The 2011 winter school addressed through lecture, discussion and workshop the following themes:<\/p>\n
\u2022 The bail outs and the end of the <\/strong>European project.<\/strong> Dr John Barry<\/strong> \u2013 Centre for Progressive Economics The economic collapse of 2008 brought the world to the edge of economic and social catastrophe; the worst effects of the collapse were prevented by the nationalisation of the banking debts and the single largest transfer of wealth from poor to rich in human history.\u00a0 As the entire global financial system races towards another major crisis what is the response of the Conservative led coalition, The Fine Gael led collation and the local Executive?\u00a0 Apparently, more of the same.<\/p>\n In Northern Ireland, a dysfunctional economic region riven with deep structural sectarianism and a dangerous legacy of forty years of conflict, the answer has been to accept with little opposition, massive cuts to public services in return for a proposed reduction in corporation tax, which in turn could further reduce the block grant by \u00a3400 million. And this with absolutely no guarantee that a reduced corporation tax will lead to increased tax revenues.\u00a0 Not so much risking \u00a3400 million, as throwing it away and all for a bankrupt economic dogma.<\/p>\n The 2011 Trademark winter school in partnership with the Centre for Progressive Economics offered grass roots activists an opportunity to investigate an alternative, progressive economics in the company of a range of left economists, labour activists and social policy researchers working in universities, the labour movement,\u00a0 NGO\u2019s and Co-operatives. The school sought to question the orthodox economic consensus that dominates public debate and sought to ensure that a critical and alternative perspective was heard a the event.<\/p>\n Betty Sinclair<\/strong><\/p>\n Betty Sinclair was born into a working-class Protestant family in the Ardoyne area of North Belfast in 1910. Active in the outdoor relief protests in 1932 she was a founding member of the Communist Party of Ireland in 1933. She was secretary of the Belfast and District Trade Union Council from 1947 to 1975.\u00a0 Betty was the Trades Council’s representative at talks which founded the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) in 1967, serving as its first Chairperson. She died in 1981. The 2011 winter school marked the thirtieth anniversary of her death and celebrated her contribution to the labour and trade union movement in Ireland.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 2011 winter school addressed through lecture, discussion and workshop the following themes: \u2022 The bail outs and the end of the European project. \u2022 The state of the Union. \u2022 Sectarianism and the legacy of a divided\u00a0class. \u2022 Worker-led alternatives to capitalism. \u2022 Green capitalism and the end of growth. \u2022 The global attack on workers rights Dr John Barry \u2013 Centre for Progressive Economics Professor Peadar Kirby \u2013 University of Limerick John Hendy QC Dr Eileen Fegan – Lecturer in law Professor Keith Ewing \u2013 King\u2019s College London Peter Bunting- Ass Gen Sec, ICTU Michelle Brown– Community Activist Dr Conor McCabe-Historian And Author Bill Kelly \u2013 Meitheal Midwest Dr Duncan Morrow \u2013 Community Relations Council Tommy McKearney \u2013 Independent Workers Union Dr Nat O\u2019Connor – An Tasc Tom\u00a0 Healy – ICTU Economic Research Unit Dr John Karamichas \u2013 QUB School of Sociology The economic collapse of 2008 brought the world to the edge of economic and social catastrophe; the worst effects of the collapse were prevented by the nationalisation of the banking debts and the single largest transfer of wealth from poor to rich in human history.\u00a0 As the entire global financial system races towards another major crisis […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourafterconflict.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourafterconflict.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourafterconflict.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourafterconflict.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourafterconflict.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourafterconflict.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourafterconflict.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourafterconflict.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourafterconflict.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourafterconflict.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourafterconflict.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2022 The state of the Union.<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Sectarianism and the legacy of a divided\u00a0<\/strong>class. <\/strong>
\n\u2022 Worker-led alternatives to capitalism.<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Green capitalism and the end of growth.<\/strong>
\n\u2022 The global attack on workers rights<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nProfessor Peadar Kirby<\/strong> \u2013 University of Limerick
\nJohn Hendy QC<\/strong>
\nDr Eileen Fegan<\/strong> – Lecturer in law
\nProfessor Keith Ewing<\/strong> \u2013 King\u2019s College London
\nPeter Bunting- Ass Gen Sec,<\/strong> ICTU
\nMichelle Brown<\/strong>– Community Activist
\nDr Conor McCabe<\/strong>-Historian And Author
\nBill Kelly<\/strong> \u2013 Meitheal Midwest
\nDr Duncan Morrow<\/strong> \u2013 Community Relations Council
\nTommy McKearney<\/strong> \u2013 Independent Workers Union
\nDr Nat O\u2019Connor<\/strong> – An Tasc
\nTom\u00a0 Healy<\/strong> – ICTU Economic Research Unit
\nDr John Karamichas<\/strong> \u2013 QUB School of Sociology<\/p>\n