This week's Manchester SWP meeting
"Now is the time of monsters": Gramsci for the 21st century
📅Wed 22 Apr⏲️7pm
🏡Friends Meeting House, Mount St, M2 5NS
Plus: After Britain First's demoralisation in Manchester stopping Tommy Robinson, Marxism 2026 and more!
Protestors speak out in Parliament Square against new transphobic guidance backed by government
🏳️⚧️The guidance would deny trans+ people access to single-sex spaces.
https://t.co/cZ2F7TjPQP
Trade unionists rally to demand justice for Ameen Hadi
⭐Salford council bosses in Greater Manchester caved in to a far right smear campaign and suspended Ameen Hadi, the Unison union branch equalities officer
https://t.co/cekbxoHI1D
Organise now to fight oncoming climate catastrophe
⭐The impacts of climate breakdown are already being felt, including in Britain. Adapting to a new reality cannot wait. Workers will need to be organised to demand better adaptations for global warming.
https://t.co/GGxuTbGczR
Andy Burnham stands in Labour’s history of betraying migrants
⭐He backs the home secretary’s crackdown on migrants—just like he backed New Labour’s scapegoating in the 2000s. Socialist Worker looks at the rotten legacy
https://t.co/fuvBqzqXC3
Build resistance in workplaces as government ramps up attacks on trans+ rights
🏳️⚧️With the government backing guidelines that will further establish transphobia across public institutions, trade unionists need to organise in their workplaces to defy them.
https://t.co/0uHEHvlSE9
Trump’s indictment of Raul Castro ratchets up threat of US intervention in Cuba
⭐️The move comes as the US starves people on the Caribbean island with an oil blockade.
https://t.co/T8uqb4QviD
Settler violence a daily reality as Palestinians mark Nakba
⭐Socialist Worker speaks to a Palestinian living in the West Bank amidst daily settler violence.
https://t.co/9vSeOtCu6J
Meet the people at the sharp end of the housing crisis
🏘️Pat Meusel spoke to tenants who have been moved far from family & friends, people whose rents mean they can’t settle & to activists who know what needs to be done to solve Britain’s housing crisis
https://t.co/Q4EOkpSOJA
War against nature – Marxist theory and the ecological crisis
🌍Martin Empson spoke to Ian Angus about his most recent book, Metabolic Rifts—Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System. Ian is editor of the journal Climate & Capitalism & a long-time activist
https://t.co/Z2G5fYitaN
South Africa’s poorest face crackdown in new land grab law
⭐A proposed amendment to the Pie—Prevention of Illegal Eviction—Act will give the state and private property owners more powers to remove people who occupy land.
https://t.co/jJGCdqkAZ1
Cops storm peaceful protest workshop as state ramps up repression
⭐️Cops swooped in and arrested an activist on Saturday during the workshop organised by Take Back Power
https://t.co/pzXPdbqplh
The 1926 General Strike: Nine days of hope that shook the world
⭐️Authors Judy Cox and Charlie Kimber spoke to Frankie Murden about the General Strike of 1926—its militancy from below, its worldwide reach and its lessons for ‘Generation Palestine’ today
https://t.co/tZvhhXeTdN
Author Judy Cox invites you to our meeting this week: 100 years since the General Strike:
⭐️When Workers Were Ready to Dare⭐️
📅Wed 6 Feb, 7pm
📌Friends Meeting House, M2 5NS
https://t.co/z2XXdI0ksO
Media coverage of the campaign to defend trade union activist and antiracist campaigner Ameen Hadi. Link to petition in replies. https://t.co/RlLU6wJnps
Day of defiance—Strikes and protests erupt across the US
⭐️Across the United States, 3,500 actions show the power of mass resistance on May Day
https://t.co/9FhdJaoHDn