Next Left: A Progressive Answer to the Global Social Question1

FEPS Next Left –– Fundación Democracia y Desarrollo – Fundación –

- Renner Institut - IGLP Harvard Law School

Santiago de , 19th – 21st November 2014

Wednesday, 19th November 2014

Arrival of the participants

21.00 Welcome Dinner

Venue: Hotel Plaza San Francisco

Thursday, 20th November 2014

09.30 – 11.00 Opening

Venue: Salón Sesiones del Senado, Ex Congreso

Speakers:

Isabel Allende, President of Senate

Massimo D’Alema, President of FEPS

Alfred Gusenbauer, Chair of the FEPS Next left Research Programme

David Kennedy, Professor, Director of IGLP HLS

Ricardo Lagos, former President of Chile

10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break

Sala de Lectura, Ex Congreso Nacional.

1 The scientific report of the seminar will be written by Dr. Carlo D’Ippoliti, FEPS Next Left Focus Group

Next Left: A Progressive Answer to the Global Social Question, on 19th – 21st November 2014 Santiago de Chile

11.00 – 13.00 Panel 1: A Challenge of Building Prosperous Societies: a progressive agenda to fight inequalities.

Existing, growing and emerging inequalities have been in the focus of the “Dialogue of Dialogue” since the first seminar “The Left: Globalised Social Democracy in South and North” (held at Watson Institute at Brown University in 2010). In the context of the European Union, the initial assessment was that the imbalances had become disproportionally large already before the crisis of 2007 - 2008; however they have been further enhanced on the course of false ‘rescue’ policies. Austerity has induced even more devastating, erosive processes, which pushed many into impoverishment. This has been paired with the phenomenon of continuing fragmentation and polarisation of societies, within which both the sense of solidarity and beliefs in the transformative character of the welfare state as a pledge, are declining.

At the same time, the Latin American experience showed that properly designed and executed projects to fight against poverty can make an enormous difference, improving the situation regarding living and working conditions. Their respectively diverse characters (looking at Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Peru, Venezuela etc.) inspire, especially in a conversation about how far common conclusions can be drawn and how those conclusions help us to move into the next phase of struggle for equality. This links with a question in how far a Cardosian understanding of developmental economics should be accelerated to both build on achievements and to meet the new challenges ahead.

Returning to the 2010 debate on “Next Left Policies Pentagon2”, the panel will look at three questions:

- What is the nature of the contemporary inequalities and with what tools can they be combated? How can solidarity based arguments that ‘equality serves all’ find support in designing welfare and labour reforms?

- Since the national economic policy is routinely focused on enabling nations and individuals to upgrade their relative position in economic life, with a promise to compensate or secure a minimum for those who fail to do so, would that be possible to say that the recent policy innovations in Latin America suggest an alternative?

2 In 2010 it was defined as “labour policies, welfare policies, social market economy, taxation policies, education”

Next Left: A Progressive Answer to the Global Social Question, on 19th – 21st November 2014 Santiago de Chile

- Can there be a connection established between the progressives’ political action and social mobilisations demanding more equality? Does the centre left know how to link the leading and lagging factors productively?

Speakers:

Rocio Martinez, Secretary for Economy PSC and Member of Catalan Parliament

Maria Helena Andre, Director, Bureau of Workers’ Activities, ILO

Marcela Ríos, Doctora en Ciencia Política. Coordinadora oficial del Programa de Gobernabilidad de Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo en Chile.

Ernesto Ottone, Cientista Político de la Universidad de Paris III, Catedrático de la Universidad Diego Portales, Chile.

Jorge Navarrete, abogado y catedrático de la Universidad Diego Portales, Chile, y la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, España.

Chair: Carlo d’Ippoliti, FEPS Next Left Focus Group

13.30 -15.00 Lunch

Venue: Academia diplomática

With a speech by Juan Somavía, UN Special Adviser on Interregional Cooperation

15.00 – 17.00 Panel 2: A Challenge of Reconnecting with the Society: a modern understanding of a class struggle.

One of the conclusions of the earlier exchanges spelled out a need for progressives to pave the way towards a new, inspiring and holistic vision of a better society. The evident emphasis on ‘holistic’ derived from a realisation that social democracy (as also other traditional parties) has been tempted to follow a strategy of “trying to win the elections in the middle”, as it became a ‘catch all party’ making diverse promises to different groups of potential supporters. While deliberating the cornerstone of this new project, there seems to have been a consensus that we might develop a strong and united point around the struggle for a more egalitarian and more just society. That was not enough, however.

