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SATURDAY August 1 2020 will mark 100 years since the foundation of the Communist Party. Undeterred by the restriction placed on political activity by the Covid-19 pandemic, the party invites readers of the Morning Star, supporters, trade union and women’s movement activists, to visit our website www.communistparty.org.uk/centenary.
How else would you expect Communists to mark their centenary other than by educating, agitating and organising for socialism? We want you to join us in the celebration too.
The CP invites you — on Saturday August 1 — to register for a number of our 13 Red Wedge live events. You can register now at https://www.communistparty.org.uk/centenary-red-wedge-events/
Please note that numbers are restricted for each event, so you are urged to register early. Some of the events will also be broadcast live on Facebook.
Our Red Wedge events, led by well known and also some not so well known party and movement activist speakers, begin in the morning with two sessions. You can only attend one in each.
10am-11.30am Environment and capitalism | Opposing racism and fascism | Culture matters | LGBT | Science,Technology and the future of work
11.30am-1pm Women | Imperialism and militarism | EU imperialism and austerity
| NHS and public health | Housing and our communities | A future for youth
These are followed by a mass meeting for trade union activists and Morning Star readers and supporters.
1.30pm — 3pm A special invitation is extended to trade union activists for a live event, Take the Road, which will focus on the role of activists and unions in our programme, Britain’s Road to Socialism.
3pm — 4.30pm Morning Star readers are invited to attend a rally to mark 90 Years of the workers’ paper chaired by editor Ben Chacko with major labour movement speakers and some historic figures from the paper’s past. Look out for special guests of honour including some of the London Recruits who fought apartheid and undertook clandestine operations against the racist regime.
Finally at 5pm, Communist Party general secretary Robert Griffiths will make a presentation on The Communist Party — 100 years for socialism.
On the site you will be able to check in on an amazing range of centenary events including: two major book launches, the premiere of a new film on the CP, interviews with veterans, sections on the London Recruits and the volunteers in the International Brigades, a collaboration between Marx Library and the Working Class Movement Library to make rare CP historical artefacts available online, many for the first time, with pamphlets available to view in a digital reader. There will even be music to celebrate to.
On the day readers will be able to find out more about a new history book of the Communist Party edited by Prof Mary Davis, which will be available in the week when we celebrate the anniversary of the Great October Revolution.
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