To celebrate our centenary on 1 August 2020, the Communist Party hosts a series of free, online lectures every evening from Friday 24 - Friday 31 July to provoke and inspire the imagination.

Some of the most interesting and engaging thinkers and writers on the left today will discuss the Covid-19 pandemic and the class struggle in our lives.

Capitalism delivers social lockdown and economic shutdown at home, imperialist belligerence abroad. Only class politics offers us a perspective on our common experience of social isolation, alienation and the morbid symptoms of neoliberalism. In order to grasp possibilities for change and engage with those who question the viability of capitalism itself a battle of ideas is necessary.

For this lecture, Howard Stevenson, Professor of Education and Chair of the Editorial Board of Forum - campaigning for fully comprehensive education for over 50 years, will discuss Antonio Gramsci's ideas of conjunctural and organic crisis. Are we witnessing the forward march of neoliberalism halted?