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Radio Merseyside,6 mins

Liverpool 1981: The People's March for Jobs

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In May 1981, 500 people set off from Liverpool to London in a “march for jobs”. 280 miles on foot to call on the government to address soaring unemployment and the problems that deindustrialisation had caused in northern communities.

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