Corporate Watch Corporate Watch is an anti-capitalist research and training group that helps people stand up against corporate power using “information for action”. The large grant will support Corporate Watch’s training sessions on investigating industries and companies, as well as updating and publishing materials on the same topic.

Greater Manchester Tenants Union Greater Manchester Tenants Union is a democratic, member-led union, working across the 10 boroughs of Greater Manchester.The grant will enable the union to embed a political education programme within their tenant organising. This will include training to support members to develop into leadership roles within the union, public education events and commissioning writing on aspects of the union’s work.

Political education workshops ACORN the Union ACORN is a mass membership organisation and network of low-income people organising for a fairer deal for our communities left behind by companies, councils and parliament. These workshops will be carried out in working-class communities, addressing pressing issues such as the housing crisis, the cost-of-living crisis and strained public services, providing participants with the knowledge and tools to critically examine societal issues and advocate for transformative change through collective action.

Union events on climate justice Green Bloc Green Bloc is an alliance of several organizations committed to collaborating on political education and fringe events at Trade Union Conferences. These two events will target GMB and the Trade Unions Congress, using political education on climate change as a wedge issue to build grassroots support for socialist and progressive policies within Britain’s largest trade unions, and educating union members on the internal politics involved in achieving these goals.

The big dinner: abundance against fascism Seeds for Change Seeds for Change supports groups campaigning for social and environmental justice to organise in a more strategic, effective and empowering way. This conversation event is for groups in Manchester that are taking a community organising approach to combatting the far right. It aims to build a stronger network of community organisations in the area that can respond to future crises and challenge right-wing radicalisation at its root.

Dialogues Kitty’s Launderette Kitty’s launderette is a community space in Liverpool, providing affordable laundry services, as well as an accessible social space for people to gather, talk and learn. This project will engage the local community in a series of workshops exploring themes of solidarity, the proud history of migration in the city, disinformation and visioning our collective future. Responses from participants will then be exhibited at Kitty’s and shared wider through a public events program in the launderette.

A Public Projection of Gig Worker Power The Workers’ Observatory The Workers’ Observatory is a collaboration of gig workers and researchers, watching the city in order to collectively challenge conditions in self-employed and gig work, and to take control of their labour. This funding will enable workers to gather regularly to develop their own network, research and reflect on their collective objectives, and engage in a public media strategy that foregrounds the radical potential of migrant gig workers to collectivise and win power in the economy.

Boycott Bloody Insurance Coal Action Network Coal Action Network works for an end to coal use in power generation and steel production, coal extraction, and coal imports in the UK. This project will use events, reports and digital media to raise awareness about the insurance industry’s role in fossil fuel expansion, colonial occupation in Palestine and the migrant detention industry. It aims to build a cross-movement campaign to build pressure for insurance companies to cut ties with deadly projects.

Glasgow Community School People’s Resource Unit This community-based political education programme aims to provide an accessible, entry-level introduction to some of the key political, economic and social issues impacting people and to introduce broadly socialist conceptions of alternatives. The project will use relationships with existing community organisations to deliver the sessions in neighbourhoods, bringing class-centred education directly to people, particularly those who are not organising in trade unions.

Tools for a Fearless City: Building Municipal Organising in the UK Research for Action Research for Action is a worker co-operative producing research to further economic, social and environmental justice. This project will develop and share resources documenting how ‘municipalist’ groups are developing new political pathways. It plans to use already recorded content from a previous summit celebrating municipal practices, alongside follow-up interviews with participants, to introduce others to the ideas and practices of municipal organising.

Stage adaptation of graphic novel Red Rosa no more superheroes This project will adapt Kate Evans’ graphic novel ‘Red Rosa’, a biography of Rosa Luxemburg into a theatrical production for the first time, alongside the delivery of a young artists development programme. The project aims to make socialist history and ideas accessible to audiences through compelling storytelling, and create opportunities for diverse emerging artists to engage with socialism and art-making.

Cooperation Nation: a game-based workshop on commoning and community governance Red Plenty Games The Red Plenty Games is a collective that produces political strategy games. This project will produce an integrated board game and workshop to run with communities involved or interested in projects of commoning and community governance. The aim is to help groups to reconceptualise the development of their town or city through the perspective and dilemmas of common ownership.

