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We are a grassroots collective of Liverpool residents fighting for housing and related needs through direct action, political education & campaigning.

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Liverpool Residents Action @lraction.uk · May 8
Free event, please join us on 23rd May, 6:30pm for 7pm start, accessible venue, Black Lodge Brewery, 3 Kings Dock Street, L1 8JU.

We are excited to be in conversation with Tracy Rosenthal, author & co-founder of Los Angeles Tenants Union to launch and discuss their book Abolish Rent.
Alt text image 1: A dark red background, a photograph from @abolish.rent of graffiti blended into it. The graffiti in full caps reads- no landlords, in red, no bosses, in white, no cops, in blue. Overlaid is 'Friday 23rd May 2025' in a linen colour between no landlords and no bosses. Also overlaid is 'From 6.30pm' in the same linen colour scheme between the no bosses and no cops. Text in the linen colour flows bellow the above, occuping the left hand half reads 'Book launch and conversation with author and LA Tenants Union co-founder Tracy Rosenthal, with Liverpool Residents Action, chaired by Abi O’Connor' Black Lodge Brewery, 3 Kings Dock Street, L1 8JU. Accessible event space In the remaining right hand space is the cover of a bright red book. In black text alignied and centred at the top is 'How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis'. And in the linen colour in full caps is the title each word a new line, ABOLISH RENT. A ball and chain leading to two house keys attached fills the top centre half of the book cover, a link in the chain is broken. Beneath it in the linen colour are the authors names in full caps. 'Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis'. Alt text image 2: Contains the following text centred on a dark red background with linen coloured text. Free event, please join us on 23rd May, 6:30pm for 7pm start, accessible venue, Black Lodge Brewery, 3 Kings Dock Street, L1 8JU. We are excited to be in conversation with Tracy Rosenthal, author & co-founder of Los Angeles Tenants Union to launch and discuss their book Abolish Rent. Abolish Rent takes aim at one of the foremost engines of inequality and injustice. Rent drives millions into debt, despair, and onto the streets. The social cost of rent is too damn high. Written for anyone fed up with the permanent housing crisis, complicit politicians, and real estate greed, Abolish Rent dissects our housing system from the perspective of those it immiserates. Through unsparing analysis and striking stories of resistance, it shows us how tenants can, through organizing and collective action, harness our power and win the housing we deserve. From two co-founders of the largest tenants union in the country, this deeply reported account of the resurgent tenant movement centers poor and working-class people who are fighting back, staying put, and remaking the city in the process. Authors Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis take us to trilingual strategy meetings, raucous marches against gentrification, and daring eviction defenses where immigrants put their lives on the line. These are the seeds of the revolutionary movement we need to make our housing, our cities, and the world our home. Alt text image 1: A dark red background, a photograph from @abolish.rent of graffiti blended into it. The graffiti in full caps reads- no landlords, in red, no bosses, in white, no cops, in blue. Overlaid is 'Friday 23rd May 2025' in a linen colour between no landlords and no bosses. Also overlaid is 'From 6.30pm' in the same linen colour scheme between the no bosses and no cops.
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Free event, please join us on 23rd May, 6:30pm for 7pm start, accessible venue, Black Lodge Brewery, 3 Kings Dock Street, L1 8JU.

