Fujitsu workers in Manchester affiliated with the Unite union have voted in support of industrial action in a dispute over pay, working conditions and the treatment of trade unionists.
Welcome to Mule’s weekly news round up, where we bring you our pick of this week’s events. The government resorts to some unusual blue sky thinking in sorting out the housing crisis, Preston residents prepare to challenge an energy company, the council responds to critics of its youth service cuts and MediaCityUK wins a top award […]
In the words of the city’s tourist board Marketing Manchester, today’s “I Love MCR” day will prove to the world how “the people of Manchester are proud of their city and united against anti-social behaviour”. But will this campaign unite our community, or paper over the social tensions driven by the dark side of the […]
This week Kraak Gallery plays host to its second annual queer art show this August as an alternative event to Manchester Pride Festival. Expect this year to be bigger, better, louder and ruder.
Supporters of journalist and human rights activist James Fallah-Williams are to hold a solidarity vigil this evening to mark the fourteenth day of his hunger strike in protest against the UK Border Agency’s handling of his asylum claim.
Manchester Magistrates Court has so far sentenced two men to prison terms after they were arrested and convicted of swearing during the disturbances in the city on Tuesday night.
In Manchester on Tuesday night thousands descended upon the city centre: some to loot, some to fight the police, some for the thrill. What happened in Greater Manchester and across the country showed the ugly end-point of the political and economic project of the last 30 years. The Mule Editorial Team give their perspective on the Manchester riot…
