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The World Transformed 2025 Programme

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Venue

Discussion
Windrush Conference
16:30 Sat 11
The Counter-Revolutionary War in Sudan
With Manchester for Sudan, SudanUprisingGermany, Mataris Sudan Solidarity Committee
Workshop
Kath Locke - Birley
16:30 Sat 11
The Imperial Boomerang and the Poisonous Legacy of Colonialism
With Pat Finucane Centre
Reading group
Kath Locke - Valerie
16:30 Sat 11
We are the Heirs of the World's Revolutions with Left Book Club
Arts
Windrush Lounge
16:30 Sat 11
Working Class Folk - A Gig
With Ancient Hostility, Jennifer Reid, Brown Wimpenny, Lucy and Hazel, Chermansog, Manchester Radical Tradition
Panel
Aquarius Community Centre
16:30 Sat 11
Young people, policing, and education
With No More Exclusions
Parakeet Parkway
17:00 Sat 11
Gardens and Parakeets Among the Towers
With Robyn Ellis, Nathan Phipp-MacIntyre
Aquarius Community Centre
18:00 Sat 11
Co-Operation North: Neighbourhood Assemblies & Solidarity Economies building independent community power
With Co-operation Hull, Co-operation Sheffield, Co-operation Manchester, Middleton Co-operating
Panel
Windrush Conference
18:30 Sat 11
Against Labourism: the New Party and the Trade Unions
With Nick Troy, Pamela Fitzpatrick, Ian Allinson, Ewan Gibbs
Discussion
SU B1
18:30 Sat 11
Arab Youth Meeting Space
With Palestinian Youth Movement
Panel
Kath Locke - Valerie
18:30 Sat 11
How to push back against a militarised future
With Ellie Kinney, Netpol, 10% for all, Yorkshire CND, Stop ReArm Europe/ Transform!, Italia, Disarm Education
Panel
Hulme Hall
18:30 Sat 11
Lessons from the DSA
With Jeb Purucker, Allegra Rosenbaum, Ella Teevan, Nell Geiser, Grace Brown
Arts
Garden Centre - Class Room
18:30 Sat 11
Neither Factory Records nor Madchesta: Collective Listening with David Wilkinson
With David Wilkinson
Workshop
Kath Locke - Birley
18:30 Sat 11
Salting: Getting a job to organise a union!
With Jaz Brisack, GAIL's worker (anonymous)
Ascension Church Hall
18:30 Sat 11
Serbia in revolt: the student uprising and the anti-extractivist movement
With Isidora Aćimov, Bojana Novaković, Maria Oshana
Space for Change
18:30 Sat 11
The Rent Strike as a Weapon: Comparative tactics for tenant organising
With CATU Ireland, York South-Weston Tenant Union, Sindicat de Llogateres, Sindicato de Inquilinas e Inquilinos de Madrid, The All-Chicago Tenants Alliance, Los Angeles Tenants Union, Greater Manchester Tenants Union
Kim's Kitchen
19:00 Sat 11
Digital Groove @ Kim's
With DJ Evo
Screening
Space for Change
19:30 Sat 11
CATU Ireland: The Rent Strike Documentary Screening
With CATU Ireland
Arts
Windrush Lounge
19:30 Sat 11
Knockout Blow! A Play About Len Johnson
Arts
The Nia Theatre
20:00 Sat 11
Dele Sosimi Afrobeat Orchestra
With Dele Sosimi
Arts
Ascension Church Main Space
20:00 Sat 11
International Cafe with Anticolonial Communities Alliance
With Elif Sarican, Manchester for Sudan, Nijjor Manush, Govend Manchester, Yara (PYM), Jericho, Anakbayan, Rojanu, Grupo Luma, South Asia Solidarity Group
Arts
Garden Centre - Class Room
20:00 Sat 11
STAT Magazine presents: ‘A Secular Exorcism of the North of England.’
