ULA NATIONAL FORUM

UNITED LEFT ALLIANCE NATIONAL FORUM

Building a new party for working people, youth and the unemployed

Saturday 25th June

Liberty Hall, Dublin.

10.00: Registration

10.30 - 12.00: THE LEFT RESPONSE TO THE CRISIS

Chair: ailbhe smith - Speakers: Paul Murphy MEP, Kieran Allen, Professor Terence McDonagh

12.15 - 13.45 Workshops:

1) The Politics of Health - Speakers: Dr Peadar O Grady, Marie O Connor, Seamus Healy

2) Education, a site for resistance - Speakers: Professor Kathleen Lynch, Eddie Conlon, Cllr Ruth Coppinger

3) Combating Racism - Speakers: Luke Bukharin, Cillian Gillespie

4) How can we make our unions fight? - Speakers: Terry Kelleher, Paddy Healy, Eugene McDonagh

5) Preparing communities for the fight against water charges and home taxes - Speakers: Joan Collins TD, Mick Murphy

6) A radical plan for Jobs - Speakers: Tom O’Connor, Fiona O’Loughlin, James O’Toole

14.15 - 16.00: THE ULA: WHAT KIND OF PARTY DO WE NEED?

Speakers: Joe Higgins TD, Richard Boyd Barrett TD, Seamus Healy TD and Cllr Declan Bree

16.15 - 17.30 Workshops:

1) Women, the new sexism and recession - Speakers: Sinead Kennedy, Laura Fitzgerald

2) The alternative to the Housing Crisis - Speakers: Michael Punch, Cllr Brid Smith, Emmett Farrell

3) What is Socialism? - Speakers: John Molyneux, Cllr Mick Barry

4) New Workers Parties – Lessons from Europe - Speakers: Cllr Matt Waine, Donal McFhearraigh, Dermot Connolly

5) Climate Change – How can we stop the planet burning - Speakers: Sarah Killeen, Owen McCormack

6) The Left in the North - Speakers: Ciaran Mulholland, Eamon McCann, Paddy Healy

17.40 - 18.00: Closing Rally

Further info from:  
Declan 087-2470802 or Michael 087-2400331 or Kieran 087 2839964