The meeting was titled ‘Myths About Money and Banking’. The film ‘Money as Debt’ was shown, and these files are a mix of discussion from both before and after the film.
Venue: Hotel Nelson, Norwich
Date: 21st April 2012
Speaker: Adam Buick
Pt 2 (36 mins)
Pt 3 (30 mins)


MARXISM, PHYSICS AND PHILOSOPHY (33 mins)
Venue: Head Office
Date: 13th May, 2012
Speaker: Mike Foster
Pt 2 (38 mins)
Pt 3 (34 mins)


BRITISH TROTSKYISM – SONS OF THE PROPHET (42 mins)
Venue: Head Office, London
Date: 27th May 2012
Speaker: Keith Scholey
Pt 2 (46 mins)


THE SECRETS OF THE INCA (35 mins)
Venue: Head Office, London
Date: 24th June 2012
Speaker: Bill Martin
Pt 2 (42 mins)


THE CASE FOR SOCIALISM (46 mins)
Venue: Caxton House Community Centre, London
Date: 24th July 2012
Speaker: Bill Martin


THE CURSE OF RELIGION (58 mins)
Glasgow Branch meeting
Date: 15th August 2012
Speaker: John Cumming


MARTOV’S CRITICISM OF BOLSHEVISM (20 mins)
Fringe meeting at the CPGB’s ‘Communist University 2012’
Venue: Catford, London SE6 2TP
Date: 23rd August 2012
Speaker: Adam Buick
Pt 2 (33 mins)
Pt 3 (28 mins)


MARX, MYTH AND MONEY (40 mins)
Venue: The Nelson, Norwich
Date: 15th September 2012
Speaker: Pat Deutz
Pt 2 (37 mins)
Pt 3 (43 mins)


THE TORY PARTY (40 mins)
Venue: Maryhill Community Halls, Glasgow
Date: 19th September 2012
Speaker: Vic Vanni


PROUDHON’S PIPE DREAM AND OTHER FAIRY TALES (37 mins)
Venue: Head Office
Date: 28th October 2012
Speaker: Steve Clayton
Pt 2 (31 mins)


WHY NOT UTOPIA? (54 mins)
A discussion forum with Barbara Goodwin (Professor of Politics, U.E.A.) and Pat Deutz (SPGB)
Venue: Norwich (East Anglia Branch meeting)
Date: 10th November 2012
Pt 2 (37 mins)
Pt 3 (37 mins)


UNPATRIOTIC HISTORY OF THE 2ND WORLD WAR (24 mins)
Venue: Head Office
Date: 11th November 2012 Guest
Speaker: James Heartfield (heartfield.org)
Pt 2 (29 mins)
Pt 3 (35 mins)


WILL THERE BE AN ECONOMIC COLLAPSE? (31 mins)
Debate between Federico Pistono, (Zeitgeist Movement) and Clifford Slapper (SPGB)
Venue: Head Office
Date: 10th March 2013
Pt 2 (37 mins)
Pt 3 (44 mins)
Pt 4 (48 mins)


MARX THE ANTHROPOLOGIST (46 mins)
Venue: Head Office
Date: 21st April 2013
Speaker: Brian Morris
Pt 2 (41 mins)


UKIP – ARE THEY THE BNP IN BLAZERS? (57 mins)
Venue: West London branch meeting, Chiswick Town Hall
Date: 4th June 2013
Speaker: Steve Clayton


BRITISH COMMUNISM (37 mins)
Venue: Head Office
Date: 30th June 2013
Speaker: Keith Scholey
An outline the history of the Communist Party of Great Britain, its origins (ultimately in the Social Democratic Federation), plus a brief survey of British anti-revisionism (‘Maoism’) and other groups closely allied to the Communist Party.
Pt 2 (38 mins)
Pt 3 (32 mins)


THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION IN RETREAT 1920-24 (38 mins)
Venue: Head Office
Date: 21st July 2013 Guest
Speaker: Simon Pirani
Pt 2 (61 mins)


WHAT IS GOING ON IN SYRIA? (53 mins)
West London branch meeting
Date: 20th August 2013
Speaker: Steve Clayton


EHUD’S DAGGER: CLASS STRUGGLE AND THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION (48 mins)
Venue: Head Office
Date: 3rd November 2013
Speaker: Rob Worden
Pt 2 (37 mins)


