10 November 2021

John Barnes on class and capitalism. What's missing?

Book review: The Uncomfortable Truth About Racism: 'The Uncomfortable Truth About Racism', by former footballer John Barnes, makes some valuable points

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20 October 2021

Fighting the cuts at the ballot box in Liverpool

A by-election has been called in the Kirkdale ward of Liverpool following the resignation of right-wing Labour councillor Malcolm Kennedy

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19 October 2021

Arms fair: Hundreds of protesters defy police 'dispersal zone'

The police had the power to order people to leave the area

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25 August 2021

Liverpool: Stop the arms fair!

Disgracefully, Liverpool is set to host the AOC Europe 2021 arms fair in October, at the council owned Echo Arena

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25 August 2021

Liverpool university strike saves jobs

Liverpool University and Colleges Union (UCU) is in a long running dispute with Liverpool University over plans to slash 47 jobs in the health and life sciences department

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19 May 2021

Tens of thousands march against Israeli state terror

People flooded onto the streets on Saturday in outrage at the war on Gaza

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12 May 2021

TUSC is back

The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) stood over 300 candidates in the 'Super-Thursday' elections on 6 May, the biggest number of TUSC candidates since the elections in 2016.

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5 May 2021

Plaque dedicated to Tony Mulhearn

On International Workers' Memorial Day (IWMD), 28 April, a plaque dedicated to Tony Mulhearn was unveiled in Liverpool with his family present.

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Socialist Party members campaigning for TUSC (Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition) election candidates in Liverpool, 24.4.21, photo by Mark Best

30 April 2021

Socialist Party members campaigning for TUSC (Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition) election candidates in Liverpool, 24.4.21

Socialist Party members campaigning for TUSC (Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition) election candidates in Liverpool, 24.4.21

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28 April 2021

No trust in billionaire football owners - kick them out and reclaim the game

Super League defeated: Socialist Party members Lenny Shail, who is a Chelsea fan and was at the Stamford Bridge protest, and Leeds fan Ian Pattison said:

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21 April 2021

No trust in billionaire owners - kick them out and reclaim the game

The withdrawals from the Super League are celebrated

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21 April 2021

Keep Liverpool council's One Stop Shops open

In the 1980s, when the Labour council in Liverpool was led by supporters of the Militant newspaper, forerunner of the Socialist, one of the reforms that was implemented was the opening of eight 'One Stop Shops' across the city

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21 April 2021

Liverpool hustings - only TUSC has a strategy to take on the Tories

Liverpool mayoral candidate Roger Bannister for the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) took part in the first online hustings of the election campaign on Tuesday 13 April.

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21 April 2021

Greensill scandal, Corruption ... Build a socialist alternative

From 'cash for questions', to 'honours' for business people, and now the Greensill scandal - the rotten character of capitalist politics is revealed again and again

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6 April 2021

Right-wing Labour and Tory commissioners out!

Socialist Party members helped build for a protest called by Liverpool Trades Council.

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31 March 2021

Mobilise workers to defy Tory commissioners and austerity

Liverpool faces imposition of unelected commissioners

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31 March 2021

Socialist Liverpool City Council inspired me

I come from a Labour-voting family, and grew up on a Cheshire council estate in the 1960s' boom. The working class benefited from the many reforms of the 1945 Labour landslide.

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24 March 2021

Battle for a fighting, anti-austerity mayor

Liverpool has a rich history of councillors being prepared to fight

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24 March 2021

Police attempt to silence mothers

Following a vigil in Liverpool, a mother has been issued with a £200 fine and been threatened by police to have social services called because she brought her son along

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10 March 2021

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