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Debatte Conference `After the Elections: Developments on the German Left' Friday April 20th Conference Programme 11.30-1.00: Kate Hudson, The New European Left Since 1989 1.00-2.00: Lunch 2.00-3.30: Peter Thompson, The PDS-Linkspartei: Winning for the Losers? Economic Liberalisation and the Decline of Collectivism' 3.30-4.00: Coffee break 4.00-5.30: Winfried Wolf, The PDS-Linkspartei, A Critique of its Programme and Political Practice Kate Hudson is Principal Lecturer in Russian and East European Studies at South Bank University and Chair of CND. She is author of `European Communism since 1989: Towards a New European Left?' (2000) Peter Thompson is Lecturer in German Studies at Sheffield University and author of `The Crisis of the German Left. The PDS, Stalinism and the Global Economy' (2005). Winfried Wolf was an independent member of the German Parliament on the Party of Democratic Socialism list from 1997 to 2002. He has written extensively on transport policy and on German politics. His `Car Mania' was published in Britain by Pluto Press in 1996. Venue: Richmond University, the American University in London. Room 212, Asa Briggs House, 7-17 Ansdell Street, W8 5BN. Nearest tube station High Street Kensington Admission Free