Onur Yılmaz, coming from a background of electrical engineering and physics, is involed in the socialist movement since he stepped into organised life by joining the student movement before the Gezi uprising, studied climate and energy politics. Since 2020, he has been part of Polen Ecology Collective with an organizer role, continues to follow international aspects of revolutionary politics.

Lachlan is the Strategic Lead at Humanity Project and sits in the Core Team for Assemble UK. He previously organised in the climate civil resistance space for Just Stop Oil and now focuses on building democratic political alternatives in the form of popular assemblies. Over the past few years he has attended and facilitated dozens of these around the UK. Lachlan is interested in revolutionary strategy, movement ecology and alternative governance models and ways to build dual power to counter the current political system. He spends time pondering the present moment we are organising in and successful examples of revolutionary struggle where communities have liberated themselves across the globe.

Moderator: Matilde Alvim is a climate justice activist based in Lisbon. She was co-founder and organizer of the Fridays for Future strikes in Portugal in 2019, as well as organizer of the “End Fossil: Occupy!” movement between 2022 and early 2024 at both national and international level. For the past year, she has been more active in Climáximo. In her free time, she is an anthropologist.