Merseyside ARMS all members meeting

• Date:  Thursday 29 September 2016.
• Time:  11.00 to 14.00.
• Place:  Robert Tressell Room, PCS Regional Office, 3rd Floor, Jack Jones House, 1 Islington, Liverpool L3 8EG
• Guest speaker: Tony Mulhearn, co-author of Liverpool: A City That Dared To Fight, and also Liverpool Labour Party City Councillor in the 1980s.
• Meeting open to:  Merseyside ARMS members - North West ARMs members and PCS branches are all very welcome as observers.

A unique opportunity to hear first-hand the experiences of the Liverpool Labour Council in the 1980s when tens of thousands of workers united to gain major concessions from an intransigent Tory Government.

Active in his trade union, the National Graphic Association, since starting work, Tony Mulhearn joined the Labour Party in Liverpool in 1963. He was Vice-President of the District Labour Party for 8 years, then its President for a further 5 years. Elected to the Liverpool City Council in 1984, he soon became a key figure in the council struggle, combining his position on the council with the presidency of the Liverpool District Labour Party, until his expulsion from the Labour Party after a Spanish Inquisition-style inquiry in 1986. Tony Mulhearn was one of the 47 councillors surcharged and disqualified from office by the unelected district auditor in March 1987. We hope that this account of Liverpool's struggle can play its part in the rearming of the British working class for the mighty battles to come.

Agenda

1. Welcome (11.00-11.05) 
2. Previous minutes (11.05-11.10) 
3. Guest speaker – Tony Mulhearn, former Liverpool councillor (11.10-12.30) 
4. Lunch (12.30-13.00) 
5. Clara Paillard PCS NEC (13.00-13.30) 
6. NW Regional Committee (13.30-13.40) 
7. National Committee (13.40-13.45) 
8. Finance (13.45-13.50) 
9. Activities (13.50-13.55) 
10. Close of meeting (13.55-14.00)