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 play from the future. Set in four acts between 2035 and 2038, the play explores how it is that we may live in the coming world of storms and restrictions. It imagines a future close enough to be real. Looking unflin…

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 play from the future. Set in four acts between 2035 and 2038, the play explores how it is that we may live in the coming world of storms and restrictions. It imagines a future close enough to be real. Looking unflin…

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 play from the future. Set in four acts between 2035 and 2038, the play explores how it is that we may live in the coming world of storms and restrictions. It imagines a future close enough to be real. Looking unflin…

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 play from the future. Set in four acts between 2035 and 2038, the play explores how it is that we may live in the coming world of storms and restrictions. It imagines a future close enough to be real. Looking unflin…

Week 4 advance viewing for TWT's "Know Your Enemy" course. In this session, Gargi and Richard Seymour discuss: - In what way are the Tories trying to recompose the state? Is the party a unified actor?- Does the Ruling Class really rule? And if so, how do they do it?- Does Nationalism serve to build an alliance of the different parts of the right in…

Week 3 of The World Transformed's "Know Your Enemy" course.In this interview, Gargi Bhattacharya talks to Sita Balani about how the right is changing today, starting with Stuart Hall’s essay The Great Moving Right Show on the emergence of Thatcherism and tracing the current terrain with “Johnsonism”, the new authoritarianism and the differences bet…

Week 2 advance watching for TWT's "Know Your Enemy" course. Gargi Bhattacharyya and Tom Mills discuss: - Who are the elite in this country?- How should we understand the state?- What is corporate power? How does it relate to other forms of power? - What techniques of power analysis might be useful to us?…

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' means precarity, anxiety and alienation. In response, we've seen increased demand from the left for workers to join a union.But what can workers achieve when they unionise their workplace and rally …

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 the history of the ‘new left’ from the Hungarian revolution of 1956, how the Soviet Union’s domination of its bordering countries led many socialists to re-evaluate their understanding of Marx and relationship to t…

Introducing "Understanding TWT" - a series on the ideas and concepts that have inspired our work. First up, a presentation on the role of 'affect' (bodily emotion) in political practice, what we mean by 'collective joy', why these are essential for building a mass political movement, and how TWT has and can continue to embed this thinking in its wo…

Grenfell must be a 'never again' moment in the history of this country. The fire has exposed incestuous relationships between local, as well as national government, and the construction industry. In or out of government, how can Labour effectively engage with this issue, beyond superficial lip service? How can Labour act now to put the party at the…

A discussion of a new report from Common Wealth looking at the economic gap between private and state schools across England.The report by Dr Sol Gamsu shows how English private schools receive four times as much money per pupil as local state secondary. In some schools this figure is much higher with the wealthiest schools in the South of England …

In 2020, writer Owen Hatherley published two books about London. One, Red Metropolis was a polemical history of municipal socialism in Britain's capital. The other, was an alternative guide to London's boroughs featuring 33 activists, historians, architects and politicians exploring stories and neighbourhoods from across each of the city's 33 borou…

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 violence that has been meted out to communities since the force’s inception. This week, the government plan to rush through parliament a significant increase in police powers over public demonstration. The…

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, Exhausted, and Alone', the latest book from labour journalist Sarah Jaffe.'Work Won’t Love You Back' is a thoroughly reported investigation into the persistent myths around a “labour of love”, where wo…

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 of trans hate crime over the last 12 months. Meanwhile public figures including MPs have been able to use their platform to express transphobic views, often without consequences.But what even is transp…

As part of Disability History Month 2020 TWT and Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) teamed up to create this introduction to disability oppression. In it DPAC activist and Labour NEC member Ellen Morrison speaks to author and DPAC activist Ellen Clifford about: Who disabled people are? The difference between deaf and disabled people? The specific …

What has lockdown taught us about ‘freedom’ under capitalism? Whose freedom is more important: the freedom of businesses to make money, or the freedom of workers to stay healthy? Is freedom a question of personal rights and privileges, or the shared ability to decide what kind of world we want to live in?…

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 cheaper, they can’t care for the old or educate the young properly. Suddenly this year, we learned that they can manage a complete alteration of every aspect of our lives in a matter of weeks. How come?…

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 UK enjoy so few rights? Why have governments become obsessed with maintaining property prices and is there an alternative?על ידי The World Transformed

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 counts as ‘healthy’? And why do some lives seem to matter more than others?על ידי The World Transformed

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, the system that underpins and dominates life across the globe? Lockdown has seen millions of us withdrawn from our usual patterns of work, while the work of a few essential people has been widely rec…

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 will explore what is driving this “culture war”, how it impacts class struggle, whether it’s possible for the left to avoid it and, if not, what an effective strategy for engaging with it looks like.W…

At the 2019 General Election, the Conservative Party achieved 43.6% of the popular vote - the highest percentage of any party since 1979. This electoral coalition has been decades in the making. The Conservatives have increased their share of the vote in every election since 2005. In contrast, Labour’s vote share declined considerably between 1997 …

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 competing for state power and building movements? How can we maintain the energy and infrastructure built during that period? Are our organising methods still relevant in this new context and how can we …

Decades of cuts and privatization in health care left us vulnerable to coronavirus. How can we ensure that health care workers have the protections they need and ensure that testing, treatments, and a future vaccine are available to all? Join us to hear how nurses and health justice activists around the world are fighting back to protect themselves…