Heavy Lefting Rebecca Kirkpatrick This book will reveal a little-known history of leftist physical training and culture and guide readers in how to build a habit of movement from scratch around a stressful life of activism, work, family and community commitments. Heavy Lefting will envision how we might reorganise society so that inclusive movement and wellness – not warped by the profit motive – is central and accessible to all. Publication (book)

Art as Resistance People’s History Museum People’s History Museum holds the most extensive political poster collection in the UK. Art as Resistance will be the first glimpse into the museum’s vast and significant collection, demonstrating how art can be a tool for campaign, protest and mobilisation. An accompanying engagement programme will explore topics such as anti-racism, housing need, and community organising drawing on the power of collective action to challenge systems. Exhibition

From Audience to Action: Local newspapers as the frontline for progressive change The Lead The Lead and The Lead Local are socially progressive and left-wing imprints and publications who aim to distribute 100,000 printed newspapers in two editions in 2024 focused on 10 northern UK regional cities alongside a plan to build a bigger national weekly email newsletter. Locally commissioned and edited investigative and feature articles will address the hyperlocal concerns of the people who live and work in those areas. Each issue will involve writers and photographers local to each area. Publication (newspaper)

UK Deaf and Disabled Peoples’ Coalition Disabled People Against Cuts This project will build socialist values amongst Deaf and Disabled Peoples’ Organisations in the UK, developing the UK Coalition as a vehicle for national transformation and developing a joint campaign strategy across the coalition. The work aims to have a positive lasting impact on the lives of disabled people and their communities putting them in a better place to seek real changes to their lives. Other – educational network

New Organising Conference Ella Baker School of Organising This conference aims to bring 350 people together including union staff, work representatives, lawyers, academics and third sector organisations, to raise awareness and understanding of workers struggles and movements to create a more equal, diverse, cooperative, sustainable and democratic society. Conference

Connected Frontlines Haringey Migrant Support Centre This conference will provide an opportunity for representatives from small, front-line organisations supporting migrants across London, to come together, share best practice and pool research. It will build capacity across the sector to amplify the voices of these small organisations, and work together to collectively resist the hostile environment. Conference

Sheffield Transformed Festival – A festival of political education through discussion, debate, arts and culture Sheffield Transformed A weekend festival of political education and network-building anchored in the radical politics and culture of South Yorkshire. The festival aims to provide a space for inter-generational learning and cross-community discussion through a range of activities, including participatory workshops, talks, art and music; and to forge new connections between different struggles to encourage local political action. Conference (festival)

Movement Power Zine Tipping Point UK Movement Power is a free zine for grassroots groups around the UK working on climate, migrant, housing, racial, social, workers’ & economic justice. It aims to inspire, nourish and empower groups to understand their true power and how to tackle the interwoven root causes of the cost of living crisis, climate breakdown and escalating social injustices. Publication

Every Street A Power Station Optimistic Foundation CIC POWER STATION is a documentary film about installing free solar panels on a street in East London – a ‘show and do’ project addressing climate, energy, economic, and imaginative crises through action and education. This grant will support the production and dissemination of a publication with educational resources and conceptual frameworks for communities interested in initiating POWER STATION projects. Publication

Artists and Culture Workers LDN – Website Optimistic Foundation CIC Artists and Culture Workers LDN is applying the shop-stewards network organisational model to workers in the culture sector. The group aims to dynamically facilitate exchanges of information amongst workers, building collective confidence to navigate labour relations in art and culture, through democratic structures based on a rank-and-file trade union ethos. This grant will enable the group to create a new website, a membership development system, a new logo and some initial writing pieces for the website. Digital resource

Britain and the Other 9/11 Alborada Films Britain and the Other 9/11 is a feature-length documentary which investigates the UK government’s role in the subversion of Chile’s democracy between 1960 and 2000. This grant will support screenings of the film across the UK. It aims to provide political education not only in socialist thought, focussing on Allende’s life and legacy, but also the mechanisms that the UK government has used to subvert socialist projects in the Global South. Events

Exploring Anticapitalism. A new series of short courses from the Left Book Club Left Book Club A new series of structured courses accessible to both members of Left Book Club and the public. The grant will support the production of three courses over a year—Exploring Colonialism, Exploring Radical History, and Exploring Economics. Each course will feature books published by Left Book Club, alongside wider readings. Workshop/course

An Clogán An Clogán An Clogán aims to address the lack of a significant left-wing media presence across the island of Ireland. This grant will support the production of a print publication featuring in-depth analysis, articles, and discussions on key political issues from a progressive left-wing perspective. It will also support a website build and launch events to reach a wide audience. Workshop/course

Degrowth London Political Education Drive Degrowth London This project seeks to develop online educational tools for advancing the understanding of the increasingly impactful degrowth movement and its contributions to eco-socialist transformation. The tools that will be the product of a research project undertaken by members of Degrowth London. Publication

