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| GRASSROOTS UMBRELLA CONFERENCE PROGRAMME “WHATEVER WILL HAPPEN TO THE LABOUR PARTY? -AND HOW TO RECLAIM IT FOR MEMBERS AND TRADES UNIONS Saturday 24th June 2006 from 11.00 am to 4.00pm Brockway Hall Conway Hall Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL Printable map click here 11.00 Registration 11.15 Dr. Gaye Johnston - Chair’s Opening Remarks 11.20 Michael Meacher M.P. “Restoring and Consolidating Party Democracy: the work of the LabOUR Commission”. 11.40 Jon Cruddas M.P. “Contemporary Threats to Party democracy and to our Representative Structures” 12.00 Ann Black ( Labour Party NEC) -“Preserving and enhancing Party democracy- a view from the NEC " 12.20 Questions and Discussion. 12.40 Billy Hayes, General Secretary CWU, “ Retaining and Strengthening the Trade Union link with the Labour Party”. 1.0 Lunch Break 1.45 Ann Black - Chair’s Opening Remarks 1.50 Kelvin Hopkins M.P. “State funding, candidate selection, the un-elected Party Chair and other denials of democracy to Party members” Followed by brief discussion. 2.15 Five Workshops (please choose one) Party Representative structures Leader Mark James (Brockway Hall) State Funding and Party Finance Leader Peter Kenyon (Artists Room) Combating Sleaze Leaders Trevor Fisher/ Jon Cruddas M.P. (Tower Room) Fair Candidate selection Leader Kath Fry (Brockway Hall) Building the Party for the Future Leader Pete Willsman (Brockway Hall) 3.15 John McDonnell M.P. Developing democratic party policy making structures and securing democratic socialist policies” Followed by brief questions/discussion. 3.40. Plenary Session Feedback from workshops and discussion of the ways forward. Chaired by Tom Davidson 4.00 Close and Labour Reform Meeting |