Bristol Transformed
Events from this organiser
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McMindfulness
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomFrom celebrity endorsements to monks, neuroscientists and meditation coaches rubbing shoulders with CEOs at the World Economic Forum in Davos, it is clear that mindfulness has gone mainstream. Some have even called it a revolution. But what if, instead of changing the world, mindfulness has become a banal form of capitalist spirituality that mindlessly avoids social and political transformation, reinforcing the neo-liberal status quo?
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Marx at the Arcade: Consoles, Controllers, and Class
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomIn Marx at the Arcade (Haymarket Books), acclaimed researcher Jamie Woodcock delves into the hidden abode of the gaming industry. In an account that will appeal to hardcore gamers, digital skeptics, and the joystick-curious, Woodcock unravels the vast networks of artists, software developers, and factory and logistics workers whose seen and unseen labor flows into the products we consume on a gargantuan scale. Along the way, he analyzes the increasingly important role the gaming industry plays in contemporary capitalism and the broader transformations of work and the economy that it embodies.
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National Food Service: what would decommodified food provision look like?
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomWe have a National Health Service, a National Education Service so why should food provision be outside of government perimeters? What would a National Food Service look like? How would it differ to food provision now? What is food provision now like? How does the current system fail us and the planet? And importantly, if we want a NFS how would we get there? To answer all of these questions we have a panel of food activists who will also discuss their involvement in food production and provision.
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Stolen w/ Grace Blakeley // Bristol Launch
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomIn the decade leading up to the 2008 financial crisis, booming banks, rising house prices and cheap consumer goods propped up living standards in the rich world. Thirty years of rocketing debt and financial wizardry had masked the deep underlying fragility of finance-led growth, and in 2008 we were forced to pay up. The decade since has witnessed all kinds of morbid symptoms, as all around the rich world, wages and productivity are stagnant, inequality is rising, and ecological systems are collapsing. Stolen is a history of finance-led growth and a guide as to how we might escape it. We’ve sat back as financial capitalism has stolen our economies, our environment and even the future itself. Now, we have an opportunity to change course. What happens next is up to us.
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Data rights, workers rights and the gig economy
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomBristol Transformed and Open Rights Group Bristol present an evening of thought provoking talks on data rights, workers rights and the gig economy. After individual contributions from James Farrar, Lina Dencik and Alex Wood, we will have a panel discussion with opportunity for questions from the audience.
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Steal As Much As You Can: Bristol Launch w/ Nathalie Olah
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomTory austerity has created suffering for millions, as well a generation beset with financial insecurity and crisis. Yet our TV, film, music, art and literature have never looked so rich, or so posh. During a period of immense struggle, the experiences of the majority have been pushed to the margins of our collective culture by the legacy media and its satellite industries – making it hard, if not impossible, to challenge those in power. Steal as Much as You Can is the story of how this happened, exploring the rise of affluence in mainstream storytelling, and the corrosive effects of neoliberal and postmodern culture.
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The Twittering Machine: Bristol Launch w/ Richard Seymour
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomIn surrealist artist Paul Klee’s The Twittering Machine, the bird-song of a diabolical machine acts as bait to lure humankind into a pit of damnation. Leading political writer and broadcaster Richard Seymour argues that this is a chilling metaphor for our relationship with social media. Through journalism, psychoanalytic reflection and insights from users, developers, security experts and others, Seymour probes the human side of the machine, asking what we’re getting out of it, and what we’re getting into.
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Hostile Environment Book Launch with Maya Goodfellow
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomJoin us for the Bristol book launch of Maya Goodfellow's 'Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats'. As refugees drowned in the Mediterranean, the UK Government proudly announced that the aim of its immigration policy was to create a ‘hostile environment’ for undocumented immigrants. Despite study after study confirming that immigration is not damaging the economy or putting a strain on public services, migrants continue to be blamed for all the UK’s ills. How did we get here?
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Bristol Transformed Festival 2020
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomBristol Transformed returns for its second festival, bigger and better than before. Bringing radical ideas and culture to the heart of Bristol, we'll be covering everything from how to organise in your community, through to radical approaches to data justice, with parties, live podcasts, art and food, showcasing the world that we can win if we come together and organise.
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Monopsony Capitalism Book Launch with Ashok Kumar
SPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomThis book explores the combination of capital's changing composition and labour's subjective agency to examine whether the waning days of the 'sweatshop' have indeed begun.
