The World Transformed

The World Transformed (or TWT) is a political festival, which until 2023 was held as an unaffiliated fringe event running at the same time as Labour Party Conference.

[1][2] Beginning in 2016, organisers describe its purpose as "to create a space in which ideas can be freely exchanged and collectively developed".

[3][4] The festival was created with an aim of bringing together the activist and intellectual parts of the left together, and was inspired by the Dialectics of Liberation Congress held in 1967 which took place at the Roundhouse in London.

[10] Through this festival, discussions around political education and municipal socialism – considered by the New Statesman's George Eaton to have been previously dormant – were said to be revitalised.

The events have been seen to foster political education, active participation, skills training, critical thinking and intellectual curiosity.

[26] In October 2017, Labour MP Clive Lewis was criticised for language used at a fringe event of the conference in which he told the actor Sam Swann to "Get on your knees, bitch!".

[2] Momentum had banned journalists from The Sun newspaper from having access to the festival due to its reporting of – and subsequent lack of apology for – the 1989 Hillsborough Disaster.

[52][53][54] Various Labour MPs on the party's left and in the Socialist Campaign Group (SCG) caucus – such as Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell, Clive Lewis, Zarah Sultana, Nadia Whittome and Beth Winter –[55][56][50] took part in different panels such as the Green New Deal discussion.