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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
As protests erupt over Henry Nowak’s murder, ANDREW MURRAY argues that anger is being exploited to advance a wider racist and anti-immigration agenda
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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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