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18 September 2019
Peterloo - fighting for democracy and a better life
Non-Fiction - Peterloo: The English Uprising: This new work is crammed with detail on the economic, social and political circumstances behind the massacre
14 August 2019
The Peterloo Massacre was perhaps the most significant atrocity carried out by the British authorities against their own people.
17 April 2019
Arriva Rail North cleaners fight bosses' punitive pay arrears
Cleaning staff on Arriva Rail North have been told by their employer, outsourcer ISS, that they will be forced to work eleven days with pay owed in arrears. Members of transport union RMT protested outside Manchester Victoria station on 10 April.
27 February 2019
Manchester posties strike against bullying
The company "needs to realise that it will be easier to replace the small management 'regime' than it will be to replace the entire workforce"
16 January 2019
Hundreds join Manc RMT picket line in solidarity after far-right attack
This followed the recent attack on pickets by a far-right group
9 January 2019
Far right attack on Manchester rail workers' picket line - trade union fightback needed
Far-right protesters, wearing yellow vests, verbally abused the RMT transport union picket line at Manchester Victoria station on 5 January.
21 November 2018
Arriva Rail North under pressure after nineteenth Saturday strike
RMT transport union members picketing Manchester Victoria train station on 10 November had an unusual visitor - and it wasn't Santa Claus. It was none other than David Brown, managing director of Arriva Rail North.
Birmingham bin workers and home care workers strike together, photo by Birmingham SP
16 November 2018
Climate change protesters in Newcastle, 24 March 2019, photo by Elaine Brunskill
16 November 2018
Climate change protest in London on 12.4.19, photo Mary Finch
31 October 2018
The huge demonstration in 1819 demanded democratic rights.
12 October 2018
Peterloo film exposes bloody nature of capitalism
Director-scriptwriter Mike Leigh has created an excellent feature length film of the 1819 Peterloo massacre
10 October 2018
First coordinated catering and courier strike whets workers' appetite for action
Workers at several branches of McDonald's, Wetherspoon and TGI Fridays have struck together, joined by couriers for Uber Eats and other gig economy workers #FFS410
26 September 2018
Freshers fairs: socialist ideas chime with students
Reports from some Socialist Students stalls around the country
20 June 2018
Rousing, funny take on Marxism - from the man himself
Theatre: Marx in Soho: For socialists, a one-man show about Karl Marx might not suggest a night of revelations. But seeing Bob Weick performing Howard Zinn's play 'Marx in Soho' in Manchester on 9 June showed this was a misconception.
6 June 2018
#NorthernFail: 250 rail services cancelled
Nationalise rail - don't delay!: Northern rail cancelled more than 250 trains entirely on 29 May. Where trains run at all they have been up to two hours late.
23 May 2018
We can learn about struggle from the mass trespass of Kinder Scout
The story of the mass trespass by hundreds of young working people from Manchester and Sheffield on Kinder Scout, to establish the 'right to roam', is remembered with pride.
1 May 2018
May Day McStrike: "A symbol for all workers"
At midnight workers in the Oxford Street McDonalds in Manchester walked out
11 April 2018
McStrike: ballot for strike action at six McDonald's stores
The bakers' union BFAWU has notified McDonald's that it is balloting workers at six stores with a view to authorising a strike later this year
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