When it came to specifics, it appeared that it would be impossible to put in place a new narrative without revisiting the traditional class theory. It is true that it has served for a very long time as a fundament of conceptual understanding and as a

Next Left: A Progressive Answer to the Global Social Question, on 19th – 21st November 2014 Santiago de Chile

reference point for mobilisation, but various developments have transformed society in such a way that “class” as a purely socio-economic category can no longer be applied in the same way as in the past. The consequences of this evolution are multiple – starting from weakening “traditional alliances” (such as between political parties and trade unions), through further disaffiliation of individuals from groups, organisations, and associations. To that extent it has also been observed that in fact the contemporary politics rather encourages people to see themselves as individuals in a national society – without the essential solidarity (that in many cases has been diminished to a simplistic question of redistributive obligations of a taxation system). Having that in mind the panel will look at three questions:

- With the changing character of the labour market, progressing polarisation and stigmatisation between outsiders and insiders – is there still a way to restore an idea of organised, solidaristic labour? Can virtue of solidarity seen both as a drive to “struggle together” and as an issue of equitable distribution of resources, power, knowledge, can such an understanding of solidarity be revitalised?

- What is our best contemporary understanding of social classes, and can social democracy deal with the fact that it is becoming less of socio-economic category and more of a cultural, identity issue?

- To what extent is the remaking of class responsible for the volatility of shifting voters’ preferences among traditional political parties? In that light, how can the progressive movement construct new alliances and organise new majorities?

Speakers:

Michael Kennedy, Professor at Brown University, US

Martin Schröder, Professor, Institut of Sociology at University of Magdeburg

Brando Benifei, MEP, Partido Democratico, Italy

Alfredo Joignant, Doctor en Ciencia Política, Catedrático Universidad Diego Portales y Profesor Asociado de la Universidad de Chile.

Ángel Flisfish, Político y abogado, Universidad de Chile.

Francisco Javier Díaz, Abogado de la Universidad de Chile, Master en Ciencia Política de London School of Economics. Actual Subsecretario del Trabajo, Chile.

Manuel Puccio, Abogado de la Universidad Diego Portales, Profesor de Derecho Laboral de la Universidad Católica de Valparaíso.

- Chair: Isabel Torres, Doctora en Historia Política de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina.

Next Left: A Progressive Answer to the Global Social Question, on 19th – 21st November 2014 Santiago de Chile

17.00 – 17.30 Coffee Break

Sala de Lectura, Ex Congreso Nacional.

17.30 – 19.30 Panel 3: A Challenge of Strengthening Multilayer Governance: the role of state in the times of global financial capitalism.

During the two rounds of the “Dialogue of Dialogues” (at Brown University in 2010 and then subsequently at Harvard Law School in 2012), it was remarked that the overall “crisis of concept of state” is one of the reasons for social democracy’s weakening appeal. Through the prism of developments over the last two decades, it was argued during the 1990s that states are relatively powerless while facing the overwhelming power of globalisation. Following the crisis hit in 2008, fears concerning any single state’s vulnerability became even more evident. As discussed later in 2013 (Barcelona Symposium), these two forms of the “doomsday” scenario were met with a reaction of societies (respectively alterglobalist movements, and then social mobilisations), but social democrats did not recognize in this crisis the opportunity with a new proposal on how to move forward. Instead, social democracy continued to depend on a vision of a more equitable distribution of power that would enable public institutions of the state to exercise their mandate. Whether this might work is still unknown, but what is clear is that social democracy remains challenged by a public vision of its embeddedness in etatism.

Though, as it is, the economy and politics have been organised in different ways. This translates into a horizontal and global economy of movement, and politics tethered to national and local “polities”. This attenuates political authority over economic life. Yes, the state still remains most vital. As suggested already, it has everywhere become more closely associated with security – which understanding in some places paved way towards more authoritarian style of governance. Indeed, the modern security state manages the local conditions for global capitalism, having capital, property, finance, credit and labour seen as legal institutions embedded in national institutional arrangements.

With this issue in mind, the panel will focus on following questions:

- What is the tangible objective of the pledge of a new social deal, while deliberating in the context of the power of a state and the aspiration to find ways to regulate global financial capitalism?

