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Whitworth Gallery Manchester

Cloud Studies to re-open at Whitworth following crisis talks at gallery

By Conrad Bower | 18 August 2021News

Exhibition exploring human rights abuses will return with its ‘solidarity with Palestine’ statement intact, along with a prominently displayed space voicing ‘different perspectives’.

Coal powered power plant burning fossil fuels, smoke coming from the chimneys.

IPCC report: how to make global emissions peak and fall – and what’s stopping us

By Guest Writer | 15 August 2021Friends of The Meteor

The latest IPCC report is a damning indictment of our failure to tackle emissions leading to climate change. Matthew Paterson, of the University of Manchester, reports on the reasons for that failure, offers solutions and discusses the important role of the report in the upcoming COP26 negotiations in Glasgow.

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.

Sam Jenkins People's History Museum, Spanish Civil War

‘No Pasaran!’ Insights into the Spanish Civil War

By Guest Writer | 5 August 2021Friends of The Meteor

Sam Jenkins, the People’s History Museum’s collections officer, studied history and wrote her dissertation on anti-fascism, so she’s the perfect person to turn to find out more about the Spanish Civil War, which began in July 85 years ago.

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Working Class Movement Library re-opens with Thomas Paine exhibition

By Conrad Bower | 2 August 2021News

Thomas Paine, the radical revolutionary of the American War of Independence, is the subject of the Working Class Movement Libraries first post-lockdown exhibition.

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Councillor Support Network will promote a Green New Deal and fight climate breakdown

By Guest Writer | 9 July 2021Opinion

Greater Manchester Labour for a Green New Deal believes that the fight against climate breakdown is one in which mutual support is imperative — the GND Councillor Support Network is their contribution to that fight.

Neil McInroy

Neil McInroy: taking the fight for a fairer economy to America

By Conrad Bower | 19 June 2021Features

At the forefront of establishing the community wealth building model across the UK, Neil McInroy is taking on a fresh challenge. The Meteor speaks to him about his departure from the Centre of Local Economic Strategies to take up a new post in the United States.

Manchester

We have a collective right to Manchester — let’s proclaim it

By Sean Benstead | 3 June 2021Friends of The Meteor

Our report on public land privatisation published two weeks ago has sparked a political debate across our city on how we might better manage our public assets. Here we publish reflections from an organiser at Greater Manchester Labour for a Green New Deal.

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How Manchester’s bus drivers beat ‘fire and rehire’

By Alex King | 29 May 2021Friends of The Meteor

After 85 days on strike, Manchester’s bus drivers have forced corporate giant Go Ahead to abandon its plans to fire and rehire almost 500 workers – it’s a victory not only for them, but for workers across the country.

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The privatisation of Manchester

By Guest Writer | 26 May 2021Friends of The Meteor

As Manchester becomes increasingly gentrified and local communities are priced out, a new report on the city’s land use has found a pattern of privatisation and sell-offs – aided and abetted by its Labour council.

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