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Agenda: Saturday 13 June

09:45 Screening of No Turning Back the film

09:55 Morning Keynote Addresses

Billy Hayes, General Secretary, CWU
Rt Hon Harriet Harman MP QC
John Hilary, Director, War On Want
Caroline Lucas MEP, Leader, The Green Party
Neal Lawson, Chair, Compass

11:00 Tea, Coffee & Exhibition

11:15 Seminars (Part 1):

1. What price nuclear weapons? The recession, government spending and Trident replacement (CND)
SPEAKERS: Professor Paul Dunne, Department of Economics, University of West England, Bristol; Kelvin Hopkins MP; Sophie Bolt, Vice Chair, CND
2. After the euro election - what now for social europe? (Unions 21, FES & Young Fabians)
SPEAKERS: Claude Moraes MEP; Kare Groucutt, Young Fabians; Michael Leahy, Community; Dr Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann MEP; Tristram Hunt (chair) 
3. Meet Fred: winning the arguments about ending poverty in the UK (Oxfam)
SPEAKERS: Kate Wareing, Director, UK Poverty, Oxfam
4. The Death of the Free Market: Now how do we really make poverty history? (Jubilee Debt Campaign)
SPEAKERS: Susanna Mitchell, nef; Nick Hildyard, the Cornerhouse; John Hilary, War on Want; Nick Dearden, Jubilee Debt Campaign
5. Welfare reform and the recession, can't work, won't work? (Gingerbread & CPAG)
SPEAKERS: Karen Buck MP; Fiona Weir, Gingerbread; Dr Paul Dornan, CPAG; Libby Brookes, The Guardian (chair)
6. Get the rich not the poor: a pro-poor tax and welfare agenda (PCS)
SPEAKERS: Michael Meacher MP (chair); Hugh Lanning, Deputy General Secretary PCS; Eileen Devaney, UKCAP; Richard Murphy, Tax Justice
7. From consumers to citizens - could a Bill of Rights help? (Unlock Democracy)
SPEAKERS: Jean Candler, British Institute of Human Rights; Alexandra Runswick, Unlock Democracy; Baroness Helena Kennedy QC; Jeremy Corbyn MP
8. Tax justice: the missing link in the fight against international poverty? (Foreign Policy Centre, Christian Aid & Action Aid)
SPEAKERS: John Evans, General Secretary, TUAC to the OECD; Dr Claire Melamed, Head of Policy Coordination, ActionAid, Chuka Umunna (chair)
9. Generation debt: what is to be done (NUS)
SPEAKERS: Jon Cruddas MP; Wes Streeting, NUS President; Tom Copley, Chair, LYL
10. Rebirth of the public sector: how public services can drive innovation, efficiency and democracy - without surrendering to the private sector (The Other Tax Payers' Alliance, UNISON Northern Region & Red Pepper)
SPEAKERS: Billy Hayes, General Secretary, CWU; Hilary Wainwright, Red Pepper; Simon Caulkin, The Observer; Clifford Singer, The Other Tax Payers' Alliance (chair); Josie Bird, Chair of Newcastle City Council UNISON branch
11. Breaking -Up Britain: No Turning-Back on Devolution (Philosophy Football & Lawrence and Wishart)
SPEAKERS: John Osmond, Director Instititute of Welsh Affairs; Mark Perryman, editor, Breaking-Up Britain: Four Nations after a Union; Richard Thomson, former SNP Head of Research; Arthur Aughey, author Northern Ireland Politics : After the Belfast Agreement; Rupa Huq, former Labour PPC; Sean Oliver, Sinn Fein's Director of European Affairs
12. What Capitalism Do We Want Now? (The Fabian Society)
SPEAKERS: Jack Dromey, Deputy Director, UNITE the Union; Rachel Reeves, Labour PPC for Leeds West & former Bank of England Economist; David Coats, Associate Director, The Work Foundation; Polly Toynbee, The Guardian
13. Labour vs Tory: Who are the real progressives? (Demos)
SPEAKERS: Philip Blond, Demos; Sunder Katwala, The Fabian Society; John Harris, The Guardian (chair)
14. Housing and the recession (Shelter)
SPEAKERS: Kay Boycott, Shelter Director of Communications, Policy and Campaigns; Andy Love MP; Toby Lloyd; Zoe Gannon, Compass (chair)
15. How can we open up politics to make the changes that we wish to see(ERS/MVC)
SPEAKERS: Jean Lambert MEP; Neal Lawson, Compass; Ken Ritchie, ERS
16. Business as usual? Gender justice in the post-recession global economy (One World Action & Fawcett Society)
SPEAKERS: Natalie Bennett, Guardian Weekly; Baroness Uddin, BME councilors taskforce; Professor Ruth Lister CBE, Professor of Social Policy; Bea Campbell, Author, Journalist and Broadcaster

12:30 Lunch & Exhibition

12:40 Lunchtime Plenary (organised by Compass Youth): Inside Labour, Outside Labour: How can young people work together to win progressive change?
SPEAKERS: Amisha Ghadiali, Compass youth (chair); Jonathan Cox, London Citizens; Jim Cranshaw, People and Planet; Christy Quinn, Woodcraft Folk; Tulip Siddiq, London Young Labour

