Censorship, staff negligence, and extreme heat at the Telford Unit, Texas
Health and safety victory for recycling plant workers
Tragic events in Russia
Exactly a week after Putin’s “landslide” victory in the Russian Presidential election (March 18) a terrible fire broke out in the “Winter Cherry” shopping and entertainment centre of the Siberian city of Kemerovo. It killed more than 80 people, at least 40 of whom are children. Some are still missing. Appalling though Kemerovo was, it was not an isolated incident.
The Monopoly board of the city: Grenfell Tower - where was the HCA, government housing regulator??
The Homes & Community Agency(HCA) is the UK state regulatory body for social housing; its job is to monitor the performance, finances and provision of services of landlords. Missing from the media coverage of the Grenfell Tower fire disaster so far is any discussion of what relation the HCA has to this horror story of corporate murder. Given the years of complaints from Grenfell tenants(1) about their landlord the Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation(KCTMO)(2), we can reasonably ask why the HCA never stepped in to investigate the terrible tenant-landlord relationship and the many fire safety complaints tenants had flagged up repeatedly before the fire broke out.
Smothered by regeneration: the Grenfell Tower fire
Night of the gas: Bhopal India
Break the silence on Azerbaijan oil workers' deaths
The Monongah mining disaster, 1907 - Steven Johns
The matchgirls strike, 1888 - John Simkin
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