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Finkelstein on Palestine
Mon 21st January, 7.30pm
Academy 2, Students’ Union,
Oxford Road, Manchester.
Tickets available from the Students’ Union Ticket Office, 10am-3pm Mon-Fri.
UMSU is proud to host the noted academic and political scientist, Dr Norman Finkelstein. Dr Finkelstein is the author of the bestselling books “The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering” and “Beyond Chutzpah: On the […]
Posted: January 11th, 2008 under Activist Diary.
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Cultures of Resistance Gig
Cultures of Resistance Gig
hosted by Manchester Socialist Worker Students Society
Mon 12th November
Club Academy, University of Manchester Students’ Union
with Gilad Atzmon and the Orient House Ensemble launching their new album, Refuge
and The Tribunes
Tickets £10, (£6 students’ and strikers). Call 07825158944.
Posted: November 11th, 2007 under Activist Diary.
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October 1917: 90th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution
Thursday 1st November
7.30PM
Friends Meeting House, Mount Street, Manchester (behind the round library).
Hosted by Manchester District Socialist Workers Party, with John Rees.
Student meet-up: UMSU steps 6.30pm.
People seized control of their destinies in Russiain 1917, lighting a beacon of hope against war and exploitation. A revolutionary mass movement rose up against the horrors of the First World […]
Posted: October 31st, 2007 under Activist Diary.
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Solidarity with Palestine Week, 5th-11th November
Last year our students’ union voted to support the right to education for Palestinians and to twin with An-Najah University in the West Bank city of Nablus. Palestinian education has been severely hindered by blanket curfews, roadblocks, the Apartheid Wall and frequent assassinations and arrests of students and teachers. The cumulative effects of these measures […]
Posted: October 30th, 2007 under Activist Diary.
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Troops Out! Tour with Mark Steel and Ben Griffin
Thursday 1st November, 1pm
Council Chambers, Top Floor of the Students’ Union.
The occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan have caused great suffering for the people of those two countries. In Iraq, 655,000 civilians have died and 4 million have fled their homes. In Afghanistan, NATO regularly bombs civilian areas in their fight against a resurgent Taliban. The […]
Posted: October 30th, 2007 under Activist Diary.
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