Liverpool: A City that Dared to Fight

by Peter Taaffe, Tony Mulhearn

The momentous events in Liverpool 1983-7 sent shock waves across the country. Hardly a week went by without the city being in the news headlines. Financial crises, a unique house building programme, education reform, the Heysel Stadium tragedy, the Sam Bond Affair, the expulsion of Derek Hatton, Tony Mulhearn and others from the Labour Party, through to an 18 month court battle which ended in the surcharge and disqualification of 47 Labour councillors - all are covered in Liverpool - A City That Dared To Fight.

Not only a commentary, this book is also a penetrating political analysis of the grown and development of Marxism in Britain, and particularly the role of Militant in Liverpool.

Genres: Politics, Nonfiction

1 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1988

About the author

Peter Taaffe was a British Marxist Trotskyist political activist and a longtime leader of the Socialist Party and its predecessor, the Militant tendency.
Taaffe was the founding editor of the Trotskyist Militant newspaper in 1964, and became known as a leading member of the Militant entryist group in the Labour Party. Taaffe was expelled from the Labour Party in 1983, along with four other members of Militant's editorial board.
Taaffe was influential in the policy decisions of Liverpool City Council of 1983–1987, according to the council's deputy leader Derek Hatton, and in the formation of the Militant tendency's policy regarding the Poll Tax in 1988–1991.

Reviews

[Alicia Fox · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is excellent reading for anyone curious about how establishment Democrats will react to actual change that helps people. You can read it for free here: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/liv...

[Mia Bourne-Bishop · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic historical context. Liverpool has always been a City that dared to fight. An excellent read.

[Francis Todhunter · Rating 4 out of 5]

Did you know that until 1964 Liverpool was considered a Tory city? In 1983, when all over the country the Tories won a landslide victory, Liverpool was completely Tory free for the first time in 100 years.