Saturday
11:00-12:30
Black-E
Main Space
Making the Case for Political Education
The World Transformed
Winning elections is not enough to guarantee transformative change. We need to unleash the political imagination of the grassroots and inspire people to think and learn with each other. To do this we need a popular education movement. To kick off our focus on political education at TWT 2018, we’ll be hearing from a range of educators, activists and politicians on what we mean by popular political education. Why is it important now? And who’s educating who anyway?
Press coverage
Write-ups and recordings
Speakers
John McDonnell MP
Politician
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Labour Party
Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer and Labour MP for Hayes and Harlington
Lindsey McDowell
FBU
Lindsey is Head of Eduction at the Fire Brigades Union. Her emphasis is on democratic and facilitated learning, and the transformative power of trade union education. She is a contributor to the book, Trade Union Education: Transforming the World
Gary Anderson
Co-founder of the Free University of Liverpool, the Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home, as well as Artists4Corbyn. Gary teaches drama at Liverpool Hope University and chairs the UCU branch. He maintains that political education is as revolutionary as falling in love - it changes everything.
Dalia Gebrial
Activist
Decolonisation activist, PhD candidate at LSE and co-editor of ‘Decolonising the University’
