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The World Transformed 2025 Programme

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Venue

Arts
The Nia Theatre
18:00 Thu 09
TWT25 Opening Ceremony
With Breaking Barz, BMG, Yemi Bolatiwa
Exhibition
Ascenion Church Foyer
10:00 Fri 10
760 Days of Sanctuary exhibition (Friday)
Workshop
Garden Centre - Peach Tunnel
10:00 Fri 10
Childhood Transformed: Free Play and Transformation Stations
Panel
Space for Change
10:00 Fri 10
Fascism, Patriarchy & Reactionary Masculinities: Women’s Revolution against the Far-Right
With Tara Alami, Laya Hooshyari, Young Strugle Manchester, Feminist Assembly of Latin Americans, Elif Sarican
Exhibition
Kath Locke - Café
10:00 Fri 10
Kath Locke Heritage exhibition (Friday)
Exhibition
Windrush Foyer
10:00 Fri 10
Legacy of Colonialism exhibition (Friday)
Arts
Garden Centre - Shed
10:00 Fri 10
Qu Alternative Art School Presents: Pocket Altruism (Friday)
With Tvguy, Qu Alternative Art School
Panel
SU Theatre
10:00 Fri 10
Students Transformed: What Came Before Us? Successes and Failures of Radical Student Organisations
Panel
Hulme Hall
10:00 Fri 10
Tenants' organising today: how do we scale, what are our horizons?
With Eilidh Keay, London Renters Union, Sindicat de Llogateres, Sindicato de Inquilinas e Inquilinos de Madrid, TACU Lancaster and Morecambe, Sheffield Tenants Union, York South-Weston Tenant Union, Los Angeles Tenants Union, The All-Chicago Tenants Alliance, Greater Manchester Tenants Union, CATU Ireland
Panel
Kath Locke - Valerie
10:00 Fri 10
Trans Feminism Now!
With Queers for Palestine, Manchester Trans Liberation Assembly, rs21, Feminist Fightback
Panel
Ascension Church Main Space
10:00 Fri 10
Understanding Imperialism Today
With Helen Yaffe, Ashraf Nabil, Jack Noel, Norwyn Crame, Juan Lovera
Workshop
Garden Centre - Peach Tunnel
11:00 Fri 10
Childhood Transformed: Make Your Own Book
Discussion
SU 2.2
11:00 Fri 10
Students Transformed: Students, Rats and Rent Hikes
Screening
SU Theatre
11:00 Fri 10
Students Transformed: The Encampments Screening + Post Screening Discussion
Workshop
SU B1
11:00 Fri 10
Students Transformed: What Happened to the Climate Justice Movement?
Garden Centre - Bandstand
11:00 Fri 10
Walking Tours of Financialised Manchester
With Jonathan Silver, Thomas Gillespie
Entertainment
Garden Centre - Bandstand
11:30 Fri 10
Chanukah Lewinksy's Liberation Sukkah
Workshop
Hulme Hall
12:00 Fri 10
Class composition in Britain
Workshop
Kath Locke - Birley
12:00 Fri 10
Community Organising for Apartheid-Free Zones
With Bristol Apartheid-Free Zone, Palestine Solidarity Zone West London, Sheffield Apartheid Free Zone
Training
Space for Change
12:00 Fri 10
Educate, Agitate, Organise - transform your union branch with political education!
With Joe Beswick, Ewa Jasiewicz, Callum Sunderland
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
Kath Locke - Valerie
12:00 Fri 10
The Fight for the City!
With Raquel Rolnik, Isaac Rose, Owen Hatherley, Catalina Ortiz, Ben Beach
Panel
The Nia Theatre
12:00 Fri 10
We Refuse: where next for artists & cultural workers opposing genocide
With Rida Hamidou, Culture Workers Against Genocide, Hussein Mitha, Art Workers for Palestine Scotland, Balraj Samrai, Maddy Pledge, Artists and Culture Workers LDN
Panel
SU 2.2
12:30 Fri 10
Students Transformed: Militancy not Machismo: Undoing Patriarchy in Organising Spaces
Discussion
SU B1
12:30 Fri 10
Students Transformed: WTF is a Trade Union?
