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The World Transformed
A four day festival of music, art & politics building power to Transform the World. Debates, discussion & other sounds from Liverpool & Brighton. If you have audio from previous festivals please get in touch so we can share it here.
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04 Act 4 Late Summer V2 - Three Sisters - The End of the Project
How to live?
In the face of the unfolding chaos of climate change, how are we to live?
Three Sisters: The End of the Project is an audio p...
03 Act 3 Night Time V2 - Three Sisters - The End of the Project
How to live?
In the face of the unfolding chaos of climate change, how are we to live?
Three Sisters: The End of the Project is an audio p...
02 Act 2 Winter V2 - Three Sisters - The End of the Project
How to live?
In the face of the unfolding chaos of climate change, how are we to live?
Three Sisters: The End of the Project is an audio p...
01 Prologue And Act 01 Spring V2. - Three Sisters – The End of the Project
How to live?
In the face of the unfolding chaos of climate change, how are we to live?
Three Sisters: The End of the Project is an audio p...
Know Your Enemy Week 4 - Gargi Bhattacharyya and Richard Seymour
Week 4 advance viewing for TWT's "Know Your Enemy" course.
In this session, Gargi and Richard Seymour discuss:
- In what w...
Know Your Enemy - Week 3 with Gargi Bhattacharyya & Sita Balani
Week 3 of The World Transformed's "Know Your Enemy" course.
In this interview, Gargi Bhattacharya talks to Sita Balani about how the righ...
Know Your Enemy - Week 2 with Gargi Bhattacharyya and Tom Mills
Week 2 advance watching for TWT's "Know Your Enemy" course. Gargi Bhattacharyya and Tom Mills discuss:
- Who are the elite in this count...
Book launch! Lost in Work by Amelia Horgan
For people today, hard work in school no longer guarantees a secure, well-paying job in the future. Far from a gateway to riches and fulfilment, 'work...
Understanding TWT: The New Left with Hilary Wainwright
In this week's episode of Understanding TWT, we spoke to Red Pepper co-editor and co-founder Hilary Wainwright.
Hilary spoke to us about...
Understanding TWT: Collective Joy with Jeremy Gilbert
Introducing "Understanding TWT" - a series on the ideas and concepts that have inspired our work.
First up, a presentation on the role o...
Like a phoenix we will rise: Activism after Grenfell with Lowkey
Grenfell must be a 'never again' moment in the history of this country. The fire has exposed incestuous relationships between local, as well as nation...
Why Are Some Children Worth More? Report launch with Sol Gamsu and Common Wealth
A discussion of a new report from Common Wealth looking at the economic gap between private and state schools across England.
The report...
Alternative Guide to the London Boroughs with Owen Hatherley, Aditya Chakrabortty & Rosa Nussbaum
In 2020, writer Owen Hatherley published two books about London. One, Red Metropolis was a polemical history of municipal socialism in Britain's capit...
Whose streets? Understanding the government’s assault on our rights
The shocking scenes of the MET’s violent response to those seeking to mark and protest the death of Sarah Everard made visible the kind of state viole...
BOOK LAUNCH! 'Work Won't Love You Back' by Sarah Jaffe with Amelia Horgan & Dalia Gebrial
Common Wealth and The World Transformed are pleased to present the launch of 'Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, E...
What even is transphobia?
Transphobia is on the rise across society and within the left. A recent report suggested four in five trans people in the UK have experienced a form o...
Disability Oppression 101 with Ellen Morrison & Ellen Clifford
As part of Disability History Month 2020 TWT and Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) teamed up to create this introduction to disability oppression. I...
UNDERSTANDING THE CRISIS PART 5: from Capitalism to... freedom. Keir Milburn & Jeremy Gilbert #TWT20
What has lockdown taught us about ‘freedom’ under capitalism? Whose freedom is more important: the freedom of businesses to make money, or the freedom...
UNDERSTANDING THE CRISIS PART 4: What are governments for? Christine Berry & Jeremy Gilbert #TWT20
For the past 40 years, we’ve been told that governments can’t do much to change our lives: they can’t fix climate change, they can’t make housing chea...
