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17 August 2011
In 1911 a rail strike spread across the country. A mass demonstration in Liverpool was called to show support for the strikers and to determine a course of action locally.
25 May 2011
Why Liverpool needs a needs budget
On 14 May 2011 Derek Hatton, deputy leader of the 47 Liverpool councillors in their battle against the Tory government's cuts from 1983 to 1987, pronounced in the Liverpool Echo newspaper that refusing to implement the cuts would be political suicide for present-day Labour leader Joe Anderson...
Tony Mulhearn speaking at a public meeting organised by Liverpool Trades Council on Thursday 10 February, to debate the way forward against the cuts, photo Harry Smith
4 May 2011
Review: The monarchy - reserve weapon of the ruling class?
BBC Radio 4's The Moral Maze programme recently dealt with the monarchy against a background of the circus surrounding the wedding of Wills and Kate...
27 April 2011
Tony Mulhearn on 'The Moral Maze', radio 4, 8pm Wednesday 27 April
Socialist Party member Tony Mulhearn from the Liverpool 47 group of councillors who led a battle against the Tory government in the 1980s will be part of the panel on the programme The Moral Maze tonight, on the issue 'Meritocracy and Monarchy'...
Liverpool city council's struggle in 1983-87 for more funding from the Thatcher government was an inspriation to workers, photo Dave Sinclair
23 March 2011
Liverpool city council's historic victory over the Thatcher government
When organised mass action defeated the Tories: "Two unlovely black eyes" declared the Daily Mail. It was condemning Thatcher's environment secretary Patrick Jenkin for his retreat over extra funding for Liverpool. It wrote: "The Trotskyites and...
3 March 2011
Liverpool 1983-87: the council that fought Thatcher
THE LABOUR council leaders proposing the cuts budget in Liverpool council can feel a spectre haunting them...
Tony Mulhearn speaking at a public meeting organised by Liverpool Trades Council on Thursday 10 February, to debate the way forward against the cuts, photo Harry Smith
15 February 2011
Hundreds pack into Liverpool meeting against cuts
Over 300 people packed into a public meeting organised by Liverpool Trades Council on Thursday 10 February, to debate the way forward against the cuts. An edited version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Socialist.
Liverpool lobby of council: Tony Mulhearn (holding The Socialist), waiting to speak, Daren Ireland, RMT and President of Liverpool TUC, addressing demo , photo Merseyside Socialist Party
15 November 2010
Liverpool: Lobby of council blocks main road
An anti-cuts lobby of Liverpool city councillors on 10 November, called by Liverpool Trades Union Council, saw 200 workers defying police by blocking the town hall main road ...
29 September 2010
The letter below is from Tony Mulhearn, who was a leading councillor in Liverpool's Labour council when it fought Thatcher's vicious attack on that city between 1983 and 1987...
15 September 2010
Review: New Labour politician Peter Mandelson's tome has now been overshadowed by the deluge of publicity received by his soul mate Tony Blair, writes Tony Mulhearn, Former 'Liverpool 47' Labour councillor.
N30 - Millions strike back at Con-Dem government on 30 November 2011, photo Socialist Party
14 September 2010
National Shop Stewards Network lobbies TUC
NSSN Lobby of the Trades Union Congress in Manchester
Liverpool city council 1983-87
1 September 2010
Slashing public services: do councillors have 'no choice'?
Campaigns against the Tory/Liberal government's cuts have wide support. But many councillors say they have "no choice" but to implement cuts.
From 1983 to 1987 the Liverpool Labour council, led by supporters of Militant (the predecessor of the Socialist Party), refused to make cuts or increase local rates to compensate for Tory cuts. Instead they led a mass movement to win more money from Margaret Thatcher's Tory government. Tony Mulhearn interview.
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...
17 June 2009
A rat on Labour's sinking ship
SAMUEL JOHNSON once famously declared that "patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel". In the lexicon of New Labour that has been replaced by "being anti-Militant is the last refuge of a scoundrel."...
5 June 2009
A Parliament of celebrities and a speaker of integrity
Comment: The feverish debate raging about the parliamentary pig-fest is having a curious effect on the chattering classes, writes Tony Mulhearn, Merseyside.
22 June 2006
1926 General Strike: workers taste power
TONY MULHEARN, one of the leaders of the Liverpool 47 councillors who fought the Tories in the 1980s reviews Peter Taaffe's new book...
30 March 2006
GORDON BROWN, the trade union leaders' 'radical' alternative to Blair, has announced that a new panel will advise the Treasury on globalisation...
7 April 2005
Militant turned socialism into reality
The following article by Socialist Party member Tony Mulhearn appeared in the Liverpool Daily Post on 24 March commemorating the struggle 20 years ago of socialists in the leadership of the Liverpool L...
15 January 2005
Blunkett: a study in opportunism
TONY MULHEARN, member of the group of Liverpool 47 councillors who fought the Thatcher government between 1983 and 1987, reviews David Blunkett by Stephen Pollard...
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