Liverpool

1919 Liverpool Police strike - Pat O'Mara

Submitted by wojtek on Mar 31 2012 06:57

Pat O'Mara's personal account of the police strike in Liverpool, August 1919 and the subsequent riot, taken from his autobiography The Autobiography of a Liverpool Slummy.

The Lusitania Riots of May 1915: A personal account - Pat O'Mara

Submitted by wojtek on Mar 31 2012 06:27

Pat O'Mara's personal account of the anti-German Lusitania riots of May 1915 which broke out in Liverpool, taken from his autobiography The Autobiography of a Liverpool Slummy. This account is reproduced for historical record, indeed it should be taken as a given that Libcom do not agree with the nationalistic riots nor the imperialist 'Great' War.

More brutality from Merseyside police

Submitted by working class s... on Mar 7 2012 23:18

At an anti cuts meeting tonight outside Liverpool Town Hall, Merseyside Police decide to brutalise and arrest two young comrades, and knock over and injure a third with a horse. A member of Liverpool Solidarity Federation has written about today's events.

Report: Combating workfare in Liverpool

Submitted by working class s... on Mar 5 2012 13:55

A brief report on the Liverpool workfare action on Saturday 3rd March

Liverpool workers ‘locked out’ by bosses occupy factory

Submitted by working class s... on Feb 18 2012 20:18

Striking workers in Liverpool have been locked out of their factory in a dispute over redundancies. In response, they have occupied the factory. The occupation has been temporarily suspended as their initial demands have been met. It is apparently the first 'lock out' of workers by bosses in Britain since 1958

Trade union factionalism and rank-and-file organising

Submitted by Phil on Feb 11 2012 12:07

Over the past year, it's become increasingly evident that the branch of the civil servants' union PCS I'm part of is beset by factionalism. In particular, the dominance of a ruling clique has been like a cancer which has seen people drop out of being reps, and even go off work with stress, because of the bullying occurring within the union. In my own rank-and-file approach to organising, I've butted heads with this problem on more than one occasion. This blog is a reflection of the issues at hand and an attempt to focus my own thoughts in terms of how to combat that.

The seamen's strike, Liverpool 1966 - Tony Wailey

Submitted by Red Marriott on Feb 8 2012 20:07

Scab beaten up and thrown into sea during 1966 seamen's strike

A personal account of a striker's experiences; describing working conditions on ship, strikers' solidarity, the smear techniques of the press and government, the capitulation of the union leadership etc.

Nazi opportunists descend on Liverpool

Submitted by working class s... on Feb 6 2012 17:14

Liverpool anti-fascists counter a UK wide mobilisation of Nazi's as the protest outside Liverpool Crown Court in an attempt to make political capital out of a case involving alleged paedophiles.

Liverpool Hospital demo goes ahead, despite toadying Labour Party lickspittles cancelling it

Submitted by working class s... on Jan 27 2012 23:56

Around fifty people attended a demonstration against the privatisation of the NHS at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. Local Labour party goons had cancelled the demo due to concerns that we would point out that they are just as disgusting as the Conservatives. We did it anyway.