Our September Discussion Meeting

            DRONFIELD LABOUR PARTY DISCUSSION MEETING

TOPIC :          THE COMING LABOUR PARTY CONFERENCE.
 
SPEAKER :    PAUL SCARROTT.
 
TIME :             8pm to 9.15pm.

DATE :           SUNDAY, 9th SEPTEMBER.
 
VENUE :        CONTACT CLUB, SNAPE HILL LANE, DRONFIELD, S18 2GJ.

 

Paul is a delegate to the coming Labour Party Conference on behalf of the Sheffield Heeley Constituency Labour Party and has past experiences in this capacity. He is his Constituency's Political Education Officer.

He has been a member of the Labour Party since the early 1980s. At the time of the Iraq war he chaired both Sheffield CND and Sheffield Stop The War. He has been a leading activist with Unite Against Fascism since 2003 and has spoken at numerous Labour meetings as a spokesperson for the Labour Assembly Against Austerity.

Our July Discussion Meeting

        DRONFIELD LABOUR PARTY DISCUSSION MEETING

TOPIC  :         WHAT MIGHT CORBYN DO IF AND WHEN ELECTED ?

SPEAKER :    JOHN HALSTEAD

TIME :              8pm to 9.15pm

DATE :            SUNDAY,  8th JULY

VENUE :         CONTACT CLUB, SNAPE HILL LANE, DRONFIELD

John regularly attends our meetings. He was a former executive and administrative civil servant who studied economics and politics at the LSE, being taught by Ralph Miliband. He was asked to apply for a job in Brussels in 1965, but instead came to Sheffield University Extramural Department and taught a wide-range of workers attending day-release classes, organised in association with their trade unions. He has been active in the Society for the Study of Labour History for many years, currently as a Vice-President and formerly as Chair, Treasurer and Editor of their Journal. His recent publications have mainly been about nineteenth-century radical history in the Huddersfield district, from which he originates. He continues to take an active interest in economic and political questions including their international dimensions, having been Jerwood Fellow at Hitotusbashi University in Japan in 1987-88.

He will examine Labour's current plans, their adequacy and their problems of implementation.