A fascinating day of discussion and debate on building broad left parties across Europe
Saturday June 28th 10.30 – 6.00 ULU Malet St London – nearest Tube Goodge St.
Tickets10 pounds waged five pounds unwaged (two pounds students)
Across Europe working people are looking for a political alternative. Their traditional parties have become parties of the rich. This conference will look at the experiences of socialist from across Europe in building new political voices for the working class.
Opening plenary 11.00
Penny Duggan – LCR.
Miguel Reis – Left Block.
Andrej Hunko – Die Linke.
Angelo Cardone – Sinistra Critica
Lunch – 1.00
First round of workshops – 2.00
The German experience – Andrej Hunko
The Portuguese experience – Miguel Reis
The LCR new party project – Penny Duggan
The emergence of Sinistra Critica – Angelo Cardone
Second plenary – 3.30
Willem Bos – Dutch Socialist Party.
Nick Wrack – Respect
Ivan Beavis – Communist Party of Britain
Joseph Healy – Green left
Second round of workshops – 4.30
The CPB approach – Ivan Beavis
The Dutch experience – Willem Bos
Building Respect – Kevin Ovenden
Green parties in Europe – Joseph Healy
End 6.00
Speaker profiles
Penny Duggan. Penny is a leading member of the LCR in Paris. She was a recently candidate on the “100% a gauche” list in both local and national elections in the 20th district of Paris. She is involved in the current LCR campaign for a new anti-capitalist party in France and will speak on the current stage of this remarkable campaign and the prospects for it.
Andrej Hunko. Andrej is a member of the board of Die Linke in Northrhine-Westfalia and a supporter of the left-wing current inside Die Linke – the Antikapitalistische Linke. He is a long-standing activist of the German anti-war movement and the movement against public service cuts. He will talk about the importance of the emergence of Die Linke and the way it is developing.
Miguel Reis. Miguel is a leading member of the Portuguese Left Block. He will speak on how this important organization of the Portuguese and European left has been built and successes it has achieved in the electoral and other fields.
Angelo Cardone. Angelo is a member of Sinistra Critica (the Critical Left) which left Rifondazione Communista after it joined the pro-capitalist Prodi government. He will talk both this deeply negative experience and of the success of the Critical Left in establishing itself as an independent organization.
Willem Bos. Willem is a long-standing activist of the Dutch left and a member of the Socialist Party. He will be speaking in a personal capacity about his experiences in this important and successful party of the left.
Nick Wrack. Nick is the National Secretary of Respect. He will be speaking in a personal capacity on the struggle for an effective left alternative to new Labour.
Joseph Healy. Joseph is a member of the Green left and will speak on the European Green parties.
Ivan Beavis. Ivan will be speaking as a member of the executive committee of the CBP on its approach to broad left parties. He is also the circulation manager of the Morning Star.
Kevin Ovenden. Kevin is a member of the Respect national council and works for George Galloway MP. He will be introducing a workshop on building Respect.
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