The Workers Policy Project The Workers Policy Project This project will research how precarious work is used specifically as a mechanism for workplace sexual assault. It will produce and distribute printed and digital resources to increase awareness of workplace assault and grievance procedures bringing into focus the power dynamics that enable extreme exploitation, building solidarity within the labour movement and increasing worker and public perception of workplace sexual assault of how precarious work is used as a driver. Digital resource

Never Stop Learning: Adult Education for Democracy Never Stop Learning This project aims to produce two publications, create a website and run a conference, documenting the history of radical adult education and raising awareness of the importance of wider adult education in disadvantaged communities. Publication

Workers Theatre Movement Play Project Valley Community Theatre Valley Community Theatre, based in a working-class area of Liverpool, will run a series of workshops looking at the origins of agitprop and political theatre, as exemplified by the Workers Theatre Movement. The workshops will build to rehearsals and eventually a run of five evenings of theatre, open to the general public, performing pieces on various aspects of the Workers Theatre Movement. Arts events

Preserving Bradford’s Radical Past through archiving and sharing the Bradford Resource Centre (BRC) library Friends of Bradford Resource Centre Friends of Bradford Resource Centre plan to preserve the unwritten history of Bradford Resource Centre through archiving important materials currently stored in the centre, and using these to create at exhibition documenting the history of the Bradford Resource Centre and other connected organisations. This will be turned into a permanent display in the building and also an online resource. Mapping/archiving

Disability and Migration Network – cross-movement conference Disability and Migration Network The Disability and Migration Network will bring together activists from across movements for disability justice and migration justice for an in-person conference in Spring 2025. The conference will promote socialist perspectives, seek solutions to the neoliberal austerity agenda and map the current political landscape for disability and migration movements, further building the network for future learning and action. Conference

Pro Revolution Soccer Pro Revolution Soccer This podcast attempts to turn football – the national obsession – into a terrain of struggle and a series of teachable moments in order to convert football fans into socialists, convert left-leaning football fans into socialist activists, and ultimately to organise left-leaning football fans, players and coaches into a bloc capable of having affects in football and beyond. Audio

Socialist Education at Camp 100 Woodcraft Folk In August 2025, Woodcraft Folk with their partner organisation the International Falcon Movement – Socialist Education International, brought together around 3,000 young people and adults on a camp of international solidarity, cooperation and social change education in England. Participants will take part in education programme which runs across 14 thematic centres, such as Trade Union, Solidarity, an Underground Printing Press, Media and Peace and Conflict. Additionally to the main theme, each centre will run sessions on the next 100 years, activism and sustainability. Workshop/course

Producing a booklet on grassroots organising and state repression of radical social movements in North Kurdistan (Southeast Turkey) Kurdish Solidarity Network, Bristol Defendant Solidarity, Bristol Anarchist Black Cross and IWW Bristol An accessible 100 page booklet based on interviews with left-wing organisations in the Kurdish region of south-east Turkey/North Kurdistan, detailing struggles for grassroots democracy, ecology and women’s liberation amidst economic, political and military repression. Publication

Spark: A one week introduction to social justice education The Advocacy Academy A course providing young people aged 14-18 with an understanding of political frameworks and skills in community organising, campaigning and campaign actions. The programme aims to build the organisation’s membership programme, supporting young people to fight for system change for marginalised communities. Course

Construction of strike statistics database for Britain Gregor Gall A database of data on official strikes, ballots for strikes and industrial action, and industrial action short of a strike in Britain. This will support socialists and trade unions to judge the health of the union and wider working-class movement. Research

Political Economy conference event General Federation of Trade Unions A weekend conference on political economy for trade union members, socialist scholars and key activists, designed to deepen a collective understanding of political economy, advocate for workers’ rights and promote socialist principles. The grant will subsidise 15 places for individuals who would otherwise be unable to attend due to financial barriers. Conference

Prisoner Solidarity Network Interview Series Prisoner Solidarity Network A series of long-form video interviews of formerly incarcerated people and others whose activism has revolved around the criminal justice system. The series aims to illustrate the role that prisons and the criminal justice system have in upholding racial capitalism, highlight human rights abuses in UK prisons, and to explore the possibilities for socialism as a means of reducing harm and inequality in society. Video/film

Deaf access to radical Left politics Dai O’Brien and Steve Emery A project conducting interviews with signing deaf people who are involved in radical Left politics and to hold workshops with activists from both deaf BSL signing and hearing communities, with the aim of creating a corpus of BSL vocabulary linked to Left political terms and translating key Left political texts into BSL. Digital resource

