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Greater Manchester Police complaints
Less than one in eighteen Greater Manchester Police officers are disciplined for proven acts of misconduct, figures obtained by MULE suggest. During 2008 and 2009, Greater Manchester Police (GMP)...
View ArticleOpen letter from Unite Against Fascism to Bolton Council and Greater...
Since their emergence in the spring of 2009, there have been fourteen counter demonstrations against the EDL who have very close links with the BNP. In the recent period leading up to the peaceful and...
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How Independent is the Independent Police Complaints Commission?
Public confidence in the police took a knock after the death of Ian Tomlinson at the G20 protests in April. As videos of police violence spread like wildfire on YouTube, their actions were roundly...
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Are Greater Manchester Police institutionally racist?
Ten years after the watershed Macpherson Report, Patrick Smith finds Manchester Police have not done enough to challenge racism in their ranks. In the wake of the murder of black teenager Stephen...
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Friends of MULE panellist spotlight: Hayley Flynn
The fourth panellist Q&A before the Whose City? event takes place is with Hayley Flynn, the author of the Manchester-born architecture and social history blog, Skyliner. Skyliner’s keen following...
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Friends of MULE panellist spotlight: Cllr Kevin Peel
Ahead of the Whose City? Friends of MULE discussion at Black Lion pub tomorrow evening, our third panellist Q&A is with the Manchester City Centre ward Councillor Kevin Peel. Kevin was born and...
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Friends of MULE panellist spotlight: Chris Allen
The second interviewee in our series of Q&As with Thursday’s Friends of MULE Whose City? discussion panellists is Chris Allen, a lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University. In Chris’s role at...
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Friends of MULE panellist spotlight: Morag Rose
In the lead up to our panel discussion event at the Black Lion on Thursday 14 November we’re running a series of Q&As with the panellists so that you’ll be familiar with the speakers and can come...
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Who should investigate murder — the police, or a private security company?
Senior police officers were quick to play down the implications of plans exposed in the press last March to outsource whole swathes of policing tasks to the private sector, yet despite the assurances...
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‘A violent eruption of protest’: Reflections on the 1981 Moss Side ‘riots’...
The second part of Andy Bowman’s interview with Professor Gus John from the Moss Side Defence Committee about the Moss Side riots of July 1981. 1981 was the year in which British people of African...
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‘A violent eruption of protest’: Reflections on the 1981 Moss Side ‘riots’...
Andy Bowman interviews Professor Gus John from the Moss Side Defence Committee about the Moss Side riots of July 1981 1981 was the year in which British people of African descent protested against...
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GMP Chief joins anti-protest propaganda war
The Chief of Greater Manchester Police has weighed into the propaganda war against the student protests – and he has the local media in tow. GMP Chief Constable Peter Fahy Before the end of 2010,...
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Students complain of GMP violence
Participants of the 24 November student protest in Manchester have spoken out with allegations of police violence directed towards demonstrators following Greater Manchester Police’s (GMP) claim that...
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Police cornered by budget cuts means bad news for activists
The cutting of police funds and numbers is likely to make them target activists more surgically warns Kevin Blowe. Before the war on public services really begins with the coalition government’s...
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Greater Manchester Police complaints
Less than one in eighteen Greater Manchester Police officers are disciplined for proven acts of misconduct, figures obtained by MULE suggest. During 2008 and 2009, Greater Manchester Police (GMP)...
View ArticleOpen letter from Unite Against Fascism to Bolton Council and Greater...
Since their emergence in the spring of 2009, there have been fourteen counter demonstrations against the EDL who have very close links with the BNP. In the recent period leading up to the peaceful and...
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How Independent is the Independent Police Complaints Commission?
Public confidence in the police took a knock after the death of Ian Tomlinson at the G20 protests in April. As videos of police violence spread like wildfire on YouTube, their actions were roundly...
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Are Greater Manchester Police institutionally racist?
Ten years after the watershed Macpherson Report, Patrick Smith finds Manchester Police have not done enough to challenge racism in their ranks. In the wake of the murder of black teenager Stephen...
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