Preparing for Power programme 1989

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week of discussion and debate about the current state of the world and how to change it • Organised by the Revolutionary Communist Party • Fida Y931- Friday 28 • University of London Union, Malet Street, London WC1

Welcome Preparing for Power is a week of discussion on the state of the world and how to change it. It is for everybody who wants to understand the Marxist view on everything from war and revolution to science and art. This year's Preparing for Power offers: • a weekend focusing on the shape of capitalism in 1989-and on the legacy of the French Revolution of 1789 • sixteen specialist courses on Marxist theory-ranging from Marxist Introduction The weekend Specialist courses Workshops Essential reading ... environment and debates and abroad and music economics and culture to the decline of Britain and problems of the • more than 100 workshops • guest speakers from Britain • swimming pool, sports facilities, bar • creche and accommodation • bands, discos and films • cheap transport from all over Britain page 1 page 7 page 10 page 19 page 22

Introduction Last year more than 1000 people attended Preparing for Power. Some came to learn about Marxism, others wanted to know more about particular issues such as racism or women's oppression, and many saw it as an opportunity to discuss their own political experiences with activists from all over Britain and abroad. If you want to be part of the political debate of the year, then get ready for Preparing for Power 1989. The rapid pace of events in Britain and internationally makes it ever more important to get a clear grasp of what is happening and to anticipate future world trends. The acceleration of the economic crisis, the growth of reaction and rampant militarism are changing the world as we know it. Preparing for Power offers a thorough analysis and practicai answers for people who want to fight for change. How to unite ordinary people against the system-and what kind of party and policies are needed to defend our interests—will be the key issues at Preparing for Power. The Revolutionary Communist Party is committed to changing the world, starting in Britain. We organise to strengthen the position of workers who take action to defend their livelihoods. We campaign for solidarity with struggles against Western repression and militarism, from Ireland to South Africa. We organise action in support of women, black people, the Irish-any movement which is fighting for its rights against the British establishment. Changing the world requires the action of millions. But it also requires new ideas, clarity and an ability to challenge existing prejudices and conventions.

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The weekend Specialist courses Workshops On the first Friday night of Preparing for Power, and all day Saturday, we will be looking at the key issues of the moment Ne will examine the instability of capitalism worldwide, the growth of militarism and reaction-and how we can organise resistance. We wil combine big rallies with smaller more informal sessions. On Sunday we start a series of 16 five-day specialist courses. These are intended to involve a group of regular participants in an in-depth study of particular aspects of Marxism. Throughout the week there will be a variety of debates and discussion in later afternoon workshops.

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There will be plenty to choose from in the evenings. A series of discussions on international politics, strategy and tactics, art and culture and sexual politics will be running at the same time. There will also be films, music and other entertainment. 220 Art and culture: two faces of Madonna Cheap coaches will be coming from all major British cities to arrive on Friday evening.

Accommodation Children their ages. A professionally run creche will be available throughout the week. Let us know how many children you want to bring and Let us know if you need somewhere to stay-and bring a sleeping bag. If you have a bed or floor space in the London area, please let us know, as all offers of accommodation are welcome.

Lenin (Andrew Bailey) sings the blues with The Panic Brothers at last year's Preparing for Power cabaret Entertainment Location Enquiries

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There will be late-night discos on Saturday night and on the last day of Preparing for Power.

The University of London is a couple of blocks east of Tottenham Court Road in central London. The nearest tubes are Goodge Street (Victoria and Northern lines), and Euston Square (Circle and Metropolitan lines). It has a swimming pool, sauna, gym. cafeteria, shop and bars. It is also close to a number of cheap restaurants.

For all enquiries about Preparing for Power, contact Lesley Banham on (01) 729 0414, or write to her at BM RCP, London WCIN 3XX.

Sign up now If you want to come to Preparing for Power, sign up now! You can take advantage of special discounts if you register early. Fill in the cut-off form below nake cheques payable to RCP Association, and send to BM RCP, London WCIN 3XX. Your Preparing for Power ticket will be sent to you upon registration and a final timetable will be available before the conference. Phone (01) 375 1702 for more details. I need transport L I need accommodation I need creche facilities 6 Price paid (make cheques payable to RCP Association) £28 waged (£25 before 1 June; £20 before 1 April) £18 unwaged (E16 before 1 June; £14 before 1 April) Weekend only (21-23 July) £17 waged (£15 before 1 June; £13 before 1 April) £12 unwaged (£11 before 1 June; £10 before 1 April) Name Address Postcode Telephone number Organisation/trade union Number of children coming • Ages of children

The weekend Taking our own Bastille This year's Preparing for Power coincides with the bicentenary of the French Revolution, a fitting occasion on which to assess the prospects for the working class winning power.