ROSA LUXEMBURG (52 mins)
Sunday, 19 January 2014
Speaker: Pat Deutz


DEBATE WITH PETER TATCHELL (41 mins)
What Are We Going to do About Capitalism?
Public Debate with Peter Tatchell SPGB – Clifford Slapper
Venue: Conway Hall, London
Date: 5th March 2014
Pt 2 (39 mins)
Pt 3 (39 mins)


AN INDEPENDENT UK OR A SOCIALIST WORLD? (47 mins)
Debate between Elizabeth Jones (UKIP) and Bill Martin (SPGB)
Venue: Head Office
Date: 26th March 2014
Pt 2 (47 mins)


WHAT’S WRONG WITH UTOPIA? (50 mins)
Venue: Head Office
Date: 30th March 2014
Speaker: Glenn Morris
Pt 2 (36 mins)


2014 EUROPEAN ELECTIONS – BBC RADIO WALES INTERVIEW
Brian Johnson interviewed on BBC Radio Wales, May 2014


DOSTOYEVSKY (54 mins)
‘The Real 19th Century Prophet was Dostoyevsky, not Karl Marx: Why Socialists Should Read Dostoyevsky’
Venue: Head Office
Date: 1st June 2014
Guest Speaker: Dave Flynn
Pt 2 (31 mins)
Pt 3 (35 mins)


THE LEFT AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR (61 mins)
Venue: Head Office
Date: 17th August 2014
Speaker: Keith Scholey
Pt 2 (31 mins)
The discussion part of the recording was unfortunately cut short


THE NOT-SO-GREAT WAR (49 mins)
Glasgow branch meeting
Date: 20th August 2014
Speaker: John Cumming

ECONOMICS, WAR AND RELIGION

SOCIALISM AND RELIGION – THE ILLUSORY HAPPINESS OF THE PEOPLE (55 mins)
Day School – What we say about Economics, War and Religion
Venue: Head Office
Date: 27th September 2014
Speaker: Steve Clayton
Pt 2 (25 mins)

WHY WARS HAPPEN (35 mins)
Day School – What we say about Economics, War and Religion
Venue: Head Office
Date: 27th September 2014
Speaker: Howard Moss
Pt 2 (28 mins)

HAVE YOU READ PIKETTY? (62 mins)
Venue: Head Office
Date: 19th October 2014
Speaker: Adam Buick

ELECTIONS

ELECTION CAMPAIGN WORKSHOP
In preparation for next year’s General Election
Venue: Head Office
Date: 26th October 2014
Chaired by Rob Cox

ELECTION CAMPAIGN – MOCK INTERVIEW (47 mins)
Part of the Election Campaign Workshop held at Head Office
Date: 26th October 2014
Speakers: Dave Perrin with Danny Lambert


LESSONS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR (29 mins)
Venue: Martlets Hall, Burgess Hill
Date: 9th November 2014
Speaker: Steve Clayton
Pt 2 (42 mins)


WAR WITHOUT END: THE UKRAINE, GAZA AND ISIS (51 mins)
West London branch meeting
Chiswick Town Hall, London 2014
Speaker: Steve Clayton


SOCIALISTS AND FRACKING (40 mins)
Date: 23rd November 2014
Speakers: Steve Clayton and Adam Buick
Pt 2 (39 mins)


RADICAL FEMINISM AND COMMUNISM (33 mins)
Venue: Head Office
Date: 1st February 2015
Speaker: Johnny Mercer
Pt 2 (32 mins)


BEGINNERS’ GUIDE TO ECONOMIC CRISES (36 mins)
North London branch meeting
Venue: Torriano Meeting House, London
Date: 19th February 2015
Speaker: Bill Martin
Pt 2 (34 mins)


WHAT THE CONSPIRACY THEORIES AREN’T TELLING YOU (26 mins)
Public meeting at Head Office
Date: 22nd February 2015
Guest speaker, Edmund Griffiths – Communist Corresponding Society (Oxford)
Pt 2 (63 mins)


THE BIGGEST FESTIVAL OF THE 19TH CENTURY: LIFE IN THE PARIS COMMUNE (33 mins)
Venue: Chiswick Town Hall
Date: 17 March, 2015
Speaker: Steve Clayton


WILLIAM BLAKE: THE VISIONARY REVOLUTIONARY (49 mins)
Venue: Head Office
Date: 29th March 2015
Speaker: Steve Clayton
Pt 2 (32 mins)


