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29 February 2012
Liverpool Hope University Socialist Students: The Arab Spring one year on
Meet at "Fresh Hope" cafe, Hope Park Campus, Hope University, Liverpool, L16 9JD. Info/directions: 07767 718 189, emzeh-starr@hotmail.com, writes Wednesday 29th February 2012.
27 February 2012
Wirral & Chester Socialist Party: Liverpool, a city that dared to fight
In the 1980s the Labour council in Liverpool was led by Militant (forerunner of the Socialist Party), writes Call Alec 07411362448 for more details.
1 February 2012
Are the Greens a real alternative?
Green leader Caroline Lucas MP and her party are attempting to build on the unions' rift with Labour to encourage trade union support and funding to break from the Labour Party and support them instead
23 January 2012
Tony Mulhearn replies to diatribe of council leader Joe Anderson against the 'Liverpool 47'
"There are so many falsehoods and distortions in Joe Anderson's latest intemperate attack on me and the 47 (Echo 16/1/12) that I can only deal with one or two" writes Tony Mulhearn
Liverpool struggle in the 1980s. pic: Philip Gordon
11 January 2012
Heseltine continued Liverpool's decline
Former Liverpool councillor and then-District Labour Party president Tony Mulhearn shows how it was a Labour council, led by supporters of Militant (the forerunner of the Socialist Party), that saved the city from Tory decay.
11 January 2012
4 January 2012
Liverpool's managed decline: Tarzan to the rescue?
In a breathtaking example of Tory mendacity former 'Minister for Merseyside' Michael Heseltine claims he rescued Liverpool from 'managed decline', writes Tony Mulhearn, Former Liverpool councillor.
14 December 2011
Action by construction workers escalates in the 17th week of protests
The 'Dirty 7' construction companies have finally been dragged kicking and screaming to the negotiating table by months of rank & file protest action. Read on for reports of protests on 14 December and the latest Socialist Party leaflet
7 December 2011
"The genie is out of the bottle"
Coming straight from the fantastic 30 November public sector strike demo, the mood at the packed-out London National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) meeting was sky high after such a historic day, writes Paula Mitchell, London Socialist Party.
16 November 2011
Weekly construction protests continue as Unite ballot begins
Electricians gathered at Farringdon station in London this morning in the struggle to defend the JIB agreement [NB: reports from Liverpool and West Burton added on 17.11.11; Redcar on 18.11.11]
2 November 2011
Liverpool council 'does its best' for the bankers
In rejecting the option to stand up and fight for Liverpool's hard-pressed working families, council leader Joe Anderson, at Liverpool council's Question Time public consultation on 27 October, claimed that he was doing his best for the people of the city, writes Tony Mulhearn.
2 November 2011
1985 school strike exhibit shows how young people can organise to fight back
The school student strikes of 1985 showed how young people are able to organise and fight back when their futures are under attack, writes John Cosgrove, Liverpool Youth Fight for Jobs.
31 October 2011
Liverpool city council and its 'consultation'
A meeting dubbed as Liverpool city council's 'Question Time' was held at Liverpool town hall on 27 October. On the same day a sham 'consultation' on cuts also took place in Exeter...
11 October 2011
Near to revolution? - Liverpool 1911
On Sunday 8 October around 120 people attended: 'Near To Revolution? The 1911 Liverpool general transport strike centenary conference'
7 October 2011
The Labour Party conference in Liverpool was used as an opportunity by Kinnock and others to attack the Liverpool '47' councillors who improved the lives of thousands of Liverpudlians in 1983-87.
5 October 2011
Construction workers' protests won't go away!
Electricians took the fight to defend their wages and conditions to London's Oxford Street this morning. Workers have also been protesting in central Manchester, Tameside and Liverpool
4 October 2011
Poplar and Liverpool: 'If you fight, you can win'
On the 90th anniversary of the jailing of the Poplar councillors, Queen Mary University Socialist Students society hosted a joint public meeting with the Socialist Party
29 September 2011
Labour Party conference - No way forward given by 'reclaim Labour' speakers
‘Vote for us and nothing will change’! was the message of Labour's Ed Balls to the working class desperate for leadership. Two Socialist Party members report on the LRC fringe meeting and on watching the conference on TV
28 September 2011
Pro-business Labour offers crumbs and promises cuts
Urgent: Build a new mass workers' party: Across Britain public sector trade unionists are preparing to go on strike on 30 November, in the biggest day of strike action since 1926...
On the National Shop Stewards Network lobby of TUC congress, 11 September 2011, photo Sujeeth
21 September 2011
We won't pay for the bankers' crisis!
Strike back on 30 November: Once again recklessness is bringing the banks into even further disrepute. UBS bank has 'lost' $2.3 billion due to the antics of 'unauthorised' trader Kweku Adoboli, writes Tony Mulhearn, Liverpool Socialist Party.
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