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HUNDREDS of Mancunians and Lancastrians held an “illegal picnic” at the steps of the new Peterloo Massacre memorial on Saturday.
Scores of demonstrators marching from towns and cities across Lancashire and Greater Manchester massed at the site of the 1819 massacre in which 18 protesters demanding the vote were murdered.
The latter-day protesters had a picnic during which people were encouraged to take part in an open-microphone session.
Inspired by a hit TV show, KEITH FLETT takes a look at the murky history of undercover class war
It’s not just the Starmer regime: the workers of Britain have always faced legal affronts on their right to assemble and dissent, and the Labour Party especially has meddled with our freedoms from its earliest days, writes KEITH FLETT
The government cracking down on something it can’t comprehend and doesn’t want to engage with is a repeating pattern of history, says KEITH FLETT
MOLLIE BROWN reports on this year’s festival in honour of the ‘seven men of Jarrow’ deported to Australia for union activity 193 years ago