UNDERSTANDING THE CRISIS PART 3: The rent's too high! Jeremy Gilbert & Jacob Mukherjee #TWT20
Why have renters been hit so hard by the Covid crisis? Why are so many young people forced to rent? Why is rent so expensive and why do renters in the...
UNDERSTANDING THE CRISIS PART 2: Whose Life Matters? Jeremy Gilbert & Adam Elliott-Cooper #TWT20
Why are your chances of dying of this virus much lower if you are rich or white? Who gets to decide what measures are taken to protect people and what...
UNDERSTANDING THE CRISIS PART 1: Why work? - Jeremy Gilbert & Sarah Jaffe #TWT20
Living under Covid-19 and a lockdown has taught us many things about ourselves and the society we live in. But what has it taught us about capitalism,...
Culture wars and class politics: examining the dividing lines #TWT20
With UK politics gripped by a “culture war” - which the right is winning - how should the left understand and respond to these dynamics? This session...
We're Going to Need a Bigger Tent #TWT20
At the 2019 General Election, the Conservative Party achieved 43.6% of the popular vote - the highest percentage of any party since 1979. This elector...
Building Left Power After Corbyn & Bernie #TWT20
With recent defeats for the UK and US Left, it is vital we address how we build power post-Corbyn and Bernie. What can we learn from challenges of com...
Healthcare in crisis: Building international solidarity #TWT20
Decades of cuts and privatization in health care left us vulnerable to coronavirus. How can we ensure that health care workers have the protections th...
Labour 2024: Maintaining a radical horizon #TWT20
During the Labour leadership election, Keir Starmer warned against the party lurching to the right. Five months into his leadership and it remains unc...
Corporate trade deals: A history of resistance #TWT20
From chlorinated chicken to NHS drug prices, more and more people are discovering reasons to oppose the US trade deal. But this is hardly the first ti...
As bold as we need to be! Left utopianism and its future #TWT20
The recent defeats of Corbyn and Sanders were undoubtedly setbacks for progressive forces and their hopes for a new and better world. But should we no...
Decades of Labour and anti-racism: A history of struggle and hope #TWT20
Labour Against Racism and Fascism (LARAF) and Socialists of Colour team up to explore four decades of the Labour Party and the trade union movement’s...
A party of the trade unions? #TWT20
Trade unions have played a central role in the Labour Party since its creation. Today, Labour has 12 trade union affiliates who provide funding, resou...
6 months of Starmer: What now for the Labour left? With Novara Media #TWT20
When TWT was formed in 2016, the Labour left were in the ascendancy. Now, within the space of six months things have turned on their head. Starmer pit...
The Nations: Socialism in a Disunited Kingdom? #TWT20
Support for nationalist politics is growing across the world. The campaign for Brexit catalysed a convergence between mainstream conservatives and the...
Transformative Economics Post-Covid: Demanding the Basics #TWT20
The Pandemic has exposed the underlying faults in our society and our economy. Ten years of austerity cuts have meant that our public services have be...
COVID and the future of work: what have we learned and where do we go from here? #TWT20
Coronavirus has exposed the crisis in the world of work - from insecurity and poverty pay, to a broken welfare system. We now stand on the brink of ma...
Building a Transatlantic Strategy – What have we learned from the last 5 years? #TWT20
What have we learned on both sides of the Atlantic over the last 5 years about pursuing a socialist agenda using the vehicle of traditional political...
Colonialism(s) and the global policing of dissent #TWT20
State surveillance, anti-terror laws and the rhetoric of ‘national security’ are being used to criminalise progressive activists and marginalised comm...
Renters Fighting Back! #TWT20
With the COVID-19 eviction ban soon to be lifted in England and Wales, tens of thousands of private rental tenants and mortgage holders will face the...
Structural Racism 101 #TWT20
Structural, institutional, systemic – racism prefixed as such points to a concept that was first used by black American activists in the 60’s. The wav...
Palestine and Kashmir: A tale of two occupations #TWT20
For decades, the people of Palestine and Kashmir have struggled against violent military occupations which have denied them autonomy and statehood. Go...