Solidarity – the theme of the 2011 Left Forum – was well chosen to suggest and inspire the US left's attention to this new imperative of organisation.
Tim Leunig, chief economist of Centre Left Forum thinktank, sees the the role of the private sector in public services, social mobility, housing, and the environment as crucial policy areas which will enable it to show it is "a Liberal party and not a conservative one".
Monica Hunken, who played Janette Sadik-Kahn in the action, reflected on one of the conversations she had with a fellow activist about the action during the New York Left Forum on March 20st.
Worse that that, the cold outside is not just the zigzagging temperatures, but the sense that we are stuck in a political Ice Age where change of the kind that we will soon be discussing, again and again, ad finitem, at yet another Left forum is more remote than ever.
Kazambe Balagun is appearing on panels at the Left Forum 2011 conference, 18-20 Match, at Pace University, New York.
Stanley Aronowitz is appearing on several panels at the Left Forum 2011 conference, 18-20 Match, at Pace University, New York.
