In the early 1980s, I studied and worked in Liverpool at a time when there was stratospheric levels of unemployment, dire poverty, and faced with no prospects – men and women turned to sex work. In the Toxteth district, it was a daily fact of life to see women on the streets in both daylight…
The 1981 riots in Liverpool and elsewhere were a political challenge for Marxists, especially the Militant, as Tony McMahon discovers
To what extent did poor relations between the community in Toxteth and the Merseyside police lead to the 1981 riots? Tony McMahon reports
1982 was a stormy year that saw the Falkands War, mass unemployment and a scandal involving the Queen’s bodyguard
2021 will be the fourtieth anniversary of the 1981 riots and the tenth anniverary of the 2011 riots so what lessons have been learned?
The 1981 Southall riot saw a clash between the Oi! skinhead subculture and local Asian youth in a district of London that was part of a summer of riots
The 1981 riots presented the news media of the time with a huge challenge covering live events around the country that sprang up at a moment’s notice
The NME (New Musical Express) visited the Toxteth district of Liverpool after the 1981 riots and got a very frosty welcome from local youth
Veteran right-winger Enoch Powell placed the race card cynically after the 1981 riots trying to blame those from the New Commonwealth
After the Toxteth riots, Liverpool University decided to invite Chief Constable Kenneth Oxford to address the Law Society leading to a protest
