Indeed.
The Labour movement, as a result of what was protested about at Peter’s Field in 1819, started in Manchester.
Manchesterism/Manchester Liberlism/Manchester Capitalism, where Manchesterites promoted Free Trade as a way to a fairer and more equitable society, as well as pacifism, anti-slavery, freedom of press and the separation of church and state, started in Manchester.
The first trade unions bringing together workers of different trades into one organisation were founded as the Philanthropic Society and the General Union Of Trades, were founded in Manchester.
Marx and Engels came up with the ideas for Communism in Manchester as a result of seeing worker’s living conditions and spending time with workers and hearing their ideas for labour, citizenship and politics.
A statue and plaque of Abraham Lincoln was dedicated to the city because of the strikes by cotton mill workers in favour of the abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade.
All at a time when Manchester was at the apex of the world’s industrialisation.
What a city we live in! Important on a world stage in politics, business and social organisation.