Manchester Newswire Archive

Manchester Antifascist Alliance (MAFA) news, events and actions.

Manchester Antifascist Alliance, 30-07-2010 16:23

MAFA continues the fight against fascism through the summer and beyond. Read more | 2 comments >>

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Servisair End the Importation of Lab Animals

National Anti-Vivisection Alliance (NAVA), 26-07-2010 11:28

SERVISAIR END LAB ANIMAL TRANSPORT! Read more | 5 comments >>

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Manchester Anarchist Bookfair Saturday 2nd October

Manchester Anarchist Bookfair, 25-07-2010 15:43

The Manchester Anarchist Bookfair will take place from 11.00am until 5.00pm on Saturday 2nd October 2010 at The Dancehouse Theatre, Oxford Road (opposite the BBC).
Read more >>

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Ivor Dembina at Manchester Peace Festival

Manchester Peace Festival, 23-07-2010 11:20

Tickets for anti-Zionist Jewish comic Ivor Dembina's show 'This is Not a Subject for Comedy', running in Manchester for one night only as part of Manchester Peace Festival, are now on sale. The show will be on Wednesday September 22nd at 7.30pm. Read more >>

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Stop the English Defence Leaguein Blackpool next week!

anon, 23-07-2010 06:21

The English Defence League are an Islamophobic and racist organisation with links to UKIP, the BNP, Blood and Honour, Combat 18 and the National Front. The EDL have marched on Mosques, pulled off women's hijabs, placed a pigs head on the walls of Dudley Central Mosque and have rioted in Luton, Stoke, Dudely, Bolton...and they intend to go to Blackpool next week and ruin people's holidays. The EDL have made children cry. Read more | 2 additions | 13 comments >>

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New Mayday website launched

Mayday editor, 23-07-2010 00:31

New Mayday website here;

 http://mayday-magazine.com/ Read more >>

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SOS - West Yorkshire Hunt Sabs

West Yorkshire Hunt Sabs, 22-07-2010 11:26

We Need YOUR help to get a new Landy! Read more | 14 comments >>

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Early release for Israeli soldier who killed British peace activist

peacenik, 19-07-2010 17:58

An Israeli soldier convicted of shooting dead a British peace activist has been granted an early release from prison, the Israeli press reported Monday.

A military committee accepted Taysir Hayb’s appeal, and he will be free in one month, the Israeli news site Ynet reported Monday. Hayb shot Tom Hurndall, who died aged 22, during an incident on Gaza’s southern border. Read more | 9 comments >>

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The new scramble for Afrika

Kwame Osei, 19-07-2010 13:49

what the western media does not inform thier people is that Afrika is the place that the West depends on for thier survival as Afrika is home to the vast majority of the world's mineral resources which the Westneedsfor its industries. Afrika is NOT the basket case that many White people and others have been conditioned to beleive. This article proves that access to Afrika's rich materials by the West and now Asia is the cause of of Afrika;s wars and instability. Read more >>

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Who owns Ghana's oil?

Kwame Osei, 19-07-2010 13:39

Many Ghanaioans think that with the discovery of oil on its shores, the people and the Ghanaian economy will benefit. Hoever what this article seeks to do is to inform Ghanaians, Afrikans and other people that the imperialists in the form of British, American and possibly Chinese oil companieswill loot the lions share of this Black Gold leaving Ghana and its people further impoverished. Read more >>

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The EDL in Bradford would mean trouble

Lucy Cartwright, 15-07-2010 13:17

The English Defence League plan to hold their biggest ever trouble causing demo in Bradford this August. But in a city like Bradford, can we really expect this one to pass off peacefully? And after the aftermath of 2001 would we not expect protests like these in Bradford to be banned? Read more | 5 comments >>

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EDL Fascists Hijack GMTV Burkha Ban Poll

Melly, 14-07-2010 14:50

The insiduously racist EDL have successfully used social networking site to hoodwink GMTV, distorting public opinion to make it appear that almost everybody in the United Kingdom wants a racist version of fashion police to patrol the streets harrassing the devout minority of Muslim who wear the religious facial garment.
Read more | 8 comments >>

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FREE NORWIN - UR

Foolish European Mothers, 14-07-2010 10:07

Norwin is a boy. He has been locked up in a solitary cell for years. He has never even been convicted of any crime. Read more >>

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Warning over Nuclear Industry Freshwater Use

Marianne Birkby, 10-07-2010 09:52

While Cumbrians face the prospect of £1000 fine for using a hosepipe during
the drought - Sellafield uses the equivalent of Millom, Barrow and
Ulverston's fresh water put together every day. Over 4 million gallons
are abstracted daily from Wastwater, Britain's favourite view, in order to prevent the high level liquid wastes from boiling. Read more | 5 comments >>

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Manchester Class Struggle Forum #5 - Anarcho-Syndicalism

Mark, 08-07-2010 17:24

The next Manchester Class Struggle Forum will host a discussion on Anarcho-Syndicalism. Read more >>

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Desperate anarcist call for GM lobbying

Liz, 08-07-2010 14:10

The EU are due to decide tomorrow on the relaxation of legislation which currently slows up new Genetically Modified seed approval. 16 new varieties are currently being held up by minor technicalities like safety checks, and more will follow if the rules change. Yes I know emailing ministers is a dirty filthy thing to do... Read more >>

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Professor Warns Sick Scheme in Danger of Collapse!

Arturo Ui, 08-07-2010 10:06

More than two-thirds of people who are applying for ESA are failing in their claims. Yet of the 8,000 people a month who are contesting these decisions, almost half are winning their appeals. Read more | 4 comments >>

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Lewes Road community garden demo (Fri July 9)

gardener, 07-07-2010 22:55

Supporters of the Lewes Road Community Garden are holding a demo outside Lewes County Court, High Street, Lewes, before an appeal hearing against the posession order granted to developers Alburn Minos Ltd and their partners in eco-crime Tesco.
The demo starts at 9.30 with the appeal hearing due to start at 10.30am this Friday. The Big Lemon Bus company is laying on a free bus leaving the garden on Lewes Road, Brighton at 8.30am (donations to the court costs and garden fighting fund).
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Peat Bog protesters found not guilty

Manchester Climate Action, 07-07-2010 01:05

Two environmental activists who chained themselves to machinery at a peat bog extraction site at Chat Moss, Salford, Greater Manchester were acquitted by Salford magistrates court last Monday 5th July 2010.
Read more | 1 comment >>

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English Defence League Hacked

Mark101, 05-07-2010 13:50

English Defence League Hacked by notorious anti-Zionist hackers Read more | 9 comments >>

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