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The World Transformed 2025 Programme
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Nia Main Space
Ascension Church Main Space
Ascension Church Hall
Space for Change
Hulme Hall
Aquarius Community Centre
Windrush Lounge
Windrush Conference
Windrush ITC
Garden Centre - Class Room
Garden Centre - Garden Tunnel
Theatre 53Two
Ascenion Church Foyer
Meet at the Garden Centre Cafe
Hulme Community Garden Centre
Arts
Nia Main Space
18:30 Thu 09
TWT25 Opening Ceremony
With Breaking Barz, More speakers to be announced
Exhibition
Ascenion Church Foyer
10:00 Fri 10
760 Days of Sanctuary exhibition (Friday)
Workshop
Hulme Hall
10:00 Fri 10
Class composition in Britain
Panel
Windrush Lounge
10:00 Fri 10
Fascism, Patriarchy & Reactionary Masculinities: Women’s Revolution against the Far-Right
With Tara Alami, Laya Hooshyari, Young Strugle Manchester, Elif Sarican, More speakers to be announced
Workshop
Windrush Conference
10:00 Fri 10
No one way works
With Palestinian Youth Movement, Energy Embargo for Palestine, More speakers to be announced
Panel
Nia Main Space
10:00 Fri 10
The Fight for the City!
With Raquel Rolnik, Owen Hatherley, Catalina Ortiz, Ben Beach, Isaac Rose
Panel
Ascension Church Main Space
10:00 Fri 10
Understanding Imperialism Today
With Tara Alami, Helen Yaffe, More speakers to be announced
Panel
Ascension Church Main Space
12:00 Fri 10
80 years on from the Fifth Pan African Congress in Hulme
With Njuki Githethwa, Amma Fosuah Poku, More speakers to be announced
Workshop
Garden Centre - Garden Tunnel
12:00 Fri 10
Community Organising for Apartheid-Free Zones
With Bristol Apartheid-Free Zone, Palestine Solidarity Zone West London, Sheffield Apartheid Free Zone
Panel
Windrush Conference
12:00 Fri 10
How can we strengthen Britain's social movements?
With Jeanine Hourani, Alessio Lunghi, More speakers to be announced
Panel
Windrush Lounge
12:00 Fri 10
Sheikh Mansour my lord?: Capital, Football, Real Estate, and the growing role of Abu Dhabi in Britain
With Jonathan Silver, Mo Taha, Alex Timperley
Panel
Space for Change
12:00 Fri 10
Tenants' organising today: how do we scale, what are our horizons?
With Eilidh Keay, More speakers to be announced
Panel
Nia Main Space
12:00 Fri 10
We Refuse: where next for artists & cultural workers opposing genocide
With Rida, Culture Workers Against Genocide, Hussein, Art Workers for Palestine Scotland, Maddy, Artists and Culture Workers LDN, Balraj Samrai
Arts
Garden Centre - Class Room
13:00 Fri 10
Play Reading 1: Light Shining In Buckinghamshire
Panel
Nia Main Space
14:30 Fri 10
A World to Win: What is a Party For?
With Zarah Sultana MP, Jeremy Corbyn MP, Peter Mertens, Janis Ehling, Leanne Mohamad (Chair)
Arts
Theatre 53Two
14:30 Fri 10
Block the Block (Matinée)
With Nathaniel McBride, Debbie Beeks, Joe Gilmour
Panel
Windrush Conference
14:30 Fri 10
Politics, the Party and the social base w/ Tribune
With Grace Blakeley, Dan Evans, Max Shanly, Brian Leishman MP
Panel
Ascension Church Main Space
14:30 Fri 10
South-South Solidarity in an Emerging Multipolar World
With Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla, Rula Shadid, Jack Johnson
Panel
Windrush Lounge
14:30 Fri 10
Trans Feminism Now!