We are excited to be in conversation with Tracy Rosenthal, author & co-founder of Los Angeles Tenants Union to launch and discuss their book Abolish Rent.
Alt text image 1: A dark red background, a photograph from @abolish.rent of graffiti blended into it. The graffiti in full caps reads- no landlords, in red, no bosses, in white, no cops, in blue. Overlaid is 'Friday 23rd May 2025' in a linen colour between no landlords and no bosses. Also overlaid is 'From 6.30pm' in the same linen colour scheme between the no bosses and no cops. Text in the linen colour flows bellow the above, occuping the left hand half reads 'Book launch and conversation with author and LA Tenants Union co-founder Tracy Rosenthal, with Liverpool Residents Action, chaired by Abi O’Connor' Black Lodge Brewery, 3 Kings Dock Street, L1 8JU. Accessible event space In the remaining right hand space is the cover of a bright red book. In black text alignied and centred at the top is 'How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis'. And in the linen colour in full caps is the title each word a new line, ABOLISH RENT. A ball and chain leading to two house keys attached fills the top centre half of the book cover, a link in the chain is broken. Beneath it in the linen colour are the authors names in full caps. 'Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis'. Alt text image 2: Contains the following text centred on a dark red background with linen coloured text. Free event, please join us on 23rd May, 6:30pm for 7pm start, accessible venue, Black Lodge Brewery, 3 Kings Dock Street, L1 8JU. We are excited to be in conversation with Tracy Rosenthal, author & co-founder of Los Angeles Tenants Union to launch and discuss their book Abolish Rent. Abolish Rent takes aim at one of the foremost engines of inequality and injustice. Rent drives millions into debt, despair, and onto the streets. The social cost of rent is too damn high. Written for anyone fed up with the permanent housing crisis, complicit politicians, and real estate greed, Abolish Rent dissects our housing system from the perspective of those it immiserates. Through unsparing analysis and striking stories of resistance, it shows us how tenants can, through organizing and collective action, harness our power and win the housing we deserve. From two co-founders of the largest tenants union in the country, this deeply reported account of the resurgent tenant movement centers poor and working-class people who are fighting back, staying put, and remaking the city in the process. Authors Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis take us to trilingual strategy meetings, raucous marches against gentrification, and daring eviction defenses where immigrants put their lives on the line. These are the seeds of the revolutionary movement we need to make our housing, our cities, and the world our home. Alt text image 1: A dark red background, a photograph from @abolish.rent of graffiti blended into it. The graffiti in full caps reads- no landlords, in red, no bosses, in white, no cops, in blue. Overlaid is 'Friday 23rd May 2025' in a linen colour between no landlords and no bosses. Also overlaid is 'From 6.30pm' in the same linen colour scheme between the no bosses and no cops.
May 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Everything Abi said- following along with Nags Head tennants on instagram > www.instagram.com/nagsheadesta...
April 14, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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#RentCapsandControls

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In the background a heatmap of England shows the percentage of homes covered by local housing allowances as of 2024. Across the centre in LRAction-purple on lavender padding, centred text reads, "On Rent Caps and Local Housing Allowance Freeze", across the bottom edge of the image a city scape of Liverpool, and digitally-handwritten text beneath reads in full caps "Liverpool Residents Action" in LRAction-purple. All images following this use white centred text on LRAction-purple. We welcome the research from Crisis and Zoopla on the growing disparity between rents and the Local Housing Allowance (LHA) published this week. We too recognise, and personally experience, the panic felt amongst private sector tenants dealing with unaffordable rent hikes as the LHA rates are now frozen again from April 1st. We agree that the disparity between rents and the LHA amount is scandalous. It is clear that it is a huge factor in the increase in homelessness as private renters face eviction due to rent arrears as their rents raise way beyond wages, this is an issue that will not be addressed by the end of section 21 and is not addressed at all by the current iteration of the Renters Rights Bill (RRB). We also agree that successive Governments’ negligence since the LHA calculation was slashed in 2011, from being aligned to the bottom 50% of rents to the bottom 30%, has contributed to the current situation. Only 2.7% of private rents across England are within LHA rates, and less than 5% in the Liverpool City Region (LCR). Politicians' decision to allow this disparity to increase, by freezing the LHA, and failing to consider the impact this is having and has had on renters and homelessness is a catastrophic failure. A solution to this crisis cannot be complete without the introduction of properly formulated rent caps and controls. The ONS has confirmed that rents have increased by 8.1% in the year to January alone, outstripping inflation by 6 percentage points and 2.5% ahead of wage growth. We agree that this is unmanageable, and agree that a social housing program must be part of the solution. However we are certain that no discussion on homelessness, private renting or the financial crisis our country faces is complete without an urgent and robust discussion on rent caps and rent controls. It cannot be the case that renters and their supporters and representatives do the work of the private landlord class by lobbying for ever increasing amounts of public money to be handed to private landlords directly from the public purse and for the increases in these payments to be tied only to the rents landlords wish to charge and "market forces".
April 4, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Liverpool Residents Action response to Labour's announcement of welfare cuts

