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Greater Manchester Anticapitalists are a newly formed group of activists who aim to develop a working relationship through debate, discussion and joint action against the capitalist system, which we believe is launching the biggest attack on the living and working conditions of ordinary people in generations. We are members of different organisations and none, and take a strong stance in favour of unity and against sectarianism.
09/01/2014
What are the lessons from the Miners' Strike 30 years on? - AntiCapitalists Archived government papers from 1984, many personally annotated by Margaret Thatcher, have been released recently under the ‘thirty-year rule’, which allows some state secrets to be made public when the authorities deem it safe to do so. Unsurprisingly, they prove that the Prime Minister, and the he...
09/01/2014
Southwark Fire Station shut down by Boris - AntiCapitalists As the Southwark Fire Station started its last day opened, locals and supporters assembled this morning in solidarity with the firefighter's struggle, Joana Ramiro reports.
Uni of Manchester occupied after demo
Today at 4:30 students and staff from MMU will be meeting at Sidney Street Cafe to discuss how to organise for the next Higher Education pay strike on December 3rd. Hope to see some of you there - JD
07/11/2013
Thousands of Greater Manchester families lose their homes in repossession crisis The M.E.N. reveal how an incredible 10,000 home repossession orders were granted against Greater Manchester residents last year amid spiralling personal debt
29/10/2013
Open Letter to Members of the Anti Capitalist Initiative View Comments Dear Comrades, We thought it would be useful to write to you following our politics conference at which we passed a motion calling for “immediate discussions with the ACI with a view to forming a new united organisation”, explaining...
29/10/2013
In the run up to Thursday's strike here's an article by Mark Fisher that originally appeared in issue 2 of The Exchange
Capitalist Realism and Education - AntiCapitalists Mark Fisher explains how capitalist ideology affects education
Tonight from 8pm at Hardy's Well it's the monthly Autonomous Drinkers booze up hosted by Manchester's best/worst named left group Plan C. Come along to meet other left wingers from across Manchester, talk politics, exchange literature and settle ideological scores over a game of pool.
Solidarity to all the teachers out on strike today. F**k Gove.
27/09/2013
Issue 2 of The Exchange magazine (right) that has been produced co-operatively between some of us, the IS Network and Socialist Resistance
27/09/2013
Conservatives get free bus, train and tram travel in Manchester during party conference The deal has been struck between transport bosses at ‘System One’ – the partly public-funded company which runs Greater Manchester’s travel card system – and Conservative party bosses.