Manchester in Pictures – Holi, by Simon Bray

11 Apr 2012
Author:  culture On 11 March, Platt Fields Park hosted a celebration of Holi, the Hindu festival of colours, a celebration of the coming of spring. We sent photographer Simon Bray... more

Review: Stickman EP

11 Apr 2012
Author:  culture The tenth release on local electronic music label Mindset Records saw the light of day on Monday 9 April. Ian Pennington has a listen. Location:  ... more

Film Review: Michael

11 Apr 2012
Author:  culture Markus Schleinzer’s debut film Michael depicts the dull and monotonous daily routine of an insurance broker, Michael, who has a 10-year-old boy locked in the base... more

UK Uncut's Great British Street Party

11 Apr 2012
UK Uncut's Great British Street Party...because the future's not what it used to be! Let’s go on a journey back in time to the year 1948… Britain was emerging from a World War and had a huge national debt. Much bigger than the one we face today. ... more

Spoof drops BP as Olympic sustainability partner

11 Apr 2012
This morning Campaign for a Sustainable OLympics masqueraded as the organisers of the Olympics; LOCOG, and issued a hoax press release and website dropping BP as sustainability partner. This was to highlight their unethical decision... more

A worker's critique of parecon

11 Apr 2012
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Bristol May Day! Get Involved

11 Apr 2012
Bristol AFed called a meeting for people who wanted to organise actions and events around international workers day - May 1st. Image:  Location:  ... more

Free Abdulhadi al-Khawaja

11 Apr 2012
Prominent Bahraini activist Abdulhadi Alkhawaja is now entering his 63rd day of hunger strike, he is serving a life sentence for involvement in anti-government protests last year. Index joins rights organisations, politicians and academics in ca... more

BP faces trial for oil spill

11 Apr 2012
Author:  dean Almost two years after the oil rig explosion off the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 workers and spewed nearly five million barrels of oil into the sea, British Petrol... more

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