Tag Archives: Manchester
Social Centres breakout
With government moves to outlaw squatting in residential buildings and the organisation of activists into a movement of positive action against the criminalising of squatters, once again radical social spaces is back on the agenda and the forefront of people’s political activity.
Manchester & Salford Anarchist Bookfair 2011
Saturday 3rd December 10am-4.00pm People’s History Museum Left Bank in Spinningfields Manchester city centre M3 3ER » MAP There will be a variety of stalls from radical bookstores, anarchist political groups and publishers and various campaigns as well as several topical discussion meetings. All welcome – Entry Free.
Manchester Anarchist Bookfair
Saturday 2nd October 2010 11am-5.00pm Dancehouse Theatre, 10 Oxford Road Manchester M1 5QA (Opposite BBC) Following on from the massive success of last years event comrades in Manchester have pulled out all the stops to ensure this year’s bookfair is even bigger and better. During the day there are numerous talks (see below) as well [...]
Strangeways prison riot, April 1st 1990
Twenty years ago the very day after the Poll Tax riot erupted in Trafalgar Square prisoners in Manchester’s oldest jail took control of the chapel for the start of what was to become the biggest riot and longest rooftop protest in British penal history and triggered a wave of revolt in over twenty other prisons [...]