A building for the left Pelican Collective The collective aims to provide affordable office and workspace for progressive and leftist organisations in London, alongside high quality events and political education space available to grassroots and progressive groups. The new building will provide a large event space, class room, kitchen, and common room, providing the ideal venue for political education, community building and collaborative working. Creating/improving a physical space

The Benn Legacy Conference – 100 years of Tony Benn Tipping Point UK A conference in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Tony Benn’s birth. The conference will invite contributions from academics, trade unions and activist groups, discussing Benn’s innovative approach to socialism, the influence of workers’ actions on him and the ideas of British socialism that inspired him. [please note: we no longer accept applications from universities] Conference

Troublemakers: a conference on organising at work Ian Allison A conference bringing together around 300 workers to learn from each other, from past struggles and from good organising methods. The conference aims to contribute to union growth and promote an inclusive and expansive model of workplace organising, supporting workers to address broad issues such as poverty, inequality, discrimination, and climate breakdown. Conference

Re-interpreting the visual culture of working class movements Working Class Movement Library Improving the display and accompanying interpretive information of key archival materials and artworks in the Working Class Movement Library. The project aims to provide a coherent educational narrative for visitors to the library, in order to raise awareness about important working class struggles and events in our history. Creating/improving a physical space

Of Sweat and Soil: The power of grassroots union organising for landworkers Landworkers Alliance A podcast series telling the story of landworker organising in the UK, sharing voices from Landworkers’ Alliance members in the UK and globally with La Via Campesina. The series will use creative methods to tell often forgetting stories of power, uprisings and organising that have shaped the landscape of the UK today. Audio

Development of website and visual identity Class Work The website aims to improve and enhance the organisation’s current work, attracting more groups and organisations to Class Work’s workshops supporting people to explore their internal and external relationships to class, as well as growing the readership of Class Work’s journal, Lumpen, which publishes poor and working class writers. Digital resource

Installing a podcast/radio studio and producing a regular podcast MayDay Rooms Building a sound recording studio in the MayDay Rooms archive, as well as developing a sound editing training programme, to enable activists from across the Left and socialist movements to produce podcasts and radio shows free of charge. MayDay Rooms will also use the studio to produce a regular magazine-style podcast, featuring collections from the archive, current campaigns and selected recordings from MayDay Rooms’ public events. Audio

House of Common Boundless Theatre A five month programme of workshops and engaging participatory activity for 15-25 year olds in Croydon. The workshops will be carried out around the theatre’s production of HOUSE OF COMMON, a performance exploring youth voice and lowering the voting age to sixteen. The project will use co-creation practices and artistic responses from young people to demonstrate and platform new ways of thinking. Workshops

Community research on the right to food Right to Food Southwark This ‘citizen-led’ participatory research project will explore what the right to food means to people using foodbanks, using the findings to establish clearer aims for the right to food movement and develop campaigning demands. These aims and demands will be used to raise awareness within local councils of the nature and extent of the UK’s inequality crisis. Research

Historical Materialism London Conference Historical Materialism Conference

Building and Launching a website for the Work and Food Network Unity Consulting Digital resource

A Monumental Task Mango Riot Workshop / course

Strategy process for ensuring the sustainability of The World Transformed The World Transformed Research

STRIKE! MCR STRIKE! MCR Workshop / course

Trespass no more superheroes Audio

Understanding contemporary capitalism in two Welsh Communities Bevan Foundation Research

Mapping the housing crisis Greater Manchester Housing Action Publication

Political Education Video Resources Left Book Club Video

Pŵer Pobl (People Power) Engaging with The Feminist Perspective of Protest to Inspire Activism and Positive Change in South Wales The Workers Gallery Research

About Money: a play about Workers’ Rights and zero hour contracts, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 65% Theatre Arts research & development

“Come What May, We’re Here to Stay”: A history of anti racist organising in the British South Asian Community Taj Ali Research

Mining Memories Education4Action Publication

Conversations with Gamechangers: Solidarity Economy Strategies for a New and Better World Solidarity Economy Association Conference

IRR50 – celebrating fifty years of a radical anti-racist tradition Institute of Race Relations Digital resource

The Anarchist Essays Podcast Loughborough University Anarchist Research Group Podcast

‘The Oldest Hatred: A podcast series on antisemitism from Vashti Media’ (Working Title) Vashti Media Podcast

Building public awareness and solidarity on the issue of global South debt Debt Justice Video

History of the women’s liberation movement (1965-1990) from the grassroots up HOWL: History of Women’s Liberation Digital resource

