Conference - The Global Economic Crisis

Why the crisis is far from over: debating the economic alternative.

Conference

Saturday 11 July 2009 10am–4:30pm (registration 9am) Hamilton House, Mabledon Place, London WC1 (Euston Tube) map

Speakers include: Ken Livingstone Dr. Vince Cable MP Geoffrey Robinson MP Diane Abbott MP Kevin Maguire (Associate Editor Daily Mirror) Professor Danny Quah (Head of Department and Professor of Economics, LSE) Wally Olins (Chair, Saffron Brand Consultants) John Ross (Professor, Jiao Tong University, Shanghai) Graham Turner (Economist and author, The Credit Crunch) Steve Hart (Regional Secretary, Unite the Union) Claude Moraes MEP Jenny Jones AM (Green Party) Megan Dobney (Secretary, Southern and Eastern Region TUC) John Biggs AM Professor Doreen Massey Simon Weller, ASLEF, National Organiser

Discussions include: • 1929 revisited? • Towards a new economic programme • Rise of the East (the shifting centre of the world economy) • Green New Deal • Equality in the economic crisis • Facts and figures on the economy • Regenerating London's economy • Revolution in production and consumption

Registration £10 waged; £6 unwaged; £20 organisations Click here to register online For enquiries email: info@progressivelondon.org.uk

Progressive London is a cross-party, cross-community forum initiated by Ken Livingstone.