Remembrance and Resistance
In August 1944, Auschwitz prisoners smuggled a camera into the gas chambers and took four shaky photographs of the horrors happening there. Their defiant act of documentation shaped our understanding of history forever.
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Paul Dennett
Paul Dennett is the Elected Salford City Mayor, the Greater Manchester portfolio lead on Planning and Infrastructure, Housing and Homelessness, and the Deputy Mayor of Greater Manchester.
How Salford Won Big for Carers
A pioneering campaign from Salford Unison and the city’s socialist council has won care workers a national pay rise worth £19 million – proving that strong organising can make dignity for care workers a reality.
How Revolutionary Salford Made Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels was born on this day in 1820, but he was forged as a socialist by Salford’s industrial revolution – two centuries later, city mayor Paul Dennett writes about Engels’ enduring legacy.
Why Socialist Salford Bucked the Trend
Amid disaster for Labour in elections across its former industrial heartlands, Salford’s socialist council gained ground – its mayor Paul Dennett writes for Tribune about the transformative policies which made it possible.
Sensible Socialism: The Salford Model
Like its near-neighbour Preston, Salford’s left-leaning council has put socialist policies into practice at a local level – and been rewarded with public housing, well-paying jobs, insourcing and a greener city.
The Northern Rebellion Is About More Than Money
Financial support is vital for millions this winter, but Greater Manchester’s standoff asks deeper questions about the legitimacy of a government which is bullying and lying its way through the Covid-19 crisis.
Saving Local Government
Nine years of Tory cuts have left local government in Britain on its knees with budgets decimated by 60%. Labour’s manifesto should commit to radical plans to rebuild our councils.
The World Turned Upside Down
Since Margaret Thatcher, around half of all public lands in the UK have been sold off. The next Labour government must stop this privatisation – and rebuild our commonwealth.