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Daring to Hope: Book Launch with Sheilah Rowbotham
SPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomIn this powerful memoir Sheila Rowbotham looks back at the women’s liberation movement, left politics and the vibrant, creative culture of a decade in which freedom and equality seemed possible. It is a riveting personal history of second wave feminism from the front line. After addressing the first Women’s Liberation Conference at Ruskin College, Oxford, […]
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Daring to Hope: Talk, Q&A, and Book Launch with Sheilah Rowbotham
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomBook Tickets Talk and Q&A with author and activist Sheila Rowbotham, to launch her new book Daring to Hope: My Life in the 1970s. Sheila will be in conversation with Sue Tate who is a freelance art historian, a Trustee of the Feminist Archive South, a socialist feminist, member of the Monica Sjöö Curatorial Collective […]
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Bristol Transformed Festival 2022 – Bristol For The People
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomBristol Transformed is a grassroots, volunteer-run annual festival of socialist politics, arts and culture inspired by The World Transformed. Bringing together activists, trade unionists and leading figures on the left, we’re creating the space to discuss the most important issues facing us, equipping us with the skills and knowledge to transform Bristol and the world for our collective future.
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Artificial Islands: Book Launch with Owen Hatherley
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomBristol Transformed are very pleased to have the wonderful Owen Hatherley back in Bristol for a chat and Q+A to launch his new book, Artificial Islands: Adventures in the Dominions. Great Britain has just left one Union. But might the island’s future lie in another Union altogether, with its former colonial “kith and kin” in a trans-oceanic super-state with Canada, Australia and New Zealand? Welcome to the strange world of the “CANZUK Union”, the name for a quixotic but apparently serious plan to reunify the white-majority “Dominions” of the British Empire under the flag of low taxes, strong borders and climate change denialism.
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Market Madness: WTH is going on and what can we do about it?
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomWith the economy tanking, the pound plummeting to an all-time low and a fresh round of austerity coming down the tracks many of us are asking “what the hell is going on with the economy?” Join Bristol Transformed, two speakers from Reteaching Economics, and other concerned Bristolians to talk it through and figure out what comes next.
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Workers Can Win – Book tour & workshop
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomJoin Bristol Transformed for an afternoon with Ian Allinson, who’s been taking his new book “Workers Can Win” up and down the country to inspire new organisers and give them the tools they need to win working-class power. Following the conversation with Ian, you’ll take part in a workshop that will give you a taste of some of the ideas and techniques from the book and get you thinking about how you can take them forwards into your own workplace.
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Book Launch: Friends of Israel
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomBristol Transformed turns to the Israel/Palestine agenda with Hil Aked ‘Friends of Israel’ book launch. Focusing on an anti-racist analysis of key UK figures in the recent suppression of Palestinian solidarity, Aked shows Britain’s complicity in the ongoing occupation.
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Everything For Everyone – Bristol Transformed Festival 2023
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomThis grassroots, volunteer-run annual festival of socialist politics, arts and culture brings together activists, trade unionists and leading figures on the left, creating the space to discuss the most important issues facing us, equipping us with the skills and knowledge to transform Bristol and the world for our collective future.
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A Nation of Shopkeepers: Book Launch
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomBristol Transformed are excited to welcome Dan Evans for a discussion of his new book "A Nation of Shopkeepers: The Unstoppable Rise of the Petty Bourgeoisie". Dan will talk through the key points of his book, with plenty of time for question, discussion & debate from the audience.
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Religion and Socialism
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomWhat is the relationship between religion and socialism? Should there even be one? What can a largely secular movement take and learn from faith traditions? How can leftwing and faith communities work together to improve society today?
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Left Attitudes on War
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomWhat stance should socialists take when their country is involved in a war? How does the media twist perceptions of conflicts in order to garner support at home? Do foreign interventions ever achieve their stated goals?
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Religion and Socialism #2
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomWhat is the relationship between religion and socialism? Should there even be one? What can a largely secular movement take and learn from faith traditions? How can leftwing and faith communities work together to improve society today?
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Left Attitudes on War #2: the media
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomWhat stance should socialists take when their country is involved in a war? How does the media twist perceptions of conflicts in order to garner support at home? Do foreign interventions ever achieve their stated goals?
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Marxist Microdosing – October Session
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomClear and simple explanations of some of the basic building blocks of Marxism.
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Left Attitudes on War #3
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomWhat stance should socialists take when their country is involved in a war? How does the media twist perceptions of conflicts in order to garner support at home? Do foreign interventions ever achieve their stated goals?
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Religion and Socialism November session – Sikhism
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomWhat is the relationship between religion and socialism? Should there even be one? What can a largely secular movement take and learn from faith traditions? How can leftwing and faith communities work together to improve society today?
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How the Working Class Ended WW1
SPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomIn a break from our usual programming of Tuesday evening discussion groups, we bring an event for Remembrance Day: celebrating the memory of the deserters, the strikers, those who shot their commanding officers, and every other hero of the working class who tried to end World War One.
