Near tO revOLutiON?

1911 Liverpool general transport strike centenary conference

Speakers include

Sat 8 Oct, 10am-6.30pm

@ 68 Hope Street, Liverpool L1 9HW

Bob Crow (rMt), John McDonnell MP, richard Hyman (LSe) & eric taplin

Near to revolution? Liverpool 1911

This history is your history... ass Strike, syndicalist firebrands, clashes with police and troops, a gunboat sent up the Mersey and two strikers shot dead... The 1911 Liverpool General Transport Strike was the most significant episode in the stormy period of the 1910-14 Great Unrest when Edwardian Britain was shaken by mass strikes and open working class revolt. This revolt prepared the ground for mass trade unionism among workers. The history of 1911 is still relevant today as the working class face the greatest assault on living standards since the 1930s.

The conference will provide meetings of popular history with debates on different aspects of 1911 including: Opening plenary with Eric Taplin author of Near To Revolution? Liverpool 1911 Liverpools Bloody Tuesday - 1911 and the state response Sam Davies (Professor of History, LJMU) 1911 and its legacy: foundational myth or authentic tradition? Mark OBrien (University of Liverpool/UCU) The changing working class: 1911 and today Julian Alford (socialist) Reflections on 1911, Fred Bower and teaching working class history in the new casaversity Ron Noon (retired LJMU) The labour identity and the Strange Death of Liberal England John Callaghan (University of Salford) Syndicalism and trade union officialdom Ralph Darlington (University of Salford)

Tom Mann and British Syndicalism Richard Hyman (LSE) The 1913 Dublin Lockout and Jim Larkin Francis Devine (SIPTU college, Dublin) WORKSHOP: Organising the unorganised (Unite, Liverpool SolFed) PANEL MEETING: Trade unionism in 1911 and today Bob Crow (RMT gen sec) John McDonnell MP Charlie Kimber (SWP nat sec) Tony Mulhearn (ex-Liverpool 47 councillor) Tickets: 5 waged, 3 unwaged Available from News from Nowhere, Bold Street, L1 4HY Also available on the door. More information from 1911centenary@gmail.com
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