nijinsky's fetlocks said:Ducado said:It was not the most important event in the history of ManchesterMike N said:I think the renaming of Piccadilly station with Peterloo Station would be a fantastic idea. M.C.C. need to do something significant and long-lasting to mark the most important event in Manchester and one of the most important in the country's history.
In your opinion.
But then I suppose if you had been around in those days you would have banned the march anyway, then taken the credit for preventing a massacre.
Or possibly just told everyone gathered there that the march had run it's course, so you were locking it.
I don't think you can add Egypt into that. The army coup was because the Muslim Brotherhood was taking freedom away from the people but that is another thread.totallywired said:Lets not forget that what happened at Peterloo is still happening around the world. As recently as this week in Cairo. USA IN THE 60`S 70`S. South Africa , China, the list goes on. The common theme is that, whenever people want more freedom to live and better there lives, the state will repress them.
SWP's back said:The canal more important to the city than the cotton trade and mills?
Madness.
Prestwich_Blue said:Although Peterloo was widely reported by the press at the time, it changed nothing. In fact repression got worse as a result.
Ducado said:nijinsky's fetlocks said:Ducado said:It was not the most important event in the history of Manchester
In your opinion.
But then I suppose if you had been around in those days you would have banned the march anyway, then taken the credit for preventing a massacre.
Or possibly just told everyone gathered there that the march had run it's course, so you were locking it.
Quite funny for you, I guess if you would have been around you would not have had the bottle to attend
blueish swede said:the publication of “Conditions of the working class in England”, which led to the meeting between Marx and Engels.
Rascal said:blueish swede said:the publication of “Conditions of the working class in England”, which led to the meeting between Marx and Engels.
Probably right up there that in terms of influence in the world.
I dont think Manchester as a City has a defining moment, it is a defining City. For a smallish City our influence on the world has been immense and its something im really proud of.
The one thing that im most proud of though is the statue of Abraham Lincoln in our City. Our forefathers undertook hardship to help Lincolns goal of emancipation whilst the scousers ran ships to help the Confederacy.
Manchester is a City built on graft, honesty, innovation, morals and political idealism whilst that city down the road was built on the profits of slavery