The weekend is devoted to a discussion of the revolution and its meaning for our times.

Has the capitalist system revolutionary change? Is the working class finished as the agent of social liberation? Has communism been discredited for good by the experience of the Soviet Union? These are some of the questions which we will address during the course of the weekend The Preparing for Power weekend is also an opportunity to undertake a realistic appraisal of the contemporary political scene. The workshops will consider the vital problems confronting Marxists todaythe growth of conservatism in society, the threat of racism, the problem of war and the growth of state repression anc intolerance. Our aim is to discuss the situation as it is— not as we would like it to beso that we can formulate a realistic foundation for Marxist politics. The RCP's alternative to the New Realism will be presente in relation to international an domestic issues. The prioritie for those who want to build a communist society will be debated extensively.

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Friday Saturday Morning Peace breaks out? Afghanistan after the Soviet withdrawal Registration from 4pm A choice of sessions starting at 8pm. A big favourite among these is always 'An absolute beginner's guide to the RCP.

Opening plenary 10.30am 1789-1989: Hard-learned lessons for today Late registration 9-10am Police v pickets: Dover 1988 Afternoon 8 A choice of 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?

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Evening, 8pm Dance great disco late bar Sunday Barcelona tango or Brixton shuffle: take your pick at Preparing for Power Morning: 10.30am Specialist courses 1-8 begin Afternoon: 2pm Specialist courses 9-16 begin Taking our own Bastille culture, music and film Late afternoon: 4.30pm Plenary Evening: 7.30pm Workshops on 1C

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Specialist courses Specialist courses will begin on Sunday and run through the week. Courses 1 to 8 will take place in the morning from 10.30am to 12.30pm, and courses 9 to 16 will be held in final session on Friday. the early afternoon from 2pm to 4pm. Each course includes five scheduled sessions, running from Sunday to Thursday, but may be extended to take in a You will get more out of the specialist courses if you do some reading in preparation.

Recommended readings are listed for each course. 10

1 Introduction to Marxism 2 Social movements and 11 class politics

SPECIALIST COURSES

Convenor Frank Richards This is a beginner's guide to Marxism as an analytical tool and a weapon for action. The course aims to show that Marxism is not an esoteric philosophy, but an outlook that is accessible to everybody who wants to change the world.

Sessions on • Historical materialism • Scientific socialism • Class struggle and revolution • Ideology • The party

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Recommended reading K Marx, 'Theses on Feuerbach', in Marx and Engels, The German Ideology, student's edition K Marx, The German Ideology F Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

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his Life Lenin has a chat with the Italian comrades State K Korsch, Three Essays on Marxism, pp11-38 F Mehring, Karl Marx: The Story of H Draper, Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution, in three volumes Convenor Mike Freeman This course examines the emergence of social movements in Western Europe over the past 20 years. It will look at the common pattern of development of the peace movement, the Greens and the women's movement among others, and consider what kind of challenge they represent.

Discussion will concentrate on the relationship between social movements and class politics.

Sessions on • The debate on the status of social movements • Intellectuals and class politics • Post-industrial society or capitalism? • New perspectives on the peace movement • Civil society and the state Recommended reading J Keane (ed), Civil Society and the Living Marxism, July 1989 R Taylor, Against the Bomb: The British Peace Movement 1958-1965 A Touraine, The Voice and the Eye: An Analysis of Social Movements W Hülsberg, The German Greens

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3 Marxism and Convenor John Gibson the environment The environment has emerged as a major issue in the eighties.

Politics throughout Europe have turned a shade of green and concern about the Nuclear power: no thanks?

4 Imperialism in Convenor Daniel Nassim the nineties The aim of this course is to isolate the contemporary trends of development in the imperialist world order. This course is necessarily explorative. The emphasis is on Class struggle in South Korea provides an analysis of the problems facing the environment from a Marxist point of view. It also considers the alternative represented by new trends and likely developments rather than the continuity of past relations in the world order. The changing relations between the USA and the Soviet Union provide an important theme for much of the discussion in this course.

degradation of the environment has stimulated the growth of the ecology movement. This course the Green movement and assesses its significance.

