Tony Mulhearn
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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 In the lexicon of New Labour that has been replaced by "being anti-Militant is the last refuge of a scoundrel."...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...
10 July 2004
Brando - A Legend And An Enigma
The death of screen actor, Marlon Brando, has sparked off an examination of the forces that motivated him. Universally recognised as one of the greatest actors of all time, the puzzle remains: why did such a gifted actor end his days as a recluse...
26 June 2004
Kilroy Was Here, Then There. Where Next?
ROBERT KILROY Silk, former tribune of the Kirkby working class, and the octogenarian soap star Joan Collins, now threaten to deliver a hammer blow to Britain's membership of the European Union...
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...
20 September 2003
Liverpool: The City That Fought Back
IT IS now twenty years ago, back in 1983, that the people of Liverpool elected a Labour council to roll back the onslaught on their city's working class being perpetrated by the Thatcher government and the local Liberal/Tory alliance...
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