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See below, for everything new from Compass - including our latest event and new articles to read and make comment. For daily news, views and debate from the democratic left visit www.compassonline.org.uk

Winning the new progressive consensus: making change happen (new event)

On Monday 23 July at 6pm in Parliament Compass has organised a special meeting with Jon Cruddas MP and others, to discuss some of the key ideas and themes raised in the recent deputy leadership debate and how to move those forward positively in helping Labour to win a 4th term, it will be a good opportunity to bring people together after the excellent debate that has been had in recent weeks.

Speakers: Jon Cruddas MP, Jon Trickett MP (chair of Labour's new manifesto group on housing and Compass Parliamentary chair), Neal Lawson (chair Compass) (with more speakers TBC)

• When: 6-7.30pm Monday 23rd July 2007
• Where: Committee Room 10, House of Commons, London, SW1
• Register: gavin@compassonline.org.uk please register ASAP (spaces limited)

Latest articles for you to debate on the key issues facing progressives and the new government

•  - Let’s seize this constitutional moment says Daniel Leighton
•  - It’s time to crack down on the media moguls argues Steve Goodrich
•  - James Crowther argues why we must protect civil liberties
•  - Duncan O'Leary writes on inequality, social cohesion and water coolers
•  - As Gordon Brown enters his first week as prime minister, Murray Rowlands examines the challenge the party faces in the south of England
•  - Religious right can give you cancer says Oli Usher
•  - Ownership matters and we need to be very wary of private equity argues Nick Matthews
• - The Left has to forge a new language and culture argues Jonathan Rutherford

Read and debate Tribune articles on the Compass website

As part of a new partnership, every Friday Compass will publish two or three articles from Tribune for people to read and make comment. The first articles are now on the website and included in the list above. Tribune is the independent Labour magazine dedicated to promoting open, accurate debate around social and political issues from a democratic socialist perspective, it carries unrivalled news on the labour movement. We hope this new partnership will help foster greater debate across the progressive movement.

Watch the Compass conference 'shaping our global world' online

Live video coverage of the Compass conference 2007 'Shaping our global world' is now available online. Including speeches by Neal Lawson, Dave Prentis, Frances O'Grady, Dr Mustafa Barghouti, Ken Livingstone, Antonio Miranda and Jon Trickett. You can also watch the Global Question Time with Paul Mason, Gareth Thomas, Sukhvinder Stubbs, Mark Seddon, Martin Bright, Shami Chakrabarti and Collins Magalasi. The event was held on Saturday 9 June 2007 at Central Hall Westminster and was attended by over 1000 people, making it the biggest independent gathering of progressives. - Full coverage of the conference

Machines, Markets and models: new discussion pamphlet on the politics of a democratic NHS to be published shortly

Compass will soon be publishing a new pamphlet on the politics of the NHS by Neal Lawson. The central argument is that the NHS should be valued not just for its instrumental value (it makes people better) but its intrinsic value as a socializing institution. But there is a paradox at the heart of the NHS. In today’s world the modern left want diversity and local decision making which inevitably leads to different outcomes but also universalism and equality of service. The two are in conflict. The pamphlet argues that neither top down centralisation nor the commercialisation of the NHS can help manage this paradox. Instead we have to find ways of binding producers and users of NHS services into the management of this paradox so that they inform the decisions, to balance our conflicting desire for diversity and our belief in equity. - Join to receieve your priority copy

All 3 books in the Compass Programme for Renewal are now published (get your copies today)

The Good Society considers the sort of society we want to live in. A New Political Economy explores what the economics of the good society are. And Democracy and the Public Realm looks at the democratic processes and structures that uphold the good society. The programme outlines the positive case for how we can renew Britain and the wider world based on the principles of equality, democracy, well-being and sustainability. All members have been sent priority copies. - Join Compass and receive all 3 books in your welcome pack

News from other progressives

 - CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES AND DIPLOMACY You are warmly invited to become involved in the cutting edge discussion on the liability of corporations at a major conference `Corporate Accountability, Limited Liability and the Future of Globalisation' on 20-21 July 2007 held by the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at SOAS. Angela Eagle MP (Treasury Committee) is the latest confirmed speaker added to the stellar list that includes Rodney Bickerstaffe (former Secretary General of UNISON) Jack Blum (former special counsel to the US Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Operations), Niall Watson and other CORE representatives, Professor Grahame Thompson (co-author of `Globalization in Question'), Representatives of the International Commission of Jurists, Professor Kurt Strasser (Leading Scholar on Limited Liability, University of Connecticut School of Law).

For further details, background papers and registration information please visit www.cisd.soas.ac.uk and click on the conferences page. For direct enquiries please email Poul Christiansen on pc42@soas.ac.uk

- OPEN DEMOCRACY DEBATE COMPASS PROGRAMME FOR RENEWAL Visit http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2007/06/18/democracy-and-the-public-realm other articles including on Brown's statement on constitutional reform can be found at http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net

 - ONE VOICE

This July turn Westminster Green and Blue – Israelis and Palestinians Need Your Help

• When: Wednesday, July 25th at 6pm
• Where: Abingdon Green, opposite the House of Lords
• Why: Demonstrate your support for the Israeli and Palestinian people working to end the conflict

For more information on OneVoice contact: jake@OneVoiceMovement.org or sayyeda@OneVoiceMovement.org 0208 939 1725

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