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Marxist Microdosing – November Session
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomClear and simple explanations of some of the basic building blocks of Marxism.
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Left Attitudes on War #4
SPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomWhat stance should socialists take when their country is involved in a war? How does the media twist perceptions of conflicts in order to garner support at home? Do foreign interventions ever achieve their stated goals?
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Left Attitudes on War – Technology
SPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomWhat stance should socialists take when their country is involved in a war? How does the media twist perceptions of conflicts in order to garner support at home? Do foreign interventions ever achieve their stated goals?
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Left Attitudes on War #5
SPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomWhat stance should socialists take when their country is involved in a war? How does the media twist perceptions of conflicts in order to garner support at home? Do foreign interventions ever achieve their stated goals?
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Liberation Theology – Religion & Socialism
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomWhat is the relationship between religion and socialism? Should there even be one? What can a largely secular movement take and learn from faith traditions? How can leftwing and faith communities work together to improve society today? This week we look at liberation theology: a combination of Christian social teaching and Marxist socio-political analysis.
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Left Attitudes on War
SPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomWhat stance should socialists take when their country is involved in a war? How does the media twist perceptions of conflicts in order to garner support at home? Do foreign interventions ever achieve their stated goals?
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Marxist Microdosing
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomClear and simple explanations of some of the basic building blocks of Marxism.
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Socialism or Barbarism: studying Rosa Luxemburg
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomWho was Rosa Luxemburg?
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The Rentier City – book launch
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomAuthor Isaac Rose joins us to discuss his new book "The Rentier City: Manchester and the Making of the Neoliberal Metropolis"!
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Capitalism: A Horror Story – book launch
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomAuthor Jon Greenaway, host of the Horror Vanguard, joins us to discuss his new book "Capitalism: A Horror Story", in conversation with Mark Steven author of Splatter Capital.
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TU Anon: How to Start a Trade Union Campaign
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomTU Anon sessions are short and simple workshops for campaigning or organising in your workplace, with plenty of time to chat and ask questions.
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Talking to Your Neighbours About Palestine
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomWant to take action for Palestine? Learn to have conversations about it and support the boycott
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Education and Socialism 1: Bullshit Pedagogy
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomWhy do educators spend so much time ticking boxes and what should we do about it?
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Marxist Microdosing
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomShort & simple introductions to key socialist ideas
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Zombies, Dead Labour + Socialism
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomA special screening of George Romero's zombie classic 'Night of the Living Dead (1968)', followed by a discussion about the political ideas presented in the film.
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Trade Unionists Anonymous
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomTU Anon sessions are short and simple workshops for campaigning or organising in your workplace, with plenty of time to chat and ask questions.
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Trade Unionists Anonymous
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomTU Anon sessions are short and simple workshops for campaigning or organising in your workplace, with plenty of time to chat and ask questions.
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Smashing the genocide-industrial complex
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomWhat can we learn about effective direct action from the courageous efforts of Palestine Action?
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Bristol Transformed Weekly Session
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomBristol Transformed is a grassroots, volunteer-run, socialist education group. Bringing together activists, trade unionists, and everyone who wants to learn, we’re creating the space to discuss the most important issues facing us, equipping us with the skills and knowledge to transform Bristol and the world.
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Bristol Transformed Weekly Session
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomBristol Transformed is a grassroots, volunteer-run, socialist education group. Bringing together activists, trade unionists, and everyone who wants to learn, we’re creating the space to discuss the most important issues facing us, equipping us with the skills and knowledge to transform Bristol and the world.
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Trade Union Recognition & What It Means for You
SPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomTU Anon sessions are short and simple workshops about how to campaign and organise in your workplace. Whether you've never been a union member, or you're an experienced organiser, you can learn something to help in your own workplace and share your tips with other attendees.
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Marxism + Music: In Conversation With Toby Manning
SPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomShould we keep politics out of music, or is pop culture a site of class struggle? Did Motown embody the capitalist production process or the civil rights movement? Does political power only come from the barrel of a gun, or will a Fender Telecaster suffice?
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Education and Socialism: The Common School
SPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomIt’s easy to criticise the education system, and so we should, but are there aspects of the school as an institution which we would keep after the revolution? When we write off schools as tools of state ideology or as sites of oppression, do we lose sight of their potential to be sites of liberation?
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Bristol Transformed Weekly Session
SPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomBristol Transformed is a grassroots, volunteer-run, socialist education group. Bringing together activists, trade unionists, and everyone who wants to learn, we’re creating the space to discuss the most important issues facing us, equipping us with the skills and knowledge to transform Bristol and the world.