During the Labour leadership election, Keir Starmer warned against the party lurching to the right. Five months into his leadership and it remains unclear where he plans to take Labour policy. Polls show that a large majority of members want the party to continue supporting a radical economic agenda and progressive domestic and foreign policy refor…

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 time that a neoliberal trade agenda has met with resistance. From the Seattle protests against the WTO, to the defeat of TTIP and the Free Trade Area of the Americas, the attempt to impose corporate tra…

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 now cast aside bold visions of the future as a result?The left arguably needs its utopianism more than ever: we’re facing an unprecedented recession, a global pandemic and imminent climate crisis. The s…

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 relationship with racism. We will hear from activists, academics and historians alongside the perspective of politicians involved in both long-standing and recent struggles against racism.With Madge D…

Trade unions have played a central role in the Labour Party since its creation. Today, Labour has 12 trade union affiliates who provide funding, resources, activists and candidates, and who have considerable representation within the democratic structures of the party. As Labour moves in a new direction under Keir Starmer's leadership, what will th…

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 pitched left during his leadership campaign with promises to maintain the radicalism of the Corbyn years. However, since taking over as leader he has set a rather different tone. How should progressives …

Support for nationalist politics is growing across the world. The campaign for Brexit catalysed a convergence between mainstream conservatives and the far-right behind an exclusionary vision of Britain. Meanwhile, we are seeing growing support for independence amongst progressives in Scotland, Ireland and Wales. What is driving support for national…

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 been shockingly ill-equipped to deal with this crisis. Wage freezes, insecure work and lack of employment rights have left people facing potential hardship and an uncertain future. But as more and more …

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 mass unemployment, combined with an expanding gig economy and fresh attacks on workers’ rights.But we have an opportunity: the crisis has underlined the value of unions and essential workers and demonst…

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 parties? Taking a historical perspective, this session will examine the challenges and limitations of this approach and what we could have done differently. Asking the question of what would have happ…

State surveillance, anti-terror laws and the rhetoric of ‘national security’ are being used to criminalise progressive activists and marginalised communities across the world. Speakers will discuss the colonial roots of policing and how histories of ‘anti-terrorism’ in the UK and ex-colonies, such as South Africa and India, continue to be linked be…

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 life-destroying possibility of eviction notices and losing their homes. In this panel organised by Momentum, hear directly from tenants unions leading the struggle against evictions about how renters …

Structural, institutional, systemic – racism prefixed as such points to a concept that was first used by black American activists in the 60’s. The wave of protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd by police in the US has brought the concept to the fore in recent months. Its potency, both as a means of analysis and as a call to action, depends…

For decades, the people of Palestine and Kashmir have struggled against violent military occupations which have denied them autonomy and statehood. Governments across the world have turned a blind eye or - in many cases - actively supported and resourced Israel and India's human rights violations. This session will look at what's happening on the g…

We live in an era with the radical right on the rise. But where are they taking us? In this session, we unpack the ideologies driving various right-wing currents and distil the utopian visions that lie therein. What is the endgame of Silicon Valley Libertarianism? Does the Johnson-Cummings matrix represent a departure from Conservatism as we’ve kno…

The moral panic in response to migrants crossing the English channel is just the latest example of how racism and xenophobia structures British politics. The hostile environment policy that led to the Windrush scandal two years ago, is now at risk of being intensified as the Conservatives attempt to divert attention from one of the worst Covid-19 d…

Is it possible to build meaningful coalitions between anti-racist movements like Black Lives Matter and the electoral left? Speakers from the USA and the UK will consider the lessons that have been learnt in the last few months since the killing of George Floyd, exploring what a fruitful relationship between mass movements and legislative politics …

The forces of capital repressed movements from the left throughout the world in the twentieth century. The imperialistic dynamics of this oppression remain relevant, and must be understood by us if we are to offer meaningful solidarity to the global left. Join Vincent Bevins (journalist, author of The Jakarta Method) and Vijay Prashad (author, edit…

From the pandemic to BLM, and now the biggest economic crisis for a century, 2020 has been a year where things have changed irreversibly. After December's election defeat, it’s understandable that many of us are feeling demoralised. But the left is bigger and better organised than we were during the crisis of 2008, and we now have a popular program…

Recording of TWT & Verso's webinar on 02.07.20COVID-19 has reshaped the global economy in a matter of weeks: millions out of work, unprecendented bailouts from governments and central banks and a radically uncertain future. This unprecedented crisis also creates oportunities for radical change. But we can't rely on external circumstances alone to g…

Recording of TWT and Verso's Zoom call on 18.06.20Leo Panitch and Meagan Day discuss:How does Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of the Labour Party fit into this move "from protest to politics"? What can we learn from the left's nascent, so far truncated, attempts to take state power in the 21st century?על ידי The World Transformed

In this podcast, Michal Klaus, CEO at Ataccama, discusses what is required by governments around the world to successfully reopen their economies after the devastating impacts of Covid-19. The interview is conducted by Ron Powell, independent analyst and industry expert for the BeyeNetwork and executive producer for The World Transformed Fast Forwa…

Labour's 1983 election campaign was notoriously dubbed 'the longest suicide note in history'. It opened the way not only for a decade of Thatcher's brutal policies, but also for a sharp turn to the right in the Labour party itself. The idea that a left-wing program could never win an election became sacrosanct with the 1997 'New Labour' landslide. …