Housing
14 October 2018 · Housing, Ireland, Reviews
Ireland's Housing Crisis
Ireland’s Housing Crisis: A Marxist Analysis by John McAnulty reviewed by Glynn Robbins John McAnulty’s short, readable pamphlet couldn’t be timelier. On 3 rd October, a reported 12,000 peop…
19 June 2018 · · Housing
Marching for Grenfell
Summing up the silent march for Grenfell that took place to mark the anniversary of the disaster in words is hard, but thankfully there are powerful images which help round out what I want t…
2 March 2018 · Britain, Housing
After the Grenfell Tower Fire
The fire last June at Grenfell Tower killed 71, but justice for the survivors has yet to come. Sheila Cohen reports on the campaign for justice and the political implications of the tragedy.…
6 February 2018 · · Housing, Labour Party, Regeneration, local government
How the Haringey Development Vehicle was defeated
On Wednesday February 7, another protest will be taking place in the London Borough of Haringey against the Haringey Development Vehicle ( HDV), marching through the area and then lobbying a…
12 December 2017 · Housing, Scotland
Socialists lead direct action on housing crisis in Glasgow
Socialist activists in Scotland have organised a symbolic 24 hour occupation of a major building in the centre of Glasgow, which has been left empty for years while thousands in the city are…
8 December 2017 · · Housing, Labour Party
Haringey Labour steps up the fight against HDV
The wards in both constituency Labour Parties in the London Borough of Haringey, Hornsey & Wood Green and Tottenham have selected their candidates for next May's local council elections. The…
8 November 2017 · · Housing
There's no place....
There’s No Place, The American Housing Crisis and What It Means For The UK , by Glynn Robbins published by Red Roof, £10, 230 pages I was very motivated to read and to review this book, writ…
6 July 2017 · Britain, Housing, Labour Party, trade unions · 1 comment
Step up the noise!
My ears are ringing says Terry Conway In four days I was on two protests when noise has been a central element of the action. Defend the Ritzy workers I spent time last Friday evening as par…
2 July 2017 · Housing
Grenfell: the poor sacrificed for developer’s profits
Doug Thorpe from the Radical Housing Network spoke to Penny Duggan for The Anti-capitalist , the newspaper of the NPA in late June. We are happy to reprint it below. Doug is also a member of…
18 June 2017 · · Britain, Housing, Tories · 5 comments
Grenfell Tower tragedy shows this Tory government is illegitimate
Elizabeth Windsor, the English queen, isn’t supposed to make political statements, but on June 16 th she announced to the world that she thinks Tory Prime Minister Theresa May is a morally g…
16 March 2017 · · Housing
Housing White Paper measures will only make things worse
Karl Marx wrote that ‘history repeats itself first as tragedy, then as farce’. This sums up the housing White Paper unveiled on 7th February,writes Glyn Robbins. It’s farcical that, less tha…
30 November 2016 · Britain, Housing
Axe the whole housing Act
Glynn Robbins reports on the partial victory just won by the movement to defend public housing: The partial U-turn on ‘Pay to Stay’ is very welcome, but it’s not enough. The Housing and Plan…