Tag: Liverpool
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Another Building Collapses in Anfield
How a profit driven economy destroys communities On Wednesday 15 July another building collapsed in Anfield. At 1.50pm, in the middle of the day, on the busy junction of Townsend Lane and Empress Road, the side of a working African café crumbled in real time. Jovan’s African Café was open and trading at the time…
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Reflections on a Far-right march in Walton, Liverpool
A closer look at the event flyer revealed something strange but significant: there was no indication whatsoever of who had organised this demonstration. A poem against islamophobic scapegoating displayed on a London bus stop. The sad truth is that, whatever the subjective intentions of those workers who turn out in support of such sentiments, they…
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Street Parties
Across the streets, garlands of bunting flutter like prayer flags, brimming bowls of biscuits, crisps, bright custards and jellies, cakes and cucumber butties, sausage rolls and cheesetriangle sarnies, doilies and paper plates, plastic cups and tackycardboard hats but everyone’s smiling and laughing, and yer ma carries trays of French fancies and fondants, and there’s glasses…
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Mary Bamber
Ignorance is Blitz – why working class women must stand up and fight like Mary Bamber did. Mary Hardie Bamber — ‘Ma Bamber’ to the people of Liverpool — stands as an inspiring yet neglected figure in Britain’s working-class history. Born in Edinburgh in 1874, she devoted her life to the cause of the poor,…
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The Ruling Class is Running Scared
Labour doubles down on its hypocrisy and brutality. The 2025 Labour Party conference, held in Liverpool from Sunday 28th to Tuesday 30th September, once again exposed both the hypocrisy and brutality of the party’s stance on the genocide in Gaza. It also underlined Labour’s repressive response to any populist opposition that dares to challenge its…
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Not My National Anthem
As the national anthem opened the start of the Premier League season at Wembley Stadium on Sunday for the Charity Shield, the red half of the stadium drowned it out with boos and whistles. It wasn’t the first time Liverpool fans have booed God Save the King (or Queen), and it won’t be the last,…
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Preserving Our History – Williamson Tunnels
Last weekend me and Comrade Ricky went on a tour of the Williamson Tunnels, a network miles long, dug out of the sandstone that Liverpool sits on. Dug by men returning from the Napoleonic war for eccentric tobacco merchant Joseph Williamson.This is just a small part of its history, which you can learn more of…
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The Liverpool Parade: From Celebration to Panic
“Under socialism, the event wouldn’t be a liability to manage, but a celebration for the people, by the people” What should have been a day of celebration turned into disaster. The headlines should’ve been full of jubilant Liverpool fans watching the team parade the Premier League trophy through the city. Instead, people were glued to…
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The Scouser in Our Team
One of the major stories of this season has been the contract situations surrounding some of Liverpool’s biggest stars. Virgil van Dijk, Mo Salah, and Trent Alexander-Arnold all had contracts set to expire at the end of the season. It’s a bizarre situation for a club that has led the title race to have its…
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Liverpool’s Forgotten Legacy: The Abdullah Quilliam Mosque
A few months ago, a tragic incident occurred in Southport where three children were killed, and a further eight were seriously injured by a deranged man. This heartbreaking event led to racially motivated riots across Liverpool and Southport. One protest, which was prevented from escalating into a riot, took place outside the Abdullah Quilliam Mosque.…