HOT IN HERE (a carbon-neutral dance party) Pigfoot Theatre Arts research & development

Salt of the Earth Shut Out the Light Film

Four day week for the self-employed and casual workers 4 Day Week Campaign Research

Documenting the Undercover Policing Inquiry Undercover Research Group Digital resource

Youth, art and power Share UK Workshop / Course

Tools for Tenant Struggle Workers’ Educational Association Workshop / Course

Winning the battle for left-wing political education online Red Pepper Digital resource

Devising how to collectively expand and develop radically democratic forms of municipalism in the UK Municipal Enquiry Events

Deutscher Prize Digital Media Project Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Prize Committee Digital resource

Soundings Global Climate Justice project Soundings Journal Publication

Routes of Social Change Workers’ Educational Association Events

A People’s History of Class Struggle Claim the Future Podcast

Support the development of young Black and POC cooperatives by identifying historical role of co-ops in the communities of colour in the UK Decolonising Economics Workshop / course

Images of Liberation: Sally Fraser and the photography of women’s protest, 1968-1971 Four Corners Exhibition

Website of the Lucas Aerospace Combine Shop Stewards Committee Lucas Aerospace Combine Shop Stewards Committee Digital resource

Culture is Ordinary – Raymond Williams film project Thomas Goddard Film

Fair work pamphlet: changing the narrative about work – a project driven by young working class BPOC activists Stephanie Bolt Publication

Living Systems for Thriving Groups: an Online On-demand Open Access Course Navigate Course

New Deal for Childcare Post Pandemic Childcare Coalition Digital resource

TWT FM – magazine style podcast combining history, theory, culture and contemporary struggles around issues pertinent to the left The World Transformed Podcast

Tribune Clubs – socialist educational groups across Britain run by Tribune magazine Tribune Events

Building the alternatives for a just food system: celebrating 25 years of struggle War on Want Video

Bristol Palestine Film Festival 2021 Bristol Palestine Film Festival Arts events

Why is David Oluwale’s story relevant today? Two educational events David Oluwale Memorial Association Events

Fair Rents Now! Political Education on Working Class Tenant Collective Organising to achieve Rent Control in the post Pandemic era Greater Manchester Tenants Union Publication

Marie Goldsmith: “Titan of Anarchism” Søren Henry Hough and Christopher Coquard Research

STAY-PLAY-STRIKE Running playgroups in Hyde Park that provide socialist political education for migrant childcare workers Nanny Solidarity Network and Independent Workers of Great Britain Creating / improving a physical space

Interactive website and workshops Skills Network Collective Digital resource

Documenting the Undercover Policing Inquiry Undercover Research Group Digital resource

Suite (212) Juliet Jacques Podcast

The Resist + Renew Podcast Resist + Renew Podcast

Global Marx: a free monthly online webinar series (for activists around the world) on Karl Marx’s Capital Volume One Professor Alfredo Saad-Filho, Caroline Denon Lambert and Jessica Pigg Digital resource

Resilience and Resistance – We Will Not Be Invisible Disabled People Against Cuts Archiving

Bank Job Bank Job Film

The Political Education Project Paul O’Connell (SOAS), Joe Guinan (The Democracy Collaborative), Stiofán Ó Nualláin and Seán Byers (Trademark Belfast) Video

ERA Magazine Francesca Newton Digital resource

Formalising and foundation of UBI Lab Liverpool UBI (Universal Basic Income) Lab Liverpool Publication

LeftCon LeftCon Events

Researching and populating an interactive map of significant events in radical history for the Working Class History project Working Class History Research

The Heart of Our Earth: Community Resistance to Mining in Latin America Latin America Bureau Research

The Grace Blakeley Podcast Tribune Podcast

Left Book Club’s Online Political Education Events Programme Left Book Club Events

Building a UVW Organiser Training: How to Win at Work United Voices of the World Publication

‘We are Nature defending herself’: An audio-visual examination of activists’ resistance to systemic state violence against the UK environmental movement Phil Clarke Hill Film

Three Acres and a Calf Three Acres and a Calf Digital resource

Socialist education at Common Ground 2020 Woodcraft Folk Workshop / Course

The Incarceration of Nellie Bly 154 Collective Arts events (play)

Bringing Socialist Feminism to the forefront of the FiLiA conference FiliA Conference

Activities Centre for Latin American Workers Independent Workers of Great Britain Workshop / Course

Worker Organisation in the Gig Economy EDM European Democratic Media eG Research

Tech Cooperative Policy Workshop Common Wealth Workshop / Course