DUNDEE
Tuesday 4 February
William McGonagall and the Radical
Tradition in Scottish Poetry
Alistair Findlay
Chair Mike Arnot
7 p.m. DVA, 10 Constitution Street
Scottish Morning Star Conference Autumn 2013
ARGUMENTS FOR PUBLIC OWNERSHIP
Peter Pinkney President RMT
Agnes Tolmie, past President STUC
Stephen Boyd, Research STUC
Harry Frew STUC President, UCATT
PUBLIC OWNERSHIP: Winning the Policy Arguments
Neil Findlay MSP
Lynn Henderson, PCS Scottish Secretary
Chris Stephens, SNP Trade Union group
Dave Watson, Political Officer Unison Scotland
The Morning Star’s autumn conference will discuss how to oppose the current ConDem drive for further privatisation, of posts, banking, government services and nuclear fuel, and hear the arguments FOR public ownership. Private enterprise in Britain is plainly not working. Business investment has collapsed: lower than at any time since 1945. The mismanagement of the financial system – with banks geared to maximising speculative profits – has brought the worse economic crash since the 1930s. Privatised utilities have proved spectacular failures. Ofgen warns of power black-outs by 2015 as a result of lack of investment in the privatised energy sector. Privatised rail has the highest subsidies in Europe – while the publicly owned East Coast line has delivered almost £1billion in profit. A socially disastrous housing crisis has resulted from the inability of the private sector to provide affordable houses. Yet elsewhere in the world there is economic growth – and it is generally in those countries where there is a significant measure of public ownership and active public support for industry. The conference will examine the policy challenges involved in re-winning a mass consensus in favour of public ownership.
Public Meeting
Jointly sponsored by Institute of Employment Rights and the Scottish Morning Star Campaign Committee
Campaign for Trade Union Freedom
FREE
TRADE UNIONS
POWER
TO FIGHT INJUSTICE
Carolyn Jones IER
Pat Stuart Unite Executive member
Phil McGarry RMT Scotland Political Officer
Chair Stephen Smellie
Friday 25 October at 7 p.m.
STUC 333 Woodlands Road, Glasgow G3
MORNING STAR EVENTS AUTUMN 2013
FALKIRK
Tuesday 5 November
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Mark Lyon Deputy Chair Unite
Chair: Colin Finlay
Chair: Colin Finlay
7 p.m. Falkirk Football Stadium, Westfield FK2
9DX
PAISLEY
Tuesday 3 December
Helen Macfarlane: the Barrhead revolutionary who made the
first English translation of the Communist Manifesto in 1850
Brenda Aitchison Secretary Paisley TUC:
Chair Colin Mack
7 p.m. Paisley Town Hall
DUNDEE
Tuesday 4 February
William McGonagall and the Radical Tradition in Scottish Poetry
Alistair Findlay Chair Mike Arnot
7 p.m. DVA, 10 Constitution Street
EDINBURGH
Tuesday 18 March (in association Edinburgh
Irish Festival)
Connolly: Socialism and Nationalism
Keith Stoddart
7 p.m. Augustine Church Centre, 41 George IV
Bridge
CLYDEBANK
Tuesday 1April
Jack London’s Iron Heel - fascism
foretold
Rab
O’Donnell
7 p.m. Venue to be confirmed
BATHGATE
Tuesday 6 May
The Masque of Anarchy, Peterloo and the People’s Assembly
Stuart Moir
7 p.m. Acredale Centre, 9 Mid Street, EH48 1PS
GLASGOW
Thursday 8 May
Bobby Starret: Making Fun of
the Class Enemy
Appreciation David Betteridge
Appreciation David Betteridge
Chair George Kerr
STUC 333 Woodside Road
FIFE
Thursday 5 June
1914: Whose War Was it?
Tom Kirby and Brad Oliver
7 p.m. venue to be confirmed
GLASGOW
Tuesday 8 July
Protests against War: 1914 and Keir Hardie
Bob Holman and Richard Leonard
STUC, 333 Woodside
Road
VIDEO: Building a Strike from Scratch - The Clydebank Singers Factory Strike 1911
Part of the Scottish Morning Star "Our Class, Our Culture" series of Scotland-wide events.
www.morningstaronline.co.uk
Dr Chik Collins takes us through the fascinating history of ordinary working class people in Clydebank organising themselves.
The Singers Factory was a huge employer of local people. They were world renown for their famous sewing machines. But at the turn of last century they treated their workers in an appauling fashion.
How did these workers organise themselves from a position where so few were unionised? What can we learn today from their heroic example?
www.morningstaronline.co.uk
Dr Chik Collins takes us through the fascinating history of ordinary working class people in Clydebank organising themselves.
The Singers Factory was a huge employer of local people. They were world renown for their famous sewing machines. But at the turn of last century they treated their workers in an appauling fashion.
How did these workers organise themselves from a position where so few were unionised? What can we learn today from their heroic example?
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