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Militant Liverpool - A City on the Edge (Paperback)
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Militant Liverpool - A City on the Edge (Paperback)
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In May 1983, in the wake of her victory in the Falklands, Mrs
Thatcher won the second of her three general election victories.
Liverpool, going not for the first or last time against the grain,
elected a Labour council that vowed to be different. In an
environment of mass unemployment in which Liverpool felt abandoned
by an indifferent government, the council resolved to join others
across the land in refusing to set a budget that would hurt the
poorest. It was at first wildly popular, but the scene soon became
set for a battle between the city and central government that would
shape the future of Liverpool. Published to coincide with the
thirtieth anniversary of the 1983 election, Militant Liverpool: A
City on the Edge sets out an even-handed assessment of events with
oral testimonies from many of the key protagonists. Thirty years
on, Liverpool has to some extent reinvented itself as a visitor
destination, but it is again facing major spending cuts while its
deep seated social problems remain. This book sheds new light on
what is for some a dark period in the city's past, best forgotten,
while for others is a memory of the city that refused to lie down
and die and a continuing inspiration.
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