Book Description
An even-handed reassessment of the 'Militant' period in Liverpool, including interviews with many of the key protagonists.
Author : Diane Frost
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,60 MB
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 184631805X
An even-handed reassessment of the 'Militant' period in Liverpool, including interviews with many of the key protagonists.
Author : Michael Crick
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 37,60 MB
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1785900749
When it was originally published in 1984, Michael Crick's treatise on the Militant tendency was widely acclaimed as a masterly work of investigative journalism, and although the rise of Jeremy Corbyn can be attributed more to the phenomenon of 'Corbynmania' than to hard-left entrism, to some within the party, Crick's ground-breaking book must seem like a lesson from history. Updated and expanded, Crick explores the origins, organisation and aims of Militant, the secret Trotskyite organisation that operated clandestinely within the Labour Party, edging out adversaries at grass-roots level and recruiting people to its own ranks, which, at its peak in the mid-1980s, swelled to around 8,000 members. Whilst eventually most of its leaders were expelled, it caused damaging rifts within the party and closed the door to Downing Street for almost a generation.
Author : Liverpool Black Caucus
Publisher :
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 47,34 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Liverpool (England)
ISBN :
Author : Peter Taaffe
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 45,67 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Dave Sinclair
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 15,71 MB
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1445638320
A fascinating selection of images, giving a unique perspective on the people and streets of Liverpool in the 1980s.
Author : Michael Parkinson CBE
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 12,93 MB
Release : 2019-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1789624398
Liverpool Beyond the Brink describes the extraordinary if incomplete renaissance of Liverpool during the last thirty years. Showing how much has been achieved, who helped and what its current challenges are, this is a fascinating commentary on one of the UKs most iconic cities.
Author : M. Testa
Publisher : AK Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 33,56 MB
Release : 2015-04-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1849352046
Fascism is not a thing of the past and, in this era of crisis and austerity, it is growing even stronger. The fight against it must be aggressive and unrelenting. Using a mixture of orthodox history and eyewitness accounts, "M. Testa" makes the case for a resolutely militant anti-fascism, taking us from proto-fascists in nineteenth-century Austria to modern-day street-fights in London. Provocative, unapologetic, and based on extensive research. M. Testa, undercover anti-fascist blogger, has analyzed the changing fortunes of the British far right since 2009. He has written for the anarchist magazine Freedom and is a member of the Anti-Fascist Network.
Author : Jonathan Davis
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 32,26 MB
Release : 2017-12-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1526106450
This volume of essays constitutes the first history of Labour and left-wing politics in the decade when Margaret Thatcher reshaped modern Britain. Leading scholars explore aspects of left-wing culture, activities and ideas at a time when social democracy was in crisis. There are articles about political leadership, economic alternatives, gay rights, the miners’ strike, the Militant Tendency and the politics of race. The book also situates the crisis of the left in international terms as the socialist world began to collapse. Tony Blair's New Labour disavowed the 1980s left, associating it with failure, but this volume argues for a more complex approach. Many of the causes it championed are now mainstream, suggesting that the time has come to reassess 1980s progressive politics, despite its undeniable electoral failures. With this in mind, the contributors offer ground-breaking research and penetrating arguments about the strange death of Labour Britain.
Author : Matthew Thompson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 50,42 MB
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 1789621089
Reconstructing Public Housing unearths Liverpool's hidden history of radical alternatives to municipal housing development and builds a vision of how we might reconstruct public housing on more democratic and cooperative foundations. In this critical social history, Matthew Thompson brings to light how and why this remarkable city became host to two pioneering social movements in collective housing and urban regeneration experimentation. In the 1970s, Liverpool produced one of Britain's largest, most democratic and socially innovative housing co-op movements, including the country's first new-build co-op to be designed, developed and owned by its member-residents. Four decades later, in some of the very same neighbourhoods, several campaigns for urban community land trusts are growing from the grassroots - including the first ever architectural or housing project to be nominated for and win, in 2015, the artworld's coveted Turner Prize. Thompson traces the connections between these movements; how they were shaped by, and in turn transformed, the politics, economics, culture and urbanism of Liverpool. Drawing on theories of capitalism and cooperativism, property and commons, institutional change and urban transformation, Thompson reconsiders Engels' housing question, reflecting on how collective alternatives work in, against and beyond the state and capital, in often surprising and contradictory ways.
Author : Mark Seddon
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 10,99 MB
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 178590423X
Post-war Labour England wasn't a bad place to live, but after Labour's 2015 election defeat, the prospect of a healthier, happier and fairer country seemed more remote than ever. Who would have predicted that career backbencher and serial rebel Jeremy Corbyn would be the one to breathe new life into a near moribund Labour Party? Defying all odds, and most commentators and pollsters, Labour staged a remarkable comeback at the 2017 election. Love him or loathe him – and most people feel one way or the other – Corbyn represents a new hope, which everyone believed had been extinguished by the bitter hostility of the Thatcher era and the grubby triangulations of the Blair years. Almost uniquely amongst European social democratic parties, Corbyn's party has rallied. It has turned its back on New Labour, membership is thriving and, at long last, the party is appealing to the young. Labour England wasn't dead – it had merely been sleeping. In Jeremy Corbyn and the Strange Rebirth of Labour England, Francis Beckett and Mark Seddon offer an alternative and refreshing take on the sad fate of Labour England over the past four decades. They then turn their attention to the extraordinary reversal of fortunes of the Corbyn years, and to what a new Labour England might look like – with or without Corbyn.