Manchester SWP

Manchester branch of the Socialist Workers Party, fighting oppression & exploitation. Solidarity. @socialistworker Insta: swpmanchester

[Manchester SWP @mcrSWP]

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!

[Socialist Worker @socialistworker]

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

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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

[Socialist Worker @socialistworker]

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

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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

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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

[Socialist Worker @socialistworker]

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

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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

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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

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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

[Manchester Stand Up To Racism @Manchester_SUTR]

‘The people responsible for hate are those that support Trump, Netanyahu and the genocide in Palestine’ #FreePalestine #NoRacismNoFascism @AntiRacismDay

[Socialist Worker @socialistworker]

Salvaging fashion as a form of resistance
⭐Capitalism has a remarkable skill for absorbing what threatens it
https://t.co/WaTGK2kKH6

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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

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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

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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

[Manchester SWP @mcrSWP]

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

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Sign the petition here https://t.co/6JLZzk2nSL

[Manchester SWP @mcrSWP]

Media coverage of the campaign to defend trade union activist and antiracist campaigner Ameen Hadi. Link to petition in replies. https://t.co/RlLU6wJnps

[Socialist Worker @socialistworker]

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

[Bookmarks Bookshop @Bookmarks_books]

May Day! Come and discuss the 1926 General Strike - and its legacy 100 years on. Book a place here: https://t.co/xmeYZQh02T

[Stand Up To Racism @AntiRacismDay]

This Sunday 3 May…

Britain wide day of action to #StopReform

Let’s get the vote out against Nigel Farage & his far right party.