Dear all
Announcing a
Debatte one-day Conference
`After the Elections: Developments on the German Left'
Friday April 20th
Conference Programme
11.30-1.00: Kate Hudson, The New European Left Since 1989
1.00-2.00: Lunch
2.00-3.30: Peter Thompson, The PDS-Linkspartei: Winning for the Losers?
Economic Liberalisation and the Decline of Collectivism'
3.30-4.00: Coffee break
4.00-5.30: Winfried Wolf, The PDS-Linkspartei, A Critique of its Programme
and Political Practice
Kate Hudson is Principal Lecturer in Russian and East European Studies at
South Bank University and Chair of CND. She is author of `European
Communism since 1989: Towards a New European Left?' (2000)
Peter Thompson is Lecturer in German Studies at Sheffield University and
author of `The Crisis of the German Left. The PDS, Stalinism and the
Global Economy' (2005).
Winfried Wolf was an independent member of the German Parliament on the
Party of Democratic Socialism list from 1997 to 2002. He has written
extensively on transport policy and on German politics. His `Car Mania'
was published in Britain by Pluto Press in 1996.
Venue: Richmond University, the American University in London. Room 212,
Asa Briggs House, 7-17 Ansdell Street, W8 5BN. Nearest tube station High
Street Kensington
Admission Free
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