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40 Years Since Liverpool Defeated Thatcher

May 9, 2023 Laurence Coates

Interview in 2004 with ISA member Laurence Coates, full-time Militant organizer in Liverpool in the 1980s. It is 40 years since the legendary Militant-led city council was elected to power in Liverpool, then Britain’s fifth largest city. On 5 May, 1983, Labour won the local elections in Liverpool, gaining 12 seats with a 40 percent increase in […]

Tony Mulhearn- Working class fighter and leader

October 9, 2019 Hugh Caffrey

Hugh Caffrey is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). Liverpool lost one of its greatest ever working-class leaders, and a great family man, when Tony Mulhearn passed away at the age of 80 on 7 October. Tony was in many ways born a class fighter. The appalling poverty of the […]