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Challenge Anarchy
Challenge Anarchy was a day of protests in Manchester city centre on Mayday 2000. Organised by activists from environmentalist, anarchist and other direct action-orientated communities, it was intended...
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Riotous Assembly – 1998-2001?
In the late 1990s open meetings called Riotous Assembly took place in the Yard Theatre in Homes for Change, a housing co-operative in Hulme, South Manchester. The meetings were intended to be spaces...
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Okasional Cafes
During the late 1990s and early 2000s, anarchists and environmental activists in Manchester organised a series of squatted cafe-social centres around the city, under the name Okasional Cafe. This...
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Free Trade Hall Meeting 13 October 1905: the beginning of the militant...
The Women’s Social and Political Union was formed by women members of the Independent Labour Party on 10 October 1903 to campaign for women’s suffrage. Two years later the organisation hit the...
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Northerners Doing It Down South! Manchester at J18
An article from Do or Die Issue 8. In the paper edition, this article appears on page(s) 13-17. As well as recording the involving of Manchester activists in the J18 anti-capitalist activities in...
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The Luddites’ War on Industry: a story of machine smashing and spies
An article from Do or Die Issue 6. In the paper edition, this article appears on page(s) 65-71. ‘Chant no more your old rhymes about bold Robin Hood, His feats I but little admire, I will sing the...
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The Suffragette Attack on Manchester Art Gallery, April 1913
On 3rd April 1913 three suffragettes – Annie Briggs, Evelyn Manesta and Lillian Forrester – attacked a number of pictures in the Manchester Art Gallery as part of the militant campaign for votes for...
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