“These people don’t know what they’ve started. Because what they have started, we’re going to finish. The lads from Australia will make sure that before the day is over, whether it be this day, tomorrow, or the next day, is a victory not only for the Liverpool workers but also all dockers and seafarers the world over.”
Jim Donovan, Maritime Union of Australia
speaking at Seaforth outside Mersey Docks HQ, 21 February 1996