With Queers for Palestine, Manchester Trans Liberation Assembly, rs21
Panel
Venue TBC
14:30 Fri 10
Winning Rent Controls: Lessons, Victories & Fight Ahead
With Eilidh Keay, Siobhan Donnachie, Sindicat de Llogeteres, More speakers to be announced
Assembly
Ascension Church Main Space
16:30 Fri 10
Assembly 1: The Conjuncture & Analysis
With Jeanine Hourani, Ash Sarkar
Panel
Nia Main Space
16:30 Fri 10
Evictions, Raids and Racist Attacks: Resisting Alongside Migrant Communities
With Osama Zumam (CATU), Boucka Stephane Koffi
Workshop
Hulme Hall
16:30 Fri 10
Madness Under Capitalism
With Micha Frazer-Caroll, Nazanin Rassa, The Red Clinic, Gigi El-Halaby
Workshop
Aquarius Community Centre
16:30 Fri 10
New Protest Music: Radical Singing Workshop
With Bekah Hesse, Rory Scott
Workshop
Windrush Conference
18:30 Fri 10
Building coalitions that last
With Energy Embargo for Palestine, Sisters Uncut, More speakers to be announced
Panel
Aquarius Community Centre
18:30 Fri 10
Connect, Support, Educate - Trades Councils and Workers Power
With More speakers to be announced
Panel
Hulme Hall
18:30 Fri 10
What does an economic programme for popular power look like?
With James Meadway, Susan Newman, Ross Cathcart
Panel
Ascension Church Hall
18:30 Fri 10
What Does Winning Look Like? A Strategy for Radical Abundance
With Kai Heron, Keir Milburn, Iker Eizagirre, Joana Kusiak, Catalina Ortiz
Debate
Windrush Lounge
18:30 Fri 10
Who’s Got the Power? - ‘Your Party’ Democracy
With More speakers to be announced
Arts
Theatre 53Two
19:30 Fri 10
Block the Block (Evening show)
With Nathaniel McBride, Debbie Beeks, Joe Gilmour, Gareth Fearn
Entertainment
Nia Main Space
19:30 Fri 10
TWT Pub Quiz
Arts
Garden Centre - Class Room
20:00 Fri 10
Jazz Loft in a Garden Centre
With Gary Washington, Siapiau
Entertainment
Nia Main Space
21:30 Fri 10
Billionaires & Guillotines: Live Game Show Edition!
With Max Haiven
Exhibition
Ascenion Church Foyer
10:00 Sat 11
760 Days of Sanctuary exhibition (Saturday)
Training
Windrush Conference
10:00 Sat 11
Educate, Agitate, Organise - transform your union branch with political education!
With Joe Beswick, Ewa Jasiewicz, Callum Sunderland
Panel
Space for Change
10:00 Sat 11
Gentrification Is Class War: Demolitions, rent gaps and the real estate state
Discussion
Ascension Church Main Space
10:00 Sat 11
National Security and International Solidarity: Resisting the criminalisation of internationalism
Panel
Windrush Lounge
10:00 Sat 11
NATO and the EU; The Drive for War and Ireland's Place Within it
With Adam Fagan, Eoghan McNeill, Niamh Ní Bhriain
Workshop
Garden Centre - Garden Tunnel
10:00 Sat 11
The Art World Transformed: Political Organising in the Culture Industry
With Allan Struthers, Artists and Culture Workers LDN
Panel
Nia Main Space
10:00 Sat 11
The Year in Strikes
With Emma Runswick, Zara Dinnen, Helio Santos, Tony Wilson, Steeven Biset
Panel
Ascension Church Hall
10:00 Sat 11
Time (Still) Running Out: Renewing Socialist Climate Strategy
With Chris Saltmarsh, Harry Holmes, James Meadway
Walking
Meet at the Garden Centre Cafe
11:00 Sat 11
Walking Tour: Spatial Freedom - Hulme’s story.
With Hayley Flynn
Panel
Space for Change
12:00 Sat 11
Green Jobs? What Jobs! Transition and Struggle in Industry today
With Rosie Hampton, Tahir Latif
Panel
Hulme Hall
12:00 Sat 11
Houses of the People: How Social Centres Strengthen Our Movement
With Ben Beach, Fabio Gianfranceso, More speakers to be announced
Discussion
Windrush ITC
12:00 Sat 11
What does Solidarity Feel Like?
With Keir Milburn, Jeremy Gilbert
Panel
Ascension Church Main Space
12:00 Sat 11
What Should the Party Do? w/ Prometheus
Panel
Nia Main Space
12:00 Sat 11
Zionism as Imperialism in the region
With Nihal El Aasar, More speakers to be announced
Arts
Garden Centre - Class Room
13:00 Sat 11
Play Reading 2: The Trial of Dedan Kimathi
Panel
Nia Main Space
14:30 Sat 11
October 7th - 2 Years On
With Palestinian Youth Movement
Panel
Ascension Church Hall
14:30 Sat 11
Organising social care - Notes from Below Issue Launch
With Nandi Mwansa, Thomas Baylis
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