Sessions on • Marxism and nature • Capitalism and the environment • Nuclear power • The German Greens • The third world: dumping ground for imperialism Recommended reading A Schmidt, The Concept of Nature in Marx D Pepper, The Roots of Modern Environmentalism J Lovelock, GAIA: A New Look at Life on Earth Living Marxism, February 1989 L Mackay and M Thompson (eds), Something in the Wind: Politics After Chernoby/ W Hülsberg, The German Greens 12 j Sessions on • New thinking in East- West relations • The glasnost phenomenon in Eastern Europe • New directions in US foreign policy • The emerging working class in Latin America and Asia • Japan: playing for high stakes Recommended reading SE Ambrose, The Rise to Globalism M Bowker and P Williams, Superpower Detente K Dawisha, Eastern Europe, Gorbachev and Reform R Drifte, Japan's Foreign Policy T Kennedy, 'South Korea's take-off and the theory of imperialism', Confrontation 3 Since this course emphasises new trends in world politics, those taking part should consult the Financial Times, periodicals such as the Economist, Far Eastern Economic Review and Newsweek, and journals such as Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, International Affairs. the New York Review of Books and The World Today.

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5 New thinking and Marxism 3 6 The French Revolution and its legacy Convenor Joan Phillips In the age of New Realism working class politics and Marxism are increasingly put to question by intellectuals who have lost faith in the prospects for a revolutionary Convenor Alan Harding The bicentenary of the French Revolution is a time to reflect transformation of society. This course examines the recent literature of the new thinkers and considers to what extent recent developments in capitalist society have undermined the validity of Marxist theory. upon this momentous event.

The meaning of the French Revolution for modern society is the main concern of this course. Speakers will consider Sessions on • Fordism and post-Fordism • The market over socialism • The debate about the decline of class • Glasnost and post-Marxism • Democracy: the final objective of socialism? Recommended reading A Lipietz, Mirages and Miracles The Crisis of Global Fordism M Franklin, The Decline of Class Voting in Britain Marxism Today, September, October 1988 Living Marxism, November, December 1988 TAli, Revolutions From Above E Laclau and C Mouffe, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy whether the issues raised by the French Revolution are still relevant for society today.

Sessions on • 1789 and all that • The impact of the revolution in Britain • The ideals of the French Revolution and bourgeois ideology • Why bourgeois revolutions are so few and far between • The role of violence in revolution Recommended reading E Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolution G Best (ed), The Permanent Revolution T Paine, The Rights of Man H Draper, Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution, Vol 1 K Marx, Class Struggles in France L Trotsky, Permanent Revolution: Results and Prospects E Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

7 The making of Marx's Capital 8 The Irish War for non-beginners

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Convenor Tony Kennedy lose wishing to study thi the main theoretical is an intermediate course Capital. Sessions on • A critique of political economy specificity • Commodity fetishism Convenor Charles Longford The large attendance at the Irish strikers welcome solidarity from English workers at Dublin docks, 1913 Marx's Capital provides the foundation of his theory. This ourse provides a guide to work. Each of the introductions is devoted to an examination of underpinnings of Capital. This designed for those who have some familiarity with Marxism but who have not yet studied • The principle of historical • The use of abstraction • Marx's theory of value Irish course in previous years Recommended reading K Marx, Capital, Vọl 1, Part 8 R Rosdolsky, The Making of Marx's Capital shows that there is considerable interest in this subject. This year we are ottering an advanced course on Ireland for Sessions on last time Ireland 1600-1972 1840-1921 Question I Rubin, A History of Economic Thought P Mattick, Marx and Keynes G Pilling, Marx's Capital: Philosophy and Political Economy 14; those who attended the introductory sessions last year and for those who have already studied this subject. • Marx on Ireland • The Irish crisis in Britain • Ireland's Civil War • Church and state in • Ireland and the British revolution Recommended reading RF Foster, Modern Ireland K Marx and F Engels, Ireland and the Irish Question N Mansergh, The Irish Question: G Dangerfield, The Damnable C Younger, Ireland's Civil War J Whyte, Church and State in Modern Ireland 1923-70

9 Women's oppression and liberation 3 10 An introduction to the Irish War

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Convenor Phil Murphy The Irish liberation struggle remains the biggest challenge to the power of the British establishment and the integrity of its state. For this reason it Is one of the most confused and contusing issues in British politics. The authorities have gone to great lengths to conceal the truth about the war in Ireland, and to prevent British workers from identifying with the cause of Irish freedom. This course cuts through the lies and distortions of the British propaganda machine and offers a clear understanding of the issues at stake. Sessions on • The meaning of partition • Loyalism: myth and reality • The strange case of Southern Ireland • The IRA • British workers and Irish freedom Convenor Anne Burton This course is about how to create a world in which women will be free. It challenges conventional feminist anc adical views on the origins o women's oppression and how to fight it. It examines how at the form their oppressior to develop a perspective for placing resistance to women's Marxist political agenda.

