Socialist Party :: UK Towns and cities

Manchester

10 March 2021

Manchester bus drivers' indefinite strikers fight on

Bus drivers in Manchester at Go North West have been on the picket lines, on indefinite strike over the deplorable actions being taken by the employer.

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3 March 2021

Under attack and fighting back

After being told they are key workers, bus workers are increasingly having to strike back against the bosses' attacks.

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3 March 2021

Manchester indefinite bus strike against 'fire and rehire'

Socialist Party members supported the hundreds of bus drivers in Manchester who are on strike over proposed changes by private company Go North West

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17 February 2021

Manchester Go North West bus drivers in all-out strike over fire and rehire dispute

Bus drivers employed by Go North West in Manchester will begin an all-out continuous strike from 28 February. The company is trying to fire and rehire its workers on vastly inferior contracts.

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2 December 2020

Rent strikers' victory in student halls

Students at the University of Manchester won a 30% refund of their rent for the term

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18 November 2020

Manchester student occupation - end rip-off rent, free education now

Socialist Party members in Manchester visited the 25 students occupying 'The Tower' at Manchester University to show our solidarity on 15 November

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11 November 2020

Solidarity with Manchester students - fight for democratic control of campus safety

Socialist Students sends solidarity to students at the University of Manchester (UoM), who through their protests, have ensured the removal of two-metre high security fences designed to pen them in

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27 October 2020

Working-class based campaign needed

The defiance of Tier 3 proposals by Andy Burnham took the Tory government by surprise

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21 October 2020

Health before profit - Work or full pay

Fear about catching coronavirus, being thrown out of work, being forced to stay at home without enough money ... Yet again it's working-class people who are paying the price.

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14 October 2020

Beware the billionaires bearing gifts

'Project Big Picture' is a plan put forward to offer the football industry stability

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2 September 2020

Manctopia: billion pound property boom

Manctopia is a four-part documentary about housing in Manchester, filmed over the course of one year

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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

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14 August 2019

The Peterloo Massacre 1819: When a fearful ruling class tried to crush working-class political aspirations

The Peterloo Massacre was perhaps the most significant atrocity carried out by the British authorities against their own people.

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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.

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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"

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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

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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.

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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.

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