Danny Hammill reports on the CPGB’s summer school where also a Marxist Center editorial board member was present.

We can work it out

For this year’s Communist University, the CPGB returned to the same pleasant south London venue – aviary and all.

Of course, we call our pedagogical event a university quite deliberately. Not in order to be pretentious or elitist, but simply to denote a certain seriousness about our attitude to education. Despite our obvious limitations as a small group, we aim to raise the bar high when it comes to political education and culture in general. Unfortunately, this is not something that can be said about most of the left in Britain – which at best tends to treat its membership as mere sheep to be trained rather than educated as self-confident cadre. Read the rest of this entry →