With STAT Magazine, Tessa Pike
Workshop
Ascension Church Main Space
09:30 Sun 12
Ascension Church presents: Radical Roots and Shoots
With Fr. Azariah France-Williams
Exhibition
Ascenion Church Foyer
10:00 Sun 12
760 Days of Sanctuary exhibition (Sunday)
Panel
The Nia Theatre
10:00 Sun 12
A People's Arms Embargo
With Kimia Talebi, Ines, Charlie Thomas, Nae, Saorsa - London for a Free Palestine
Discussion
Windrush Lounge
10:00 Sun 12
Black Women in Politics. A Manchester Story
With Thirza Asanga-Rae, Amna Abdullatif, Marcia Hutchinson, Ekua Bayunu
Reading group
Garden Centre - Class Room
10:00 Sun 12
Border Imperialism and Racist Nationalism in 2025: A Border & Rule Study Session
Workshop
Garden Centre - Peach Tunnel
10:00 Sun 12
Childhood Transformed: Free Play and Transformation Stations
Workshop
Windrush Lounge
10:00 Sun 12
From Mobilising to Organising
With Jack Noel, Bushra Dunne, Harshana, Hannah Gibson
Panel
Kath Locke - Valerie
10:00 Sun 12
How Parties and Movements Can Work Together
With Njuki Githethwa, Andrew Feinstein, Yari Greaney, Desmond Fonseca (PSL), Raquel Rolnik
Exhibition
Kath Locke - Café
10:00 Sun 12
Kath Locke Heritage exhibition (Sunday)
Exhibition
Windrush Foyer
10:00 Sun 12
Legacy of Colonialism exhibition (Sunday)
Kath Locke - Birley
10:00 Sun 12
Legacy of Unity: Archival Insights from the Pan African Congress 1945
With Working Class Movement Library, Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Centre, North West Film Archive, People's History Museum
Arts
Garden Centre - Shed
10:00 Sun 12
Qu Alternative Art School Presents: Pocket Altruism (Sunday)
With Tvguy, Qu Alternative Art School
Arts
Space for Change
10:00 Sun 12
!!!Radio!!! - A Multi-Band Excitation Lecture
With Agnes Cameron, Kat Macdonald
Discussion
SU Theatre
10:00 Sun 12
Students Transformed: Power in Universities
Kickabout
Denmark Road Sports Centre
10:15 Sun 12
Solidarity through Football Kickabout
Workshop
Garden Centre - Peach Tunnel
10:30 Sun 12
Childhood Transformed: Mini Citizens Assembly
Workshop
Kath Locke - Café
11:00 Sun 12
Abolition Chill and Chat
With Northern Police Monitoring Project (NPMP), Zara Manoehoetoe
Entertainment
Garden Centre - Bandstand
11:30 Sun 12
Chanukah Lewinksy's Liberation Sukkah
Panel
The Nia Theatre
12:00 Sun 12
Building the New Left Party From Below
With Joshua Virasami, Joe Todd, Shanice Octavia McBean, Jonas Marvin
Discussion
Garden Centre - Peach Tunnel
12:00 Sun 12
Childhood Transformed: Childcare Transformed
Debate
Windrush Lounge
12:00 Sun 12
Culture is Extraordinary
With K Biswas, Juliet Jacques, Jeremy Gilbert, Tom Williams, Jennifer Jasmine White
Training
Garden Centre - Class Room
12:00 Sun 12
How to Win a Strike
With Ian Allinson
Panel
Windrush Conference
12:00 Sun 12
Public Housing For All
With Jack Ferguson, Alva Gotby, Thirza Asanga-Rae, Paul Watt
Discussion
Kath Locke - Valerie
12:00 Sun 12
What does reparative justice mean in this moment?
With Keisha Thompson, Eleanor Shearer, Kobina (PARISC)
Arts
Space for Change
12:00 Sun 12
WMA Presents: Dialectic for String Quartet and Other Works
With The Tân Quartet, Ann Wilkes, Ben Lunn, Jimena Maldonado, Alan Bush
Arts
Kath Locke - Birley
13:00 Sun 12
Play Reading: Light Shining In Buckinghamshire
With Lamin Touray, James Varney
Workshop
Garden Centre - Peach Tunnel
14:00 Sun 12
Childhood Transformed: Being Heard!
Panel
Ascension Church Main Space
14:30 Sun 12
Against War, Against Militarism
With John McEvoy, Khem Rogaly, David Jamieson, Ellie Kinney, Suzie Gilbert
Workshop
Kath Locke - Valerie
14:30 Sun 12
Fighting Fascist Feelings: Countering the Political Psychology of the Far Right
With Max Haiven, Sarah Stein Lubrano
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