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1 May 2013
Video: Tony Mulhearn - Liverpool Militant 30 years on
"LIVERPOOL - a Socialist council", said the signs that were once tacked to the sides of city public buildings or hung from the fences surrounding the recreation grounds, writes From the Liverpool Echo.
Liverpool city council's struggle in 1983-87 for more funding from the Thatcher government was an inspriation to workers, photo Dave Sinclair
17 April 2013
Meeting and exhibition marking 30 years since the election of Liverpool's socialist council
Saturday 27 April, 10.30am
Adelphi Hotel, Lime Street, Liverpool
Speakers include: Unite general secretary Len McCluskey, PCS president Janice Godrich, Socialist Party general secretary Peter Taaffe, Liverpool Labour Party president (1980-85) and 'Liverpool 47' surcharged councillor Tony Mulhearn, former Labour MP Tony Benn and 'Liverpool 47' surcharged counc...
10 April 2013
Hillsborough - never forgotten
This BBC4 programme Hillsborough - Never Forgotten on 3 April was a powerful reminder of events leading up to the recent Independent Panel's findings on the 1989 Hillsborough catastrophe
21 March 2013
Comment on the 'Budget waffle'
More budget waffle from Osborne and his alter ego Ed Balls. No mention by Balls of the £750 billion lying in the banks being used, not to invest, but to line the pockets of the spivs who control the banks...
13 February 2013
Spielberg's Lincoln by Tony Mulhearn
Patrick Ayers and Eljeer Hawkins gave a penetrating analysis of the Spielberg film 'Lincoln' (the Socialist 7-13 February)...
12 February 2013
Double-take at Keegan's description of Kinnock
I took a double-take at William Keegan's description of Neil Kinnock as possessing 'courage and clout' to 'detoxify' his party (Observer 10.2.13), writes Tony Mulhearn
13 September 2012
Hillsborough - eventually, the truth
The report of the Hillsborough Independent Panel has ripped aside the tangled web of lies and cover-up woven by the South Yorkshire police, the government and the army of lickspittles in the press who denigrated Liverpool and the victims of the man-made catastrophe in 1989 that was Hillsborough, writes Tony Mulhearn
12 June 2012
Standing ovation for Tony Mulhearn at GMB sector conference
Tony Mulhearn, from the Liverpool 47 councillors who stood up to the Tory government in the 1980s, spoke today as an invited guest at the GMB manufacturing conference and received a standing ovation...
6 June 2012
Liverpool TUSC: Standing against Labour's cuts
Following Tony Mulhearn's campaign for mayor, activists in Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) are continuing to push their anti-cuts policies in Liverpool, standing in two 5 July council byelections, writes Alec Price.
4 May 2012
May 2012 local election reports
For TUSC results see: tusc.org.uk
TUSC candidates won victories in Preston and Walsall and ran many hard-fought campaigns elsewhere. Click 'more' below for reports from Coventry, Liverpool, Salford, Swansea, Lincoln, Stroud, London and Gateshead
TUSC on the 28 March 2012 NUT London strike and demonstration, photo Socialist Party
2 May 2012
TUSC: the electoral alternative to the parties of the rich
Round-up across the country: All together in Liverpool to support TUSC mayoral stand: 300 people attended the Liverpool pre-election rally for mayoral candidate Tony Mulhearn and other Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) candidates across Merseyside, writes Dave Walsh.
27 April 2012
Largest mayoral rally in Liverpool shows impact of TUSC campaign
Three hundred people braved the rain to attend a rally for Liverpool mayoral candidate Tony Mulhearn and other TUSC candidates across Merseyside
Vote TUSC postcard
25 April 2012
Vote for a socialist alternative
The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) is a new electoral coalition that was set up by leading trade unionists including RMT general secretary Bob Crow, and socialists, including the Socialist Party, to provide a political voice to the millions who oppose the cuts.
23 April 2012
Hundreds of Liverpool Sure Start parents demonstrate against cuts
Liverpool Sure Start parents and children came together to demand that Liverpool City Council hear their reaction to the proposed 53% cuts to children centre services
6 April 2012
A packed launch meeting for Tony4Mayor campaign in Liverpool
After a hectic week preparing the ground for the upcoming mayoral and council elections, the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) in Liverpool entered the campaign with a bang
4 April 2012
Tony Mulhearn in Liverpool Mayor election challenge
Tony4Mayor has shaken up Liverpool's mayoral race after only a few days! The campaign is making headway in the media, gaining great support in the trade unions and from individuals
30 March 2012
Galloway victory shows potential for challenges to the main parties
George Galloway's overwhelming win in Bradford West shows that Labour can no longer take its working-class voters for granted
29 March 2012
MMP callously announces Bootle plant will close
Workers at the Mayr Melnhof Packaging (MMP) plant in Bootle have been told by their employer that the plant will be closed
28 March 2012
Former Liverpool 47 councillor to give socialist challenge for mayor
"If elected I would use all the powers at my disposal to fight for everyone suffering under this relentless assault masterminded by the Con-Dem government and unfortunately carried out by Labour and the Lib Dems in the council chamber...
26 March 2012
TUSC candidate Tony Mulhearn enters mayoral election race
Tony Mulhearn, veteran socialist and trade unionist, former District Labour Party president and one of the leaders of the socialist council in 1983-87, has entered the race to be Liverpool's first elected mayor.
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