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Bringing together left wing activists, trade unionists and community campaigners, the aim is to provide a platform that promotes working class unity, grass roots activism and community action, generating policies and stimulating actions and campaigns for the collective good in the Liverpool City Region.
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:
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
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
Housing – A Basic Right or a Means to a Profit? Surely this is a rhetorical question? Well, no not really. We remain engulfed in
Building an Infrastructure of Dissent The last blog hosted by Beacon focussed on what has been happening recently in our schools and concluded that education
Education is important for us all, always, not just during a pandemic Education has been at the centre of the Covid-19 storm. Teachers, assistants, others
Good jobs with trade union rights - end low pay and precarious employment
An Employment Charter, guaranteeing the workers’ voice, written into public sector contracts
Affirmative action to end employment discrimination
Community Wealth Building and a Social Purchasing Charter for anchor institutions
Invest in community assets
Scale up the social and solidarity economy – establish a “Mondragon on Merseyside”
A City Region Investment Bank to provide investment in infrastructure and communities
A massive council house building programme to end homelessness and combat landlordism
A municipal and community owned green transport infrastructure
Municipal and community owned green energy - end utility tyranny
Free at the point of need social care delivered by local authorities and the social economy
The Right to Food, end food poverty
Non means tested Universal Basic Services
Access to green space for every community
Full “City State” devolution for the Liverpool City Region
Directly elected City Region Mayor and a proportionately elected City Region Assembly
Neighbourhood Committees with powers of scrutiny over Councillors, City Region Assembly Members and MPs representing each neighbourhood
