After Corbyn’s Victory, What Next For Social Movements?

When

27/09/2015    
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Where

BMECP Centre
10a Fleet Street, Brighton, BN1 4ZE

Event Type

After Corbyn’s victory: what next for social movements?

Speakers: Clive Lewis (Labour MP), Neal Lawson (chair, Compass), Ewa Jasiewicz (Fuel Poverty Action), Nick Dearden (Global Justice Now) and Ali Ghanimi (Free University Brighton). Chair: Hilary Wainwright (co-editor, Red Pepper)

 Jeremy Corbyn’s victory as Labour Party leader has blown politics in this country wide open. A huge space has opened up on the left that needs to be claimed. How do we claim the space? Should radical campaigners and activists be joining the Labour Party? Or is it far too late to re-imagine Labour as anything else than a 20th century top-down, disempowering machine? What kind of autonomous movement could be organised which also welcomes members of the Green Party, the SNP and Plaid and has close ties with grassroots trade unionism and activism? Come to our unofficial Labour Party conference fringe event to find out!

Hosted by Red Pepper, Global Justice Now and Compass.