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Saturday 18 January / 10:00-4:00pm
National March for Palestine

The Palestinian struggle is advancing daily and has brought many advanced elements of the British working class out in solidarity. We need to take advantage of this situation, not only to be a visible lodestone to these advanced workers, but also to get our vital analysis in their hands. Therefore we are calling on comrades to come to London for a concerted CPGB-ML presence. This allows us to not only hold stalls as local comrades routinely do, but to have a presence with banners on the march, run a loudspeaker system, and more. Read our and , which we will be distributing. Read our pamphlet, , which will be available alongside our other literature on stalls.

Saturday 25 January / 2:00-5:30pm
Southall seminar: How the left failed Syria

Speakers: Joti Brar and others tbc When trying to make sense of the tragic collapse of the government led by President Bashar al-Assad and of the entire Syrian Arab Republic in December last year, western analysts have been quick to point the finger of blame at this or that faction of the worldwide anti-imperialist resistance axis. Some immediately jumped to blame Russia or Iran, others complained about President Assad himself. What almost none of these commentators thought to do was examine their own role and that of the workers in the countries in which they sit, discussing world politics as if it were a baseball game and they merely passive observers. But the truth is that any victory over imperialism can only be assured by action on both fronts of the enemy. The workers in the imperialist countries have a crucial role to play in disrupting the war machine on the home front; in refusing to allow their ruling classes to enjoy social peace and in refusing to cooperate with the waging of these genocidal wars abroad. This is why Lenin long ago pointed out that the struggle for socialism in the imperialist countries is intimately bound up with the struggle for national liberation in the oppressed world, and that it was doomed to fail if these two parts of the anti-imperialist world were not connected and working together. That therefore any leaders claiming to be ‘socialist’ or ‘communist’ who do not actively work to create this unity of action between themselves and all those fighting the same imperialist power abroad are charlatans and traitors. And this is why our party has always insisted on bringing two slogans to the antiwar movement: Victory to the resistance, and No cooperation with the imperialist machine. It is precisely because we consistently promoted this genuinely antiwar stance that the self-appointed leadership of the Stop the War Coalition expelled our party in 2011 – just as the wars against Libya and Syria were being launched. These leaders have not acted in ignorance but in full knowledge of what a real antiwar movement should be doing. For 25 years, they have consistently chosen to use their control over the opposition to divert the attention and defuse the power of workers’ antiwar energies. They have effectively demobilised all those who really wanted to stop imperialism’s vicious wars against Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Lebanon and Palestine. While they routinely repeat imperiallist lies against its main war targets Russia and China, they do not even deign to mention the wars raging across Africa, such as in Congo, Sudan and Somalia, despite the fact that these wars, too, are waged for imperialist plunder and have led to the death and displacement of many millions of Africans. To understand the , and to prevent more such terrible reverses befalling the hard-pressed peoples who face the full economic and military onslaught of western imperialism, the treachery of the antiwar leadership must be exposed and its influence rooted out. Instead of empty slogans and aimless pseudo-activities, we need to demand a return to the practical programme of action that in forcing the British government to withdraw from the war of intervention against Soviet Russia (waged with the intention of “strangling the Bolshevik baby in its crib”, in the words of that vicious anticommunist Winson Churchill).

Thursday 1 May / 10:30-4:30pm
May Day: International Workers’ Day

Join the CPGB-ML’s militant contingent to mark International Workers’ Day in the streets of London. Wear red, carry a party flag, and show your support for the struggling workers and oppressed peoples of the world. This system isn’t working for us; it’s time for it to go! The demonstration will be forming up all morning on Clerkenwell Green and will leave the square around midday, marching to Trafalgar Square, where our contingent will hold a mini rally of our own next to the party’s stall.

Saturday 10 May / 12:00-11:59pm
Merseyside Marxist Book Fair

Interested in finding out more about Marxism and Marxist ideas? Come along to this free event organised by . Comrades from will be there with information about local activity, how to get involved and a variety of useful books, literature and merchandise. Come and talk to our members.

Friday 18 July / 12:00-11:59pm
Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Festival

Details tbc

Sunday 7 September / 10:30-4:00pm
Burston strike school rally

Our party will have a book stall all day at this year's Burston school strike rally. Talking to us in person is the best way to understand out what makes our approach to politics different from the rest of the self-identifying 'left'. We also have a wide range of literature on every topic of essential importance to the working class. In particular, pick up a copy of our essential guide to the present situation: . ------------------------------- The strike, which ran from 1914 through to 1939, was led by schoolchildren in response to the wrongful dismissal of two teachers at the village of Burston's school. Tom Higson, one of the teachers, was sacked in retaliation for organising local agricultural labourers. The teachers would go on to set up a school ran on donations which effectively replaced education in the village through the duration of the strike.

Saturday 13 September / 11:00-4:30pm
Wigan Diggers festival

Our party will have a book stall all day at this year's Wigan Diggers festival. Talking to us in person is the best way to understand out what makes our approach to politics different from the rest of the self-identifying 'left'. We also have a wide range of literature on every topic of essential importance to the working class. In particular, pick up a copy of our essential guide to the present situation: . ------------------------------- The Diggers were a group that was organised in the aftermath of the English Revolution (aka the English civil war) to represent the voice of the common people, and especially that of the propertyless poor. Led by Gerrard Winstanley, the group was also known as the ‘True Levellers’ to distinguish them from ‘The Levellers’, who, while seeking equality before the law and an extension of the right to vote for most men, did not support the abolition of private property and common ownership of the land. The Diggers’ nickname came from their belief that the land should be available to every person to dig and sow, so that everyone, rich or poor, could live, grow and eat by the sweat of their own brows, as according to them: “The earth was made to be a common treasury for all.” The Diggers were a movement before their time, but their principled defence of the poor and their championing of ideals that also underpin communism – that every person should work and every worker should share the wealth of society's labour – have inspired workers since the earliest days of the socialist movement in Britain.