In the wake of yesterday’s mass student protest against Higher Education cuts, students today occupied the administration building of the University of Manchester.
Oldham East MP and shadow immigration minister Phil Woolas was ejected from parliament today after a court ruled that he had broken election laws by falsely claiming Muslim extremists were supporting the campaign of his Liberal Democrat rival.
Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital could lose up to a third of its funding as part of a nationwide cut to children’s hospitals, Department of Health proposals have revealed.
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.
Protesters claiming that Vodafone owes the public £6bn in unpaid taxes shut down the phone company’s store in Manchester City Centre on Saturday as part of a nationwide day of action, during which shops were also closed in central London, Brighton, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hastings, Liverpool, Oxford and York.
The University of Manchester Students Union (UMSU) has passed a motion to boycott the Royal Bank of Scotland. The motion, passed on 20 October, included a resolution to “cease all relationships with the Royal Bank of Scotland” for being in breach of the Union’s ethical policy. The policy states the Union shall “not operate in […]
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”.
