Manchester Social Struggles Newswire Archive

BNP meltdown continues - annihilation in Barking and Dagenham

Zeev, 07-05-2010 18:06

Bye-bye BNP Read more | 5 comments >>

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Election billboards subvertised

a passer-by, 03-05-2010 23:11

Messages like “Don’t vote – take control” and “Tories = New Labour” have appeared on Conservative billboards across Manchester. Read more >>

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Manchester Mayday BBQ

Manchester No Borders, 21-04-2010 15:53

MayDay March, organised by the TUC, All Saints Park, 12pm

MayDay BBQ, Birley Fields Hulme, 3pm. Read more | 1 comment >>

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Dr Steve Best PHD asks are Vegans Space Aliens or compassionate Earthlings

[From] Dr Steve Best PHD , Animal Liberation Front Activist, 19-04-2010 14:39

Dr Steve Best PHD, author of "Terrorists or Freedom Fighters" and animal liberation front activist asks the question are Vegans Space Aliens or compassionate Earthlings? Read more | 5 comments >>

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Liverpool Social Centre don't think that the BNP matter

@nnoyed, 19-04-2010 01:17

Some members of the Liverpol Social Forum/Liverpool Social Centre don't think that the BNP are very important, or a threat to our communities.

Who gives a fuck about the BNP? Apparently not the social centre, dub comes first. Read more | 15 comments >>

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Oil, Violence and Social Movements in Colombia

Col Ombia, 15-04-2010 21:55

Key Guest: Bruno Federico.
Bruno is part of COSPACC*, a Colombian collective that works with
communities in the region where BP operate for oil.
He will explore questions around energy sovereignty, control of natural
resources and what this might look like practically for the environmental
movement in the North-West, in the context of global climate change. Read more | 2 comments >>

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Election Poll

terratech, 15-04-2010 18:35

With the election frenzy of the media in the past week, just where do you stand? Read more | 6 comments >>

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Sisters In Struggle

Pinkolady, 13-04-2010 23:39

The anarcha-feminist conference in Manchester, organised over the weekend of the 10th to 11th April was nothing like my preconceptions. Read more | 5 comments >>

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Put Clive Jefferson on the spot - live!

Lancaster Unity, 13-04-2010 10:26

Your chance to quiz the BNP's National Organiser Read more | 1 comment >>

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The politics of life

MULE, 09-04-2010 15:32

While our rulers claim to embrace democracy with a dangerous fervour, it’s probably fair to say that many of us have rather less enthusiasm for the elections that come around with such regularity. Read more | 1 comment >>

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EDL Attack Newcastle UAF Meeting

Snowball, 08-04-2010 02:28

A UAF meeting in Newcastle is disrupted following similar attacks in Manchester and Bristol Read more | 32 comments >>

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Police attack UAF demonstration against EDL in Bolton

Bob Shepherd, 07-04-2010 23:39

The British state’s response to the Unite Against Fascism (UAF) counter mobilisation to the English Defence League (EDL) event in Bolton on 20 March was a change in tactics from previous confrontations. The police used a clear strategy of attempting to criminalise the UAF demonstrators and leaders, by using ‘kettling’, snatch-squads and dogs to attack and arrest people. Read more | 16 comments >>

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Mark Collett suspended?

LU, 31-03-2010 22:21

April Fool or (very) late Christmas present? Read more | 2 comments >>

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More jail terms for Gaza protesters

Min Donny, 27-03-2010 14:16

26th March 2010 – Lizzie Cocker in Isleworth

Police hide video evidence from defence lawyers.

Two more youngsters charged with violent disorder during last year’s protests against Israel’s two-week massacre of the Gazan people have been handed harsh jail terms. Read more | 9 comments >>

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Budget Day Civil Service Strike

Stillshooter, 24-03-2010 13:46

Up to a quarter of a million civil and public servants from across the UK are taking part in a one day strike on budget day today, in a dispute over cuts to redundancy pay. Read more | 6 comments >>

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EDL Planning Deadly Race Riots

Steel City Guy, 24-03-2010 00:28

The media and the riot police in Bolton portrayed the so-called "English Defence League" as friendly, happy-go-lucky "treehuggers", but the ugly truth shone through later Saturday evening when a gang of chanting EDL thugs gathered in a pub on Oldham Road, Middleton intent on violence.
Read more | 42 comments >>

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Deportation of Patrick Mitonga Masengo

Stillshooter, 23-03-2010 19:11

Please stop the removal of Patrick Mitonga Masengo to DR Congo.
he is pictured here taking part in a Congolese Protest in Manchester on 13th March, against just this sort of happening.
He was arrested on March 19th 2010. Read more >>

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BNP Organisers Come Clean Over EDL Involvement

Investigator, 22-03-2010 14:28

As British authorities are accused of turning a blind eye to fascist racial incitement and street violence, there is damning evidence BNP organisers are, as suspected, using the EDL to do the BNP's dirty work by plotting race riots in multicultural areas.
Read more | 24 comments >>

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Council failing to deliver affordable housing

MULE, 19-03-2010 23:10

Manchester City Council is delivering just 13 per cent of affordable housing required in the area, according to homeless charity Shelter’s new ‘Housing League Table’ website. Read more | 2 comments >>

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Scotland: fear and loathing grips McBNP

Diva, 18-03-2010 15:59

Trouble up North Read more | 3 comments >>

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