For centuries Manchester has been home to a thriving culture of campaigning, radicalism, and direct action. Andy Lockhart spoke to Sarah Irving, co-founder of the Manchester Radical History Collective, a website run by politically active locals dedicated to unearthing a rarely seen side to the city.
We asked Steve from the Disabled People’s Direct Action Network (DAN) what his organisation was doing about Fitness to Work and discriminatory behaviour more generally.
On July 14, Councillor Mary Di Mauro sparked controversy in a City Council meeting by challenging Council Leader Richard Leese over comments he made after being arrested and cautioned for assaulting his teenage step-daughter. The incident enraged Labour councillors who demanded that Cllr Di Mauro apologise to “every victim of domestic abuse in the city” [...]
MULE’s Tim Hunt caught up with writer and activist Sarah Irving about her influences, politics and new book, Gaza: Beneath the Bombs
MULE’s Andy Lockhart spoke to Vanessa Hall, Green Party councillor for Hulme between 2003 and 2008, to try and find out what really goes on inside the Town Hall.
Among the other prisoners from the FreeGaza Movement boat Spirit of Humanity are Nobel Peace prize winner Mairead Maguire and former US Congresswoman Cythnia McKinney. A message from McKinney on 2 July condemned Israel for its illegal action in dismantl[ing] our navigation equipment and confiscating both the ship and its cargo of medical aid, children’s [...]
