In the summer of 1842 a great wave of strikes engulfed Lancashire and Yorkshire. The wave began in the Staffordshire coalfield in July when the miners went on strike for fewer hours and more pay. They also linked economic with political demands when a meeting passed a resolution stating that “nothing but the People’s Charter [...]
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The 1842 Strike, Part 1
Posted in Chartists, Workers' Rights, tagged Ancoats, Ashton-under-Lyne, Broughton, Central Manchester, Chorlton-on-Medlock, Deansgate, Dukinfield, Greater Manchester, Hulme, Hyde, Oldham, Oxford Road, Salford, Stalybridge, Stockport on October 23, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Peace and Antiwar activities in 1930s Manchester
Posted in Anti-Fascism, Anti-War, Co-operatives, Labour Party, Pacifism, Radical Art, Trade unions, tagged Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Clayton, Daisybank, Deansgate, Fallowfield, Gorton, Greater Manchester, Hulme, Lower Broughton, Manchester University, Oxford Road, Salford, Walkden on October 19, 2011 | 1 Comment »
In the decade before the outbreak of the Second World War there was extensive campaigning by a number of organisations in Manchester on the issues of peace and opposition to war. The experience of the slaughter of millions during First World War (“the war to end all wars”) had led many to believe that war [...]
Gus John and the Moss Side Defence Committee
Posted in Anti-Fascism, Anti-Racism, Benefits and Welfare Struggles, Black & Minority Ethnic Rights, Human Rights & Civil Liberties (UK), Police Brutality, Radical Education, Regeneration, tagged Hulme, Moss Side, Partington, Sale on October 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Gus John lived through the 1980s as a community activist and youth worker in Moss Side, having arrived in the UK from the West Indies in the 1960s. In the aftermath of the 1981 Moss Side riots, he was a key figure in the Moss Side Defence Committee, which assisted with legal support to the [...]
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