Recommended reading D Bouchier, The Feminist the United States Feminism? Irish War 1600-1972 vomen's lives are changing anc takes today. The course will try oppression at the centre of the Challenge: The Movement for State Women's Liberation in Britain and J Mitchell and A Oakley, What is Recommended reading Irish Freedom Movement, The RF Foster, Modern Ireland Sessions on • Why the family is so important • The feminist challenge to Marxism • Women in Thatcher's Britain • What's wrong with sisterhood? • Our fight for women's liberation L Segal, Is the Future Female?

J Phillips, Policing the Family F Engels, The Origins of the Family, Private Property and the V Beechey, Unequal Work K Marshall, Real Freedom K Kelley, The Longest War J Bowyer-Bell, The Secret Army M Farrell, Northern Ireland: The Orange State DG Boyce, The Irish Question and British Politics

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John Fitzpatrick Convenor Kenan Malik This course considers the Marxist theory of racism and examines the practical problems facing anti-racists today. It explains how and why racism became a key feature of twentieth century. The course aims to show that the decline of the anti-racist movement was the product of political racism in capitalist society. The challenge of building a working class anti-racist movement will be discussed throughout the week. This course will set out to show that the Marxist analysis of class the week. and Art Sessions on • The Marxist theory of racism • Race and the Thatcherite agenda • Racism and the working • Black politics and black liberation • Workers Against Racism: the way ahead Recommended reading K Tompson, Under Siege: Racial Violence in Britain P Fryer, Staying Power M Sherwood, Many Struggles PB Rich, Race and Empire in British Politics M Fitzgerald, Black People and Political Parties in Britain culture provides rich insights 16 into the subject. Cultural studies tend to be obscure and formal. The aim of this course is to provide an accessible appreciation of cultural issues through analysing their relationship with society. The key debates on art and culture will be discussed throughout Sessions on • Marxism and art • English literature • The visual arts • Modernism • Popular culture Recommended reading L Trotsky, On Literature and Art A Lunacharsky, On Literature T Eagleton, Literary Theory J Berger, Success and Failure of Picasso W Benjamin, Illuminations E Lunn, Marxism and Modernism SS Prawer, Karl Marx and World Literature | Baxendall and S Moranski, Marx and Engels on Literature and Art M Lifshitz, The Philosophy of Art of Karl Marx

13 Issues in contemporary capitalism 14 The Soviet Union in the glasnost era 3 17

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Convenor Helen Simons of issues whose impact on Recommended reading and periodicals, especially the Financial Times, the Economist, Business Week, Fortune and the Convenor Rob Knight Since the arrival of the Gorbachev era, the Soviet Union has become a subject of major international interest. Old attitudes towards the Soviet Union have altered and there is a widespread expectation of progress and change. Glasnost is now a household word, and Mikhail Gorbachev has found friends in the most unlikely new marketing and business priorities. some useful articles. In addition Living Marxism, the New Left Review, Marxism Today and the the record of the Gorbachev realities of Soviet society.

Sessions on • Why is the Soviet Union in crisis? • The national question response appreciated by Marxists. The course will consider whether modifications through the use of new technology, the extension of services and the adoption of Banker. Bank reports also contain New Statesman and Society. The quarters. This course examines experiment and considers the • The Soviet working class • Glasnost and the Western • How far can glasnost go?

Sessions on • Capitalism: old and new • Computers and society • The takeover mania • Service-sector capitalism • New politics of capitalism following books provide useful background information. 4 Gamble, Thatcherism: The Free conomy and the Strong State A Lipietz, Mirages and Miracles: The Crisis of Global Fordism P Mattick, Marx and Keynes Recommended reading M Gorbachev, Perestroika F Füredi, The Soviet Union Demystified TAli, Revolutions From Above D Lane, Soviet Economy and Society M Lewin, The Gorbachev Phenomenon H Goldman, Gorbachev's Challenge

