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Sponsors
include Tariq Ali, Tony Benn, Jeremy Corbyn MP, Jeremy Dear (NUJ)
George Galloway MP, Bill Greenshields (NUT) Robert Griffiths (CPB),
Rahila Gupta, Jenny Jones (Green Party), Ken Loach, (Respect), Alice
Mahon, Cllr. Abjol Miah (Respect), John McDonnell MP, Mark Serwotka
(PCS), Hilary Wainwright, Derek Wall (Green Party), Matt Wrack (FBU)
(in personal capacity unless listed in sponsoring organisations
below)
Organisations
and publications supporting the Convention:
Alliance
for Green Socialism
a
world to win
Communist
Students
Communist
Party of Britain
Communist Party
of Great Britain
Education
for Tomorrow
Greater Manchester Associations of Trades Councils
Greater Manchester
Respect
Green
Left
Labour
Briefing
Labour
Representation Committee
Left
Economics Advisory Panel (LEAP)
Left
Women's Network
Liverpool
Trades Council
Manchester
Green Party
Manchester
No Borders
Manchester
TUC
Morning
Star
Newrad
Communist Collective
North
West Shop Stewards Network
Permanent
Revolution
Red
Pepper
Respect
Socialist
Resistance
Scottish
Socialist Party
Socialist
Workers Party
Tameside
TUC
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Protest,
power and participation at the Convention
of the Left
Saturday 20th September
Friends Meeting House, Mount Street, Manchester
This
first day of the Convention brings together both national and
international themes. In an increasingly globalised world what
has the left got to say about national identity or the vexed question
of immigration? Should trade unions work together across borders
- or even merge - or should they just look after their own national
patch? And in a seemingly ever more ‘security conscious’
world how does the Left respond to the challenge of ID cards?
With a Stop the War protest followed by the Convention opening
session and finished off with a relaxed evening social - where
the discussion is bound to continue - this day will set the Convention
off to a flying start.
 Greater
Manchester
Stop the War Coalition and CND
Demonstration
Assemble
12.30 pm
Saturday 20th September
All Saints Park, Cavendish St. Manchester.
Final Rally
2pm Castlefields Arena
(15 minutes walk to the Convention venue)
CLICK HERE for
more details
Convention
of the Left Opening Session
What unites us?
3.00pm Main Hall, Friends Meeting House
with John McDonnell MP, Tony Benn, Lindsey German & Derek
Wall
The Break up of the UK? sponsored by Scottish
Left Review
4.30pm, Main Hall, Friends Meeting House
with Leanne Woods AM - Plaid Cymru;Chris
Harvie MSP - Scottish National Party;Rupa Huq
-A sociologist with an interest in suburbia and identity; Rupa
has stood for Labour in parliamentary and European elections;
Gregor Gall - author of "The Political Economy
of Scotland, Red Scotland, Radical Scotland"; Andy
Newman, contributor to the anthology "Imagined Nation
- England after Britain"
Campaigning against Immigration Controls
with Campaign against Immigration Controls and M/cr No Borders
4.30pm, meeting room, Friends Meeting House
How do we stop the ‘Database State’
4.30pm, meeting room, Friends Meeting House
with No2ID, Open Rights Group and Statewatch
Trade Unions and International solidarity
4.30pm, meeting room, Friends Meeting House
with trade unionists from Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Colombia and Zimbabwe
 The
Convention's
Saffron
Saturday
Social
from 7.00pm, CLICK HERE
for more details
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