Manchester Analysis Newswire Archive

Preston Poverty: Figures

Riversider, 29-12-2010 14:32

New figures show the starkness of the growing inequality in Preston, Lancashire. Read more >>

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Support for students is very strong

Mayday, 14-12-2010 13:20

The old control of the media is not enough to get hegemonic control of society in the context of the new student risings. Read more | 8 comments >>

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student action against the cuts newcastle

students against the cuts, 05-12-2010 16:26

saturday the 4th december student activsts took part in anti cuts protest across shops in newcastle shops include

. VODAPHONE ( 6 billion in tax owed )
. BOOTS ( 86 million in tax owed)
. TOP SHOP (owned by phillip green who owes 285 million in tax) Read more >>

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Three Alternative Reforms for a Different Future for Higher Education

Really Open University, 20-11-2010 17:06

The British university system is at a crossroads. The recent Browne Review combined with the Lib-Con spending cuts spells out a dire future for the university. The proposal to remove the cap on fees, to slash funding for teaching in all the arts and humanities, and the continued imposition of market models on research and teaching are leading to far more than a ‘tightening of the belts’ – they will completely change the nature of the university. Read more >>

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documentary screening: 'OUTFOXED'

Manchester Mule, 16-11-2010 09:48

Documentary showing with the Mule and Open Media society.
Tuesday 16th November 2010
6.30pm
University Place - Theatre A
University of Manchester

All welcome - including non-students. FREE ENTRY Read more | 4 comments >>

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EDL, Brighton, the Crude Awakening, Anti-cuts marches - what can we learn?

Gnetetically modified, 05-11-2010 17:53

Lessons for the movement:
The Poll Tax Riots and 4 weeks of actions – EDL, Brighton, the Crude Awakening, Anti-cuts marche. How can we learn and move forward.
Read more | 2 comments >>

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boycott vodaphone demo newcastle tommrow 6th november

ANTI CUT, 05-11-2010 17:14

demo against vodaphone tommrow 12pm
Read more >>

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Anarchist and Working class bookfair in Newcastle, Sat 6th Nov

Free Thinker, 03-11-2010 13:08

Sat Nov 6th 2010 - The Worlds First Ever(!) Anarchist and Working Class Bookfair‏
in Newcastle coincides with the BBC Radio 3 FREE THINKING festival this weekend. Read more >>

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Shift Mag Issue#10: "Neither National nor International: Notes against Europe"

Shift Magazine, 01-11-2010 23:09

As part of Shift Magazine's issue on borders and Fortress Europe, this article urges that the left to abandon its traditional attraction to the EU as a progressive political project that serves as a crucial counterbalance to global capitalism and American imperialism, in favour of a more radical position. Read more | 1 comment >>

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Cumbrian Greenfield Nuclear Sites 'Removed'

Marianne Birkby, 14-10-2010 09:50

Yesterday a leak on the DECC website revealed that Kirksanton and Braystones - two greenfield sites in West Cumbria earmarked for new nuclear build are - "not suitable." Read more | 2 comments >>

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£400M research - No Nuke Dump Site in W Cumbria

Marianne Birkby, 02-10-2010 15:51

Prof David Smythe (Emeritus Professor of Geophysics, University of Glasgow), an earth scientist who was employed by Nirex to find a nuclear waste repository in West Cumbria, is not opposed to geological disposal in principle but he says the scientific research carried out in the 1990s which cost the public purse £400M shows that -
No site in West Cumbria is suitable for geological disposal of nuclear waste! Read more >>

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‘Not Red Ed’ – reinventing Labour, again and again

William Bowles, 01-10-2010 21:45

Amazing, after thirteen years of neo-Thatcherism, the beaten ‘party of labour’ all of a sudden rediscovers its ‘roots’. Who could trust such people? If the whole charade wasn’t such a miserable and desperate attempt to regain the ‘high ground’, Labour’s attempt to reinvent itself again, it would be nothing short of laughable. Read more >>

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Wednesday is International Radioactive Waste Action Day

marianne Birkby, 28-09-2010 12:54

The date was chosen to commemorate the worst known radioactive waste disaster -- a reprocessing storage tank explosion, following loss of cooling water, in the Ural Mountains of Siberia on Sept. 29, 1957 . An entire region contaminated, hundreds immediately killed and the poisoning and death of many more since, due to the lingering radioactive contamination of a vast area of the environment. Read more >>

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High Level Nuke Dump Opposition

Marianne Birkby, 21-09-2010 10:04

Who in their right mind would oppose "Managing Radioactive Wastes Safely" ?

The cleverly (Orwellian) titled: Managing Radioactive Wastes Safely Partnership is designed to stifle any opposition to thegeological 'disposal' of high level nuclear waste. Read more >>

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Tory conference to kick off winter of discontent

Jake, 18-09-2010 00:32

The demonstrations opposing austerity at the tory conference on october 3rd will, say trade union reps, herald the start of a winter of discontent in the UK as the cuts move beyond government memos and newspaper opinion columns and become a horrendous part of daily life. Unsurprisingly, west midlands police are attempting to stall and limit the scale of action at the demo. It seems the anti-cuts campaign is beginning to spring into life as a mass movement just in time to assert itself in the face of state-sponsored class war and protest repression. Read more | 3 comments >>

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West Cumbria Revolt Begins over High Level Nuke Dump.

Marianne Birkby, 07-09-2010 10:21

Campaign group Radiation Free Lakeland have written to all Allerdale Councillors urging them to support Councillor Joe Sandwith's proposal that they should withdraw from the dodgy process designed to force Cumbria into "geological disposal" of nuclear waste. Read more | 2 comments >>

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Burial of Nuke Waste in Cumbria

Marianne Birkby, 21-08-2010 15:30

A West Cumbrian Councillor has proposed that Allerdale should withdraw from the dodgy process designed to force Cumbria into "geological disposal" of nuclear waste.
The new government like the last is desperate to have been seen to have solved the problem of nuclear waste - to pave the way for new nuclear build.
Read more >>

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US Capitalism in Crisis: An Emperor With No Clothes

Richard Mellor, 09-08-2010 02:33

The champions of US capitalism are having to get used to a changing global stage on which they play a diminishing role Read more >>

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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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