Background
Born into a Liverpool working class family on 6 May 1933, he began political activity when he was picked up on a canvass by a local activist in 1950. Wall adopted a Trotskyist outlook and joined the Deane-Grant group, the remnant of the Revolutionary Socialist League which later became the Militant tendency - he became Garston Constituency Labour Party Secretary in 1952.
As a young activist, Wall played a role in moving the Liverpool Labour Party to the left in the late 1950s as a member of the then joint Liverpool Trades Council and Labour Party executive member, he had also been one of the youngest Liverpool councillor in the 1950s.
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