Manchester Newswire Archive

Sisters In Struggle

Pinkolady, 13-04-2010 23:39

The anarcha-feminist conference in Manchester, organised over the weekend of the 10th to 11th April was nothing like my preconceptions. Read more | 5 comments >>

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Put Clive Jefferson on the spot - live!

Lancaster Unity, 13-04-2010 10:26

Your chance to quiz the BNP's National Organiser Read more | 1 comment >>

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No Inaccuracies - But Report Condemmed by UK Coal

Steve Leary, 12-04-2010 13:45

UK Coal plc's reaction to MOPG's "UK Coal :An Independent Report" is outlined along with UK Coal plc's response to a letter MOPG sent to UK Coal about the length of time the Minorca Opencast Site Application was taking. Read more >>

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Radioactive Waste - In a Landfill Near You ?

Marianne Birkby, 09-04-2010 18:04

While people go to the tip and dutifully reduce, reuse and recycle their waste to reduce the pressure on landfill-and the environment ....

....the nuclear industry is busy trashing the environment and filling landfill up with radioactive waste.
Read more | 5 comments >>

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The politics of life

MULE, 09-04-2010 15:32

While our rulers claim to embrace democracy with a dangerous fervour, it’s probably fair to say that many of us have rather less enthusiasm for the elections that come around with such regularity. Read more | 1 comment >>

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Bin men escape from unsafe waggon - who ordered them back to Bradley Fold?

Bammy, 08-04-2010 18:36

Cost cutting and the harrassment of agency workers in Bury could have led to deaths. Read more >>

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GMP officers jailed after assault

MULE, 08-04-2010 14:41

Two police officers of Greater Manchester have been jailed for 18 months for inflicting “deliberate cruelty” on a 19-year-old woman while in custody. The judge told the court that her treatment was “little short of torture”. Read more >>

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Manchester police guilty of cruelty

g, 08-04-2010 13:24

2 manchester cops jailed for 18 monrts Read more | 3 comments >>

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EDL Attack Newcastle UAF Meeting

Snowball, 08-04-2010 02:28

A UAF meeting in Newcastle is disrupted following similar attacks in Manchester and Bristol Read more | 32 comments >>

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Police attack UAF demonstration against EDL in Bolton

Bob Shepherd, 07-04-2010 23:39

The British state’s response to the Unite Against Fascism (UAF) counter mobilisation to the English Defence League (EDL) event in Bolton on 20 March was a change in tactics from previous confrontations. The police used a clear strategy of attempting to criminalise the UAF demonstrators and leaders, by using ‘kettling’, snatch-squads and dogs to attack and arrest people. Read more | 16 comments >>

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Easter in Parliament Square

Paul O'Hanlon, 06-04-2010 22:53

An account of the ongoing peace campaign in London's Parliament Square with 20 photos. Read more >>

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"Close track" call after another greyhound dies

Tony Peters, 05-04-2010 00:55

Long list of Belle Vue fatalities continues
Read more >>

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I Bike MCR Festival 2010

I Bike MCR, 01-04-2010 16:26

A month long celebration of the bicycle with workshops, bike rides, film screenings and much more Read more | 1 comment >>

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Mark Collett suspended?

LU, 31-03-2010 22:21

April Fool or (very) late Christmas present? Read more | 2 comments >>

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I Bike MCR Festival 2010

I Bike MCR, 31-03-2010 12:56

A month long celebration of the bicycle with workshops, bike rides, film screenings and much more Read more >>

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Terry Allen - Hostage of the State

George Coombs, 27-03-2010 16:30

In 1969 I burgled the Horncastle Garage and stole some money, I worked
for the place and got questioned about the burglary but was never charged.
A while later I read in our local newspaper that a lad got sentenced to two
years in prison for my crime. I wondered how on earth did he get convicted
because obviously there couldn’t have been any evidence against him.”
Read more | 1 comment >>

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More jail terms for Gaza protesters

Min Donny, 27-03-2010 14:16

26th March 2010 – Lizzie Cocker in Isleworth

Police hide video evidence from defence lawyers.

Two more youngsters charged with violent disorder during last year’s protests against Israel’s two-week massacre of the Gazan people have been handed harsh jail terms. Read more | 9 comments >>

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Manchester Class Struggle Forum, meeting on unions

Mark, 26-03-2010 16:40

The Manchester Class Struggle Forum are holding their second meeting on Thursday 1st April. Read more | 1 comment >>

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Budget Day Civil Service Strike

Stillshooter, 24-03-2010 13:46

Up to a quarter of a million civil and public servants from across the UK are taking part in a one day strike on budget day today, in a dispute over cuts to redundancy pay. Read more | 6 comments >>

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EDL Planning Deadly Race Riots

Steel City Guy, 24-03-2010 00:28

The media and the riot police in Bolton portrayed the so-called "English Defence League" as friendly, happy-go-lucky "treehuggers", but the ugly truth shone through later Saturday evening when a gang of chanting EDL thugs gathered in a pub on Oldham Road, Middleton intent on violence.
Read more | 42 comments >>

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