The political, economic and social landscape is changing and, as in similar circumstances in the past, the Fabian Society is at the cutting edge. As Andrew Harrop, General Secretary of the Fabian Society, recently wrote in Future Left:
As collective, risk-sharing institutions decline people seem to be becoming more individualistic. The British today have a strong sense of personal responsibility, but also rising expectations about others and weakening social deference.
If so, what does the future hold for centralised, mass-membership organisations like political parties? If not political parties – demonstrably long in membership and activist decline – how best can we collectively organise to get progress moving again?
Given these challenges and opportunities, we invite you to have your say as to what to aim for, what to do, and, most importantly, how to do it.
Speakers: Olivia Bailey, Research Director, Fabian Society, and Mary Southcott, Unlock Democracy. Chair: Penny Farrar, East Oxford Labour Party.