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Thatcher: The Iron Lady, still from movie
11 January 2012
Film review :The Iron Lady in meltdown
The widely hyped film 'The Iron Lady' is not intended to cover all the political events of Thatcher's life. It deals with the political issues through the incoherent rambling recollections of an old and demented Thatcher...
2 November 2011
Spare no expense: Former prime ministers Margaret Thatcher, John Major and Tony Blair together have claimed over £1.7 million in 'expenses' in the last five years...
16 March 2011
The Guardian newspaper, which pretends to be 'progressive' and 'liberal' on social issues, disgracefully included Margaret Thatcher in its article on the "100 most inspiring women" to "celebrate" international women's day...
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...
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.
Video: Nancy Taaffe, Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition candidate for Walthamstow
29 July 2010
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition candidate in general election 2010
Marching to defend the NHS
21 July 2010
Con-Dems propose denationalisation of NHS
Using the cover of 'saving' money by reducing 'bureaucracy', the Con-Dem government is effectively proposing the wholesale privatisation of the National Health Service...
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, as she will always be remembered, photo Alan Hardman
2 June 2010
Margaret Thatcher: Why workers cannot forget
The new Tory-Lib Dem coalition government claims to be heralding in a 'new politics'. But a large layer of workers throughout Britain have recoiled in horror at the prospect of a Tory-dominated government.
Robin Clapp, south west Socialist Party secretary, assesses Thatcher's legacy.
7 April 2010
The real lessons of the poll tax
Readers' comment: The centre page article about the massive anti-poll tax demonstration of 1990 by Steve Glennon (issue 617) was excellent, mainly because as chief steward, Steve had a very good overview of events, writes Rob Windsor, Socialist Party councillor, Coventry.
Anti-Poll Tax demonstration March 1990
24 March 2010
March 1990 anti-poll tax demonstration
The riot - what really happened: In 1989, one million Scots were not paying the poll tax. The All-Britain Anti-Poll Tax Federation was also planning organised opposition south of the border. On 1 April 1990, 35 million people would get...
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...
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...
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.
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.
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...
2 October 2004
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...
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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