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.

Hannah Sawtell, who has had solo exhibitions at the ICA, London (2012); New Museum, New York (2014); VAC Foundation, Moscow (2017). She is a lecturer in the Contemporary Art Practice Department at London’s RCA. For this lecture, she will discuss how the Covid-19 pandemic has created a semi-permanent state of lockdown in which those with the least access to space for recreation, leisure and cultural expression are increasingly confined both physically and psychologically.