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 ...

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A Devilish Kind of Courage

The tale of a notorious 1911 London gunfight, the ‘Siege of Sidney Street’, and its consequences.

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On 3 January 1911, in the heart of London’s mainly Jewish East End, police discovered Latvian revolutionaries wanted for the murder of three officers. A six-hour gunfight ensued, with a fire consuming the besieged building. Read on ...

The Silence of Oppression

Hugh Brody and Merilyn Moos discuss how the experiences of imperialism and of exile from Nazism generate and rely on silences in both personal and political realms.

Hugh Brody’s books include Living Arctic, Maps And Dreams,The Other Side of Eden and Landscapes of Silence; his films include Nineteen Nineteen, England’s Henry Moore and Tracks Across Sand.

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