Either you retire a hero, or you live long enough to become Nevillan, say squatters as they launch broadside against luxury apartments ousting work…
Gary Neville luxury development occupied by Persons Unknown
Tag: Manchester
Far-right ‘football lads’ humiliated in Manchester on match day
After a worryingly large turnout in London earlier this month the much-hyped Football Lads Alliance (FLA) was humiliated yesterday, pulling in bare…
Manchester: A reality check for Corbynism
Cuddly Jeremy’s fight to turn the Labour Party into a red blooded socialist party has some way to go, if Manchester is anything to go by.
Manchester and London stations brought to standstill by Afrin solidarity blockade
Dozens of people blockaded train tracks at Manchester’s Piccadilly station today, shutting down the major city transport hub for most of the …
From Acorns grow mighty tenants’ unions
Tenants’ union ACORN has been making a splash with a string of wins over rogue landlords and a striking growth rate, which has inspired Plan …
Welcome to Partisan
Manchester has been struggling along without a stable radical social centre since 2007, when The Basement was ruined by flooding, but that all chan…
Lessons of Cornerhouse
The Cornerhouse is a former theatre in Manchester squatted from January to August 2017 by self-organised homeless people linked to the Manchester A…
Manchester homeless call out council ‘one way ticket’ scandal
Following revelations that Manchester Council has spent £10,000 on one-way tickets to push rough sleepers out of the city, activists have been exp…
Manchester anarchists announce December bookfair
One last anarchist bookfair has been announced for 2017 with the Manchester & Salford Anarchist Bookfair on Saturday December 2nd.
Manchester Council gears up for eviction of the Addy
Andy Burnham’s Labour administration found itself in yet another mess over homelessness today as it made its first abortive attempt to scare …
Shock eviction of Cornerhouse centre puts 20 people on streets
Homeless people rounded on Andy Burnham’s Labour administation in Manchester today after 20 people were rousted out of the well-regarded Corn…
Social Centres update: Common house in trouble, Partisan nears opening
Radical social centres across Britain have run into financial issues recently, with business rates rises causing trouble for Larc in east London an…
Eviction raises questions over Manchester Mayor’s homelessness campaign
New Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham’s pledge to help street homeless people as a major plank of his candidacy seems to have gone off the rails…
Manchester has a radical social centre again
A new collectively-run space dedicated to bringing Manchester’s disparate networks of activism together was opened yesterday, nearly a decad…
Case study: Charity chugging in the north-west
A Plan C member in Manchester writes as part of the group’s Worker Enquiry series of articles…
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Filton sentencing explainer
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No consent to confinement
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Anarchist News Review: Belfast pogroms and World Cup corruption
Jack and Mike discuss some of the worst racist violence in recent Northern Irish history, looking at the factors behind it, both historic loyalist …
