The General Federation of Trade Unions and SOAS, University of London, in collaboration with the research network, EReNSEP, cordially invite you to an initial series of online seminars on the British economy.

Each seminar will consider critical, but overlooked, contemporary economic issues. These have to be discussed, if fresh policies are to be developed with trade union participation to achieve a new deal for working people, our communities and the environment.

The dominance of the finance sector and lack of investment in the productive economy have created a volatile and fragile environment. It is imperative to consider the latest thinking that could inject dynamism into productive activities, create good jobs, channel finance away from speculation, and achieve environmental targets.

Professor Costas Lapavitsas, Larry Elliott, Economics Editor Guardian, and Grace Blakely, Economics Editor, Tribune, will be among those contributing to this series.

It is hoped that the seminars would lead to new policy development for unions and community organisations.

The seminars will be held online on 13, 16, and 23 June, 7:00-8:30 pm.

Provisional seminar programme

13 June: Dealing with the rising cost of living. The causes of inflation in the Pandemic Crisis. Government intervention in favour of big business. Measures to protect the income and livelihood of working people.

7:00pm-8:30pm

Zoom Details:

Meeting ID: 880 3592 5471

Password: 091872

16 June: The threat to the environment and policies to confront it. Suggestions for fiscal and monetary policy to achieve environmental targets. How to deal with Environmental Social and Governance indexes used by big business and banks.

7:00pm-8:30pm

Zoom Details:

Meeting ID: 881 9637 8277

Password: 255881

23 June: Financialisation and the productive economy.

Extraordinary concentration of ownership of productive resources through financial institutions. Policies to confront weak investment at local and national level.

7:00pm-8:30pm

Zoom Details:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81653137325?pwd=c1JhY3lZM0ZJWjF5V2ptcnAxd1hCZz09

Meeting ID: 816 5313 7325

Passcode: 995542