Manchester Analysis Newswire Archive

Reflections by Fidel Castro Ruz...

posted by F Espinoza, 08-05-2007 15:27

The tragedy threatening our species... Read more >>

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It is imperative to inmediately have an energy revolution...

posted by F Espinoza, 01-05-2007 20:45

Only seven thousand years have passed since the human being has left his tangible mark on what has come to be a civilization immensely rich in culture and technical knowledge... Read more | 1 comment >>

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Demolition Derby

Ciara Leeming, 06-04-2007 18:20

Sham consultations, compulsory purchases, mass demolitions and the displacement of entire communities. Call this a housing policy? A look at the government's Pathfinder initiative.
First published in Red Pepper April 2007.
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Manchester Pride crowd figures -- organisers exaggerate by at least 500%

Alt Pride, 04-02-2007 02:38

The Manchester Pride organisers claim that 250,000 people watch the Saturday parade and similar figures have regularly appeared in the media over the years.

It seems that no one has ever thought about that figure. If you look at the facts, a crowd of that size is a physical impossibility on such a short route and on such relatively narrow city streets. Read more | 3 comments >>

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Aesthetics and Radical Politics conference - Manchester - 3rd Feb

Gavin, 21-01-2007 22:50

Saturday 3rd Feb - a one day conference at Manchester University, open to everyone, to meet and discuss the possibilties in and connections between aesthetics and radical politics.
Read more | 1 comment >>

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If you only read the US press, you must be very confused about Venezuela

Eva Golinger, 13-01-2007 22:11

If you only read the US press, you must be very confused about Venezuela. The extreme levels of distortion, lack of fact checking and source verification and outright manipulation of information in the US media on Venezuela is quite troubling and dangerous in a nation that has waged wars based on false data and misleading policies. Read more | 3 comments >>

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Berezovsky gang caught smuggling radioactive material?

Adam, 23-12-2006 21:49

Did Litvinenko and Kovtun receive the same wrong information as British detectives? That Polonium is harmless unless ingested?

"On the Health Protection Agency's website the agency says that polonium-210 is "not a radiological hazard as long as it remains outside the body" and that "most traces can be eliminated through hand-washing, washing machines and dishwasher cycles for clothes, plates, etc".
However, the only contact one of the contaminated detectives had with the poison was when he removed items such as clothing from Litvinenko's home. Evidence of the substance was reportedly found in a tea cup at the Millennium Hotel more than a month after Litvinenko was killed and countless washes. Seven bar staff who had minimal contact with Litvinenko all show evidence of exposure." - really bad advice! Read more | 5 comments >>

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Beatings and Sugar Plums: New Labour's War on the Kurds

Stuart Crosthwaite, 02-11-2006 16:17

Early morning on September 5th security guards burst into the sleeping quarters of Colnbrook detention centre in west London. The guards had come to take thirty two Iraqi Kurdish men away. Barefoot, handcuffed, with the guards swearing at them, the thirty two were taken to RAF Brize Norton. Their threatened forced deportation to Arbil in northern Iraq was imminent. In response, one man slit his throat and up to fourteen others took overdoses or cut themselves in a desperate attempt to avoid "removal". One eye witness described the scene at the holding area at the airport as "carnage with blood on the walls".(1) The Kurds knew the danger of returning to Iraq. They had fled the country years before because of that danger.

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THINK G8 ! An anticapitalist teach-in

ducie, 19-10-2006 10:54

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Evening Post helps Immigration Service harass East Midlands asylum-seekers

Rat on a media rat, 11-10-2006 10:15

An Nottingham Evening Post reporter joins the Immigration service to find illegal working at local car washes and writes a most despicable article (Evening Post, 10th October 2006, page 5), online at:
CRACKING DOWN ON THE CITY ILLEGAL WORKERS Read more | 1 addition | 4 comments >>

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The Yorkshire Ripper revisited

Elmer777, 28-09-2006 21:27

The Peter Sutcliffe myth is wearing a bit thin now. This is big, really big. When the lid blows off this one, I intend to be standing well back from ground zero. Read more | 3 comments >>

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Resistance (Anarchist bulletin) - two issues for September 2006

Resistance editors, 17-09-2006 19:07

The Anarchist Federation (Britain) has published two new issues of its Resistance bulletin for September 2006: the usual monthly issue plus a Labour party conference/anti-war special. Articles on ID cards, databases & fingerprinting for children, Iraq corporate carve-up, Asylum-seekers get organised, Army desertion rise, Starbucks union, Climate change activism, School privatisation, & more. Read more >>

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AFRICA FREE TRADE ZONE CORRUPTION

The Offshore Informant, 02-08-2006 16:10

Uganda's LAKE VICTORIA FREE TRADE ZONE Governor Beenunula Eyenunula Nunumisa received millions of grey-market stock shares to Canadian company EQUITY RETIREMENT DISTRIBUTORS LTD. run by American executives controlled by Uganda's infamous American named Van A. Brink who was charged with 142 counts of fraud on 6,000 people who lost $105-million (USD) which U.S. authorities claim cannot be found, until this story surfaced (below). Read more >>

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Confronting Racism, Head On: WHY I WEAR MY ZIDANE JERSEY

Dave Zirin, 13-07-2006 10:01

Now the great mystery is what set Zissou off. What could Materazzi have possibly said to send him over the edge? Answers are beginning to filter out. According to a FIFA employee transcribing what was said during the match, Materazzi,s called Zissou a "big Algerian shit. A Brazilian television program that claims to have used a lip-reader said Materazzi called Zissou,s sister "a whore. The highly respected French anti-racist coalition SOS Racisme issued a press release stating, "According to several very well informed sources from the world of football, it would seem [Materazzi] called Zissou a 'dirty terrorist'." Read more | 6 comments >>

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Love and Petrol worth seeing

Peter Moore, 08-06-2006 00:24

Love and Petrol is a play that entertains and doesn't beat you over the head with a message you've heard already. Read more | 1 comment >>

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What Nepal could learn from the winsor rabble

Crolt Bopper, 22-04-2006 08:25

Anyone fancy booting our dictators out on mayday?
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Who Really Runs Leeds? Event

Who runs Leeds, 01-04-2006 20:56

A half day workshop for those interested in being part of a collaborative research project. Organised by the Urban Cultures and Consumption Research Group, School of Geography, University of Leeds, with The Common Place Social Centre. Read more >>

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Considering a fallen world

Holly Attili and Alvarro Luque, 14-03-2006 19:50

This is an extract of a short pamphlet written in January 2006 detailing some thoughts on our current situation. This situation has remained intact for at least a hundred years past. It is not news as such but clearly is still very much a cause of great concern and will not go away as long as we are ignorant and compliant. A friend and I wrote this as the beginnings of a potential movement of discontent in Manchester and the world. We despise consumerism, our revolting spectacle society and the banality of modern life and the modern slave. We are inspired by the Lettrists, situationists, Dadaism etc. This is to be continued… Read more | 4 comments >>

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Trumped Up Dismissal Rejected By Tribunal

Dave Greenstein, 10-03-2006 01:04

A trumped up charge of insubordination and abusive and threatening behaviour was used to dismiss a longstanding employee. The union refused to defend its member.
WorkRep took the case to the Manchester Employment Tribunal. Read more >>

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Lecture: Postanarchism and the future of Radical Politics

Gavin@cyber-rights.net, 29-11-2005 13:14

Dr. Saul Newman (University of Western Australia) will be presenting a paper:

"Postanarchism and the future of radical politics"
...At Manchester University - 8th December 2005 Read more | 1 comment >>

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