• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer
The Meteor

The Meteor

Manchesters Independent Media

  • About us
  • Contribute
  • Contact us
  • Log In
  • News
  • Features
  • Opinion
  • Culture
  • Friends of The Meteor
  • Topics
    • Friends of The Meteor
    • Raising the Roof on Housing
    • Environment
    • Homelessness
    • Development
    • Housing
    • Health and Social Care
    • Local Economic Strategy
    • Education
    • Supported Content
    • Coronavirus
  • Join The Meteor Co-op
  • Log In

migrants

A man wearing dark clothing with a white hood stands on a stage in front of the Manchester Central Library. In one raised hand he holds what looks like a vessel containing red liquid, in the other is a large Union flag on a stick. In the foreground are supporters, some with Union and English flags, and police officers.

Anti-fascists call for Manchester City Council to ban racist rallies

By David Toomer | 7 August 2025News

Anti-fascist campaigners are launching a petition aimed at preventing Manchester City Council from allowing their land to be used for racist gatherings.

Pankhurst Centre garden

Pankhurst Centre: New exhibition celebrates the lives of Manchester’s radical feminist family

By Alexandria Slater | 10 August 2021Culture

New exhibition to celebrate the lives of the Pankhurst family opens to the public on the 29 August, at The Pankhurst Centre.

Alexandria Slater takes a preview tour round the exhibition and is blown away by its revelations.

Big Breakfast gathering

The Big Breakfast launches cookbook Crowdfunder to feed destitute migrants

By Judith Suckling | 7 January 2021News

Determined to not let the pandemic prevent them helping struggling migrants the Big Breakfast are crowd funding for a cookbook to help feed them.

We are The Meteor.

The Meteor is a not-for-profit, independent media co-operative – an alternative, radical, community-based publication for the people of Manchester. We tell stories that are neglected in the mainstream, investigate and challenge local power structures and explore important issues, from the everyday to the earth-shattering.

More about us

We’re offering an alternative.

Direct to your inbox.

We’re amplifying the voices, issues and ideas that are marginalised, under-represented or ignored by the mainstream. Sign up to our mailing list to get our monthly round ups.

Footer

Be the media in Manchester

Become a Meteor Community Member and help us create a democratic media for the 21st century Manchester.

Become a member

Have you got a story?

Do you have information on an important story that is not getting the airing it deserves?

Contact us

Quick Links

  • Contribute
  • Write for Us
  • Advertise with us
  • Supported Content
  • Complaints

For Members

  • Community Members Area
  • Meteor Events

Follow us

  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Connections

Co op logo
Icann Logo
Independent Media Association logo
IMPRESS logo
  • Privacy Policy
  • Co-operative UK Membership Certificate

Copyright © 2026 | The Meteor