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10 June 2013
Manchester Socialist Party: Turkey - discuss what socialists say about the movement
Join socialists from Turkey and Manchester and to discuss building solidarity with the movement in Turkey, and how it can succeed, writes Monday 10 June 2013.
22 May 2013
Anti-blacklisting campaigner run over
George Tapp, who has stood as a TUSC candidate in council elections in Salford, has been hospitalised after being hit by a car while taking part in a protest against blacklisting
16 May 2013
Blacklisting protester badly injured by hit-and-run driver
George Tapp, 64, a retired electrician and Unite activist who lives in Salford, was seriously injured by a hit-and-run driver yesterday outside the offices of construction firm BAM in Manchester...
11 May 2013
Socialist Party meeting against cuts
Greater Manchester Socialist Party called a meeting to discuss how trade unionists, community activists and students can unite to beat the cuts and the Bedroom Tax
3 May 2013
Middleton anti-bedroom tax meeting
A packed meeting in Middleton, Greater Manchester, launched Middleton and Rochdale Against the Bedroom Tax on Thursday 2nd May...
3 May 2013
Airport cleaners strike while construction workers protest
Cleaners at Manchester airport took solid strike action on 3rd May against a drastic worsening of their conditions
10 April 2013
Greater Manchester: Stop extermination of our NHS
Campaigners from across Greater Manchester gathered at Media:City in Salford on the first day that the government's pro-privatisation measures against our NHS took effect
20 March 2013
Steve Acheson has won his Employment Tribunal for 'Unlawful Refusal of Employment' and was awarded damages
13 March 2013
Building Socialist Students in Manchester
The freshers week last September resulted in an explosion of membership of Socialist Students at the two universities in Manchester, writes John McFarlane, Manchester Metropolitan Socialist Students.
DfE 2 hour strike 7.3.13, outside the Sheffield office., photo Robbie Faulds
19 February 2013
4 February 2013
Manchester: MoJ walkout against privatisation
PCS members at the Ministry of Justice in Manchester staged a well supported two hour walkout last week, writes Alex Davidson.
Demonstration at start of Tory Party conference, 2.10.11 , photo Paul Mattsson
23 January 2013
Manchester: fightback needed in city of extreme poverty
More than half of Greater Manchester's population - 1.6 million - could soon be struggling below the poverty line, according to the Greater Manchester Poverty Commission, with 600,000 people already living in "extreme poverty"
12 December 2012
Protesting against council cuts
Manchester: Greater Manchester Trades Council called a demonstration against austerity and Osborne's autumn statement, writes Paul Gerrard.
TUSC on the 28 March 2012 NUT London strike and demonstration , photo Socialist Party
5 December 2012
November by-elections: Building an anti-cuts alternative
"November was an unusual month. You can wait a long time for a byelection and then six come along in one month...
30 November 2012
Train cleaners protest across the country
Low-paid train cleaners took strike action today in their fight for better pay
21 November 2012
Building working-class political representation
With a £5,000 deposit required to get on to the ballot paper - but with no candidates' freepost mailshot available - TUSC did not field any candidates in the Police Commissioner elections held on 15 November, dubbed by the media as Britain's 'super Thursday'
Alex Davidson, Manchester Central TUSC candidate 15 November 2012, photo Senan
7 November 2012
Heseltine's economy report is no solution
The end of October saw the publication of a report by former Tory minister Michael Heseltine on the economy, writes Alex Davidson, Manchester Central TUSC candidate.
31 October 2012
No sackings!: CWU members in Coventry held a protest on 26 October against increasingly oppressive management. The bullying and unfair sackings resulted in an unofficial walkout on 25 October
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