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.
Location
Mount Cook Adventure Centre, DE4 4LS