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Visteon workers occupied their plant last year, photo Paul Mattsson

Visteon workers occupied their plant last year, photo Paul Mattsson

6 January 2010

2010 - Savage social cuts, workers' resistance and growth of socialist ideas

The British capitalists, together with their counterparts worldwide, have unleashed a barrage of propaganda - disguised as "irrefutable facts" - to soften up working class people for an unparalleled assault on their living standards...

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Liverpool City Council demonstration, November 1983, photo Paul Traynor

Liverpool City Council demonstration, November 1983, photo Paul Traynor

30 June 2009

25 years ago: Liverpool - a city that dared to fight

ON 9 July 1984 Liverpool City council, led by Militant (the Socialist Party's predecessor), won a sensational victory over the ruthless Tory government of Margaret Thatcher...

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Callaghan's Labour government  ministers were puppets of the bosses capitalist system, photo Alan Hardman

Callaghan's Labour government ministers were puppets of the bosses capitalist system, photo Alan Hardman

22 April 2009

Betrayals that led to Thatcher's victory

Britain in the 1970s: 30 years ago, the Tory Party leader Margaret Thatcher won a general election which was to prove a sea change in British politics. Thatcher promoted a virulent form of free-market capitalism.

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Mad Axe Woman Thatcher. Cartoon by Alan Hardman

Mad Axe Woman Thatcher. Cartoon by Alan Hardman

17 April 2009

Thatcher's legacy: Brutal class warfare against the rights and the conditions of the working class

As the 30th anniversary of the coming to power of Margaret Thatcher – the most hated figure in Britain post-1945 – in May 1979 approaches, her record has been put under the media microscope, writes Peter Taaffe, in the forthcoming Socialism Today.

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The battle against the poll tax, photo by Dave Sinclair

The battle against the poll tax, photo by Dave Sinclair

14 April 2009

The battle to defeat the Poll Tax

A landmark in working class struggle TWENTY YEARS ago the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher introduced the hated poll tax, first in Scotland to be followed one year later in England and Wales...

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2 October 2004

Out Of Touch!

Build The Socialist Alternative: MORE OUT of touch and more inflexible than Margaret Thatcher. That's the verdict of the majority of people in this country about Tony Blair...

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27 March 2004

Liverpool city council: The Council That Took On Thatcher

TWENTY YEARS ago Liverpool city council took on Margaret Thatcher's Tory government and won a famous victory against cuts and privatisation...

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