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Click here to download whole pamphlet (plus appendices) as pdf, or read sections below.
Click here for the 1986 pamphlet, "Liverpool: what went wrong?", which carries the story further.
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Hilda Kean, who resigned as leader of Hackney council when the council decided to knuckle under to the Tories, analyses the ratecapping battle.
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“Having shown first that everyone is a philosopher, though in his own way and unconsciously, since even in the slightest manifestation of any intellectual activity whatever...
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Something of a local government left had begun to emerge in the early '70s, talking about 'participation' and 'the community'.
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Why did all the promises and good intentions of the new left come to naught in this way?
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In moving from the half-revolutionary politics they started off with, the new local government left have not arrived back at traditional Labour reformism, unmodified.
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January 1982 to July 1985
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Local authority workers have not traditionally been as militant and organised as in major manufacturing industries.
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The bitter experience of Labour in government in 1964-70 and in 1974-9 pushed many activists away from reformism and towards revolutionary socialism.
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The recent political collapse of much of the local government left in face of the Tory offensive was not inevitable. Other and better things were possible.
