Preparing for Power 1989
Front cover of Preparing for Power, published by the Revolutionary Communist Party in 1989.
Preparing for Power was published by the Revolutionary Communist Party. It was used to highlight a week of 'discussion and debate about the current state of the world and how to change it.' The event ran from 21 - 28 July 1989 and was held at the University of London.[1] The full document can be viewed on Scribd.
Speakers / Schedule
- Friday 21 July
- Registration. A choice of sessions starting at 8pm including 'An absolute beginner's guide to the RCP'.
- Saturday 22 July
- Morning: Opening plenary 10.30am. 1789-1989: Hard-learned lessons for today.
- Afternoon: Various workshops and debates on key issues of British and international politics:
- Designer Capitalism
- Agenda for women's liberation
- Britain's Secret State
- Freedom and the individual
- The Greening of British politics
- Workers and their unions
- Peace breaks out? Angola, Afghanistan, Kampuchea
- Is fascism a threat?
- Ireland: 20 years of resistance
- What is a revolution?
- Ten years of Thatcherism
- The Bush presidency
- 1992 made simple
- Armenia erupts
- What about the British left?
- Inside South Africa
- Sunday 23 July - Thursday 27 July
- Morning: Specialist courses running from Sunday to Thursday:
- Frank Richards - Introduction to Marxism
- Mike Freeman - Social movement and class politics
- John Gibson - Marxism and the environment
- Daniel Nassim - Imperialism in the nineties
- Joan Phillips - New thinking and Marxism
- Alan Harding - The French Revolution and its legacy
- Tony Kennedy - The making of Marx's Capital
- Charles Longford - The Irish War for non-beginners
- Afternoon: Specialist courses running from Sunday to Thursday:
- Anne Burton - Women's oppression and liberation
- Phil Murphy - An introduction to the Irish War
- Kenan Malik - The roots of racism
- John Fitzpatrick - Marxism and culture
- Helen Simons - Issues in contemporary capitalism
- Rob Knight - The Soviet Union in the glasnost era
- Mick Hume - Strategic problems of the British revolution
- Christina Braun and Sabena Norton - Germany today
Notes
- ↑ Revolutionary Communist Party Preparing for Power, Summer 1989
