A day to remember power
May Day is a day to remember the power of the working class to transform the world. In 2024 we must assert that power to shape a future for Britain.
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May Day 2024: Stop the drive to war! Build a new Britain! Bristol
May Day 2024: Stop the drive to war! Build a new Britain! Bristol
Wednesday 1 May 2024 18:00
Wednesday 1 May, 6pm - 9pm
The Golden Guinea Function Room, 19 Guinea Street, Bristol BS1 6SX
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May Day 2024: Stop the drive to war! Build a new Britain! Manchester
May Day 2024: Stop the drive to war! Build a new Britain! Manchester
Saturday 4 May 2024 14:00
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Saturday 4 May, 2pm
Upstairs at The Britons Protection, 50 Great Bridgewater Street, Manchester M1 5LE
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May Day 2024: Stop the drive to war! Build a new Britain!
May Day 2024: Stop the drive to war! Build a new Britain!
Wednesday 1 May 2024 19:30
Wednesday 1 May 7.30 pm
Brockway Room, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL
Celebrate May Day and join the discussion about how the working class of Britain can build a new Britain as the drive to war intensifies.
All welcome. Free entry.
Time to take up the challenge
A short twelve months ago NHS workers and their unions were deep in preparation for what everyone knew was going to be a major battle on that most central of issues, pay and conditions.
Sign of the times – people care: a reader writes
8 September 2023
We received this letter from a Workers reader in east London about a recent shopping trip. Although it was a novel experience, this may be happening around Britain more often than we realise. The challenge is how not let this go to waste – to act and not just grumble.
Take charge, keep charge
The resurgence in working class struggle – after years of relative quiet – is proof that progress is possible.
Creating class control in practice
Control is the power of directing what happens in a country, or an industry. We say workers must take control, but that has quite a different meaning for workers than for capitalists…
What is Internationalism?
18 March 2023
Control over borders is the best way for a country to develop its economy and benefit its people. Such self-determination and independence serve the cause of workers everywhere.
May Day 2023. Workers! Take Charge of Britain! Manchester
May Day 2023. Workers! Take Charge of Britain! Manchester
Monday 1 May 2023 13:00
Celebrate May Day with a social gathering and informal discussion.
Email info@cpbml.org.uk for details.
May Day 2023. Workers! Take Charge of Britain! Bristol
May Day 2023. Workers! Take Charge of Britain! Bristol
Saturday 6 May 2023 14:00
Saturday 6 May, 2pm
Room G01, Tony Benn House, Victoria Street, Bristol BS1 6AY
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May Day 2023. Workers! Take Charge of Britain!
May Day 2023. Workers! Take Charge of Britain!
Monday 1 May 2023 19:30
Monday 1 May 7.30 pm
Brockway Room, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL
Celebrate May Day and join the discussion about how the working class of Britain can move forward.
All welcome. Free entry.
The political economy of taking control
Since the 2008 crash governments have increased the money supply, with no improvement in productivity. This imbalance is the main cause of the current inflation.
Don’t divide Britain: unity not devolution
Don’t divide Britain: unity not devolution
Tuesday 14 March 2023 19:00
Discuss why attempts to break up the unity of Britain – through both separatism and regionalism – are an attack on the working class.
Email info@cpbml.org.uk for an invitation.
How in practice can the working class assert control?
How in practice can the working class assert control?
Tuesday 21 February 2023 19:30
Tuesday 21 February 2023, 7.30pm
Bertrand Russell Room, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL
The ruling class is clearly incapable of governing Britain. Where does that leave the working class? Come and discuss.
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New year, new spirit
In many ways the situation facing workers in Britain is as dire as it has been at any time since the Second World War. But there is a shining light: the army of the working class is on the move.
Resistance breeds oppression
When a strike takes place, when workers withdraw their labour, they and their employers are confronted with the truth: workers are essential to capitalism.
Living on borrowed time
Another month, another prime minister. And yet underneath nothing has changed at all. British capitalism, the oldest in the world and arguably the most cunning, is out of ideas and out of time.
What is working class democracy?
Democracy literally means “rule by the people”. That’s not what our current parliamentary democracy does. It’s not fit for purpose and it does not represent the people of Britain…
Real Control for Real Independence
Real Control for Real Independence
Sunday 1 May 2022 19:30
Sunday 1 May 7.30 pm
Brockway Room, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL
Celebrate May Day and join the discussion about how the working class must lead in the fight for a future for Britain.
What is the working class?
Back in the nineteenth century Karl Marx wrote that society was dividing into two great hostile classes: the workers, and those who live from exploiting the labour of others. It’s a perfect description of Britain today…
What is the working class?
What is the working class?
Tuesday 22 March 2022 19:30
This meeeting is in-person! Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL.
Tuesday 22 March. 7.30pm.
The working class is changing. But does that mean the fundamentals of class have changed?
Come and discuss. All welcome. Free entry.
Discussion meeting (via Zoom): What is the working class?
Discussion meeting (via Zoom): What is the working class?
Tuesday 8 February 2022 19:00
The working class is changing. But does that mean the fundamentals of class have changed?
Email info@cpbml.org.uk for an invitation.
The ‘left’: fear and loathing of workers
16 January 2021
This useful book analyses and criticises the anti-working class attitudes of all too many in the labour movement.
C19th London: skill and class
As the 19th century dawned, trade unions were made illegal, prices rose, wages fell. Skilled workers led the fightback…
Never underestimate the ruling class
The ruling class, the establishment – call it what you will – has always underestimated the people of Britain.
Shh...don’t mention the class struggle
Suddenly, politicians seem to be wanting to talk about work. Low wage work, minimum wage work, gig work, any kind of work. Just as long as there’s no contradiction between employers and workers…
Class struggle across a nation
We look at two struggles from the late 19th century that helped define our class, and what Britain means…