Scottish Morning Star conference – ‘Post Covid, Post Brexit.’

POST COVID, POST BREXIT, THE STRUGGLE FOR JOBS AND A SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT WITH REAL POWER TO SHAP ECONOMIC LIFE.

TO REGISTER https://tinyurl.com/ScotsStarMeet

AND THE CRISIS OF SOCIAL PROVISION

Chair: Lynn Henderson Scottish Secretary PCS
1 p.m.-1.50
SESSION 1 POST-COVID CHALLENGES TO THE LABOUR MOVEMENT

Roz Foyer Michel Roberts Steve Turner Lorna Slater

Overview: challenges facing TU movement
Economic crisis: debt, unemployment, inflation
The challenge of de-industrialisation in our nations & regions The challenge of climate change

2 p.m. -2.50
SESSION 2 DEMOCRATIC INTERVENTION IN THE ECONOMY

AFTER BREXIT?

Paul O’Connell John McDonnell Beth Winter MP

Johnson’s neo-liberal Brexit: Can the mould be broken ? A democratic model for economic regeneration
Powers for the nations and regions ?

3 p.m. – 3.50
SESSION 3 IN OR OUT THE UK/EU – POTENTIAL FOR DEMOCRATIC ECONOMIC ADVANCE
George Kerevan The independence option
Denise Christie Public services and the Growth Commission Report
Pauline Bryan Progressive Federalism, the Referendum and the third option