15 Strategic problems of the British revolution 16 Germany today

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Convenor Mick Hume The challenge of building a revolutionary movement in Convenors Christina Braun and Sabena Norton This new course is convened by the RCP's supporters from Germany. Germany remains one the most influential nations in the international system. Its development has important implications for the European working class. This course provides a comprehensive guide to German capitalism, the lass struggle, the left and the challenge facing Marxists Recommended reading Review of Politics, winter 1988 to the Present this course. The course which have immunised the working class from radical Sessions on • Fascism and its legacy • The German working Class • The German left L Trotsky, The Struggle Against Fascism in Germany W Graf, The German Left since 1945 A Markovits (ed), The Political Economy of Western Germany Britain is the central theme of examines the political traditions Suf • The peculiar features of German development • Germany in world politics alternatives in the past. The specific problems facing Marxists today will be given special attention throughout the week. Sessions on • The legacy of Empire • Socialism without Marxism • 1945: the enduring legacy • The problem of economism • Thatcherism and New Realism Recommended reading A Gamble, Thatcherism: The Free Economy and the Strong State KD Morgan, Labour in Power 1945-51 PS Gupta, Imperialism and the British Labour Party's Political Thought M Freeman, 'The decline and fall of British Labourism', Confrontation 4 F Richards and M Freeman, 'The third Thatcher term', Confrontation 4 M Freeman, 'The road to power", Confrontation 1 Chancellor Helmut Kohl

Workshops Current issues 19 British politics Throughout the week Preparing for Power will feature a wide variety of late afternoon and early evening workshops.

There will also be debates, as well as films and entertainment for people who want a break from politics, during the early evenings. • Thatcherism's tenth year • SNP: still Tartan Tories?

• Censorship and the state • The gender gap in British politics • Inside the City • The far right • New trends in trade unionism • Welsh nationalism • Has Labour had it? • Right-wing think tanks • Theories of Britain's decline • Law and order • The state and privatisation • Japanisation of British industry • Earth: an ozone-free zone?

• Islamic fundamentalism • Advertising • Destruction of the rain forests • Multiculturalism • Fordism and post-Fordism • The child abuse panic • The Greenhouse Effect • Animal rights • The great architecture debate • Biotechnology • New genetics

Art, science and culture Britain and Ireland The revolutionary tradition

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• Physics and time • Anthropology • Structuralism • Why is physics so boring?

• Marxism and psychology • The Stalinisation of art • Physics and metaphysics • A history of design • Nietzsche and irrationality • The future of outer space • Socialist realism • Adult comics • Sport and the working class • Shostakovitch • Capitalism and youth culture • The literary influences on Karl Marx • Party and class • Che Guevara • 1917: preparing for revolution • War and the working class • Rosa Luxemburg • The Portuguese revolution • Karl Kautsky • 1919: year of revolution • The story of the RCP ДЕСЯТОЙ ПЯТИЛЕТКЕ- УДАРНЫЙ ТРУД! 20 • Stalinism in Ireland • Ireland in British politics • James Joyce and Irish literature • lan Paisley • Women in Ireland • Charles Haughey • Derry 1967-80 • Kitson and counter-insurgency • James Connolly and 1916

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• Intifada • Le Pen and the French far right • ETA: Spain's IRA • Who are the Afghan guerrillas? • Japan on the move • The Jewish question • Ethnic tensions in the third world • Israel and the West • Glasnost and the Soviet working class • Class struggle in Brazil • South Africa: a revolution betrayed? • Argentina and the rise of Peronism • China's cultural revolution • Ten years of the Sandinistas • Revolution in Latin America • India in crisis • Opposition in Eastern Europe • Nato on its fortieth anniversary • Private life and public life • Abortion politics • What's special about domestic work? • Freud and women • Women's magazines • Black women in the USA • Agony aunts • The rise and tall of the women's liberation movement • The Gay Liberation Front • Origins of the family • Women in Eastern Europe • Their morals and ours • What did the Bolsheviks do for women?

Essential reading Junius Publications • Frank Füredi The Soviet Union Demystified pp274 £5.95 paperback plus 85p pap £12.50 hardback plus £1.20 pap • Irish Freedom Movement The Irish War (third edition) pp306 £4.95 plus 85p p&p • The Red Front: A Platform for Working Class Unity pp65 £1.00 plus 40p p&p

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The Working Class and the Assembly Debate £3.95 plus 80p p&p •Dr Michael Fitzpatrick The Truth about the Aids Panic £1.95 plus 40p p&p Taking Control: A Handbook for Trade Unionists £2.95 plus 85p p&p

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