Lunchtime Regional/National Get Active! Workshops

Compass Scotland Workshop with Willie Sullivan
Compass Wales Workshop with Alan Finalyson
Compass North East Workshop
Compass East Midlands Workshop with Steve Yemm
Compass West Midlands Workshop with Andrew Howell
Compass Yorkshire & Humberside Workshop with Joe Riches
Compass North West Workshop with Nicola Headlam
Compass South East Workshop with Andrew Pope
Compass London Workshop with Noel Hatch
Compass South West Workshop with Sam Mongon
Compass East Workshop with Joe Laking

13:30 Seminars (Part 2):

1. A New Socialism (Soundings)
SPEAKERS: Caroline Lucas MEP; Jonathan Rutherford, Soundings; Jon Cruddas MP; Adam Price MP, Plaid Cymru; Cllr Salma Yaqoob, Respect
2. Can Labour survive and do we want it to? (RENEWAL)
SPEAKERS: Steve Richards, The Independent; Paul Thompson, RENEWAL; Joy Johnson, Compass; Dan Leighton, RENEWAL (chair)
3. Corporate Accountability - Time for a Commission on Business, Human Rights and the Environment (Amnesty International & CORE)
SPEAKERS: Naomi McAuliffe, Amnesty International; Richard Howitt MEP; Amirul Haque Amin, General Secretary of the National Garment Workers' Federation (NGWF) in Bangladesh; Hannah Ellis, CORE Coalition (chair)
4. A crunch time for education? (NUT & UCU)
SPEAKERS: Melissa Benn, Parent, journalist and author (chair); Gill Goodswen, Headteacher, Stile Common Junior School & Senior Vice President NUT; Terry Hoad, Fellow & Tutor of English Lit, Oxford University & Vice President UCU; Joe Riches, Student, University of York, Compass Youth Organising Committee
5. A new political party or stronger progressive politics? How do we deliver a new political economy and real progress for the global justice movement? (War On Want & Tribune)
SPEAKERS: Hugh Lanning, PCS; Ruth Tanner, Campaigns & Policy Director, War on Want; Michael Meacher MP; Chris McLaughlin, Editor, Tribune (chair); Kelvin Hopkins MP
6. Work and Happiness: Democracy and Work-Life Balance (Social Liberal Forum)
SPEAKERS: Dr Richard Grayson; David Coats, Work Foundation; Stephen Bell, CWU; Juliet Michaelson, nef
7. Cut carbon emissions not rail safety (ASLEF)
SPEAKERS: Kelvin Hopkins MP; Richard Hebditch, Campaign for Better Transport; Tosh McDonald, ASLEF; Dave Calfe, ASLEF
8. Does life have to be all consuming? (Compass)
SPEAKERS: Neal Lawson, Chair, Compass; Prof Richard Sennett
9. Ecological Debt: Questioning growth - the final heresy (nef)
SPEAKERS: Tony Robinson, Actor & Broadcaster; Andrew Simms, nef
10. What does the Ageing Society mean for the 21st Century Economy? (Age Concern & Help the Aged)
SPEAKERS: Michelle Mitchell, Charity Director of Age Concern and Help the Aged; George Manus, Senior Economic Adviser at UBS and author of ‘The Age of Ageing' how demographics are changing the global economy and our world
11. Holy alliances: Building progressive coalitions with faith communities through community organising (London Citizens)
SPEAKERS: Jonathan Cox, London Citizens; Rev'd Angus Ritchie, Fellow of the CITIZEN Organising Foundation; Deborah Littman, UNISON; Dr Maurice Glasman, London Metropolitan University; Jeff Sango, Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) UK
12. Radical democracy and imagination - people and power after the meltdown (OpenDemocracy)
SPEAKERS: Guy Aitchison, Real Change: the open politics network; Anthony Barnett, openDemocracy; Suzanne Moore, Mail on Sunday; Liam Taylor, Climate Camp; Gerry Hassan, Scottish author and political commentator, the Scotsman; David Babbs, Executive Director, 38 degrees
13. Want banks to put you before profit? The feeling's mutual! (The Co-Operative Party)
SPEAKERS: Stella Creasy, Labour & Co-operative PPC, Walthamstow (chair); Robbie Erbmann, Policy Officer, The Co-operative Party; Andy Love MP, Member of the Treasury Select Committee; Rachel Reeves, Former economist at the Bank of England and Labour PPC for Leeds West
14. Change is coming: how online engagement changes campaigning as we knew it (Blue State Digital)
SPEAKERS: Pauline Doyle, Unite; Nick Lowles, Hope not Hate; Simon Fletcher
15. Halving inequality for sustainable wellbeing: a teach-in and discussion (Equality Trust)
SPEAKERS: Prof Richard Wilkinson; Dr Kate Pickett

14:45 No Turning Back Question Time

Prof Ruth Lister CBE, Loughborough University
Chuka Umunna, Labour PPC Streatham
Polly Toynbee, The Guardian
Paul Mason, Author, Meltdown
Dr Evan Harris MP
John Harris, The Guardian

Chaired by: Mehdi Hasan, Political Editor, New Statesman

15:45 Afternoon Keynote Addresses

Baroness Helena Kennedy QC
Prof Richard Wilkinson, co-author The Spirit Level
Dr Jon Cruddas MP

Chaired by: Gavin Hayes, General Secretary, Compass

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