The latest film in Ken Loach’s fifty-year career, Route Irish is as committed to issues of social justice as his previous works such as Bread and Roses, Land and Freedom and Riff-Raff.
A new network of groups promoting the rights of young asylum seekers is tonight celebrating its inaugural Awareness Week with an evening of drumming and dance at Manchester’s Methodist Central Hall.
The leader of Manchester City Council Sir Richard Leese is expected to announce this morning that the local authority will be refusing to implement £109m of cuts imposed by the coalition government.
A shop worker has been sacked by a Manchester branch of the ‘ethical supermarket’ in Didsbury for ‘using the wrong tea bag’. James Alden believes that he was deliberately targeted for refusing to submit to a biometric scanning system – and has slammed his ‘sham of a union’ who failed to support him.
Manchester City Council privately instructed Children’s Services staff to block out parents campaigning to protect their Sure Start centres, according to a leaked email seen by MULE.
Community campaigners, public sector workers, students and trade unionists from across the UK will converge on London this Saturday as they join the Trades Union Congress ‘March for the Alternative’ in protest against the coalition government’s austerity agenda. MULE speaks to some of the Mancunians who will be there.
Community activists have written an open letter to Manchester City Council Leader Sir Richard Leese calling on him to rethink the decision to end all Youth Services – which they say was made ‘without consideration of the consequences’ and in disrespect of a legal duty to consult the young people and communities who will be […]
