Britain's Road to Socialism Classes

"The peoples of the world are confronted today with problems of enormous magnitude. These include the ever-growing poverty and widespread malnutrition and disease which afflict billions of the world's six billion population; war and the threat of nuclear catastrophe; and the environmental and ecological time-bomb which adds a new threat to human survival.

This need not be so......" So begins the Communist Party's program to bring about Revolution in Britain, Britain's Road to Socialism. A series of original study guides on this program are presented below.

Class 1:
Class 2: THE CRISIS IN BRITAIN
Class 3: THE ALTERNATIVE ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL STRATEGY

New Members School

Material from previous new members schools chan be found here.....

Emile Burns' Introduction to Marxism

Emile Burns' Introduction to Marxism has for many years provided for tens of thousands of workers and students in all parts of the world a luminous source of understanding of what Marxism means, as a philosophy and as a political movement. Its our pleasure to bring this short volume online at Scottish Communists.

Originally publisjed as "What is Marxism?", Burns' book has been translated into numerous languages and sold millions of copies worldwide.

Emile Burns was for many years a member of the Executive Committee and the Political Committee of the Communist Party

Multimedia resources

Aswell as the reading materials below, there are a growing number of audio and video resources recorded from previous public events and the wider internet.

Materials for New Members

The following documents were the basis for a successful New Member's school held in our Unity Office.

• The basic tenets of Marxism: a tool for understanding the world.
• The role of the Communist Party; its relationship with the Labour Party and the trade union movement.
• The Party’s political strategy: ‘Britain’s Road to Socialism’. Is there a separate Scottish road to Socialism?

In addition, a useful reading list is provided to help gain a background knowledge to some of the issues of Socialism today.

• Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto.
• Lenin, The Three Sources and Three Components Parts of Marxism.
• CPB, Britain’s Road to Socialism, 2003 edition [Documents section]
• CPB, Introduction to Marxism, 2004

An Introduction to Marxism

The following are Marxist Branch Education notes from The Communist Party of Britain Scottish Committee

Tutor's notes

• Class1: The Marxist world outlook
• Class2: Capitalism and exploitation
• Class3: Political Struggle and Revolution

In addition, the following reading list is also suggested:

• Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto
• Griffiths, Introducing Marxism
• CPB, Britain’s Road to Socialism,2003 edition [Documents section]
• Emile Burns, Introduction to Marxism
• The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists [Off site]

Marxist Classics

In addition to providing some unique educational material, we also intend to provide access to some of the shorter classic Marxist-Leninist texts.

• Marx/Engels: The Communist Manifesto
• Lenin: The Three Sources and Three Components Parts of Marxism
• Engels: Introduction to Marx's "The Class Struggles in France"