Wednesday 23rd April Sheffield “We Demand Change” planning meeting
7.30pm via Zoom • All Welcome!
This Wednesday, join us to help plan the Sheffield We Demand Change summit (18th May). The meeting is a space for all who want to shape the summit – we will discuss workshops, speakers and plans to build it as big as possible! With Jeremy Corbyn MP as one of our keynote speakers, we want to make sure as many people as possible come and hear how we can generate resistance to Labour, turn the tide on racism and bigotry and fight for a better world.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88993602484?pwd=7bbZMfKwLcGcAIx7DCUu8NXNhjQ2qB.1
Meeting ID: 889 9360 2484 Passcode: 910058
Thursday 24th April Festival of Debate “Sorry to Bother You”
7.30 Broomhall Centre. Film screening and fundraiser for the Unite members who are on strike at Veolia. One of the striking workers will be speaking and it would be good to get a decent audience for him. Organised by Sheffield Transformed. Tickets £0, £3, £7, £9
The film follows a young African-American telemarketer who adopts a “white voice” to succeed at his job, after which he is swept into a corporate conspiracy and must choose between chasing profit or joining his activist friends who are attempting to unionise.
Saturday 26th April FREE RADICALS GIG
Doors open 7pm Crookes Social Club. As ever a chance to dance the night away! Or just listen to the soul and funk covers.
The gig is a benefit for 
Chilypep, a great independent youth empowerment organisation based in Parson Cross developing their hub in Southey. It will also mark the 80th birthday of Dug Orton, the band’s trumpeter, and the recent retirement from work of Rod Lawson the bass player in the band. More details on the flyer attached. [You can pay via the qr code, or on the door]. I very much hope to see you there.
Sunday 27th April Festival of Debate “Imagining a World Without Fossil Fuels”
2pm-4pm Soft Ground, 37-41 The Moor S1 4PF. Stop Rosebank Sheffield is hosting a workshop focusing on the urgent need to abandon fossil fuels and transition to a greener, cleaner and more sustainable economy. The workshop will begin with a chaired conversation between climate activists who are campaigning to end our dependence on fossil fuels. Based on their research and experience, they will outline the practical steps necessary to create this systemic shift and how we can work together to bring it about.
After this chaired conversation, the session will move on to a community discussion between attendees. This discussion will encourage people to imagine a world without fossil fuels and consider the role they can play in forging a just transition to this new society. The event is aimed at experienced activists as well as those who are totally new to the climate movement. Book your free place at: festivalofdebate.com/2025/imagining-a-world-without-fossil-fuels
Monday 28th April International Workers Memorial Day
1230hrs by the Memorial Tree outside Sheffield Town Hall, Pinstone Street.
Sheffield TUC will hold a wreath laying ceremony with speeches outside Sheffield Town Hall by the Memorial Tree. Branches and other organisation are invited to lay a wreath. This is an international trade union event to mark the importance of health and safety at work. The TUC says “Every year more people are killed at work than in wars. Most don’t die of mystery ailments, or in tragic “accidents”. They die because an employer decided their safety just wasn’t that important a priority.
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nternational Workers Memorial Day (IWMD) 28 April commemorates those workers.”
It’s a time for us to come together as a movement and as a community. To remember those who have lost their lives to work, and renew our commitment to fight for the living and make work safe. Remember the Dead – Fight for the Living!
Monday 28th April “Gaza Remains the Story” Exhibition*
6-8pm Soft Ground, The Moor. Festival of Debate
Join us for the launch evening of “Gaza Remains the Story” on 28th April, 6-8 pm. This exhibition re-centres Gaza and asks us to retell the story of Gaza and Palestine, not as a battleground but as a place with its own unique history, culture and experience. Guests will be invited to view the exhibition and we will have a panel with Dr Lisa Stampnitzky, Dr Alex Rajinder Mason and Muna El-Zeet for a discussion on the politics, culture and history of Gaza and Palestine.
Following the launch, the exhibition will be open until 9 May. See the full list of opening times at the link below.
More info and free tickets https://festivalofdebate.com/2025/gaza-remains-a-story-exhibition
Tuesday 29th April What is behind US-China hostility?
6pm public zoom meeting organised by Sheffield Stop the War
Tuesday 29th April Jason Hickel: Degrowth – a 21st Century Revolution
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM Pennine Lecture Theatre, Sheffield Hallam University S1 1WB A Festival of Debate event in association with Global Justice Now. Tickets; https://www.tickettailor.com/events/festivalofdebate/1627304
World-leading political economist Jason Hickel will present a compelling strategy for the democratic transformation of society. Our current obsession with limitless growth drives ecological breakdown, yet our leaders insist it is the only way to create social benefits. Jason will debunk these myths, outline the limits of “green growth”, expose the costs to the Global South, and put forward policies that provide a good standard of living for everyone on the planet while keeping us within our planetary boundaries.
The conversation will be chaired by Nick Dearden, director of Global Justice Now, and we will discuss a plan for an eco-socialist future: keeping resource use within earth’s ecological limits, using technology that benefits people rather than profit, and through politics that enhances community wellbeing.
Thursday 1st May “Meeting Point” Documentary Screening
6.30pm-8.30pm The Lescar (The Front Room), 303 Sharrow Vale Rd, Sharrow, Sheffield S11 8ZFSheffield Premiere: Meeting Point (Documentary Screening) 90 minutes, 2022, Directed by Roberto Baeza
In the acclaimed documentary Meeting Point, two filmmakers use fiction cinema to reconstruct what their fathers lived through in a torture center under the Pinochet dictatorship 45 years ago in Chile.
