LEFT EVENTS AT LABOUR PARTY CONFERENCE

I will be heading off to Brighton at the end of the week for Labour Party Conference:
The following events are musts for activists:

Saturday September 26: Convention Of The Left, Brightelm Centre, Brighton:
10.30am-5pm Speakers include Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell, and Prem Sikka from LEAP.

Grassroots Umbrella Network: 4.45pm onwards, UMI hotel ( previously Belgrave) .A chance for Labour Left delegates and activists to get together and discuss contemporary issues, getting contemporary motions restored......and emergency motions on the agenda.

Sunday September 27: Labour Against The War: 7pm, Friends Meeting House, Brighton.Speakers Alan Simpson MP, Christine Shawcroft, NEC

Monday September 28. LRC "Not The Labour Party Conference" 7pm, Ramada Jarvis, Brighton.

DEBATE ON THE LEFT IN HEBDEN BRIDGE......

Tomorrow night the Trades Club is hosting a debate on the future of the left and how to vote in the General Election to avoid a Tory Government. Platform is Hilary Wainwright (Red Pepper), Pete Lazenby (NUJ activist and Calder Branch Labour Party, our former Labour PPC Janet OOsthuysen and a representative from the Green Party.
I will be there, no doubt incurring the wrath of anarchists and others, by counselling that standing minority candidates only helps the Tories and that people must campaign for Labour , or at least vote Labour, as the best alternative. I will also be flagging up the LRC and urging people to join.
My tussle with the DWP this morning left me somewhat depressed and I got my cosmic comeuppance when my graphic designer got in touch to say he had just found a cheque for £50.00 which he hadn't paid in yet. I decided the only antodote to this further bad news was to resolve not to let the system get me down - and keep on keeping on. Right, off to council meeting........