John Harris, contributor to the Compass conference has written a great piece on modern socialism and the oppressive nature of many state functions. He also gives a nice mention of…
07 Jan, 2014
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29 Dec, 2013
Reflections from Neal Lawson
Another year almost over, a new one just beginning Compass started to find a new way to be in 2013. Few organisations ever make big cultural shifts but with your…
17 Dec, 2013
Britain needs to invest in social and physical infrastructure
As the late Nelson Mandela said, ‘There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way it treats its children’. Yet, the Chancellor of the Exchequer continued…
16 Dec, 2013
Garden Cities; the key to building strong communities?
Garden Cities are back on the political and social agenda. The announcement today by Lord Wolfson of plans to hold a competition to build a new garden city in England…
10 Dec, 2013
Intimidation has no place in a seat of learning
An open letter to The University of London signed by Compass Chair Neal Lawson along with over 100 academics and members of higher education trade unions around the UK, Full…
09 Dec, 2013
What Mandela Taught Us
How can you feel such a sense of loss when someone dies you never knew? The short answer has to be when it’s Nelson Mandela. And it’s exactly the sense…
05 Dec, 2013
Change:HOW? – What a day
Change:HOW? What a day. Beginnings of ends, ends of beginnings, we're all exhausted. But energized. And feeling excited; excited about what we can all do about our future... Join us…
30 Nov, 2013
Old-style politics will collapse like the Berlin wall
The way the world works is going through a paradigm shift. It's a shift from a world based on top-down/command and control to bottom-up horizontal structures and the implications for…
27 Nov, 2013
Delivering change in difficult times
Change is a word much in vogue at present amongst those who wish to see a progressive alternative to the medicine of austerity that has been fed to EU citizens…
18 Nov, 2013
How does change happen and how can we make it?
The Vertical and the Horizontal Mainstream politics is bankrupt. Privatisation, weakened unions, deregulated labour markets, insane financial speculation, endless tax-breaks for the rich: we can all see where this has…
18 Nov, 2013
In New Times change happens while you are not looking
I was in the Bronx the night Obama was first elected and there was shock on peoples' faces. They had no doubt about his capabilities. But they were finding it…
18 Nov, 2013
Change:HOW? Food for thought
On the 30th November 2013 over 500 people will gather in a warehouse come events space in East London to discuss how change happens. We want those 500 plus people…