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The Liverpool City Council adopted policies largely inspired by those elected Councillors who were members of a left wing group known as the Militant tendency through much of the 1980s, and was subsequently taken to court by the Government of Margaret Thatcher.

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Militant in Liverpool

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court by the Government of Margaret Thatcher. In 1982, Liverpool District Labour Party adopted militant policies for the city. It adopted the slogan "Better...

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Militant tendency

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Youth Organiser in 1976 after Militant had won control of the party's youth section, the Labour Party Young Socialists. After the Liverpool Labour Party...

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Ted Grant

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MPs. As well, Militant in Liverpool had taken control of the Labour Party in that city as well as of Liverpool City Council resulting in high-profile confrontations...

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Peter Taaffe

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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...

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National Museums Liverpool

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English law. In the 1980s, local politics in Liverpool was under the control of the Militant group of the Labour Party. In 1986, Liverpool's Militant councillors...

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Lesley Mahmood

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was active in Militant and Liverpool politics along with her brother Roy Farrar in the 1970s and 1980s. Mahmood was prominent in the Liverpool District...

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Terry Fields

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the Militant group, he was the Labour Member of Parliament for Liverpool Broadgreen from 1983 to 1992. He was expelled from the Labour Party in 1991...

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Liverpool City Council

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MP for Liverpool Walton constituency, left the conference platform. The Labour Party ultimately succeeded in expelling members of Militant, and Hatton...

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Jane Merrick

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In interviews, Merrick has discussed how her mother was one of 31,000 council workers threatened with redundancy by Derek Hatton and the Militant in Liverpool...

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Eric Heffer

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with a Militant-dominated Labour council in Liverpool having been elected in 1983, Heffer found increasing trouble in his constituency. The Liverpool Labour...

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Derek Hatton

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deputy leader of Liverpool City Council in the 1980s and was a member of the Trotskyist Militant group. Hatton attended the Liverpool Institute for Boys...

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Timeline of Liverpool

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Festival held. 1985 Militant in Liverpool set illegal council budget. May: Liverpool trading floor finally ceases to exist. 1986 Liverpool Airport Southern...

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History of Liverpool

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always present in port cities, began to rise. Liverpool City Council was dominated by the far-left wing Militant group during the 1980s, under the de facto...

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Neil Kinnock

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resulting in a budget crisis in the Militant-dominated Liverpool City Council. Kinnock attacked Militant and their conduct in a speech delivered at the conference:...

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Gillian Keegan

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in Madrid) and Travelport (chief marketing officer) for over 27 years. Keegan has said that it was her experiences of trade unionism and the Militant-controlled...

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International Marxist Tendency

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dominated the Labour Party in Liverpool. It became the largest Trotskyist group in Europe. In 1983, the five members of the Militant newspaper's editorial...

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Tony Mulhearn

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member of the Socialist Party and its predecessor, the Militant tendency. A native of Liverpool, Mulhearn was a member of the city council from 1984 to...

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Liverpool Protestant Party

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amongst militant Protestants. In Liverpool this was manifested in a loss of membership in the Conservative Workingmen's Association. The Liverpool Protestant...

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Liverpool Institute High School for Boys

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The Liverpool Institute High School for Boys was an all-boys grammar school in the English port city of Liverpool. The school had its origins in 1825 but...

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Dawn Butler

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Equalities. In February 2018 she appointed businessman Anthony Watson as an LGBT+ advisor. In September 2018, she argued that the actions of the Militant-dominated...

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Northern England

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Labour strongholds often with very left-wing leadership (such as Militant-dominated Liverpool and the so-called "People's Republic of South Yorkshire"), had...

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Pat Wall

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Wall was a long-standing member of the Militant group. Born into a Liverpool working class family on 6 May 1933 in Manchester, he began political activity...

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Ultranationalism

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which claimed approximately three million lives", he has remarked, with militant leaders finally deciding to "cut all diplomatic and economic ties with...

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1986 Liverpool City Council election

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Militant and 31 non-Militant Labour Councillors were disbarred from office Liverpool Daily Post 2 May 1986 Liverpool Daily Post 2 May 1986 Liverpool Daily...

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