Upcoming Events
Compass associate Stewart Lansley will be speaking at the University of Birmingham on 'Basic Income for All: the key to a progressive future or a dead end?' Where: 1150 Muirhead Tower, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT When: 23rd October, 16.00 - 18.00 To register and...
Past Events
On Saturday 12th October, Calderdale Compass is hosting a public meeting on Democracy, Inequality and Brexit. Speakers include: Alex Sobel MP, Labour Jane Speller, Compass Coordinator The main focus of the meeting will be about how our democratic system and neoliberal economic system...
On 10th October, Compass Manchester will be gathering to discuss how people of all parties and none can come together in the next election. Speakers include: Kate Green MP, Labour April Preston, Lib Dems Chris Ogden, Green Party Tabitha Morton, CEO of More United and spokesperson...
Saturday 6 April 2019: Watch a recording of the opening panel. Watch a recording of the closing panel. Right now, finally, the moment has arrived for radical change to our democracy and our political system is shaping itself. At Westminster, the realignment looks too much like...
It is time for a very different form of democracy.
This means more than a few tweaks to the existing democratic system: we need a fundamental recasting of relationship with power, defined as the ability to act. Can the state stop doing change to people and start to work with them, in...
Join Neal Lawson, Andrew George, Barry Langford and Andree Frieze for the launch of South West Surrey Compass' book A New Way of Doing Politics - working together to challenge a "safe" Tory seat - about their progressive alliance campaign at the General Election. Sign up and buy your copy...
Join Neal Lawson and co-leader of the Green Party Sian Berry to discuss the current status of progressive politics and cross-party co-operation. Hosted by Newham Compass, the event is free to attend and all are welcome. Come be part of the debate!
Britain’s next Government must be a progressive one. And it can’t be shy. We need to radically break away from almost everything the Tory Government stands for. This challenge is too big, too important for one party to have all the answers. This is why we’re inviting progressives from all...
At this meeting, we'll be hosting Austin Mitchell, former Labour MP for Great Grimsby, to talk about the campaign for PR in New Zealand, and its benefits for progressive politics and the country. After decades of neoliberal politics, combativeness and constant infighting in the two main...
Join us at Labour Party Conference for the launch of our report on the 'Causes and Cures of Brexit', with contributions from 25 different thinkers, campaigners, journalists and MPs from across the progressive spectrum. Come and get involved in the discussion about the underlying causes of Brexit...
Come and join speakers Lisa Nandy MP, Laura Parker from Momentum, Clive Lewis MP, Hilary Wainwright and others to discuss possibly the biggest question of Conference: if Labour got into government, how could and should it transform the country? Drawing on Compass' ambitious project - The Common...
Come along to the second meeting of the Oxford Democracy Cafe. At the first meeting in July we shared alternatives to democratic processes, such as: changing our broken electoral system localism and alternatives to how local government is delivered democratic forms and...