VAUXHALL ELECTION RALLY (2015) (46 mins)
‘Vauxhall Election Rally’ at Head Office, London
Venue: Head Office
Date: 26th April 2015 Introduction by Steve Clayton
Speaker: Danny Lambert


DEMOCRACY: WHAT IT IS AND WHAT IT AIN’T (42 mins)
Venue: Head Office
Date: 17 May 2015
Speaker: Richard Headicar
Pt 2 (44 mins)


SOCIALISM AND SUDOKU (37 mins)
Venue: Head Office
Date: 31st May, 2015
Speaker – Bill Martin
Pt 2 (22 mins)


TTIP – TRANSATLANTIC TRADE AND INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP (52 mins)
Lambeth Socialist Group (Head Office)
Date: 25th June, 2015
Speaker: Steve Clayton


THE FAILURE OF CAPITALIST PRODUCTION: POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE GREAT RECESSION (59 mins)
Venue: Head Office
Date: 5th July, 2015
Guest Speaker: Andrew Kliman (Marxist-Humanist Initiative)
Pt 2 (67 mins)


WHAT BECAME OF LABOUR’S ‘SOCIALISM’? (42 mins)
Venue: Head Office
Date: 19th July 2015
Speaker: Pat Deutz
Pt 2 (27 mins)


FRACKING: THE METABOLIC RIFT WITH NATURE (22 mins)
Lambeth Socialist Group discussion.
Date: 27 August 2015
Speaker: Steve Clayton
Note: the start of the talk was not recorded due to technical problems.
Pt 2 (41 mins)


THE ECONOMIC CALCULATION ARGUMENT (27 mins)
‘The Economic Calculation Argument: Baron von Mises’s Case Against Socialism’
Date: 27th September 2015
Speaker: Adam Buick
Pt 2 (47 mins)


FRACKING – THE METABOLIC RIFT WITH NATURE (18 mins)
Meeting in Norwich
Date: 17 October 2015
Speaker: Steve Clayton


ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE HUMAN SUBJECT (39 mins)
Head Office, London
15th November 2015
Guest Speaker: Brian Morris
Pt 2 (34 mins)


CHARTISM, WORKING CLASS POLITICS AND LEADERSHIP (39 mins)
Head Office
Date: 6th March, 2016
Speaker: Colin Skelly
Pt 2 (27 mins)


HOW CAN WE OPPOSE THE TRADE UNION BILL? (51 mins)
Debate between Tosh McDonald (ASLEF, and Labour Party member) and Bill Martin (SPGB)
Venue: The Brewery Tap, Doncaster
Date: Saturday, 30th April 2016
Pt 2 (37 mins)
Pt 3 (38 mins)


FALLING STATUES AND SAFE SPACES (24 mins)
‘The ‘right’ not to be offended, as a threat to free expression…’
Head Office, London
Date: 5th June 2016
Guest Speaker: Ed Griffiths (Oxford Communist Corresponding Society)
Pt 2 (36 mins)


THE EU REFERENDUM CAMPAIGN: LIES AND COUNTER-LIES (22 mins)
Venue: Head Office
Date: 19th June 2016
Speakers: Adam Buick and Bill Martin
Pt 2 (20 mins)
Pt 3 (49 mins)

‘OUR WORLD OR NO WORLD!’ SYSTEM CHANGE, NOT CLIMATE CHANGE’

North London branch day school held at the MayDay Rooms, London – November 9th, 2019
Unfortunately the meeting room was poorly situated and the audio is affected by the ‘Lord Mayor’s Parade’ taking place outside. This particularly affects the first two talks.

1. ‘Flat Earthers Against Global Warming: How, When and Why to Debate Climate Change’ (54 mins)
Speaker: Bill Martin

2. ‘Reuse, Recycle, Revolt: why tokenism is not a class act’ (52 mins)
Speaker: Paddy Shannon
(Roughly 14 mins to 21 mins is especially bad quality)

3. ‘Hot Planet, Cool Media: Environmental Discourse in the Digital Age’ (48 mins)
Speaker: Stephen Harper

4. ‘A Utopian Vision?’ (44 mins)
Speaker: Glenn Morris


2019 PLATYPUS DISCUSSION PANEL

DEMOCRACY AND THE LEFT (1hr 58 mins)
Panel discussion hosted by Platypus Goldsmiths, (Platypus Affiliated Society)
Date: 28th March 2019
Panel:

  • Marj Mayo
  • James Heartfield
  • Adam Buick (SPGB) – from 26:30 mins to 39:17 mins
  • Benjamin Studebaker