With a week to go before the next hearing in the ongoing legal challenge to restore funding to South Manchester Law Centre, campaign organisers have called for people to join them in front of the court next Monday, 8 November, to continue the show of community solidarity.

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With the long awaited Comprehensive Spending Review now upon us, the Manchester Trades Union Council (TUC) has organised a series of protests in opposition to cuts that it describes as “the biggest attack on working class living standards in living memory”.

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Manchester Incapacity Benefit claimants are set to undergo invasive ‘fitness to work’ tests as part of a new pilot scheme. The scheme comes as part of the recently imposed Welfare Reform Bill which seeks to goad people into work by imposing benefit sanctions.

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