Comrades

Anyone interested in how we would run the Council when we get a majority, should read "Liverpool: A city that dared to fight". It is the story, written by two central figures, of the Militant (now SP)-led Liverpool City Council, the fifth biggest in the UK, during the 1980s. (Then we were a group fighting for socialism inside the Labour Parties and Social Democratic parties of the world (including the ALP here), by the 1990s with the exodus of workers and youth from these parties and as their leaders dragged them to the right, we began independent work as standalone parties).

In the years we ran Liverpool Council, we built more homes than all the other Labour Councils added up together - plus leisure centers and the creation of over 500 jobs.

Only after Thatcher defeated the miners in 1985 was she able to defeat Liverpool, with the crucial help of the rightwing Labour and union leaders, who were embarrassed about the popularity of our ideas and actions. There is a pale echo of that today in the unholy alliance of ASU leaders, ALP and rightwing Green Councillors, and Council management, all competing as to who hates SP the most.

Get a deeper understanding of why SP is coming from in its Council work by reading this book.

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