Red Mersey

The Communist Party in Liverpool and Birkenhead, 1920-1940
SHS Occasional Publication 50

by Chris Jones

Chapters:

  • Foundation: a party of a new type
  • The Minority Movement in Liverpool
  • Bans and proscriptions in the Labour Party and trade unions gather pace
  • New Times and the ‘New Line’
  • Organising the CPGB: members, officers and offices
  • No Pasaran: The fight against Fascism in Liverpool
  • The Popular Front on the Mersey
  • Industrial activity of the CPGB in Liverpool
  • The cultural life of the Liverpool CPGB
  • The Life and Soul of the Party
  • Darkening Clouds: International Activity
  • Give peace a chance: Liverpool communists and peace campaigns in the 1930s

CHRIS JONES is a retired academic nurse from Edge Hill University in Ormskirk, Lancashire. Read on ...

Sale of Back Numbers of Publications

The Socialist History Society is having a Sale of back numbers of our Occasional Publications.

Special offer £1 each plus postage. Members normally receive the Occasional Publications as part of their subscription, but if you want a copy of an issue that came out before you joined, these will be free to members, just pay the postage. Read on ...

UNION BREAD

BAGELS, PLATZELS AND CHOLLAH: THE STORY OF THE LONDON JEWISH BAKERS’ UNION
Jewish Socialists’ Group and Socialist History Society
by LARRY WAYNE

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UNION BREAD is a story both of division and of solidarity. There were bitter divisions between Jewish and non-Jewish Bakers over the issue of Sunday baking, and between the journeymen and the masters. Read on ...

Annual General Meeting and Book Launch

The Socialist History Society will be holding its first in-person meeting since the start of the current public health emergency.

Marx Memorial Library – 37a Clerkenwell Green, London, EC1R 0DU
Underground Farringdon station on the Circle, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines.
Saturday 7th May
1pm AGM – all welcome, but only members can vote. Read on ...