RCP Summer Camp

THIS EVENT IS INVITE ONLY. PLEASE DO NOT BUY A TICKET UNLESS YOU HAVE BEEN INVITED BY THE PARTY. 

This year's RCP summer camp is a cadre school aimed at raising the political level, and bonding together a developing layer of cadres across the party. The agenda is subject to change but broad strokes will remain the same. 

Thursday 

16:00-17:00 - Check in 

17:00-19:00 - Epstein, the State and the crisis of bourgeois democracy 

19:00 - 20:00 - Dinner 

Friday

10:00–11:30 — Talk 1: Racism: A tool the British ruling class perfected / Talk 2: Left Reformism and Sectarianism: How do communists win over the class?

12:00–13:30 — Talk 1: Silvia Federici and social reproduction theory: A Marxist Critique / Talk 2:  Capitalism in the epoch of imperialism: stagnation, monopoly, and bubbles

14:30–16:00 — Talk 1: The Frankfurt School and academic Marxism / Talk 2: The Decline and Death Agony of British Imperialism

16:00–19:30 — Walk/Activity

19:30–21:00 — Dinner

21:00 –23:00 — Social

Saturday

Morning bloc — Can art change the world? AND Perspectives for the American Revolution

Afternoon bloc - The English Materialists and the Struggle for Reason AND Plato, Aristotle and the Origins of Idealism and Materialism 

Activities will also happen in the morning or afternoon. You must choose a bloc for sessions and your activity will be during the other sessions. 

17:30–19:00 — Dinner

19:00–20:30 — World Perspectives: Crisis, War and Revolution in the 21st Century 

20:30–23:00 — Social

Sunday

10:00–11:45 — Defying US Imperialism: The Cuban Revolution 

OR People, parties, and psychology: The role of the individual in history

12:30–13:00 — Closing remarks 

14:00 — Check-out

Meals for the weekend and coaches to and from Derby will be included in the price.