Events

ILP@120: Past Lessons for Future Progress

May 9th, 2013 | By Matthew Brown | Category: Articles, Events, Frontpage, Lead

“Fellowship was the foundation of their politics,” said Barry Winter, recalling the culture of the early ILP at the organisation’s 120th anniversary Weekend School in Scarborough on 4/5 May.



The Future of the NHS

Apr 26th, 2013 | By Matthew Brown | Category: Articles, Events, Frontpage

Martin Rathfelder, director of the Socialist Health Association, will speak about the future of the health service at Dronfield Labour Party’s May Day public discussion meeting.



ILP@120: Ethical Socialism, Capitalism and the State

Mar 11th, 2013 | By Matthew Brown | Category: Articles, Events, Frontpage

Ethical socialism past and present, and its place in a ‘one nation’ Labour Party, will be the focus of debate at the ILP’s annual weekend gathering of members and friends at Scarborough’s Esplanade Hotel on 4/5 May.



One Nation Labour Debates

Mar 3rd, 2013 | By Matthew Brown | Category: Articles, Events, Frontpage

Meetings about the Labour Party’s ‘one nation’ modernisation process have been coming thick and fast in the last few weeks, the latest batch a series of three at the Houses of Parliament organised by Compass, Progress and the Labour Policy Review.



Orwell to be honoured by International Brigades

Feb 27th, 2013 | By Matthew Brown | Category: Articles, Events, Frontpage

The International Brigades Memorial Trust is holding a special event in Manchester on 2 March to mark the 75th anniversary of George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia.



Homage to Catalonia on Radio4

Jan 28th, 2013 | By Matthew Brown | Category: Articles, Events, Frontpage

Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell’s book about his experiences as an ILP volunteer at the Spanish Civil War, has been dramatised on Radio 4 over the last few weeks.



ILP@120: Lessons for Today

Dec 11th, 2012 | By Matthew Brown | Category: Articles, Events, Frontpage

Lessons of ILP history will up for debate at the next Dronfield Labour Party discussion meeting held on the 120th anniversary of the founding of the Independent Labour Party in Bradford in 1893.



Communications and other Big Issues

Nov 19th, 2012 | By Matthew Brown | Category: Articles, Events, Frontpage

The Raymond Williams Foundation is holding a ‘Communications’ residential weekend seminar at the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool on 23-25 November.



100 Years of Cambridge Labour Party

Nov 6th, 2012 | By Matthew Brown | Category: Articles, Events, Frontpage

Shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander MP will be the main speak at an event to celebrate the centenary of Cambridge Labour Party on Saturday 17 November.



There has to be a better way

Oct 15th, 2012 | By Matthew Brown | Category: Articles, Events, Frontpage

Andrew Gamble and Jon Cruddas are two of the speakers who will feature in the Sheffield-based School of Democratic Socialism’s new lecture series called ‘There has to be a better way’.