The first meeting to be organised in central Manchester in support of the call for the new YourParty was held at Friends Meeting House, a traditional place for left wing events, on Tuesday 20 August 2025. Although it was not stated on the promotional material the meeting was organised and Continue Reading
Marxism
Communist Unity – a change is needed
After six months of inaccurate reporting back from the Forging Communist Unity (FCU) talks, by CPGB-PCC members Jack Conrad and Mike Macnair, about the positions of Edmund Potts and I who represent Talking About Socialism…from a Marxist point of view, comrade members and supporters of the CPGB must wonder what Continue Reading
Two years of TAS
It’s almost two years since we started our fortnightly Zoom discussions under the title “Talking About Socialism…from a Marxist point of view”. Our first meeting was on 20 March 2023. The TAS website carried its first article on 29 August 2022. Our aim was to develop an ongoing discussion about socialism Continue Reading
A Communist position on the Middle East colonial conflict
This article is based on the talk that Moshé Machover gave to a Zoom meeting organised by Talking About Socialism…from a Marxist point of view on 25 November 2024, addressing the question: What is a communist position for resolving the colonial conflict in the Middle East? You can watch the Continue Reading
Live Stream of TAS meeting: Why we need a new Socialist/Communist Party
On Saturday 16 November TAS will be holding an in-person meeting in central Manchester, from 11am – 5pm, to discuss “Why we need a new Socialist/Communist Party. If you’re interested in attending then email us at info@talkingaboutsocialism.org or call Nick Wrack on 07812 063 409. We hope to Live Stream Continue Reading
Far-Right advance shows urgency of building united party to break with capitalism
The hard-line far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) has emerged as the largest party in the Austrian general election, with 29% of the vote. It beat the ruling conservative right-wing People’s Party (ÖVP), which received 26%. The Freedom party stood on an islamophobic, anti-immigrant programme. This follows the growth of the far-right Continue Reading
Marxists must build our own party
The task of Marxists is not to build a party with the politics of John McDonnell, Rebecca Long-Bailey and the other five left Labour MPs who defied Labour Party leader and Prime Minister Keir Starmer and voted for the scrapping of the two-child benefit cap, an act which got them Continue Reading
Crowd strikes out
The massive tech failure that caused chaos around the world raises important questions about the ownership and control of our digital world. The relatively unknown, cyber-security firm CrowdStrike admitted that the problem was caused by an update to its antivirus software, which was designed to protect Microsoft Windows devices from Continue Reading
Britain’s Securonomics
There’s been Abenomics in Japan; Modinomics in India and Bidenomics in the US. Now we have Securonomics in Britain. This is slick terminology for the basics of the UK’s new Labour government’s economic policy – as expounded by its new finance minister (quaintly called the Chancellor of the Exchequer in Continue Reading
Building TAS in 2024
This is a revised version of an introduction given by Will McMahon at the ‘Talking About Socialism – from a Marxist Point of view’ online discussion given on Monday 8 January 2024 to take account of events taking place in the following week Building Talking About Socialism – from a Continue Reading