Events This Weekend

This weekend sees a flurry of events important to the development of the left and more specifically the green left in Britain.

The long awaited recall conference of the Convention of the Left is in Manchester on Saturday - see website here and John Nicholson's introduction on the Socialist Unity Blog here.

Green Left are having a meeting for supporters and activists in Manchester on Sunday as Derek reports here.

A more middle-of-the-road event is the Progressive London event convened by Ken Livingstone, but there will be Green activists arguing for a left green approach there too.

Meanwhile, with the Gaza blockade continuing and the fragile ceasefires allowing an acccounting of the death and destruction, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign has its 2009 AGM this weekend, plus there are continuing solidarity events around the country.