RUTH AYLETT admires the blunt honesty with which a woman’s experience is recorded, but detects the unexamined privilege that underlies it
For Mersey’s sake
MIKE SQUIRES recommends a rare history of the Communist Party in Liverpool

The Communist Party in Liverpool and Birkenhead, 1920-1940
Chris Jones
Socialist History Society, £5
WRITING local labour movement history is never an easy task. Unlike the ruling class, who litter themselves with memoirs about their contribution to the locality and its wellbeing, the organisations of the working class often fail to see the value of reserving records.
Nowhere is this more true than with the Communist Party.
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