The Okasional Café opened its doors again last Monday – but with new government proposals on the criminalisation of squatting, will this be the last time?
Fears of “collective punishment” have been raised following threats by the Crown Prosecution Service to evict the family of Munir Farooqi, a man recently convicted on terrorism charges, from their home.
This Thursday sees the premiere of the Great Estate, a “top time travel drama” starring young people from Fallowfield and celebrating the heritage of one of the first ever council estates built in Manchester.
Mancunians who are more reluctant to welcome the Tories to the city centre than the council may well be interested in what they’ve been getting up to since they swarmed out of Piccadilly on Sunday. From the looks of it, they’re hardly likely to have endeared themselves to anyone.
Around 30,000 demonstrators took to the streets of Manchester today to protest against the Conservative Party Conference. The demonstration, named ‘Manchester for the Alternative’, was organised by the Trades Union Congress and the Right to Work campaign and drew in unionists and anti-cuts protestors from around the UK, with some coming from as far away as the West Country and Wales.
The start of the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester this weekend will be marked by large-scale demonstrations against the coalition government’s programme of public spending cuts.
From Sunday through to Wednesday the Tories will return to the Petersfield conference complex in its centre. There will also be protests, since for the entire history of its maturity as a city Manchester has been for everything the Tories oppose, and opposed to everything the Tories are for.
