HENRY FOWLER, assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU), reports on Day 2 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at the Workers’ Retreat, Quorn Grange Hotel
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Why Manchester activists are taking to the rooftops in Oldham to stop arms sales to Israel
Manchester Palestine Action (MPA) activists occupy the roof of arms manufacturer Elbit’s Ferranti factory in Waterhead, Oldham
Assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions HENRY FOWLER reports on day 1 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at Quorn Grange Hotel
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FOR Ade Mormech the political is personal. He, alongside other Manchester Palestine Action (MPA) activists, recently occupied the roof of Elbit’s Ferranti factory in Waterhead, Oldham, for three days.
“We think that arms companies like Elbit Ferranti should stop operating when it is clear their weapons are being developed through the mass murder of Palestinians in Gaza and the rest of Palestine. The crimes must stop and so must UK-based companies that are profiting from them.”
Mormech was a teacher at a school in Gaza for two years. “I saw many children die in the hospitals from the kinds of weapons produced here during the ‘Pillar of Cloud’ attacks in 2012.
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