Manchester History Newswire Archive

Lancaster Carnival of Culture 2009: Community Art Exhibition and Street Games

Lancaster Carnivalista of Culture, 15-06-2009 11:25

Two events on Saturday June 13th made up the 2009 manifestation of the Carnival of Culture, three days before the Public Inquiry into the planning permission given to Centros Miller’s appallingly unimaginative retail-led developments to trash the “cultural quarter” of Lancaster, with it’s Music ians’ Co-op (est. 1976), Dance School, Grand and Dukes Theatres/independent cinema, listed building local brewery etc etc etc. Details of how to get involved towards the end. Read more >>

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Plaque to commemorate ILP members who fought in Spain

Alan Warren, 14-05-2009 09:01

The first plaque to remember the members of the Independent Labour Party who fought in the Spanish Civil War alongside the POUM on the Aragon Front is to be unveiled in Manchester on May 30th. Read more | 1 comment >>

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London moot on Baluch issues proposed

Mir Chakar Rind, 23-11-2008 17:49

On the occassion of the first death anniversary of Nawabzada Bala'ach Marri, member of the Baluchistan state assembly who was killed during his struggle against Pakistan army, strikes were observed all over Baluchistan. Texas-sized Baluchistan was annexed by Pakistan against the wishes of its people in March 1948. The state has witnessed five bloody uprisings. Read more >>

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North East Working Class Bookfair Sat. November 22nd 2008, 12-4pm

Bookfair Visitors Welcome, 14-11-2008 11:34

North East Working Class Bookfair
Durham Clayport Library, Millennium Place, Durham City.
Saturday November 22nd 2008, 12-4pm

Market Tavern welcomes drinkers from the bookfair Read more >>

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Native American Speaker in Manchester

talullah gosh, 24-09-2008 10:09

Native American Andrew Big Smoke of the Cree People is travelling the world sharing stories and prophecies

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Caesar’s-Messiah’s Vicar Calls for Peace (Again) in Georgia?

Seamus Breathnach, 15-08-2008 15:32

Caesar’s-Messiah’s Vicar Calls for Peace (Again) in Georgia?

Seamus Breathnach 15/08/2008 06:51
  sbreathnach@mac.com
 www.irish-criminology.com

Unfortunately, the Pope and his enormous empire is quite capable of suing the whole world. Through Opus Dei, he already owns most of the Supreme Courts and , in some countries, he even has a Special Place drafted into their Constitution. This was so for the Republic of Ireland and East Timor; and , if you looked closely enough at a couple of dozen other Catholic countries , you would find the same anti-secular bias, even when such countries brag about 'every citizen being equal before the law'. Catholicism makes tin-pot dictatorships out of the most well-meaning countries. One has only to mention Spain, Portugal and Austria to see what they did to these countries in the past, or to Spain, Italy or Germany before , during and after WW11. The personality of the Christian, when you have taken away the Janus-mask of White Pope (who does the PR from the Vatican) and the Black Pope , who does the biz abroad, is one of deception, forgery, incalculable violence and aggression ,not just to women and children in 'State-run Catholic schools', but in the broadest theaters of universal civil and international war.

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Manchester CPGB - Spanish Civil War vol. - Commemoration

Anti Fascist, 30-07-2008 21:08

George Brown, CPGB Central Committee member, was killed in Spain in 1937.There was a plaque erected in his memory at his home village in Ireland, June 28th and a memorial pamphlet. Read more | 3 comments >>

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Remembering Rooley Moor’s “Cotton Famine Road”

Say NO to Ding Quarry, 03-11-2007 08:59

Abraham Lincoln and Lancashire cotton workers:

Ongoing research by Ding Quarry protestors is confirming the historic importance of the upper sections Rooley Moor Road above the Spodden Valley, known for generations as the “Cotton Road” or “Cotton Famine Road”. Read more | 8 comments >>

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Benefit events for Nicaragua hurricane appeal

Manchester Bilwi Link, 11-10-2007 10:02

Events in aid of the appeal to help communities on Nicaragua's North Atlantic coast, which was hit at the beginning of September by Hurricane Felix. It has left over 100,000 homeless and several hundred dead in this already poor and remote area. Crops, livestock, homes and health centres were also killed or destroyed. Read more >>

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Public meeting on Che Guevara

Rock around the Blockade campaign, 30-09-2007 22:58

Film showing and discussion Read more | 2 comments >>

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Durham Working Class bookfair November 3rd 10-5pm

Trevor Bark, 11-09-2007 11:49

North East Working Class Bookfair
St Nicholas Church, Market Place, Durham City.
Saturday November 3rd 2007, 10-5pm Read more >>

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Luis Posada Carriles, the White House terrorist

posted by F Espinoza, 29-08-2007 22:14

In an article published on April 10, 2007, president Fidel Castro declared, “Orders for Kathleen Cardone’s decision could only have come from the White House. President Bush constantly avoided the issue of the criminal and terrorist character of the accused. He was protected and charged with a simple immigration violation.” ... Read more | 8 comments >>

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Internationalists doctors graduated in CUBA on the BBC

posted by F Espinoza, 27-07-2007 09:56

CUBA Graduates 2 470 New Doctors... Read more | 2 comments >>

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Fit to Govern: the Native Intelligence of Thabo Mbeki [Review]

Percy Ngonyama, 13-07-2007 10:42

The latest book on Thabo Mbeki ' Fit to Govern: the Native Intelligence of Thabo Mbeki' by Ronald Suresh Roberts is denialist propaganda that should be countered by all progressive forces with the same amount of zeal and vigour as that expressed by its chief proponents. Read more >>

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Flight 77: The Flight Data Recorder Investigation File

Tim (Book 2), 19-06-2007 16:16

Calum Douglas presents his investigation into the flight data recorder from Flight 77 to an audience at the Indian YMCA in Fitzroy Square, London on 8th June 2007. Read more | 2 comments >>

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US Terrorism and Terrorists...

posted by F Espinoza, 14-05-2007 19:09

Both Posada and the US government are trying to disqualify potentially damaging evidence from his trial... Read more | 3 comments >>

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Peel Holdings Vs Democracy

AD, 12-05-2007 10:53

Peel Holdings, owners of Mersey Docks reveal their anti-democratic and secretive ways. Read more | 6 comments >>

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Benny Rothman's Twyford Down Mass Trespass recollections

Child of Lewin, 21-04-2007 16:46

In a largely unpublished article, Benny Rothman, one of the leaders of the 1932 Mass Trespass on Kinder Scout, recalls his day at the Mass Trespass on Twyford Down of 4th July 1994. Read more | 1 comment >>

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The Kinder Mass Trespass & Labour's Greenwash

Child of Lewin, 21-04-2007 16:42

A local Labour MP and the Environment Minister are gathering in the Peak Districy National Park tonight to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Kinder Scout Mass Trespass of 1932. But the same MP supports the construction of a new road through the same National Park. Read more | 1 comment >>

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Reparations Group Demans Truth from Barclays on Slavery Link

Restitution Study Group (United States), 28-03-2007 14:42

New York/USA -- Considering the 200th anniversary of the British closing of their Transatlantic slave trade, it is fitting that attention is focused on existing British institutions that participated in the practice. There are enormous online resources that help with the task of identifying these parties, and the Restitution Study Group, a New York non-profit, wants to share some with the public. Of particular note in their research of British archive and museum records is information on two prominent slave trading bankers, Benjamin and Arthur Heywood, brothers from Liverpool, England who founded Arthur Heywood, Sons & Co. (Heywoods Bank) in 1773, which merged into Martins Bank in 1883, which merged into Barclays Bank in 1968.
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