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Social movement banners lying flat on the floor

Greater Manchester social movements come together to demand change

By Anja Jungmayr | 9 July 2025News

Can a coalition of social movements provide a challenge to the Labour establishment? Only time will tell.

A group of three primary schoolchildren sat at a table reading books. There is a South Asian girl with long dark hair wearing a blue dress with white collar, and two white boys with blond hair wearing white short-sleeved shirts.

The charity targeting deprivation to improve children’s literacy and life chances in Greater Manchester

By Guest Writer | 7 July 2025Features

Schoolreaders is a national charity working in Greater Manchester to improve children’s reading ability. Read on to learn why their work is necessary.

Orange backdrop reading Greater Manchester Good Landlord Charter

Greater Manchester Combined Authority launches new scheme to create better landlords

By Anja Jungmayr | 3 July 2025News

Greater Manchester Combined Authority have officially launched their GM Good Landlord Charter (GLC), in a bid to increase the quality of rented accommodation across the city region.

A view of the Houses of Parliament on a bright, sunny day, taken from the opposite bank of the River Thames.

How did Greater Manchester MPs vote on key bodily autonomy bills in Parliament?

By Kacy Preen | 2 July 2025News

Last month (16-20 June 2025) MPs voted on abortion decriminalisation and assisted dying.

Colin Barker’s legacy lives on in Manchester at the 30th anniversary of the social movements conference he pioneered

By Anja Jungmayr | 23 June 2025News

Manchester has been home to the Alternative Futures and Popular Protest conference for 30 years. Originally organised by Colin Barker in the 90s, it continues to inform how activists and academics all over the world understand and create change through social movements.

Group of MCFC supporters holding up Trade Union Blues banner.

Manchester City supporters set up trade union group to fight for fans and workers

By Anja Jungmayr | 20 June 2025News

A group of Manchester City FC fans have set up a trade union-aligned group to fight for better treatment of football supporters and workers.

Andy Burnham Speaking

A living income campaign has been launched in Greater Manchester with mayor Andy Burnham’s support

By Anja Jungmayr | 9 June 2025News

A living income is a way to change the social security system for the better – and it could be pioneered in the UK for people in Greater Manchester.

Jenny is a white woman aged about 40, with shoulder-length blonde hair. She's wearing a navy-blue top with white polka dots and cap sleeves and is stood in front of some bookshelves.

Greater Manchester’s collective history: Jenny, People’s History Museum

By Alice Toomer-McAlpine | 30 May 2025Features

Jenny Mabbott is Head of Collections & Engagement at People’s History Museum, based in Manchester. She has worked on a number of the museum’s programmes highlighting key moments in UK democracy and social change, from LGBTQIA+ rights to migration, and commemorating moments in our radical history from the expansion of voting rights to the Peterloo Massacre.

Pro-trans banners held high against the backdrop of Manchester's Victorian architecture and a blossom tree.

Highlights from Supreme Court trans rights protests 18 & 19 April 2025 in Manchester

By Kacy Preen | 29 May 2025News

Our video provides glimpses of the emergency protests held on Friday 18 and Saturday 19 April 2025 in Manchester following the ruling of the UK Supreme Court on 16 April that the definition of ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010 refers to ‘biological sex’, meaning “the sex of a person at birth”.

Protestors in a life size cardboard sports car, sitting in front of Manchester Central Convention Complex

Insurance industry conference in Manchester draws protest against fossil fuels

By Anja Jungmayr | 20 May 2025News

Last week (14 May 2025) protestors from a coalition of environmental groups demonstrated against the annual conference of the British Insurance Brokers’ Association (BIBA).

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