The Monopoly board of the city: Grenfell Tower - where was the HCA, government housing regulator??
Submitted by Red Marriott on Jun 19 2017 16:23
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
Submitted by libcom on Jun 14 2017 10:48
Tenants at Grenfell Tower repeatedly warned the council and its management organisation about fire safety risks before a deadly blaze engulfed the 24-storey residential tower block.
Rent strike: St Pancras 1960
Submitted by Steven. on Mar 6 2017 11:04
A detailed history and analysis of the militant St Pancras rent strike of 1960 against council rent increases written in 1972.
Fight for the City Part 3: The City is Ours!
Part three of an analysis of what is happening to cities
Fight for the City :Part Two- No Place to Run: Control of Space by Capital and State
Second part of analysis of what is happening in the cities
Fight For The City: Part One- Social Cleansing, Social Warfare
First part of a three part series on what is happening to cuities under capitalism
The decimation of the English working class
Submitted by Whatever-ism on Dec 21 2015 15:00
A history of working class housing and some bleak speculations about a future that is coming unless we can change its course.
The squatters of 1946 - Paul Burnham
Submitted by Steven. on Dec 5 2015 14:39
A short history of the mass squatting movement in the UK, primarily organised by soldiers returning from World War II.
Rebel City
Anarchist Federation London on the back of major housing struggles within the capital launched a London wide bulletin offering analysis of what was happening and coverage of various housing disputes that were ongoing.
Red Vienna: experiment in working class culture, 1919-1934. - Helmut Gruber
From 1919 to 1934, the Socialist government in Vienna sought to create a comprehensive working-class culture, striving to provide a foretaste of the socialist utopia in the present. In Red Vienna, Gruber critically examines the impact of this experiment in all areas of life, from massive public housing projects and health and education programs to socialist parades, festivals, and sporting events designed to create a "new" working class.
