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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.
Schools Safety Fiasco: Political leaders gamble with our childrens lives. There’s so much conflicting information and advice about Covid. Infact that much that you would
Why we have to build back differently with a City Region Green Deal The pandemic has focused minds. This virus seems to search out every
National, local and social media platforms are buzzing with news of the arrest of Liverpool’s elected City Mayor. All and sundry, from the informed and
The new normal is a reliance on charity while government continues to strip the state and transfer billions of pounds from the public purse to private organisations, many of which have direct links to Tory Party members.
As politicians consider additional regional and localised restrictions, and the voices in favour of another “lockdown” grow ever louder, who is speaking out for us? Who is organising us?
None of us have lived through anything like the corona virus pandemic before. It’s caused uncertainty, worry, and stress.
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
