Manchester Newswire Archive

Protest to oppose launch of ID cards in Manchester

Manchester NO2ID, 18-11-2009 16:29

Lunchtime Demonstration @ IPS, Monday 30th November 2009, 1pm-1:30pm
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The EDL: The BNP’s Useful Idiots? (Part 2)

MULE, 18-11-2009 10:28

The second part of Ragnor Ironpants look into the links between the English Defence League (EDL) and the BNP… Read more | 2 comments >>

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Don't Nuke the Climate! - Sat 12 Dec, International Day of Action

Nuclear People Power network, 18-11-2009 09:28

Organise an event locally for the Don't Nuke the Climate! International Day of Action on Saturday 12 December, and publicise widely!

 http://www.dont-nuke-the-climate.org/spip.php?rubrique19〈=en Read more >>

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Houses remains empty while waiting list soars

MULE, 17-11-2009 16:50

Manchester’s social housing waiting list is mounting as the local council struggles to halt the current increase. Official statistics show an estimated 13,000 homes are currently unoccupied in Manchester. Meanwhile, the waiting list published in June details more than 23,000 people waiting to be re-housed – an increase of 1,768 in 12 months. Read more >>

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Syndicalist and working class history at Durham Bookfair Nov 21st

Dr Trevor Bark, 17-11-2009 14:44

New information about a lost chapter of County Durham and working class history is coming to light. Here, a press release which describes the search for relatives of Percy Fisher and further research which is being carried out in South Africa. Read more >>

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‘End bloody oil!’ Indigenous women bring the fight against Tar Sands to Manch

Ethical Consumer, 17-11-2009 12:41

Three indigenous women from Canada are visiting Manchester as part of a 10-day UK tour to raise awareness about the Alberta Tar Sands. Dubbed ‘the most destructive project on earth’, the Tar Sands are devastating indigenous communities and driving global climate change. Read more >>

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15ft tank is next, say 25ft gun protesters!

Nottingham Arms Dump, 16-11-2009 19:16

Following on from the recent good turn out against the arms sellers Heckler and Koch, based in Lenton, Nottingham, the activists and artists responsible for building a 25ft model gun and marching it through the streets, are anouncing their intention to build a 15ft tank and would like help to do so... Read more >>

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Indigenous women accuse RBS and Treasury of funding 'bloody oil'

Richard Howlett, 16-11-2009 14:57

Three Indigenous Canadian women will visit the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) London headquarters tomorrow to demand that they stop financing one of the world’s most polluting projects – the Tar Sands. Read more | 7 comments >>

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Announcing a New Meeting at the Durham Working Class bookfair Nov 21st

Mayday politics, 16-11-2009 13:52

November 21st, 12 Noon, upstairs at same venue; ‘The Syndicalist challenge in the Durham coalfield before 1914’ - a talk by Lewis Mates Read more >>

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More Terror Raids in Manchester

MULE, 16-11-2009 12:24

At around 4 o’clock this morning the police arrested five men under the Terrorism Act 2000. Four of them were detained in Greater Manchester by the North West Counter Terrorism Unit, while the other was arrested near Heathrow Airport. According to police there is “no direct threat against Greater Manchester”. Read more >>

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No New Nuclear - planning to win this weekend.

No New Nuclear, 16-11-2009 09:57

SMASH CAPITALISM NOT ATOMS.

Nuclear Power is a capitalist technofix to climate change.

Use less energy. Use energy more efficiently. Problem solved. Don't swallow the Greenwash.
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Urban Cash or Urban Rash?

MULE, 16-11-2009 09:28

UniLife, the less than critical in-house magazine of the University of Manchester, has heaped nothing but praise upon the Chancellor elected and installed last year, local property developer and chairman of the Urban Splash Group Tom Bloxham MBE. Read more >>

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Immigrant workers arrested in factory raid

MULE, 16-11-2009 09:26

Police and immigration officers arrested 23 workers at a clothes factory in Ardwick, Manchester, last Wednesday as part of a massive raid to catch people working illegally. Read more >>

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Irish army gears up for riots

Vast minority, 15-11-2009 09:27

THE IRISH state is preparing to use the army to suppress major civil unrest by spending a third of a million Euros on providing it with new riot gear. Read more >>

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No barriers at Sheffield station give back our access to the bridge..

underclassrising.net, 14-11-2009 13:38

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BNP CONFERENCE

Billy the Squid, 14-11-2009 10:59

Swan Hotel 737 Atherton Road, Hindley Green, Wigan, WN2 4SB Read more | 7 comments >>

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The EDL: The BNP’s Useful Idiots? (Part 1)

MULE, 11-11-2009 14:34

With the EDL meeting up the road in Leeds a week back, Ragnor Ironpants digs below the surface to find what’s really behind the phenomenon. Read more | 2 comments >>

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No to Welfare Abolition National Meeting

Anne-Marie, 09-11-2009 22:52

The Welfare Reform Bill is a massive attack on the disabled, single parents, unemployed workers and workers in the Department for Work and Pensions and we cannot allow it to be implemented. 

14th November is our chance for welfare and disability rights activists, members of unemployed workers' groups and trade unionists to get to together, build links of solidarity and plan our struggle. If you are organising against welfare abolition or want to start doing so, please make sure people from your group come along! Read more >>

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Tom Hurndall - fifth annual lecture

mmu palestine, 07-11-2009 23:20

Tom Hurndall was a student at Manchester Metropolitan University. He was fatally wounded by the Israeli Defence Force whilst protecting Palestinian children in Gaza. He died on January 13, 2004. Read more >>

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Stand up and be Counted

MULE, 06-11-2009 14:25

Lance Corporal Joe Glenton is facing a court martial for desertion. Earlier this year he refused to return to Afghanistan where he had served in the Royal Logistics Corps, on the grounds that the army was “bringing death and devastation” to the country. MULE spoke to Clare Glenton about her husband’s motivation and future plans. Read more | 11 comments >>

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