Arts
Kath Locke - Birley
13:30 Fri 10
Play Reading: The Trial of Dedan Kimathi
With Elmi Ali, Njuki Githethwa, Nigel de Noronha
Discussion
SU B1
13:30 Fri 10
Students Transformed: Demilitarise Education
Workshop
SU 2.2
13:30 Fri 10
Students Transformed: Our Hostile Borders: International Students and Migrant
Workshop
SU The Hive
13:30 Fri 10
Students Transformed: Pirate Media
Panel
The Nia Theatre
14:30 Fri 10
A World to Win: What is a Party For?
With Zarah Sultana MP, Jeremy Corbyn MP, Peter Mertens, Janis Ehling, Nathalie Oziol, Leanne Mohamad (Chair)
Panel
Ascension Church Main Space
14:30 Fri 10
BLM 5 Years on: Assess, Analyse, Organise
With Penny Wangari-Jones, Kojo Kyerewaa, Fiona Lali
Arts
Theatre 53Two
14:30 Fri 10
Block the Block (Matinée)
With Nathaniel McBride, Debbie Beeks, Joe Gilmour
Workshop
Windrush Lounge
14:30 Fri 10
No one way works
With Carina (PYM), Masa (Energy Embargo for Palestine), Jordi Lopez, Amardeep Singh Dhillon, Angus (Plan C)
Panel
Kath Locke - Valerie
14:30 Fri 10
Politics, the Party and the social base w/ Tribune
With Grace Blakeley, Dan Evans, Max Shanly, Brian Leishman MP
Panel
Space for Change
14:30 Fri 10
Priorities of the Scottish Left
With Matt Kerr, Sophie Johnson, Yana Petticrew, Coll McCail
Panel
Hulme Hall
14:30 Fri 10
South-South Solidarity in an Emerging Multipolar World
With Rula Shadid, Jack Johnson, Tings Chak, James Schneider, Ethan, Nirad
Discussion
SU Theatre
14:30 Fri 10
Students Transformed: Land Justice
Assembly
Ascension Church Main Space
16:30 Fri 10
Assembly 1: The Conjuncture & Analysis
With Ash Sarkar, Jeanine Hourani
Panel
Kath Locke - Valerie
16:30 Fri 10
Evictions, Raids and Racist Attacks: Resisting Alongside Migrant Communities
With Osama Zumam (CATU), Boucka Stephane Koffi, Rosie (GMLC), Magadaline Moyo
Panel
Space for Change
16:30 Fri 10
Food Justice and Sovereignty in Crisis Times
With Catherine McAndrew, Sabrina Espeleta, Mikee Whitson, Mike Hodson
Workshop
Hulme Hall
16:30 Fri 10
Madness Under Capitalism
With Micha Frazer-Caroll, Nazanin Rassa, Ian Parker, Gigi El-Halaby
Workshop
Aquarius Community Centre
16:30 Fri 10
New Protest Music: Radical Singing Workshop
With Bekah Hesse, Rory Scott
Windrush Lounge
16:30 Fri 10
Pan Africanism and Nkrumahism : a history of resistance and its legacy in 21st century socialist organising
With Morenga Bambata, Ekua Bayunu, Kofi Jerry Genya, Amma Fosuah Poku
Panel
Windrush Conference
16:30 Fri 10
Trade as a weapon of empire: Big tech, tariffs and neoliberal trade deals
With Seema Syeda, Shobhit Shukla, Cecilia Rikap
Workshop
Windrush Conference
18:30 Fri 10
Building coalitions that last
With Energy Embargo for Palestine, Muslim Association of Britain, rs21, Palestinian Youth Movement
Panel
Aquarius Community Centre
18:30 Fri 10
Connect, Support, Educate - Trades Councils and Workers Power
With Ian Allinson, Catherine Porritt
Screening
Space for Change
18:30 Fri 10
From Ground Zero: Stories from Gaza
Panel
Kath Locke - Valerie
18:30 Fri 10
Sahel: Struggle for Pan-African Self-Determination
With Kobina (PARISC), Jean de Dieu Zabre, Housseini Amadou
Kath Locke - Birley
18:30 Fri 10
The Intersection between Housing Crisis and Language Crisis and the Fight Back
With Gormfhlaith Ní Shíocháin Ní Bheoláin
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