Liverpool Social Struggles Newswire Archive

31-05-2006 22:38

Meeting Report: Meet Up of North West Anti-ID Groups

Sunday 28th May saw a gathering of North-West groups opposed to ID cards meeting at the Basement in Manchester to share ideas and combine efforts in opposing ID cards. Many groups were represented, from Nottingham to Liverpool and beyond, and loads of interesting discussion was generated, as you can tell by the length of this post! The meeting lasted for around five hours, including a lunch break. Read more >>

30-05-2006 14:35

New refugee coalition in Manchester!

A new organisation, the North West Asylum Seekers Defence Group (NWASDG), has been formed. Read more >>

19-05-2006 16:48

Mersey TUC Leader Slashed With Knife

President of Merseyside TUC Alec McFadden has been repeatedly slashed with a knife by an intruder in his home. He was almost blinded in the attack, and was cut in his head, arms and wrists as he tried to fend off the knifeman. Read more >>

17-05-2006 18:01

Manchester Sept 2006 - Venue for new labour's national conference and protests

Protests are being called around the Labour Party annual conference, which this year is moving to Manchester in September. Read more >>

12-05-2006 00:28

Mersey Councils Invest In Death

Councils across Merseyside and Cheshire are pouring more than £28m into the world's largest arms companies - including Lockheed Martin and BAE Systems. As if that wasn't enough, they've also got a £3 million stake in Halliburton - Dick Cheney's favourite oil company! Read more >>

12-05-2006 00:11

You Are Paying For Edge Lane Demolition!

Liverpool Land Development Company is to get half a million pounds more of taxpayers' money to demolish houses in the Edge Lane area. Read more >>

26-04-2006 11:42 | 7 comments

Petition in support of lecturers' pay action

Education Not for Sale has launched an online petition in support of the AUT and NATFHE lecturers' unions' campaign for decent pay. Please add your or your organisation's name, post on relevant websites and elists and forward to sympathetic people! Read more >>

22-04-2006 17:39

Welsh Streets online TV Debate

This is the archive link to yesterday's live "Welsh Streets" webcast on the local 'Tenantspin' channel.

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18-04-2006 15:26

Merseyside May Day March and Festival

The focus of Merseyside's May Day celebrations, organised by Merseyside TUC, moves to Liverpool this year. Read more >>

15-04-2006 11:44

Hillsborough: 17 Years, 96 Dead: No Justice

April 15th marks the 17th Anniversary of the Hillsborough tragedy and while it is easy for many to forget it with time, it is hard for the families who, despite years of campaigning, still have not seen any justice for those they lost. Read more >>

14-04-2006 21:35 | 1 addition | 1 comment

HONOR JAMES CONNOLLY AND EASTER, 1916

THIS MONTH MARKS THE 90TH ANNIVERSAY OF THE IRISH UPRISING. HONOR JAMES CONNOLLY AND THE OTHER IRISH LIBERATION FIGHTERS. Read more >>

08-04-2006 13:49

latest edition of Liverpool’s ‘Nerve’ launched

On Friday 7th April, Catalyst Media launched the latest edition of ‘Nerve’ – their local arts and social issues magazine.

05-04-2006 16:33

Premiere of play about Simon Jones in Liverpool, May 8th and 10th

The Dingle Community Theatre will be performing the play SIMON JONES WAS SOMEONE! on May 8th and May 10th at 8pm at the Casa Club, Hope Street, Liverpool. Entrance is free. Tickets are available from the Casa Club or by phoning 0771 684 8894. Read more >>

04-04-2006 15:24 | 2 comments

No scouse for Rice!

Thousands of people from Liverpool and other parts of the North-West made their point clear about the infamous vist of Condoleezza Rice to the city.

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31-03-2006 19:36 | 1 addition | 4 comments

Liverpool Unites To 'Unwelcome' Terrorist Mastermind Rice

A crowd of at least two thousand Liverpudlians and welcome guests flocked to the Catholic cathedral on Hope Street to protest against neo-Condi's gala gig at the Philharmonic. In a show of awesome potential power, we decked the steps in a sea of defiant humanity. The message was loud and clear: terrorists and torturers are NOT welcome on Merseyside! As one speaker yelled, "We're not havin' it"! Read more >>

28-03-2006 16:08

Oppose Savage Cuts in Adult Education Funding!

Adult Education, in all it's forms, is the engine of Regeneration and Culture. Rather than agreeing with the Government cuts by remaining silent, we must all strive to preserve it and promote wider participation. Read more >>

27-03-2006 16:01 | 1 comment

George Bush arriving in Gateshead ( and Manchester and Leeds? )

On Wednesday June 7th, George Bush is returning to the North East, where a young man called Ross gave him a public mooning last time.
On Thursday 8th he's off to Manchester, and Friday 9th to Yorkshire, perhaps Leeds? Read more >>

26-03-2006 16:18 | 3 comments

Liverpool: The Yuppie Takeover

Lord, in a bourgeois town
It's a bourgeois town
I got the bourgeois blues
Gonna spread the news all around
- Leadbelly Read more >>

23-03-2006 18:20 | 2 additions | 2 comments

Strike Rallies throughout Britain on 28th March - Red Tuesday!

Red Tuesday - 28th March will see mass strikes against capitalist attacks in both Britain and France.
In Britain, the strike will be to defend workers pension rights, and will involve 1.5 million workers. It could be the largest strike here since the 1926 general strike. Read more >>

21-03-2006 00:08 | 7 additions | 7 comments

Tues 28th March. Mass Strike in Britain and General Strike in France.

Tuesday 28th March 2006 will see 1.5 Million workers strike to defend pensions. On the same day there will be a General Strike in France as part of the uprising against the CPE. Read more >>