KIRKDALE BY-ELECTION While we are disappointed not to have gained more votes in the Kirkdale by-election, this is still a positive result that gives hope to the people of Kirkdale that we can begin to change things in our community…
It’s time for some new politics in Liverpool Politics is about people. Giving them a voice. Representing their interests. Bringing them together to make a difference in our communities. Beacon Liverpool originally started as a platform to share ideas and…
Liverpool City Council – a failure of municipal Labourism As Beacon has previously reported, the latest round of cuts approved by Liverpool’s Labour council brings the total cut from the council’s budget since 2010 up to a massive £450million. This…
Organising the resistance in our communities and at work. In an era of social and economic uncertainty, as the impact of the COVID19 pandemic combines with the increasing and unnecessarily punitive measures of a ruthless Tory regime, the feeling of…
No Cuts Liverpool Prior to its recent Budget meeting on 3rd March, Liverpool City Council has undertaken a public consultation into its 2021/22 budget, providing the people of Liverpool with the opportunity to feed into the debate on where £15.4million…
After the Covid-19 pandemic, how will the Fourth Industrial Revolution impact the Liverpool City Region? The recent Supreme Court ruling that Uber drivers should have the same rights as regular employees reminds us that workers must prepare for the threat…
Once More, “We are not Labour’s battleground…” Foreseeing the almost inevitable fallout from the Labour Party’s seemingly endless internal battles, four months ago Beacon wrote: As we go into the next phase of our public health crisis, facing twin economic…
City State Devolution not more flag waving nationalism When Boris Johnson expelled 21 MPs in September 2019 and then, a few months later, drove a “Get Brexit Done” bulldozer through the northern post industrial Red Wall, the Tory party’s position…
Sefton Rising Here’s one for you… What do you get if you build a housing development on existing flood plains? Of course, floods. But not on the new shiny estate, but on the existing dwellings that in the last 70…
Housing – A Basic Right or a Means to a Profit? Surely this is a rhetorical question? Well, no not really. We remain engulfed in a housing crisis, with an estimated 8.4 million people living in an unaffordable, insecure or…
