The left can win opposing austerity
By Nicky Dempsey
The outcome of the recent general election in Denmark produced a victory for the left where the decisive issue was pro- or anti-cuts. The outcome holds wider lessons for the left across Europe.
Month: September 2011
National convention: Celebrate diversity, defend multiculturalism, oppose Islamophobia and racism
Speakers include:
Jack Dromey MP • Helen Goodman MP • Peter Hain MP • Claude Moraes MEP • Jean Lambert MEP • Farooq Murad, Secretary General, Muslim Council of Britain • Edie Friedman, Executive Director, Jewish Council for Racial Equality • Michelle Stanistreet, NUJ General Secretary • Hugh Lanning, Dep Gen Secretary, PCS • Steve Hart, Political Director, Unite the Union • Megan Dobney, Regional Secretary SERTUC • Zita Holbourne, PCS NEC • Bob Lambert, co-Director, European Muslim Research Centre • Jody McIntyre, Journalist • Peter Oborne, Journalist • Dilowar Khan, Director, London Muslim Centre • Alaa’ Samarrai, VP Student Affairs, Federation of Student Islamic Societies (FOSIS) • Kanja Sesay, NUS Black Students’ Officer • Nitin Sawney, Musician • Sabby Dhalu, Secretary, One Society Many Cultures • Denis Fernando, Lesbian and Gay Coalition Against Racism • Weyman Bennett, Joint National Secretary, Unite Against Fascism • Martin Smith, National Co-ordinator, Love Music Hate Racism
Sinn Féin Ard Fheis sets out the way forward
By Frances Davis
Sinn Féin held its Ard Fheis (Annual conference) over 9-10 September. Described as ‘a conference of firsts’, it was indeed the first time the event had taken place in Belfast at the prestigious Waterfront Hall. The rising confidence and strength of the party was evident, reflected in the breadth of speakers and policies over the two days, and laid out in both keynote speeches of party president Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness. Vice President Mary Lou McDonald gave the perspective for ‘reuniting Ireland’.
Stop The War Coalition Public Meeting: Libya, NATO and the Arab Spring
7pm September 14Bloomsbury Baptist Church235 Shaftesbury AvenueLondon WC2H 8EP Speakers: George Galloway, Sami Ramadani, Madawi al-Rasheed and Mohammed MatarMeeting organised by the Stop The War CoalitionThe public meeting will look at NATO’s [Read more]
Anti-fascist victory as fascist EDL prevented from entering Tower Hamlets
By Stephen MacAvoy
The mobilisation of several thousand anti-fascists – including local Muslim and other faith communities, trade unionists, students, LGBT organisations and many others – in Tower Hamlets on 3 September landed a huge defeat on the EDL by preventing it from entering the borough.
European conference against austerity, cuts and privatisation, and in defence of the welfare state
Saturday, 1st October 10am–5pm
Camden Centre
Bidborough Street
London WC1H 9AU
The Europe Against Austerity conference in London on 1st October will provide an important opportunity to discuss the current austerity offensive and raise the issues of macro-economic policy required for an alternative way forward to be advanced.