All the evidence shows voters want Labour to shift to the left — but initial signs from Andy Burnham are worrying on that front, cautions DIANE ABBOTT
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Relearning Manchester’s black history
US abolitionist, civil-rights hero and one-time Manchester resident Frederick Douglass deserves commemoration in the city alongside Lincoln, writes DAVID WHITHAM
African-American journalist Ida B Wells, who toured much of north-west England (left), abolitionist Liberal MP Richard Cobden (centre) and (right) emancipation activist Frederick Douglass
ANDY McDONALD MP says Labour must show it is capable of delivering real improvements in people’s lives — bold action is required
ANGUS REID and ANDREW JOHNSTONE report on an initiative that we must take this summer
ALLISON FEWTRELL on what Plaid Cymru's historic election victory means for the communities being failed by Wales’s housing crisis, and four things the new government can do right now
France Insoumise MP JEROME LEGAVRE speaks to Christophe Domec on building the Europe-wide peace movement that came together in the International Conference Against War last weekend
At last weekend’s International Conference Against War, LINDA PENTZ GUNTER talks to the Palestinian physician and politician about the struggles ahead to achieve a truly free Palestine
IT IS only down to the doggedness of the campaign to commemorate the Peterloo Massacre that this shorthand for violent state suppression has become so widely recognised.
I’ve lived most of my life in Manchester and yet was in my late teens before I ever heard the term, and can say from experience that I’m far from being the only one.
We have the recent Emmeline Pankhurst statue in St Peter’s Square, across the tramlines from the new Peterloo memorial.
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