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We are delighted to announce a new event to take place in Newcastle from Friday 5 February to Saturday 6 February titled The Good Society - a better way to work, a better way to live. The event is organised by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Northern TUC and Compass. High profile speakers at the event include Jon Cruddas MP; Neal Lawson, Compass; Ann Pettifor, Advocacy International; Poul Rasmussen MEP; Larry Elliot, The Guardian and many more. Attendance at the seminar is free of charge though registration is essential.  

If you are interested in attending, please email to info@feslondon.net.

 

The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung holds together with the Fabian Society a Capitalism Series encompassing 5 policy seminars, which address major policy approaches needed to move forward on debated interventions. The next seminar titled Balanced Intervention: The role of the state in today's economy will take place on 8 February at 12.30pm at the Work Foundation. Speakers are Phillip Blond, Andrew Gamble and Sunder Katwala.

If you are interested in attending, please email to info@feslondon.net.

NEW - HOW SOARING INEQUALITY CONTRIBUTED TO THE CRASH

Stewart Lansley

The economic meltdown has been widely attributed to a combination of global imbalances, excessive banking leveraging, reckless financial risk-taking and excessive personal debt. But Stewart Lansley argues in his article these headline explanations are only part of the story. The immediate triggers of the current crisis have their roots in economic, political and social upheavals of the last thirty years. Widening inequality became a key ingredient in the growing fragility of the British (and US) economy and played a central role in the build-up to the credit crunch. 

Please click here for the English version and the German version of the article.

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Building the Good Society

The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and Compass invited to the conference ’Building the Good Society – A European Perspective’ held on 20th - 22nd January 2010 in London. This event brought together progressive social democratic thought leaders from 19 countries across Europe to address how to develop social democratic forces in Europe. It worked from the report “Building the Good Society” (available in English and German) written by Dr Jon Cruddas, a leading back-bench UK Labour MP, and Andrea Nahles, Member of the German Bundestag and Deputy Chairwoman of SPD. The event was structured to allow discussion and agreement on the triple crisis of equality, sustainability and democracy and how to bind them together into a coherent narrative about the good society.

 

Prior to the conference Social Europe and Soundings Journal started an European online forum www.goodsociety.social-europe.eu to debate the “Good Society” project.

You can download a summary of the online debate here.

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