- What is the distinctively leftist approach regarding a vision of a state and its role? How to reform and adequately equip public institutions, so that they safeguard and exercise the power entrusted in them?

- How to go beyond nostalgia or orthodoxy, while defining what is and should be the role of the political parties in the modern state?

Next Left: A Progressive Answer to the Global Social Question, on 19th – 21st November 2014 Santiago de Chile

Speakers:

Stephany Griffith-Jones, Professor, Program Director IPD, Columbia University

Leopold Specht, IGLP Advisory Council, Vienna

Osvaldo Rosales, Director de la División de Comercio Internacional e Integración de la CEPAL, Naciones Unidas, Chile.

Enrique Paris, Magister en Ciencias Políticas. Coordinador general y coordinador modernización del Estado del Ministerio de Hacienda, Chile.

Claudia Sanhueza, Economista Universidad de Chile. Catedrática del Instituto de Políticas Públicas, UDP, Chile.

- Chair: Álvaro Díaz, Economista, Chile.

20.30 Dinner

Venue: Salóne Capitular Convento San Francisco

Friday, 21st November 2014

10.00 – 11.30 Panel 4: The Challenge of Unity in an International Movement: toward a common strategy for a new Global Deal.

Venue: Salón Sesiones del Senado

The “added value” of the “Dialogue of Dialogues” has always been its feature as a constructive exchange enabling a comparison among diverse practices. Learning from one another has been crucial in terms of identifying commonalities, especially those that transform static approaches dependent on increasingly anachronistic categories of center and periphery. In particular, with the global transformations occasioned by the intensity of financial flows and communications associated with globalization, struggles in an erstwhile periphery bear increasing consequence for those in the core and vice versa. More, the regulation of those ties and flows ought to shape the kinds of international movement politics and policies available to progressives who share values of global sustainable development. However, different accounts and strategies for dealing with globalizing inequalities still diverge among places differently located among these flows. To carry forward dialogues about these different accounts and strategies especially now, when there is a number of developments at hand that may constitute a new opening in terms of seeking a new global order. On one side, there are international processes – among them a revision of the Millennium Development Goals – which agenda is getting to the end point and will require both revision, but also recalibration. To that extent, with different regions battling also with the impacts of the crisis, there is a quite real

Next Left: A Progressive Answer to the Global Social Question, on 19th – 21st November 2014 Santiago de Chile

danger of imbalanced recovery and the end of the promise of sustainable development. On the other, there are also new attempts to put bilateral agreements in place – such as TTIP between the EU and the US – which are being seen as potential components of the new global order. In the light of those, and earlier debated frictions in between “Global North” and “Global South” agendas, the panel will focus on:

- What sort of an agenda could unite the progressive movements from across the globe nowadays? Is there a way of restoring a spirit of internationalism both in the progressive parties and in the societies, especially in opposition to the crisis- boosted revitalisation of nationalism (especially in the European context translating into Euro-centrism) etc.?

- What sort of a global institutional framework would be essential to realise the agenda of a New Global Deal? Do we have the ideas and the institutional and policy levers to link leading and lagging sectors/regions productively? How to legitimise and equip adequately public authorities capable of changing the distributional conditions for global economic competition?

- What should a new international agenda entail? Is the left able to find new ways to think on i.e. property and property rights (especially intellectual property rights) in a modern way, allowing it to form new kind of global alliances?

Speakers:

Arnulf Becker, visiting professor at Brown University

Eamon Gilmore, former leader of Irish Labour Party

Pierre Sané, President of Imagine Africa, Dakar

Juan Somavía, Director Academia Diplomática Andrés Bello, Chile.

Hermes Binner, Presidente del Partido Socialista argentino.

- Chair: Ernst Stetter, Dr., FEPS Secretary General

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11.30 Coffee Break

Sala de Lectura, Ex Congreso Nacional.

12.00 Closing

Venue: Salón de Honor del Ex Congreso Nacional

- Speech by President ,

- Greetings by Hermes Binner, Presidente del Partido Socialista Argentino.

Next Left: A Progressive Answer to the Global Social Question, on 19th – 21st November 2014 Santiago de Chile

Next Left: A Progressive Answer to the Global Social Question, on 19th – 21st November 2014 Santiago de Chile