TWT Live: Time (Still) Running Out: Renewing Socialist Climate Strategy

This panel was recorded live at the World Transformed Festival 2025, in Hulme Manchester. The climate crisis continues to rage despite its disappearance from public discourse and the collapse of the climate movement.We desperately need a new socialist climate politics, but what role does ‘Your Party’ play in its development and delivery?Should we prioritise contesting elections or building eco-socialist revolution? Mobilising in the streets or organising workplaces? Shifting consumption or disrupting polluting production? And how do we prepare to respond to the impacts of climate change?This session aims to unpack these tough questions and offer a renewal of socialist climate strategy.Millie Kent is an eco-socialist organiser from London.Chris Saltmarsh is a socialist climate campaigner and writer. He was co-founder of Labour for a Green New Deal and author of Burnt: Fighting for Climate Justice (Pluto).Gaby Jeliazkov is Organising and Advocacy Lead at Platform and co-author of the Our Power report on just transition.James Meadeway s a Trustee at Rethinking Economics International, and a former adviser to the former Shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell MP. He hosts a weekly podcast called Macrodose.Hary Holmes is a socialist activist and writer. He is on the editorial board of Prometheus and a member of rs21.Support the show