OPENING PLENARY
Opposing austerity – defending public services and the welfare state
  • Katy Clark MP
  • Owen Jones, writer and commentator
  • John McDonnell MP
  • Steve Turner, Assistant General Secretary Unite
  • Chair: Lisa Forbes, Labour’s Parliamentary Candidate for Peterborough
No to privatisation – keep our services public
  • Lucy Anderson, Labour MEP candidate & National Policy Forum member
  • Frank Dobson MP
  • Tosh McDonald,  Vice President, ASLEF
  • Heather Wakefield, UNISON Head of Local Government, Police and Justice
  • Chair: Kate Osamor, NHS worker
Defend the link – defend trade union rights
  • Professor Keith Ewing
  • Marsha-Jane Thompson, Defend the Link
  • Adrian Weir, Campaign for Trade Union Freedom
  • Peter Willsman, Campaign for Labour Party Democracy
  • Chair: Conrad Landin, Young Labour National Committee 
No scapegoating – immigrants and claimants not to blame
  • Don Flynn, Director, Migrant Rights Network
  • Cllr Aaron Kiely, Unite Against Fascism & NUS Black Students Officer
  • Murad Qureshi AM
  • Marina Prentoulis, Syriza
  • Chair: Cllr Alice Perry, Labour National Policy Forum member
What are the economic alternatives to austerity?
  • Michael Burke, Socialist Economic Bulletin
  • Ken Livingstone
  • Michael Meacher MP
  • Ann Pettifor, Policy Research in Macroeconomics
  • Chair: Bob Oram, Chair, Peoples Press Printing Society
Housing – tackling the crisis
  • Duncan Bowie, former adviser to Ken Livingstone & senior lecturer planning & housing University of Westminster
  • Jenny Fisher, Secretary, Tower Hamlets Federation of Tenants & Residents Associations
  • Jim Gamble, Executive Council, UCATT
  • Richard Price, local government housing officer
  • Catherine West, Labour’s Parliamentary Candidate for  Hornsey & Wood Green
  • Chair: Christine Shawcroft, NEC & Labour Briefing Co-op
Fund public services not war
  • Stephen Bell, Stop the War Coaltion
  • Daniel Blaney, Labour CND
  • Cllr Kate Taylor, Young Labour National Committee
  • Chair: Sonia Klein, Vice-Chair – Defence, Labour Finance and Industry Group
CLOSING PLENARY
Ending Austerity – Labour policies to win in 2015
  • Diane Abbott MP
  • Shelly Asquith, President, University of the Arts Student Union (pc)
  • Jeremy Corbyn MP
  • Mike Hedges, Chair, Unite London and Eastern Region Political Committee
  • Francesca Martinez, founding signatory, People’s Assembly Against Austerity
  • Chair: Cat Smith, Labour’s Parliamentary Candidate for Lancaster and Fleetwood

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