Fundamental to the fight: highlights from the Liverpool
Dockers’ mass meetings 1995-98
Between 1995-98 Liverpool dockers were locked out of their
workplace after they refused to cross a picket line. Key to this heroic
resistance over such a lengthy period was the gathering together of dockers in
mass meetings. It gave the workers a confidence bred of their own numbers, and
it enabled the organisers to reach them personally with their educational
appeal and organisation methods.
Taken from over 40 hours of recordings, you can listen to
some of the highlights of the meetings in which strategies, that generated
solidarity worldwide, are debated and voted upon. The 130 minutes starts with
speeches from Tony Benn MP, Jeremy Corbyn and John Pilger at a London rally
before the voices of Liverpool Dockers, including Jimmy Nolan, ring out loud
and clear.
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