Archive for April 28th, 2009

ILP Weekend

Apr 28th, 2009 | By Matthew Brown | Category: Democratic Socialist

 
Crunch Times: Politics And The Crisis
 
ILP Round Table Seminar 
Esplanade Hotel, Scarborough 
13th-14th June 2009
Saturday   13th June   2.00 – 5.00pm
Sunday     14th June   9.30am – 12.30pm
 
Session 1: The economic crisis
• What just happened? 
• What does it tell us about capitalism?
Session 2: The mess we’re in
• What kind of world are we left with?
• What are the social, economic, [...]



Spanish Civil War Commemoration

Apr 28th, 2009 | By Matthew Brown | Category: Articles

Seventy years after the end of the Spanish Civil War the first ever memorial plaque commemorating the anti-fascist British and Irish volunteers who fought alongside George Orwell in the ILP Contingent is to be dedicated.
Two political veterans will do the honours: Sidney Robinson, an Independent Labour Party activist in the 1930s who chaired the Newport [...]