The film starts at 7pm and will be introduced by Sheffield-based former Chilean political prisoner Dr Sergio Vásquez, who was imprisoned in Pinochet concentration camps with both of the fathers featured in the film.
MORE INFO/TICKETS: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/alboradafilms/1655072
Saturday 3rd May Sheffield TUC May Day event
Assemble Devonshire Green 1130am. March sets off 12 noon to City Hall steps for rally with speakers. Bring your banners and make some noise! Route of march is from Devoinshire Green via Division Street to City hall steps, Barkers pool.
Followed by a special screeing of LIMBO a film abou8t Syrian refugrees held/housed on a Scottish island time tbc. Food and drink + book sale
Monday 5th May Chesterfield TUC May Day event
“We are very much looking forward to welcoming Paul NowakGeneral Secretary of the TUC to the event where he will be joining a great platform of speakers. The context of the event taking place at a time of growing economic uncertainty and in the immediate aftermath of local election results means that the message from our unions of economic justice and social inclusion will be very timely. Please encourage affiliate members and branches to attend what is a great day 
celebrating our movement.”
James Eaden
President Chesterfield & District Trades Union Council
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Tuesday 6th May Festival of Debate “Activism Across Borders”
7-8.30pm at Diamond Building Lecture Theatre 2, 32 Leavygreave Rd, Sheffield S3 7RD Activism Across Borders in partnership with SYMAAGSouth Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group (SYMAAG)
We hear about refugees as victims of persecution in countries of origin then victims of UKs Hostile Environment. But we’re here because we are activists too! Join SYMAAG for a panel discussion with three local activists from three continents, exploring how their activism in their home countries informs their fight against the ‘hostile environment’ and injustice in the UK
Free registration at https://festivalofdebate.com/2025/activism-across-borders
Wednesday 7th May “Trade Unionists against the ongoing Nakba”
6pm PSC Trade Union Webinar.
Join the PSC trade union solidarity webinar following from international workers day, which will address the current situation for workers and their families in Palestine, and how you can take action in solidarity with Palestine in the coming weeks.
Speakers include:
- Sarah Wooley, General Secretary BFAWU
- Dr Samia Al-Botmeh, Palestinian academic at the economics department at Birzeit University, and BDS activist.
- Martin Cavanagh, PCS National President
- Manal Hdaife, Lebanese school principal, member of the Executive Board of Education International & Regional branch leader of the Public Primary Schools Teachers League in Lebanon (PPSTLL).
- Louise Regan, Chair Palestine Solidarity Campaign, and NEU EC
And more to be announced.
Register today: https://palestinecampaign.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=39b479575f6b893766d815ffd&id=ec3dde2de6&e=9d43366a1a
Saturday 10th May Festival of Debate “Building Worker Power”
3pm -5pm Soft ground, 37-41 The Moor, Sheffield S1 4PF. Organised by Sheffield Transformed
How are trade unionists organising in the gig economy filled with zero hour contracts? How do we win as workers in the UK and internationally in these hostile times?
Join us at this Festival of Debate session to hear from our seasoned panellists how they’re *organising workers who have previously been seen as ‘difficult to reach’.*
We’ll learn from their *lessons and successes* before *practically troubleshooting* together how to win in our own workplaces/sectors.
*Free* Tickets here 10th May 3-5: https://festivalofdebate.com/2025/building-worker-power-troubleshooting-union-organisation
Wednesday 14th May “Union Procedures and Stammering” online workshop
1.45pm Online. Scan QR code to register.
Thursday 15th May “Rising High for Palestine” B alloon Launch
5pm Parkwood Springs, bottom field off Shirecliffe Road S5 8XB
Flying a hot air balloon carrying a huge Palestine flag on Naqba Day, 77 years since Palestinians were expelled from what is now Israel.
Saturday 17th May “End The Genocide/Stop Arming Israel”London demo
Coach Tickets 7:30 AM – 10:30 PM Coach tickets cost £25 waged and £10 
unwaged. https://www.tickettailor.com/events/palestinesolidaritycampaign/1640399
COACH DEPARTURE TIMES & PICK UP/DROP OFF LOCATIONS:
PLEASE NOTE – these times are 15 minutes earlier than previously
- 7. 30am – HANIFAH MASJID (CAR PARK), 374 Sheffield Rd, Tinsley, Sheffield S9 1RQ
- 7. 45am – HUBS PATERNOSTER ROW, S1 2QQ
- 8. 05am – CHESTERFIELD TOWN HALL (CAR PARK), S40 1JF
*COACHES WILL DEPART PROMPTLY FROM PICK UP LOCATIONS. PLEASE ARRIVE 15 MINUTES BEFORE DEPARTURE TIMES.
**PLEASE BOOK TICKETS FROM YOUR PREFERRED PICK UP/DROP OFF LOCATION.
THE COACH WILL LEAVE LONDON AT 4.30pm FROM AN AGREED LOCATION NEAR THE END OF THE MARCH.
***Important notice ***
We have sponsored tickets for those not able to come but wanting to support those who do travel to London by donating a seat (£25) and free tickets for young children (under 16) who travel with adult supervision.
We are encouraging people who can to pay a £10 donation so we can keep the price of tickets down.
Sunday 18th May “We Demand Change” Summit with Jeremy Corbyn MP
Sheffield rally. Date confirmed but venue and time to be announced shortly. Pleas eput this ijn your diary!
Saturday 7th June “No More Austerity!” London March and Rally
