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A Beacon of hope in Liverpool?
James Nalton speaks to PETER FURMEDGE about a new socialist-municipalist initiative challenging the Tories and the Labour right at the polls
Beacon activist Peter Furmedge
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“FOR socialist municipalism” reads the banner on the website of Beacon, an emerging Liverpool-based political movement made up of left-wing activists, trade unionists, academics and community campaigners.
Last month Beacon applied to the Electoral Commission to become a political party, but the group is not waiting around — and today a member of the movement will provide a socialist alternative for voters in the city’s Kirkdale by-election.
Peter Furmedge will be standing as a non-party candidate but on a Beacon Liverpool manifesto, reflecting the aims of a grassroots political movement looking to “rejuvenate local democracy” through municipalism and work in the community.
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