PROTEST: Campaigners will lobby Manchester Council over its use of disgraced security firm G4S on Wednesday.
G4S has been spotlighted for involvement in Israel’s prison system and Britain’s detention and deportation of asylum-seekers.
The Labour-controlled council has refused to accept a petition against its use of G4S to provide security at public buildings and events.
Manchester Stop G4S plans to lobby the council’s executive from 8.30am to 10am in Albert Square.

DEATH: Legendary Cream bass guitar player Jack Bruce died from suspected liver disease at the weekend aged 71.
He was instrumental in reforming the 1960s rock band to play benefit gigs in London during the height of the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders work-in against the Heath government in the early ’70s.
The gigs helped build solidarity and raise money for workers’ families.

COMEDY: Rob Newman is to play at the New Bradford Playhouse next weekend to support Yorkshire Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and destitute asylum-seekers.
His show A New Theory of Evolution comes to Bradford on November 1.
“Some asylum-seekers have to walk from Huddersfield to Leeds to sign at the Home Office because they are given no money to get there and meanwhile we’re spending £3.6 million a day on nuclear weapons,” Mr Newman said.

HISTORY: An event to examine the culture of racism takes place today at the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool.
The Arts and Culture of Racism: From Civil Rights to Censorship is part of the annual Black History Month.
The event at 5.30pm at the museum at Albert Dock is backed by public-sector union PCS, Merseyside Coalition Against Racism and Fascism and Black Activists Rising Against Cuts.