The Marxist Militant Tendency wielded huge influence in the Labour Party on Merseyside in the 1980s. It operated within the...
Militant
Let's get in a time machine and go back forty years to the Labour Party of the 1980s and see...
Not entirely sure how long the NUSS lasted for. Think I'm right in saying it was a Socialist Workers Party...
Pictured here are my membership cards for the National Organisation of Labour Students (NOLS) and the Labour Party Young Socialists...
In 1983, Thatcher called a general election. The Tories had been in power since 1979 and had gone through a...
Croxteth Comprehensive was a school in a working-class area of Liverpool that was threatened with closure in the early 1980s....
In my first year at university, I ran for the welfare officer position in the student union at Liverpool Uni....
During my sabbatical year as Deputy President of Liverpool University Guild of Undergraduates (student union to you and me), there...
Back in 1982, I was in my first year at Liverpool University studying Philosophy and Politics. I threw myself into...
I once heard Michael Foot give a speech at the Gay Hussar restaurant in London just a few years before...