Escaping the Crisis: Why We Need Public Ownership of Finance
Event Information
Description
Online event
Zoom link is available here
Speakers include:
• Ben Selby, FBU executive council member for the East Midlands,
• Ruth Cashman, Lambeth Unison activist and Labour for a Socialist Europe secretary
• Abel Harvie-Clark, youth climate striker and NHS worker
The big banks and financial institutions hold huge resources and powerful economic levers in their hands. In Britain and internationally, we need democratic control over those levers and resources in order to protect ourselves from an implosion of credit and a snowballing slump as the Covid-19 pandemic eases; to radically reconstruct the economy in the interests of workers; and to seriously confront the climate crisis by replacing investment in carbon emissions with investment in green energy, infrastructure and jobs. It is necessary both to protect ourselves now and for any serious move toward socialism.
Join us for a discussion of a demand that is not much discussed but needs to be, hosted by The Clarion – an online socialist magazine produced by Labour and Momentum activists (theclarionmag.org)
More information: theclarionmag@gmail.com