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IT’S 6am on New Year’s Eve morning in Longsight, Manchester, and three Amicus union members are stoking the picket brazier at the Alstom rail maintenance depot.

AROUND 130 Amicus and RMT union members at the Alstom Manchester Traincare depot in Longsight, Manchester, struck again on Friday of last week.

WYTHENSHAWE HOSPITAL in Manchester saw a moving scene last week when Rose Gentle met Iraqi orphan Aysha Saleem.

Peterloo, a demonstration for the vote and democratic rights which took place at St Peter’s Field Manchester on Monday 16 August 1819, is a landmark event in British working class history.

OVER 100 PCS civil service workers’ union activists attended the conference of the Left Unity group last Saturday in Manchester.

OVER 30 pickets gathered at the Alstom Manchester Traincare train maintenance depot for the start of a 50-hour strike on Sunday.

Striking workers at Boddington’s brewery in Manchester went back to work on Friday of last week after their latest four days of strike action.

WORKERS FROM the threatened Boddingtons brewery in Manchester, started a four-day strike on Monday in the latest phase of their campaign against closure.

Students AT Manchester University achieved a landmark victory over fascism and racism on Wednesday 17 November.

Brewery workers at Boddington’s in Manchester struck last week for three days.

FORTY WORKERS at Boddingtons brewery in Manchester struck for 48 hours this week against brewing giant InBev, which wants to close the 227 year old site.

HEALTH WORKERS in the Unison union met last week to decide whether to recommend Agenda for Change—the government’s sweeping reorganisation of NHS pay and conditions—in their ballot which starts this week. Karen Reissmann, a member of Manchester Community and Mental Health branch, was one of those calling for a "no" vote. She spoke to Socialist Worker about the conference.