Across the globe, 2024 is a time of change. With the backdrop of declining membership and lower bargaining density, unions are grappling with the introduction of AI, continuing development of digital technologies as well as the challenges of political transition and engagement. Now, as ever, unions and union centres are looking at how we develop ourselves as organisations to address […]
Join the Mayor of Greater Manchester in an online conversation with the #Labour4PR campaign. Two years ago, Andy Burnham spoke to the #Labour4PR campaign about his support for Proportional Representation and radical democratic reform. Since then Constituency Labour Parties, affiliated trade unions, and the Labour Party Conference have all overwhelmingly backed electoral reform - and Labour's official policy has recognised […]
Strategic Planning Residential - Bringing it back to our unions - Deepening engagement - Building an action plan (at work and in the wider movement) - Patrols and campaigning
Grace Blakeley, acclaimed author of 'Vulture Capitalism,' will join Matt Willgress of Arise - A Festival of Left Ideas to discuss "How can theories of imperialism & state-monopoly capitalism help us understand the crisis today?" In today's world - riven by crisis, inequality & war - is it worth returning to the classic theories of Lenin, Bukharin, Luxemburg, Hilferding & others about […]
