January Discussion Meeting

        DRONFIELD LABOUR PARTY DISCUSSION MEETING


TOPIC:               IS LABOUR GOING ANYWHERE ?
                                              IN SEARCH OF AN IDENTITY

SPEAKER:        KEN CURRAN

TIME:                8pm to 9.15pm

DATE:                SUNDAY, 12th JANUARY 2014

VENUE:             CONTACT CLUB, SNAPE HILL LANE,
                            DRONFIELD.

 

Ken is Chair of the Sheffield Branch of the Co-operative Party and Chair of the Manor and Castle Development Trust. He has a wide area of experience inside the Labour Movement and was a full-time Regional Trade Union Official for the  National Union of Public Employees (NUPE), who amalgamated with other major public services trade unions to found UNISON. He served as a Sheffield City Councillor. Earlier he was active in the North East as a young miner. He is a regular attender at our discussion meetings and if you click into the label at the close marked "Ken Curran", you will find the thread to twelve of his most recent contributions to this blog. A book he recommends as being of relevance to his talk, is "Ill Fares The Land" by Tony Judt. 25 quotations from this book can be found here - http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/10861819-ill-fares-the-land    See Ken's reference to Tony Judt's book here

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