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Conference 2009: No Turning Back
The Robin Cook Memorial Conference
Saturday 13 June 2009 • Institute of Education, London
NO TURNING BACK
Visions, policies and campaigns for the good society
Over 90 speakers including: Neal Lawson, Compass; Rt Hon Harriet Harman MP QC; Jon Cruddas MP; Billy Hayes, CWU; Baroness Helena Kennedy QC; Caroline Lucas MEP; Ruth Lister CBE; Polly Toynbee, The Guardian; Prof Richard Wilkinson; Chuka Umunna; John Harris, The Guardian; Dr Evan Harris MP; Prof Paul Dunne; Kelvin Hopkins MP; Karen Buck MP; Simon Caulkin, The Observer; Prof Richard Sennett; Sophie Bolt, CND; Fiona Weir, Gingerbread; Dr Paul Dornan, CPAG; Wes Streeting, NUS; Hilary Wainwright, Red Pepper; Jonathan Rutherford, Soundings; Sam Tarry, Young Labour; Dr Richard Grayson; Natalie Bennett, Guardian Weekly; Andrew Simms, nef; Dr Kate Pickett; Adam Price MP; Salma Yaqoob; Jason Cowley, New Statesman; Toby Lloyd; Dr Stephen Spratt, nef; Nick Hildyard, The Cornerhouse; Nick Dearden; Jubilee Debt Campaign; Jeremy Corbyn MP; Imez McCormack; John Osmond, Institute of Welsh Affairs; Richard Thomson; Mark Perryman; Philip Blond, Demos; Baroness Uddin; David Coats, Work Foundation; Stephen Bell, CWU; Richard Hebditch, Campaign for Better Transport; Tosh McDonald, ASLEF; Jonathan Cox, London Citizens; Rev'd Angus Ritchie; Deborah Littman, UNISON; Dr Maurice Glasman; Jeff Sango, MDC; Libby Brook, The Guardian; Claude Moraes MEP; Kate Groucutt, Young Fabians; John Hilary, War On Want; Rupa Huq; Rachel Reeves; Yvette Cooper MP; Bea Campbell; Joe Riches, UCU; Juliet Michaelson, nef; Gavin Hayes, Compass; Dave Calfe, ASLEF; Michael Leahy, Community; Dr Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann MEP; Sean Oliver, Sinn Fein; Sunder Katwala, Fabian Society; Kate Allen, Amnesty International; Richard Howitt MEP; Amirul Haque Amin, NGWF; Hannah Ellis, CORE; Michelle Mitchell, Age Concern; George Manus, UBS; Anthony Barnett, OpenDemocracy; Kate Wareing, Oxfam; Michael Meacher MP; Hugh Lanning, PCS; Eileen Devaney, UKCAP; Richard Murphy, Tax Justice Network; John Evans, TUAC; Medhi Hasan, New Statesman; Dr Claire Melamed, ActionAid; Kay Boycott, Shelter; Andy Love MP; Zoe Gannon, Compass; Melissa Benn; Gill Goodswen, NUT; Terry Hoad, UCU; Ruth Tanner, War On Want; Diana Holland, Unite; Chris McLaughlin, Tribune; Stella Creasy; Robbie Erbmann, The Co-operative Party; Pauline Doyle, Unite; Nick Lowles, Hope not Hate; Simon Fletcher, Progressives4London
Hosting over 40 sessions organised by the leading think tanks, pressure groups, NGOS and publications all at the one event including: Action Aid, Age Concern, Amnesty International, ASLEF, Blue State Digital, Child Poverty Action Group, Christain Aid, CND, Compass Youth, CORE, The Co-Operative Party, Demos, Electoral Reform Society, Fabian Society, Fawcett Society, FES, Foreign Policy Centre, Friends of the Earth, Gingerbread, Help the Aged, Jubilee Debt Campaign, Lawrence & Wishart, London Citizens, Make Votes Count, nef, NUT, NUS, Oxfam, One World Action, OpenDemocracy, The Other Tax Payer's Alliance, PCS, Philosophy Football, Red Pepper, RENEWAL, Shelter, Social Liberal Forum, Soundings, Tribune, UCU, Unions 21, Unlock Democracy, War On Want, Young Fabians
Why No Turning Back?
This year's Compass conference is themed around building a new political and economic settlement for the 21st century. The freemarket economic consensus of the past three decades is crumbling around us. We live in changed times that demand radically different solutions. The neoliberal thinking that dominated the industrial world for nearly thirty years has led to a financial crisis which in turn caused the global downturn - and ideas that once threatened to be the preserve of a left-leaning minority now sit at the centre of worldwide debate. To talk about a renewed democracy, equality, fairness, the control of markets and environmental sustainability is now to reflect not just the aspirations but the objective interests of the mainstream.
The key purpose of the event will be to make the case that there can be No Turning Back to the failed ideas of the free market consensus.
With over 1000 in attendance this will be the No Turning Back event of the year, where a coalition for change will come together to discuss and debate the ideas, policies and campaigns needed to build the good society.
BOOKINGS NOW CLOSED - PLEASE REGISTER ON THE DAY IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY BOOKED A PLACE! PLEASE BRING CASH OR A CHEQUE WHEN PAYING ON THE DAY £25 UNWAGED/COMPASS MEMBERS & £35 WAGED (INCLUDES A YEAR'S MEMBERSHIP).
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