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23 January 2012
Tony Mulhearn replies to diatribe of council leader Joe Anderson against the 'Liverpool 47'
"There are so many falsehoods and distortions in Joe Anderson's latest intemperate attack on me and the 47 (Echo 16/1/12) that I can only deal with one or two" writes Tony Mulhearn
18 January 2012
Irish 'poll tax' battle has begun
A massive campaign against a new 'Household Charge' has begun in Ireland. The new flat tax affects 1.6 million households across the country, including the overwhelming majority of ordinary workers...
7 October 2011
The Labour Party conference in Liverpool was used as an opportunity by Kinnock and others to attack the Liverpool '47' councillors who improved the lives of thousands of Liverpudlians in 1983-87.
Sacked printworkers at the Wapping picket line , photo by Dave Sinclair
13 July 2011
Nothing New in the World at Wapping
The police working for News of the World... phones hacked... what's new? The printers and their trade union supporters who fought Murdoch back in 1986 believed the police worked directly for News International...
Photo Paul Mattsson
29 June 2011
The battle to defend public sector pensions shows again the political vacuum that exists in Britain today, with no mass party representing workers' interests...
Building support for a socialist response to the repression after the Brixton riots, photo Socialist Party
6 April 2011
April 2011 marks the 30th anniversary of the riots in Brixton, south London, against police racism, unemployment and poverty...
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...
23 March 2011
Mass non-payment - how the poll tax was beaten
The campaign against Thatcher's hated poll tax is an example of how a mass movement can defeat a government, writes Steve Score, Former secretary of the Leicestershire Anti-Poll Tax Federation.
5 January 2011
Grunwick: leader of historic strike dies
Jayaben Desai, the leader of the famous Grunwick strike died just before Christmas aged 77. She inspired many who saw her, especially when she stood up to the bullying brutes of the Grunwick management, writes Bill Mullins, Socialist Party Industrial Organiser
John Macreadie, deputy leader of CPSA, civil servants union, 1987
5 January 2011
Tribute to John Macreadie, trade unionist and socialist fighter
The Socialist Party was saddened to learn of the death on 22 December of lifelong Militant/Socialist Party member, John Macreadie, a militant leader in his work for the Public and Commercial Services union...
23 November 2010
Fighting cuts: A militant stance is what's needed
IAN PAGE, a former Socialist Party councillor in the south London borough of Lewisham wrote a letter (see below), which was printed in the Evening Standard, criticising the reported actions of Labour councillors from the borough who are attempting to wash their hands of any responsibility for cuts i, writes Ian Page, former Socialist Party councillor, Lewisham..
24 September 2010
How the Tories were defeated last time around
The poll tax: It is not an accident that the most militant trade union leaders in Britain today, such as Bob Crow (general secretary of the RMT transport workers' union), are calling for the "biggest movement since the poll tax" to defeat the cuts...
24 September 2010
Uniting the movement will need to have an organisational, as well as a political form. In both Liverpool and the poll tax Militant played a key political role. However, contrary to the slurs against us...
24 September 2010
The anti-cuts movement is going to find itself in opposition to all of the major capitalist parties whose position on cuts is virtually identical...
23 September 2010
The publication of Tony Blair's autobiography, 'A Journey', has confirmed just how unpopular he had become, writes Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary. Socialism Today October 2010.
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.
7 July 2010
'Godfather' turning in his grave
THE FOLLOWING letter by Peter Taaffe (general secretary of the Socialist Party) was sent in reply to an article in the Guardian by Hywel Williams on 3 July...
Peter Hadden, 1950-2010, photo Paul Mattsson
19 May 2010
Peter Hadden - an inspiring life for socialism
Obituary: PETER HADDEN, Northern secretary of the Irish section of the Committee for a Workers International (CWI), the Socialist Party, sadly died at the age of 60, in Belfast, on 5 May after a three year battle with cancer, writes Niall Mulholland.
5 May 2010
Bring the killers of Blair Peach to face justice
ON 23 April 1979, Blair Peach, an anti-fascist activist, died after he was struck on the head by a truncheon wielding policeman from the Special Patrol Group...
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.
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