Forum 2029
Bringing together leading voices to develop a credible progressive alternative
Upcoming events
Forum 2029 will return next year with another series of events.
Series Two – 2026
Tackling the private rental sector
• Location: Oxford House, London, E2 6HG
• Date: Wednesday 8th July, 18:30
• Speakers: Rosie Worsdale (JRF), Beth Stratford (UCL), Bekah Hesse (LRU)
Our next government? Making sense of the new right
• Location: Oxford House, London, E2 6HG
• Date: Wednesday 3rd June, 18:30
• Speakers: Li Andersson MEP (Left Alliance, Finland) | Alan Finlayson (UEA) | Anki Deo (HOPE not hate)
After the local and devolved elections: the debrief (with Culture, Power, Politics)
• Location: Oxford House, London, E2 6HG
• Date: Wednesday 13th May, 18:30
• Speakers: Alan Finlayson (UEA) & Jeremy Gilbert (UEL) – hosts of the Culture, Power, Politics podcast
Guaranteeing the essentials in volatile times
• Location: Oxford House, London, E2 6HG
• Date: Wednesday 1st April, 18:30
• Speakers: James Meadway (Verdant), Frances Northrop (NEF), Liam Mullally (Autonomy)
The challenge ahead: Britain from 2026 to 2029
• Location: Oxford House, London, E2 6HG
• Date: Wednesday 4th March, 18:30
• Speakers: Chris Hinchliff MP (Labour) | Dora Meade (NEON) | Asad Rehman (Friends of the Earth) | Hannah Peaker (NEF) | Will Stronge, Chair (The Autonomy Institute)
Series One – 2025
Live Macrodose event: the policies and politics we need
• Location: Oxford House, London, E2 6HG
• Date: Wednesday 17th September, 18:30
• Confirmed speakers: James Schneider (Progressive International), Asad Rehman (War on Want), John McTernan, Ayeisha Thomas-Smith (NEON), Antonia Jennings (Centre for London)
UK policy and the crisis in Global South living standards
• Location: Online
• Date: Wednesday 10th September, 18:30
• Confirmed speakers: Alex Cobham (Tax Justice), Nick Dearden (Global Justice Now), Devika Dutt (King’s College London), Jerome Phelps (Debt Justice).
Tax, work, incomes: building a fairer system
• Location: Online
• Date: Wednesday 3rd September, 18:30
• Confirmed speakers: Caitlin Boswell (Tax Justice), Rebecca Gowland (Partiotic Millionaires), Mary-Ann Stephenson (Women’s Budget Group), Alfie Stirling (Joseph Rowntree Foundation)
Media, tech and democratic reform: how can our systems be tranformed for public good?
• Location: Oxford House, London, E2 6HG
• Date: Wednesday 16th July, 18:30
• Confirmed speakers: Prof. Jeremy Gilbert (UEL), Adam Cantwell-Corn (TUC, Connected by Data), Lena Swedlow (Compass), Natalie Fenton (Goldsmiths).
Launch event: Why we need a new progressive policy platform and the case for housing reform
• Location: Oxford House, London, E2 6HG
• Date: Wednesday 4th June, 18:30
• Confirmed speakers: Zack Polanski AM (Green Party), Beth Stratford (IIPP), Neal Lawson (Compass), Sarah Nankivell (Common Wealth), Danny Sriskandarajah (NEF).
Food, Water, Energy: Ownership and the common good
• Location: Online
• Date: Wednesday 18th June, 18:30
• Confirmed speakers: Clive Lewis MP (The Labour Party), Vicki Hird (Wildlife Trusts), Fatima Ibrahim (Green New Deal UK)
Public services: ending austerity logics
• Location: Online
• Date: Wednesday 2nd July, 18:30
• Confirmed speakers: Anna Coote (NEF), Jamie Driscoll (Majority), Luke Fletcher MS (Plaid Cymru), Abby Jitendra (Joseph Rowntree Foundation)
Forum 2029 is hosted by the Autonomy Institute, a not-for-profit research organisation which creates data-driven tools and policy to build the future economy. Forum 2029 was organised with the help of Autonomy’s wider network of collaborators from across the progressive spectrum
Forum 2029 has been conceived and programmed in consultation with several key figures from the UK progressive movement, including Professor Jeremy Gilbert. It has been supported financially by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, the Alex Ferry Foundation, and the Centre for Social Change and Justice, University of East London.
Crucial strategic, analytic and programmatic thinking informing the project has been drawn from the following works:
– Daniel Chandler, Free and Equal: What Would a Fair Society Look Like? (Penguin 2023)
– John Clarke, The Battle for Britain: Crises, Conflicts and the Conjuncture. (Bristol University Press, 2023)
– Common Sense Policy Group, Act Now: a Vision for a Better Future and a New Social Contract. (Manchester University Press 2024)
– Jeremy Gilbert, Twenty-First Century Socialism (Polity 2020)
– Jeremy Gilbert & Alex Williams, Hegemony Now: How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World (and how we win it back. (Verso 2022)
– Helen Hester & Nick Srnicek, After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time. (Verso 2023)
– James Muldoon, Platform Socialism: How to Reclaim our Digital Future from Big Tech. (Pluto 2022)
– Rodrigo Nunes, Neither Vertical nor Horizontal: a Theory of Political Organisation. (Verso 2021)
– Gabriel Pogrund and Patrick Maguire, Get In: the Inside Story of Labour Under Starmer. (Penguin 2025)