The CCS

The Communist Corresponding Society is a Marxist discussion group

[The CCS @CCSoc]

"The idea of leading the European working class movement from Oxford—the last bit of the real middle ages that still exists in Europe—is incredible"
(Engels, letter to Bebel, 5 Dec 1892)

[The CCS @CCSoc]

Our latest cycle of weekly meetings has now finished; thank you to our speakers & to everyone who has attended. In July–September we have a 3-part series on political theory in the English Republic, beginning on 16 July with Hobbes & geometry. Note that the venue is the Town Hall

[The CCS @CCSoc]

Coming up in Oxford tomorrow

[The CCS @CCSoc]

Public meeting in Oxford

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Symbolism in the folklore of the summer solstice

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7:30–9pm Thursday 18 June
Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St)

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All welcome

[The CCS @CCSoc]

Coming up in Oxford this week

[The CCS @CCSoc]

Public meeting in Oxford

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Prospects for Pasokification in 2026

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7:30–9pm Thursday 11 June
Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St)

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All welcome

[The CCS @CCSoc]

Coming up in Oxford this evening

[The CCS @CCSoc]

Public meeting in Oxford

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The American novelist Ursula K. Le Guin

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7:30–9pm Thursday 4 June
Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St)

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All welcome

[The CCS @CCSoc]

Coming up in Oxford this week

[The CCS @CCSoc]

Public meeting in Oxford

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Viktor Shklovsky (1893–1984) and the theory of prose

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7:30–9pm Thursday 28 May
Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St)

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All welcome

[Edmund Griffiths @EdmundGriffiths]

A crooked road, a road where your feet feel the stones, a road that turns back on itself, is the road you can walk along with me if you're around in Oxford next week

[The CCS @CCSoc]

Coming up in Oxford tomorrow

[The CCS @CCSoc]

Public meeting in Oxford

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Territory, jurisdiction, and debates on the origins of international law

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7:30–9pm Thursday 21 May
Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St)

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All welcome

[Edmund Griffiths @EdmundGriffiths]

Just posted: a bit of analysis of how the far left did in last week's elections. The handout collates the TUSC, CPB, YP, SSP, SPGB, SLP, & CL results (which you may already have seen on social media as they came in)
https://t.co/RRk1NOC68X

[The CCS @CCSoc]

Coming up in Oxford this week

[The CCS @CCSoc]

Public meeting in Oxford

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Election 2026: picking up the pieces

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7:30–9pm Thursday 14 May
Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St)

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All welcome

[The CCS @CCSoc]

Coming up in Oxford tomorrow

[The CCS @CCSoc]

Public meeting in Oxford

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On Hegel’s ‘altogether new concept of scientific procedure’

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7:30–9pm Thursday 7 May
Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St)

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All welcome

[Edmund Griffiths @EdmundGriffiths]

In view of the crisis in Mali, I've dug out & posted this talk I gave in 2023 on the politics of the Sahel
https://t.co/cc7SOj56mA

[The CCS @CCSoc]

Our new cycle of Oxford meetings begins next week with America's defeat in Iran. Each meeting features an introductory talk and plenty of time for discussion: do come to any that catch your eye, whether you're a hardened CCS regular or you've never been along before at all

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Weekly CCS meetings resume in Oxford on 30 April. Our new cycle of eight includes topics from Hegel to Ursula K. Le Guin and from the folklore of the summer solstice to America's defeat in Iran. All these will be in the Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St) at 7:30–9:00pm

[The CCS @CCSoc]

When we announced this title it was debatable

[The CCS @CCSoc]

Public meeting in Oxford

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America’s defeat in Iran

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7:30���9pm Thursday 30 April
Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St)

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All welcome

[Edmund Griffiths @EdmundGriffiths]

Just posted two recent CCS talks:

1776–2026: Edward Gibbon and the declining empire
https://t.co/ijQ0uDgggH

How to program in Refal (and other arts of the Brezhnev era)
https://t.co/OoZEUT64nv

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Before that, however, we have this Thursday's meeting on the Soviet programming language Refal. Please note that this one is _not_ in the Wesley Memorial Church: it is in the Town Hall (St Aldates)

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Public meeting in Oxford

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How to program in Refal (and other arts of the Brezhnev era)

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7:30–9pm Thursday 2 April
Town Hall (St Aldates)

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All welcome

[The CCS @CCSoc]

Weekly CCS meetings resume in Oxford on 30 April. Our new cycle of eight includes topics from Hegel to Ursula K. Le Guin and from the folklore of the summer solstice to America's defeat in Iran. All these will be in the Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St) at 7:30–9:00pm

[The CCS @CCSoc]

Public meeting in Oxford

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Symbolism in the folklore of the summer solstice

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7:30–9pm Thursday 18 June
Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St)

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All welcome

[The CCS @CCSoc]

Public meeting in Oxford

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The American novelist Ursula K. Le Guin

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7:30–9pm Thursday 4 June
Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St)

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All welcome

[The CCS @CCSoc]

Public meeting in Oxford

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Prospects for Pasokification in 2026

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7:30–9pm Thursday 11 June
Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St)

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All welcome

[Edmund Griffiths @EdmundGriffiths]

The title of this one is not a bluff, by the way: there will be a bit of situating-in-the-wider-intellectual-context going on as well, but I will actually be teaching you how to program in the Soviet functional language Refal