WITHIN days of worries being expressed by Simon Danczuk, MP for Rochdale, about the delays in Rochdale town council publishing a report int...

GEORGE Tapp, (pictured) a member of  Unite the Union,  and veteran anti-blacklist campaigner, h...

Friday 17th May - London:   Demonstrate to Vince Cable blacklisting still exists 8am Business Innovation & Skills, 1 Victoria Stre...

THE BIRTHDAY PARTY By Harold Pinter Directed by Blanche McIntyre Designed by Dick Bird The Royal Exchange Theatre St Ann’s Sq...

LAST night, 64-year-old UNITE member, and leading blacklist campaigner, George Tapp (who recently moved a motion supporting Northern Voices...

The Manchester and Petersburg Friendship Society have organised a showing of the classic film '...

SINCE the suicide of the English lady in Solihull concerned about her 'bedroom tax', reported by Blanco on this Blog last Sunday, ...

Man Abused by Cyril Smith says Manchester police 'have let the victims down' JUST as tomorrow's Rochdale Observer carries a...

THREE years ago members of the Spanish ( 'anarcho-syndicalist' ) CGT trade union at Iberia in Madrid contacted Northern Voices , an...

BRH Mob, Two events you might like? The Great Housing Rip Off Monday 13th May 8.00pm The Cube, Dove Street, Bristol. Entry £3/£4...

Tuesday 14th May - 11am - Birmingham Dianne Hughes - Deputy Director of Human Resources at The Big Lottery Fund - is listed as the main ...

Amid all the brouhaha about Sir Alex Ferguson's retirement and Michael Gove's call for a referendum on Britain's continuing mem...

IN a report into themselves the West Yorkshire Police said that they found 'no evidence' that Jimmy Savile was protected from arre...

FROM Jerry Hicks:  Please forward to all your contacts / Facebook / Blogs / Twitter /all other stuff. Contact me about what's happening...

Athough many of the early novels of the English writer  Evelyn Waugh, are  exquisitely funny, many people have also found them rude ...

THERE hasn't been an issue of the monthly Freedom (the anarchist paper) since February.  It is likely that the March, April and May is...

'Lancashire's Via Appia Antica' NOT only the Chartists visited Blackstone Edge but local legend has it that the Romans built...

LAST Sunday, a gathering took place on Blackstone Edge in Littleborough to commemorate the Chartist revival of 1846, when 30,000 Chartists ...

Blacklist Flashmob 5pm Wed 8th May - TONITE Crossrail site 100 Oxford Street meet: Tottenham Court Rd tube We have got ...

A month ago I wrote to you to ask for your support for striking dock workers in Hong Kong. Over 8,500 of you responded to the call and t...

WHEN in the Autumn of 2001 the distinguished old Lancashire anarchist and former international se...

SIR Alex Ferguson is to retire as Manchester United's manager at the end of this season after 27 years in the job that some say has mad...

PCS national programme of action in defence of jobs, pay and conditions. Come and support the one hour walkouts this week in Manchester: ...

Dear all - join their picket lines tomorrow if you can, pickets from 6am til 4pm... Manchester airport cleaners to take 24-hour strike tom...

Eric Hobsbawm - 'Neil Kinnock's favourite marxist' divided opinion like  no other historian.    Buckets of praise and criticism...

 'Waiting' by Newcastle artist Charles Napier Hemy - a painter best known for his marine paintings, with two of his works in the...

  MEETING:   ‘EVERYWHERE AND NOWHERE' : General Strikes, Solidarity Strikes and Industrial Solidarity “The general strike is a revol...

ON 11 May the Octagon Theatre, Bolton  hosts a performance and discussion of Dario Fo's 1980s political play that has given its title t...

BARBARA Keeley, MP for Worsley and Eccles South, opened a new food bank yesterday at Cleggs Lane Methodist Church, in Little Hulton, Salfor...

Hi folks, hope you can come to the  ALLIANCE OF RADICAL BOOKSELLERS RADICAL BOOKFAIR 2013 Saturday May 11th 10am-5pm. Conway Hall, Red Lion...

YESTERDAY, Patrick McLoughlin, the Transport Secretary, said Ukip candidates were being put under the same scrutiny as those from other par...

'Sun Over River Irwell' by Harold Riley WHAT could be more appropriate than Salford Museum and Art Gallery showing a retrospec...

YESTERDAY saw a small demonstration at mid-day outside Ashton-under-Lyne Town Hall in Tameside, called by the PCS union against a pilot sch...

LAST Saturday saw hundreds march to RAF Waddington against the UK government's use of Drones in Afghanistan, now controlled from the ...

SATURDAY 4th May Assemble: Bexley Square, Salford 10am March from Bexley Square at ~11am Rally: Friends Meeting House, Manchester 1...

YESTERDAY Radio Four's Food Program broadcast Charles Campion's report from Normandy in France on the World Black Pudding Champions...

POST Office staff in the country’s network of 373 Crown Post Offices will take a third round of strike action on Monday April 29 in a disp...