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Landworkers’ Radio – Of Sweat And Soil
Landworkers’ Alliance
A podcast series released in 2024 telling the story of landworker organising in the UK, sharing voices from Landworkers’ Alliance members in the UK and globally with La Via Campesina.
DOPE Magazine website
Dog Section Press
The Lipman-Miliband Trust supported Dog Section Press in 2023 to create a new website for their magazine, DOPE Magazine. The publication is a quarterly magazine about politics, art and culture.
‘Come What May, We’re Here to Stay’: A history of anti-racist organising in the British South Asian Community
Taj Ali
A 2023 public history project, capturing the history of anti-racist organising in South Asian communities and the South Asian workers’ movements involved in numerous industrial disputes during late 20th century.
A Monumental Task
Mango Riot
This 2023 project delivered theatre-based workshops to seven groups of students in six Bristol secondary schools. The grant funding financed the building of seven intricately designed statues, to creatively facilitate a theoretical discussion among students about what to do with monuments to the slave trade in a made-up town.
Trespass
no more superheroes
A series of workshops in 2022, which worked with a diverse group of young artists from Manchester, Sheffield and Rotherham to explore Leftist Jewish history through the stories of the Kinder Scout Trespass of 1932.
Developing Marxist critique in Northern Ireland
Trademark Belfast
A political education programme run in 2023 in Northern Ireland, offering a Marxist perspective on the multiple, overlapping crises of contemporary capitalism.
Building public awareness and solidarity on the issue of global South debt
Debt Justice
The Lipman-Miliband Trust supported this video and discussion pack exploring the colonial, neo-colonial and capitalist roots of unsustainable debt levels in the global South as a way of building understanding, alliances and solidarity on the need for debt justice.
Full list of funded projects
2024
Heavy Lefting
Rebecca Kirkpatrick
Publication (book)
Art as Resistance
People’s History Museum
Exhibition
From Audience to Action: Local newspapers as the frontline for progressive change
The Lead
Publication (newspaper)
UK Deaf and Disabled Peoples’ Coalition
Disabled People Against Cuts
Other – educational network
New Organising Conference
Ella Baker School of Organising
Conference
Connected Frontlines
Haringey Migrant Support Centre
Conference
Sheffield Transformed Festival – A festival of political education through discussion, debate, arts and culture
Sheffield Transformed
Conference (festival)
2023
Spark: A one week introduction to social justice education
Advocacy Academy
Course
Install a podcast/radio studio for MayDay residents & activists to use free of charge. Produce a complementary regular MayDay podcast
MayDay Rooms
Creating/improving a physical space
IWGB handbook & podcast
Independent Workers of Great Britain
Publication & podcast
Black African Radical Education in Scotland
Layla-Roxanne Hill
Course
Creating a library of radical children’s literature at Red Sunday School, Glasgow
Red Sunday School
Creating/improving a physical space
Development of our website and visual identity
The Class Work Project
Digital resource
Construction of strike statistics database for Britain
Gregor Gall
Mapping/archiving
Renovation and improvement of event spaces
Pelican Collective
Creating/improving a physical space
Deaf access to radical Left politics
Dai O’Brien and Steve Emery
Digital resource
2022
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
2021
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
2020
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