Manchester students staged a flash-mob outside the constituency office of Cheadle Hulme Liberal Democrat MP Mark Hunter, in protest at his decision to vote in favour for a rise in tuition fees – despite an election pledge not to.
Manchester City Council faces funding cuts of £102m from central government over the next two years, it was announced by Communities Secretary Eric Pickles yesterday. This potentially represents an astonishing 21 per cent drop in government grants by 2012/13 compared to the money it received during the current financial year.
Supporters of South Manchester Law Centre are to hold a protest outside the full Manchester City Council meeting this coming Wednesday 8 December, Albert Square at 9am as part of the campaign to save the law centre and restore its funding.
Lib Dem and Labour councillors flung accusations at one another last week following news that the Collyhurst social housing project – which would have reconstructed and refurbished a total of 1,300 homes in one of the most deprived parts of the country – is to be scrapped by the Department for Communities and Local Government.
A call to action on Tuesday November 30 has been launched by university and college students as the struggle against tuition fees and cuts to education builds.
Around 3,000 students took to the streets in Manchester yesterday to protest against reforms to higher education which will see university teaching budgets cut as tuition fees rise. MULE gives a run-down of the day’s events.
Supporters of the South Manchester Law Centre (SMLC) and Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit (GMIAU) staged a protest outside the Manchester office of the Legal Services Commission (LSC) yesterday, Monday 15 November, calling on them to back down from a legal challenge launched by the SMLC and to restore their full funding.
