We Shall Not Be Moved: How Liverpool’s Working Class Fought Redundancies, Closures and Cuts in the Age of Thatcher, by Brian Marren

Scousers’ acts of resilience are celebrated in a study of the city’s struggles, says Lisa Mckenzie

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March 31, 2016
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March 31, 2016
Lisa Mckenzie
Demonstration against unemployment, Liverpool, England, 1981
Source: Alamy
Dark times: Thatcherism made no secret of its aim of ending the collective class identity that had long been a force in the North, Lisa Mckenzie argues

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Print headline: Laughing through the darkness

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