Since the formation of the group last year the following topics have been discussed, sometimes as a topic in itself, as part of another topic, or as a theme that recurs regularly over time in discussion:

	Communist Manifesto		Topical Report On Cuba
	The Religious Myth		The Internet
	Anarchism		Direct Action
	Music		Popular Culture
	Culture and Idealogy		Animal Rights
	Global Resources		Colonialism
	Ecology		Marx and German Philosophy
	Value,Price and Profit		Surplus Value
	Nationalisation		Trotskyism-False Hope
	Trade Unions-Limitations		Historical Materialism
	Dialectical Materialism		Poverty and Unemployment
	Global Capitalism		Kosova/Wars
	Raymond Williams - Culture		History as Class Struggle
	Gender		Anthropological Perspectives
	Democratic v Violent Revolution		Internet Newsgroups and Forums
	The Golden Thread -Socialism over the Centuries		A Socialist Society(The Material Possibilities)

This is not an exhaustive list but it does give an overview of the depth of subjects discussed. There are no hard and fast rules about how topics are chosen. Sometimes someone will bring a question or hot topic that will kick start spontaneous discussion. Sometimes someone will give a short presentation on a particular topic , and questions and discussion will follow from that.

Anybody who comes along is free to bring a topic up - the group is about mutually exploring material avenues out of the capitalist mess. This is a relaxed informal group which welcomes folk who come along and there is no hierarchy nonsense! The group isn't a sociology seminar either and while some topics do stretch and stimulate the grey cells, members of the group are not short of real life experience(s) to place material discussed within a real context. Need To Check Something? Just Search It!

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