A57(M) - The Road To Anarchy

The ‘Mini’ RTS announced in Manchester for 30th April, became a major success with a motorway blocked, the city centre gridlocked and 6 hours of partying despite heavy police presence including helicopters, CS gas attacks and cops in riot gear.

The plan was to block a side-street near the university, to protest against their transport policies. But the police, expecting the much larger Oxford Road to be taken, sent in the riot squad A couple of cop units surged into the crowd, batonning and stamping on people More people, including many student bystanders, moved in to protect the sound system which was forced back out onto Oxford Road.

Now mobile, the party carried on. It moved towards the inner city motorway A57(M) where the party continued for several hours, blocking the traffic over most of South Manchester on Bank Holiday Friday afternoon. 10 arrests were made, and 10 cops were injured.