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Board Items Send us details of events that will be of interest to Gazette supporters and other visitors Next National Amicus Unity Gazette Supporters Meeting Venue: Council Chamber, County Hall, Preston, PR18XJ Time & Date 12:00 noon until 2:00 p.m. on Saturday 17 May 2008 Directions (PDF 324KB) 
Left Economics Advisory Panel Conference: Beyond the Market Economy Saturday 24th May 2008, 11am-4:30pm Birkbeck College, University of London, Malet Street, WC1E 7HX. LEAP and Another World is Possible are co-hosting an economics conference ‘Beyond the Market Economy’. Plenary speakers include Tony Benn and John McDonnell MP. Download the full conference agenda. Sub-plenaries include: Securing housing for all; Ending corporate power: 21st century models of social ownership; Drowning in debt: transforming the financial system; and Defending pay, pensions and jobs in a global market economy. Download full details of the sub-plenaries. You can register online or by sending a cheque for £10 (£5 unwaged), payable to ‘Another World is Possible’, to LRC, PO Box 2378, London, E5 9QU.
THE 5th COMPASS NATIONAL CONFERENCE, SATURDAY 14 JUNE 2008, INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION, LONDON
How do we deliver EQUALITY in the 21st century? The wealthiest 1% of the population owns 21% of the nation’s wealth; the bottom 50% own 7%; recently it’s been shown that health inequalities have grown; the government faces controversy over abolition of the 10p tax rate; this year’s budget pledged an extra £1.7BN in the fight against child poverty: whilst a recent report warned that child poverty could double over the next 2 decades; 67% of ethnic minority communities live in the 88 most deprived wards; the median gender pay gap has reduced from 17.4% in 1997 to 12.6% in 2007. Make EQUALITY matter: Helping make the case for GREATER EQUALITY will be major speakers throughout the day including: NEAL LAWSON, DEREK SIMPSON, ED MILIBAND, RUTH LISTER, DOUGLAS ALEXANDER, BEATRIX CAMPBELL, DANNY DORLING, JOHN HARRIS, HELENA KENNEDY, POLLY TOYNBEE, JON TRICKETT, JON CRUDDAS and CHUKA UMUNNA who’ll be joined by other leading figures from across the left and wider progressive community. With sessions organised by over 35 of the UK’s prominent progressive organisations all helping to debate how we deliver A FAIRER MORE EQUAL SOCIETY including: Fawcett, Searchlight, NUT, Socialist Health Association, UNISON, The Fabian Society, Progress, Crisis, NUS, Demos, Liberty, Unions Together, Child Poverty Action Group, Amnesty, ippr, nef, Migrants Rights Network, Barrow Cadbury Trust, Red Pepper, RENEWAL, Tribune, Friends of the Earth, Labour Left Briefing, Soundings, Age Concern, War on Want, Electoral Reform Society, Make Votes Count. HELD IN ASSOCIATION WITH - UNITE, THE GUARDIAN AND NEW STATESMAN - THE COMPASS CONFERENCE IS RETURNING THIS JUNE: come and get passionate about GREATER EQUALITY at the political highlight of the summer, the biggest annual gathering of the left taking place after the local and London elections and before Labour conference, at a brand new venue, with new facilities including a modern air-conditioned 1000 seat auditorium. This is BORN FREE AND EQUAL taking place on SATURDAY 14 JUNE 2008 at the Institute of Education, London. TO BOOK YOUR PLACE ONLINE: do so before Friday 25 April and get £2 off ticket prices - visit the newly updated conference pages at: http://www.compassonline.org.uk/conference A fairer more equal society is possible…come and help debate it this summer!
Marxism is a five-day (3-7 July) political festival hosted by the SWP, featuring 200 forums and debates plus film, gigs, theatre and exhibitions. Download the timetable for meetings at Marxism (http://www.marxismfestival.org.uk/2008/timetable.pdf) and the whole Marxism brochure including the timetable, details of key speakers, information about courses and social events. It's over 6MB in size, so it will be very slow if you don't have broadband. Thousands of people to come together with authors, artists, leading activists and campaigners to discuss what's happening in the world and debate how we can mount an effective challenge to global capitalism. "Marxism, at which I speak at every year, is one of the most important universities of the labour movement. It brings together a vast range of people. It is an honour to be invited, and I am very much looking forward to the discussion and debate that will go on" Tony Benn Speakers confirmed so far include: * Tony Benn president of Stop the War Coalition * David Hilliard leading Black Panther * Tariq Ali 1968 veteran activist & author * Howard Zinn historian * Moazzam Begg former Guantanamo prisoner * John Bellamy Foster environmentalist * Nick Davies award-winning journalist * Wendy Savage pro-choice campaigner * Mark Serwotka PCS General Secretary * Paul Gilroy author There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack * Lindsey German convenor, Stop the War Coalition * Ilan Pappe author, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine * Sally Hunt AUT General Secretary * Sami Ramadani Iraqi Democrats Against Occupation * Alex Callinicos author, New Mandarins of American Power * Steven Rose scientist and author, Not in our Genes * Ghada Karmi author and Palestinian activist * Hossam el-Hamalawy Egyptian blogger and activist * Haifa Zangana Iraqi writer * Ben Fine author, Marx’s Capital * Michael Rosen poet and children's laureate * Jacqueline Rose author Myths of Zion * Walden Bello Focus on the Global South * Zoe Williams Guardian columnist * Chris Bambery editor Socialist Worker * Billy Hayes CWU General Secretary * Melissa Benn journalist and writer * Steve Bell cartoonist * Kim Moody author, US Labour in Trouble and Transition * Michael Billington theatre critic * Jeremy Dear General Secretary NUJ * Gilbert Achcar author, Clash of Barbarisms * Chris Harman author, People's History of the World * Lemn Sissay poet * Peter Kennard and Cat Picton Phillips artists * John Mcdonnell MP * István Mészáros author, Marx’s Theory of Alienation * Rikki Beadle Blair actor, playwright and director * Mike Gonzalez author, Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution and many more…Durham Miners Gala Saturday 12th July 2008 Tolpuddle Green Camp Wednesday 16 July to Friday 18 July 2008 Tolpuddle Martyrs' Festival 2008 18th - 20th July 2008 |
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