Upcoming Events
The chair of Compass Neal Lawson and local academic Graham Smith will be speaking at the launch of the Salisbury branch of Compass on Thursday 2 March at The Boathouse in Millstream Approach from 7.30pm. A regular writer for the Guardian and the New Statesman, Neal has long believed that...
Past Events
The Fabian Society are holding their New Year conference this year on Saturday 14th January. Neal Lawson will be speaking on a panel in the Progressive Alliance breakout group at 12.15. Come along and get involved. The conference agenda and registration are both here We'll also have a...
The meeting of the Salisbury local group will take place this Saturday 26th at The Market Inn in Salisbury, starting at 11am. Amongst other things we'll be discussing the possibility of running a local 'Democracy Cafe', preparing for our big launch event in the new year and having a general...
Meeting/Brainstorm 22 November 2016
Compass West London invites you to a meeting at 7.30pm on Tuesday, 22 November 2016 at the Northfield Community Centre 71a Northcroft Road, Ealing, W13 9SS (5 minutes walk from Northfield Tube Station). The meeting is in Room 1 and a bell for entry is next to...Help us stop Goldsmith in Richmond Park – with Caroline Lucas MP, Sophie Walker, John Harris, Neal Lawson and more…
Something remarkable happened last night – the Green Party in Richmond Park decided not to stand against Zac Goldsmith for the by-election on 1 December. They weren’t told to by party high command: local members voted not to. It’s a huge sacrifice for a greater good and they should be...
Gwneud i San Steffan weithio dros Gymru: Ydy hi’n bryd am gynghrair flaengar? – Making Westminster work for Wales: Time for a progressive alliance?
Bilingual message - scroll down for English Gwneud i San Steffan weithio dros Gymru: Ydy hi’n bryd am gynghrair flaengar? Oherwydd y system cyntaf i’r felin yn Senedd Prydain, yr unig ffordd o gael llywodraeth y D.U. i adlewyrchu buddiannau Cymru yw os yw’r pleidiau...
Where now for progressive politics? Join Compass South West Surrey for an evening to discuss building a progressive alliance with national and local speakers. The South West Surrey group has been doing a lot of work on what alliance building might look like in the area for progressives and is...
Our Money, Our City How can Londoners harness the power of the investment system to improve their city? London has the riches – in human and financial terms – to tackle the problems it faces. But our city can only thrive when people and money are aligned in facing down those...
Event Description from Devon United... For our launch event on 4 October we will be joined by Paul Hilder, co-founder ofwww.OpenDemocracy.net, 38 Degrees and Crowdpac, and former global campaigns director for Avaaz and www.Change.org We have asked him to share his insights on how people...
In the 1980s the Labour party split and the result was 18 years of Tory rule. Is this going to happen again? How do we stop it? Can Labour really win the next General election on it’s own, or does it need to work with others such as the Greens and Liberal Democrats? How do we...
A Discussion with Zoe Williams, Jonathan Reynolds MP, John McDonnell MP, Karen Buck MP, Neal Lawson (Compass), Anthony Painter (RSA). This event is in collaboration with Christians on the Left and is outside the conference zone, so open to all.
Book launch: The Alternative: towards a new progressive politics You're warmly invited to the launch of a provocative new book 'The Alternative' on 25 September presents one of the biggest challenges to the left of British politics. Based on two premises - that working together with...