As the Corbynistas besiege the New Labour diehards, as in other Labour-run councils, the main battleground is housing. Meanwhile, Salford is pursuing a genuinely radical path.
Is Manchester merely a playground for tired Madchester myths, property speculators and discredited Osbornomics? Or is there a chance for something more radical to emerge from the controversial Manchester International Festival?
The default white western view of Islam as a sealed world is wrong.
Andy Burnham has hit the ground running with an honest campaign around housing, although some of the ghosts of New Labour remain.
How the choice between city devolution or evolution is false and new regional constitutions risk being simply bolted on to the existing constitutional mess.
Examining one holder of real power in the northwest can give us clues about the true shape of the Northern Powerhouse.
We should be imagining the present, not the future, in our public spaces.
How does local identity really interact with mobile capital?
The new maps of Britain, and how we should understand them.
Welcome to the Northern Powerhouse collection of articles for openDemocracy, curated by Manchester Left Writers. Here, I want to outline what we aim to do across our pieces.