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Bristol Transformed Weekly Session
SPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomBristol Transformed is a grassroots, volunteer-run, socialist education group. Bringing together activists, trade unionists, and everyone who wants to learn, we’re creating the space to discuss the most important issues facing us, equipping us with the skills and knowledge to transform Bristol and the world.
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Bristol Transformed Weekly Session
SPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomBristol Transformed is a grassroots, volunteer-run, socialist education group. Bringing together activists, trade unionists, and everyone who wants to learn, we’re creating the space to discuss the most important issues facing us, equipping us with the skills and knowledge to transform Bristol and the world.
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Bristol Transformed Weekly Session
SPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomBristol Transformed is a grassroots, volunteer-run, socialist education group. Bringing together activists, trade unionists, and everyone who wants to learn, we’re creating the space to discuss the most important issues facing us, equipping us with the skills and knowledge to transform Bristol and the world.
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Bristol Transformed Weekly Session
SPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomBristol Transformed is a grassroots, volunteer-run, socialist education group. Bringing together activists, trade unionists, and everyone who wants to learn, we’re creating the space to discuss the most important issues facing us, equipping us with the skills and knowledge to transform Bristol and the world.
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Bristol Transformed Weekly Session
SPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomBristol Transformed is a grassroots, volunteer-run, socialist education group. Bringing together activists, trade unionists, and everyone who wants to learn, we’re creating the space to discuss the most important issues facing us, equipping us with the skills and knowledge to transform Bristol and the world.
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Bristol Transformed Weekly Session
SPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomBristol Transformed is a grassroots, volunteer-run, socialist education group. Bringing together activists, trade unionists, and everyone who wants to learn, we’re creating the space to discuss the most important issues facing us, equipping us with the skills and knowledge to transform Bristol and the world.
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Bristol Transformed Weekly Session
SPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomBristol Transformed is a grassroots, volunteer-run, socialist education group. Bringing together activists, trade unionists, and everyone who wants to learn, we’re creating the space to discuss the most important issues facing us, equipping us with the skills and knowledge to transform Bristol and the world.
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Bristol Transformed Weekly Session
SPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomBristol Transformed is a grassroots, volunteer-run, socialist education group. Bringing together activists, trade unionists, and everyone who wants to learn, we’re creating the space to discuss the most important issues facing us, equipping us with the skills and knowledge to transform Bristol and the world.
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Bristol Transformed: Towards a New Socialist Party
SPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomBristol Transformed is a grassroots, volunteer-run, socialist education group. Bringing together activists, trade unionists, and everyone who wants to learn, we’re creating the space to discuss the most important issues facing us, equipping us with the skills and knowledge to transform Bristol and the world.
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Bristol Transformed: Education & Socialism
SPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomBristol Transformed is a grassroots, volunteer-run, socialist education group. Bringing together activists, trade unionists, and everyone who wants to learn, we’re creating the space to discuss the most important issues facing us, equipping us with the skills and knowledge to transform Bristol and the world.
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Democracy in Your Party?
SPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomBristol Transformed is a grassroots, volunteer-run, socialist education group. Bringing together activists, trade unionists, and everyone who wants to learn, we’re creating the space to discuss the most important issues facing us, equipping us with the skills and knowledge to transform Bristol and the world.
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Bristol Transformed Weekly Session
SPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomBristol Transformed is a grassroots, volunteer-run, socialist education group. Bringing together activists, trade unionists, and everyone who wants to learn, we’re creating the space to discuss the most important issues facing us, equipping us with the skills and knowledge to transform Bristol and the world.
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Bristol Transformed Weekly Session
SPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomBristol Transformed is a grassroots, volunteer-run, socialist education group. Bringing together activists, trade unionists, and everyone who wants to learn, we’re creating the space to discuss the most important issues facing us, equipping us with the skills and knowledge to transform Bristol and the world.
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Bristol Transformed Weekly Session
SPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomBristol Transformed is a grassroots, volunteer-run, socialist education group. Bringing together activists, trade unionists, and everyone who wants to learn, we’re creating the space to discuss the most important issues facing us, equipping us with the skills and knowledge to transform Bristol and the world.
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Bristol Transformed Weekly Session
SPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomBristol Transformed is a grassroots, volunteer-run, socialist education group. Bringing together activists, trade unionists, and everyone who wants to learn, we’re creating the space to discuss the most important issues facing us, equipping us with the skills and knowledge to transform Bristol and the world.
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Woodcraft: What if the Scouts But Socialist? with Bristol Transformed
SPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomGrassroots, volunteer-run, socialist education group Bristol Transformed are bringing together activists, trade unionists, and everyone who wants to learn, creating the space to discuss the most important issues facing us, equipping us with the skills and knowledge to transform Bristol and the world.
£3 or PWYC