North West Building School Programme

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Building School The North West CP Building School is a milestone event - we need cadres from every village, town and city in the region to kickstart activity and grow the Party and the movement

April 12th @ Friends Meeting House, Manchester

Venue The School is being held at Friends Meeting House in Central Manchester

Dates The School be a one-day event on the12th April to allow participants to attend without staying overnight

How to get there Friends Centre is at 6 Mount Street, Manchester M2 5NS

Who can attend There are a maximum of 25 places available, and it requires advance registration.

Members of the CP or domiciled CPs who are based in the North West..We’re looking for existing cadres and officers and newer members who want to develop Party activity

What to expect Group work, one-to-one and group training in campaigning and communications skills, discussions, and more

What if I miss out?

Party Building Schools are being held across the Regions in England - as well as in Scotland and Wales - throughout 2014.

Come to our Building School

NATIONAL SECRETARY BEN STEVENSON WRITES:

“After the success of the Midlands and Eastern Party Building Schools, we knew that we needed to use this as a platform for expanding our work in every town and city in the region. The need to develop our cadres so they can apply Communist analysis to the work in their localities and develop our organisation as our Party has greatly expanded its reach and activity, recruiting new members and establishing new centres of activity.

The School is an excellent opportunity for you to further develop skills share your experiences and to bring with you, members of your branch who want to become more active and develop politically.

The purpose of the school is to help sharpen our ability to collectively wage the battle against the ConDems and build the CP and the labour movement.”

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WHAT TO EXPECT

How to organise more effectively in your locality

Party organisation & campaigning priorities

Practical skills to help you immediately expand your work FOLLOW US ON TWITTER at

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HOW TO PREPARE

WHAT IS OUR AIM?

You can circulate this brochure to get comrades interested

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WHO IS IT AIMED AT?

Discuss the event at your branch committee, branch and district committee meetings

Consider who might benefit most from attending

Come prepared to listen, learn and engage

Read the CP Handbook.

BRING ALONG CONCRETE EXAMPLES OF LOCAL CAMPAIGNING WORK

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WHAT TO READ IN ADVANCE

• Introduction to Britain’s Road to Socialism

• John Foster on the role of the Communist Party

• Liu Sha Chi “How to be a Good Communist”

Plus the NEW EDITION of the Communist Party Handbook which is available online: http://issuu.com/ communist_party/docs/ cp_handbook_complete

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Equip Communists with the tools necessary to build the struggle for socialism anew.

We’re looking for existing cadres and officers and newer members who want to develop Party activity in their area

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PROGRAMME

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11-11.15am

Orientation - coffee.

Welcome and introduction

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11.15-11.45am

Why are communists indispensable to the Labour Movement?

Individual and Group session what are the lessons from the history of the CPs struggle in Britain can we apply to building the Labour movement in your locality

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WHO CAN ATTEND? !

There are a maximum of 25 places available and it requires advance online registration. Members of the CP or domiciled CPs who are based in the North West and surrounding area.

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WHERE IS IT?

At the Friends Meeting House, 6 Mount St, Manchester M2 5NS

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WHEN?

Saturday 12th April 11am - 4pm

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Regional Party Building Schools are also being held in Yorkshire and Eastern England in early 2014

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WHAT WILL YOU DO?

Take part in discussion, learn from others and feed in your practical and political experience. Bring along a laptop or tablet device if you have one.

11.45am-12.45pm

The experience of building the Party in your area

Group session looking at: People’s Assembly and Anti-Cuts campaigning; Recruitment and developing cadres; Mobilising every section of our class; Party life

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12.45-1.15pm

Coffee Break

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1.15-2.15pm

Cadres with Skills - the key to building the Party, Part 1

Skills sessions: giving a speech; drafting a media release; writing and designing leaflets;

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2.15-2.30pm

Coffee Break

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2.30-3.30pm

Cadres with Skills - the key to building the Party, Part 2

Skills sessions: writing an article; doorstopping and FAQs, using social media;

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3.30-4pm

What have you learned?

Feedback session

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One-to-one sessions

11.15am-12.45pm

Using CiviCRM to organise the Party in your area.

CiviCRM is a powerful database system that the Party uses centrally to manage memberships, communications, subscriptions, fundraising and events. Party secretaries and/or a designated comrade from each branch will receive direct training on how to access and use the system for their branch.

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1.15-4pm

Setting up and running your branch website/blog.

A template Joomla website (£75 cost) and/or Wordpress blog (£25 cost) will be set up for your branch/locality with pre-loaded articles, links and some basic design features. Party secretaries and/or a designated comrade from each branch will receive direct training on how to create, submit and edit their site.

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SESSIONS

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Group session A brief introduction to the subject is given by the session leader and attendees are broken into groups to discuss a particular theme or area of work. Groups are either randomly assigned or preferences expressed through advanced registration (with school organisers weighting participants). The group will be set a particular task (e.g. coming up with 5 ‘dos’ and 5 ‘don’ts’ or considering answers to a set of questions) and then report back to all participants at the end of the session.

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Skills session

Participants in the group are given a short overview and set practical tasks individually or in pairs to complete during the session

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Feedback Session Every participant is encouraged to share two things that they’ll be taking away from the school and putting into practice in their area

Communist News and Views is a regular publication sent to thousands of subscribers. We regularly send out special editions to subscribers in targeted localities. Essential if you want to advertise bigger open meetings.

Getting local supporters to subscribe is a key way to get your message out the local labour movement and to recruit.

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One-to-One session

Run in parallel with other sessions half an hour sessions with each participant repeated throughout the day. These are used for highly technical skills that require unique training adapted to specific local conditions or a comrades role in the Party

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Party Organiser is a Bulletin for CP cadres.

It contains news, priorities, updates and reports that will not be found on the CP website.

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HOW TO GET THERE

MANCHESTER PICCADILLY STATION IS A FIFTEEN MINUTE WALK AWAY FROM FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE http://goo.gl/xJYH5f

DRIVING DIRECTIONS FROM:

Preston http://goo.gl/u5kFTw

Liverpool http://goo.gl/WIkCjy

Lancaster http://goo.gl/JcSUTT

Stoke-on-Trent http://goo.gl/wKKU5L

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HOW DO I REGISTER? You can either register online through the CP Members & Supporters Area http://goo.gl/j0c5FA

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WHAT IT COSTS

There is no cost for attending the School as it is being funded by the Party Centrally.

Therefore the cost to you and your branch just involve transport costs.

Bring your own sandwiches, limited refreshments available.

We encourage you to raise attending the School in your local branch and seek to use local funds to help cover the transport costs.

Funding is available from the Party centrally for anyone who needs it. (this could be maximised by organising a car load from your area). Train travel to Manchester should be between £7 and £18 using advanced ticket purchase without railcards. http://www.thetrainline.com/

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or by e-mailing b.stevenson@communist-party.org.uk

or by phone 02086861659/07896896765

Please ensure your register before 5pm on Wednesday 10th April. If the school has filled up before the close of registration then please contact the Party Centrally.

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