International Summer School 2014
The event to debate and question what are, and what should be, the politics of the international trade union movement.
This year’s hugely successful GLI International Summer School took place from Monday 7th – Friday 11th July. The School saw over 80 labour movement delegates from 28 countries descend upon Northern College in Barnsley, UK for an inspiring week of debate, discussion and education on the situation of the international labour movement and its politics in the 21st century.
In partnership with Union Solidarity International, we have created a permanent archive of videos, articles, presentations and photos from the Summer School. This archived content is aimed at providing an educational resource for trade union activists across the world. We hope it will provide a platform for the inspiring and challenging debates and discussions of #ISS14 to continue.
We would like to thank the participants and speakers of #ISS14, as well as the brilliant staff at Northern College, for making this year’s Summer School the best to date. We would also like to thank our funders, in particular the Berger Marks Foundation, for making the Summer School possible.
Click here to download the 2014 Programme & Guide: ISS 2014 Programme Pack
ISS 2014 Archive & Links
Session 1: The Big Picture
Capitalism, Anti-Capitalism and the Trade Union Movement
Speakers – Asbjørn Wahl & Bill Fletcher
Session 2: The Politics of Organising
Speakers – Sanjiv Pandita, Kirill Buketov and Rosa Pavanelli
The Long March of Chinese Labour
Speakers – Zhang Lingji
Politics, Organisation & Education
Speakers – Dave Spooner and Manuel Cortes
Organising Informal and Precarious Workers
Speakers – Jin Sook Lee, Yoana Georgieva and Kendall Fells
The Slow Death of the Socialist International
Speaker – Dan Gillan
Session 3: Global Union – Global Politics
Union-Party Relationships: Stay together for the sake of the children or get a divorce?
Speakers – Sujata Gothoskar, Lee Changgeun and Karin Pape
Unions, Climate Change and the Great Inaction
Speakers – Sean Sweeney, Lara Skinner and Gary Smith
The Political Vision and Strategy of the International Trade Union Movement
Speakers – Sam Gindin, Peter Rossman and Costas Lapavistas
Question Time – Live Discussion with Sharan Burrow, ITUC
Speaker – Sharan Burrow
