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Poll Tax demonstration 1990
15 May 2013
When mass action defeated Thatcher's poll tax
Launching the battle in Scotland: Margaret Thatcher was dubbed the Iron Lady. She wore this description with pride as, like her successors today, she ruthlessly tried to solve British capitalism's difficulties by launching brutal attacks...
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.
March against the Poll Tax
10 April 2013
Thatcher: a class warrior for capitalism
Thatcher will never be forgiven for the devastation that her Tory governments wrought on working class communities - that is still being felt today, writes Alistair Tice
Cartoon by Alan Hardman
8 April 2013
Thatcher's legacy: Brutal class warfare against the rights and the conditions of the working class
22 March 2013
The other prop of Merseyside's case against the Socialist Party leadership is in relation to the collapse of Stalinism...
30 January 2013
Hull councillors ready to vote No
Three Hull city Labour councillors have told the local press they will vote against cuts in jobs and services
14 January 2013
A critique of the Socialist Workers Party:
The Socialist Party in England and Wales, and the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) are the two largest organisations on the 'Marxist left' in Britain. Therefore, in a period when the left in general has been weakened - as a, consequence of the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the ideological offensive that flowed from this, combined with the neo-liberal fuelled boom - there are many who argue 'why can't you forget your differences and combine to unite yourselves and the left in a real alternative?'
Socialism and Left Unity, by Peter Taaffe, attempts to answer this question.
14 January 2013
The clash between the central leadership of the IST - notably the Socialist Workers Party - and their one-time American 'section' the International Socialist Organisation (ISO) also highlighted the deficiencies in their intervention in mass movements...
14 January 2013
Fighting Racism and Fascism & Student Work
The issues of racism and fascism, and how to combat them and the far-right British National Party (BNP) - which has, in its leadership, fascist elements - has recently assumed greater importance in Britain...
14 January 2013
Attitude to the Labour Party and the Left
To many who experienced the past sectarian behaviour of the SWP combined with abstract propaganda - 'One solution, revolution!' - the seeming metamorphosis to a 'broad' approach in this decade was a revelation...
14 January 2013
Collapse of Stalinism and the 1990s
If they were to answer that North Vietnam was more 'progressive', then how to explain their position at the time of the collapse of the Berlin Wall, when the liquidation of the planned economy in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union was, for them, not a great negative historical turning point...
14 January 2013
The SWP today finds its ideological roots in post-1945 British Trotskyism, which split into three main trends...
5 December 2012
In October, the Lancashire Telegraph serialised former Labour cabinet minister Jack Straw's memoirs. Peter Harris, one of six Labour Party members expelled from Straw's Blackburn constituency party, wrote to the Lancashire Telegraph challenging Straw's version of events
Militant: Scrap the Poll Tax, photo Dave Sinclair
17 October 2012
Poll tax: When organised mass action defeated the Tories
18 million refused to pay: The campaign against Thatcher's poll tax is an example of how a mass movement can defeat a government, writes Steve Score, former secretary, Leicestershire Anti-Poll Tax Federation.
Tony Mulhearn in front of one of the house built by Liverpool City Council in the 1980s, photo Harry Smith
17 October 2012
Better to break the law than break the poor: As a lifelong Liverpool football supporter, I was delighted to read recently that Liverpool were top of the league, writes Tony Mulhearn, former Liverpool councillor and the then District Labour Party president.
Militant: Scrap the Poll Tax, photo Dave Sinclair
12 September 2012
The Reunion rewrites history: the Poll Tax
BBC radio review BBC Radio 4's The Reunion recently had a programme on the anti-poll tax movement of the late-1980s and early 1990s, Britain's biggest mass movement of civil disobedience for centuries...
22 August 2012
Tommy Walker - tribute to a working class fighter
Tommy Walker, who has died aged 91, was a working class hero. This Communist Party member inspired many trade union activists in Stoke-on-Trent and beyond, writes Andy Bentley.
11 July 2012
London bus workers discuss new offer: "militant strike action pays"
London bus workers have been fighting for payment for extra work during the Olympics with joint strike action, the first for many decades, a London bus worker writes.
11 April 2012
Class Actions are a Salford-based rap duo who support the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition. They performed at the Socialism 2010 social, writes Paul Gerrard, Salford.
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