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Labour Party moves against Militant Tendency in Liverpool

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On 27 November 1985 the Liverpool district Labour Party was suspended by the Labour national leadership.

The party executive ordered a full inquiry into the Labour Council after allegations that the revolutionary socialist group Militant Tendency was operating within it.

Critics of Militant said the faction was trying to take over the local party and use it to spread its Trotskyite views.

Watch out for a young David Blunkett!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militant_tendency
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/27/newsid_2528000/2...

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  • new Labour is what we get when socialism is kick out of the labour party

  • militant built more houses than any local council ever did.The ombubsman in charge of local government,actually stated in a report to thatcher,that the labour council in liverpool have since the request of government.have succeded in not only creating decent housing for the people of liverpool,but to militants credit .have achieved this by creating much needed jobs and have done so within the set budget.

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  • the labour party hate the term socialist is a clear example of how they are so right wing as to lose the connections with the nordinary working class,len mcluskey,leader of britains biggest union,used to belong,this is why labour will lose the next election

  • new labour = tory reserves

  • @UDSS We now have Labour Representation Committee, Socialism is building up within Labour again its only a matter of time before we can democratically reshape Labour into a fighting working class party.

  • Long live Trotskyism. 'God' damn the Labour Party.

  • @UDSS. Yeah there is a problem with your thesis. The Labour party is not a revolutionary anything. Labour is democratic socialist. It is of the centre left and always has been. Militant whether stalinist or not were not socialist but communist. They did damage to Labour at a time they should have been attacking Thatcher. Labour should be a party for ordinary working people and has moved too much to the right. However militant with their communist outlook had no place in a socialist party.

  • Because the Communist Party of Great Britain was Stalinist. The Militant Tendency was revolutionary anti-Stalinist socialist. They oppose the bureaucratic leadership of the communist party. Beside Labour was supposed to be a party for workers and not a party of capitalist lovers ( Tony Blair ).

    But that is over now. Labour is right-wing and no longer socialist. Militant Labour is now the Socialist Party and far more democratic socialist then Labour ever was.

  • The Labour party is supposed to be a democratic socialist party. The tendency were a bunch of commies. If they liked communism so much why not join the communist party?

  • @SkullOfYorick

    I thought it looked like Christopher Hitchens not his brother Peter. Could be wrong.

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