The current Labour government has made the indefensible choice to further worsen the lives of the most vulnerable.
"Liverpool Residents Action response to Labour's announcement of welfare cuts" reads in white text on a solid LRAction purple background. The text is centre aligned in the middle of the image. A city scape of Liverpool is projected across the bottom, with "Liverpool Residents Action" digitally-written in full caps across the bottom edge. All following slides are white on purple text, center aligned in the middle of each image. The current Labour government has made the indefensible choice to further worsen the lives of the most vulnerable. The planned cuts to Personal Independence Payments, Universal Credit and Carer’s Allowance are a disgrace to the people they are elected to serve. While it is increasingly clear that many MPs have no background in the labour and social movements that seek to empower people who the system fails, their offices will have heard in no uncertain terms the detrimental impact that austerity 2.0 will have on millions of people. The inhumanity of those who hold power in this country is in plain view for us all to see.
March 30, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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"Blue Labour is an effort at trying to construct an identity politics of our class as a subaltern class. It gains ground in elite circles because it has enough truthiness to them, even though the realities of class today are far different from their narrow imaginings." 🎯
philbc3.bsky.social Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · Feb 5
"Far from being an expression of working class politics, Blue Labour is based on a simulacrum of what it means to be working class. A *middle class* idea of the lower orders as blunt and bigoted."
Blue Labour and the Working Class
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February 5, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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BLUE LABOUR IS NOT THE ANSWER
1:1 image, light blue text in full caps centred on a dark blue background reads, "blue labour" on the first line, and on the final line, "is not the answer". The following images follow this theme with explanatory text in the alt. PoliticsHome has recently featured Blue Labour, chaired by Dan Carden, MP for Liverpool Walton, who explains to them. “I'm not scared of the term Blue Labour.” He does not mind the term “socially conservative” either, he adds, because “progressive politics” has threatened communities. “It's challenged the value of long-standing institutions, from trade unions to churches.” Carden risks being toppled by the left, not the right, in this city who are disappointed and angry to see a Labour MP, in what was previously the safest seat in the city, throw his constituency under the bus in this way. We know that identity politics is just a distraction tactic, so does Carden. Division in this city comes from a politics of scarcity, people living in very deprived conditions, as they do in Walton. This is a direct consequence of the decisions made by consecutive governments,continued and unchallenged by this current Labour government.
February 3, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Our next in-person meeting where we'll be discussing some of our up and coming plans including response to the Renter's (Reform) Rights Bill, some options for community engagement events and our recently established casework policies for those coming to us for help with housing issues.
Meeting graphic, is 1:1 ratio, with a LRA logo in the top left quadrant, and website LRACTION.UK , depicts a tent, a high rise, and a house with yellow 'lights on' each. Text in alternating "LRA Purple" and black occupies the remaining three quadrants, reads:- [In full caps] Tuesday 28th January 2025 7PM - 9PM Liverpool Residents Action Fighting for housing rights and freedoms! Everyone Welcome (no cops, no bailiffs, no lanlords, no politicians, no bigots, no abusers nor their apologists) Does Liverpool, L3 8HL Accessible space, on street parking
January 22, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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We are Liverpool Residents' Action! 📢 A grassroots collective of Liverpool residents fighting for housing and related needs through direct action, political education & campaigning

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December 16, 2024 at 7:45 PM