Liverpool Newswire Archive

05-03-2008 17:46

Vauxhall Staff Wildcat In Ellesmere Port...Again!

Around five hundred staff at the Vauxhall plant in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, are reported to have walked out yesterday, over rumours that the company plan to axe 460 jobs. Read more >>

03-03-2008 17:00 | 1 addition | 1 comment

Exposed: company that will expand Manchester detention centre

Manchester No Borders held a noise protest today to expose the construction company that will carry out the planned expansion of the immigration detention centre at Manchester Airport. Carillion plc have been awarded contracts to carry out the work. Read more >>

01-03-2008 19:14

Unions prepare to sell out jobs fight at Rolls-Royce

At the beginning of this year, aircraft engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce announced plans to axe 2,300 highly skilled jobs, about 6 percent of its 39,500 global workforce. The company is the world’s second largest manufacturer of jet engines after the American giant General Electric, with a 36 percent share of the market. Most of the job losses are expected to hit the company’s 23,000-strong UK workforce and affect white-collar workers based at its main site in Derby. Read more >>

01-03-2008 17:31

Report on Sefton Park 24th February 2008

On a visit to Sefton Park looking for a location (amongst others being considered) for Merseyside CND's 2008 Peace and Ecology Festival tree felling was very obvious, logs still left around and saw dust. Read more >>

27-02-2008 18:51 | 1 addition | 30 comments

Queer Trans Block on march this Saturday

Call out for show of trans queer solidarity!

All genders, all sexualities, all ages, all races and all backgrounds together –

Reclaiming the night, reclaiming our rights – and the streets!
Read more >>

26-02-2008 19:32

Manchester Crtitical Mass and After Party This Friday

Critical Mass Bicycle Ride
Friday 29th February
6pm Central Library M1
Bike ride around the city to celebrate the bicycle Read more >>

26-02-2008 19:08 | 2 comments

Cops become animal rights activists

'the police have asked the restaurateurs to take the ingredients off the menu' Read more >>

26-02-2008 13:54 | 9 comments

JSA Rights

Here follows a brief analysis of statistics produced by DWP on sanctions imposed on JSA claimants. These confirm what most people already know- that if you appeal to the independent tribunal you will most probably win. And if everybody appeals the sanctions system will collapse. Read more >>

26-02-2008 12:10 | 1 comment

Manchester Space Invaders Landing April

11th & 12th April have been named as ‘international days of action on autonomous
spaces’. There will be things happening in Europe including squatted
buildings, parties, Reclaim the Streets, land occupations and more!
We have started an organising group to kick start ideas for action in Manchester. From reclaiming the streets to guerilla gardening..from a ceilidh to a
vegan cafe...free party to permaculture space... Read more >>

26-02-2008 01:27

Lismullen Woods near the Hill of Tara under threat from M3 Motorway

The Lismullen Woods near the Hill of Tara in Ireland are now under threat from the M3 Motorway, which has now expanded to cover the woods and unexcavated archaeological structures there. Read more >>

24-02-2008 17:14

Hands Off Iraqi Oil - Liverpool Picket

Activists from the Liverpool Social Forum picketed the Shell garage on Aigburth Road yesterday, as part of Hands Off Iraqi Oil's day of action. Read more >>

21-02-2008 15:12

Council Leader Bradley Finds 'Love' On The Rates

City council leader Warren Bradley has admitted that council taxpayers footed the bill for two free tickets he got to see Cirque du Soleil's Beatles 'Love' show in Las Vegas. Read more >>

19-02-2008 19:35

Interview With A Hacktivist

I recently conducted an interview with 'Shai', Liverpool's resident hactivist. He's organising a hactivism evening at the city's social centre, Next To Nowhere, on Wednesday 5th March. I talked to him about his plans for the event, his ideas for improving activists' use of technology, and asked what's so damned exciting about all those zeroes and ones anyway... Read more >>

19-02-2008 18:22 | 9 comments

Che Guevara’s deputy speaks in Liverpool and Manchester

This Saturday, Liverpool will host a meeting at which Che Guevara’s closest comrade from Cuba, Orlando Borrego, will speak. On Sunday it will be Manchester’s turn. The events are part of a speaking tour of Britain organised by the campaign group Rock Around the Blockade. The tour comes at a crucial time for Cuban socialism as the people give their decisive and defiant answer to the oft-asked question ‘what happens when Fidel goes?’ Read more >>

18-02-2008 11:13 | 1 addition | 4 comments

Cuban speaking tour this week!

From Saturday 23rd February three Cuban revolutionaries will begin the North West leg of a national speaking tour of Britain entitled 'Cuba: socialism into the 21st century', organised by Rock around the Blockade. Read more >>

15-02-2008 20:10

Beatles invitation to Israel’s 60th just a PR stunt

It’s the biggest load of nonsense I have ever heard. they [the Beatles] are not going to get together just because it is Israel’s 60th….let’s get real. Read more >>

15-02-2008 17:15

Aldermaston 50th Anniversary demonstration

Merseyside CND have organised a coach for this important protest against
Britain's nuclear weaponary. Read more >>

13-02-2008 18:55 | 1 addition | 4 comments

Women To Widdecombe: "Get Your Rosaries Off Our Ovaries"

A group of about sixty protesters - three quarters of whom were female - showed up at the Liner Hotel in Liverpool City Centre last night, to show their anger at Ann Widdecombe's anti-abortion 'Passion For Life' tour. Read more >>

13-02-2008 13:30 | 1 addition

The Power of Community: How Cuba survived peak oil

Film screening: Thursday 21 Feb, 7pm

Aigburth Cricket Club, Southwood Rd (beside St Michael's station) Read more >>

12-02-2008 22:45 | 1 comment

Public Meeting: Iran, Imperialism and Solidarity

ALL WELCOME! ALL WELCOME! ALL WELCOME! ALL WELCOME! Read more >>