Austerity Britain: where the homeless seek shelter in bins

Housing crisis highlights

Social wage / Austerity Britain: where the homeless seek shelter in bins

Report reveals shocking rise of bin sleepers as one waste worker recounts finding children as young as nine or ten.

6 Apr 2020 ,
Pay and conditions / Union-busting at St Mungo’s homeless charity

More pressure on workers in the charity sector, where a race to the bottom is well underway.

4 Feb 2020 , Proletarian
Housing / Foreign investors head to Birmingham housing market

As London property prices nose-dive, investors are hoping to make a quick buck out of new-build apartments in the country’s second-largest city.

18 Jul 2019 , Birmingham Worker

Housing / Right-to-rent and work checks promote racism and victimise the most vulnerable

Forcing landlords and employers to check the immigration status of tenants and employees has led to a surge in homelessness among non-white workers in Britain.

11 Jun 2019 ,
Housing / Grenfell Tower – another long and winding public inquiry

Privatisation, subcontracting and the drive to maximise profits led to the inferno, but the ruling class will be hoping the inquiry can come up with a scapegoat or two on whom to pin the blame for its crimes.

8 Dec 2018 , Proletarian
Housing / The housing crisis is lining private landlords’ pockets

Housing benefit is acting as the ‘landlords’ bonus’, while provision of emergency temporary accommodation by private landlords is the ‘icing on the cake’.

6 Dec 2018 , Proletarian
Housing / Residents resist social cleansing in Cambridge

The CPGB-ML supports tenants in Montreal Square, who are trying to save their community from redevelopment.

2 Nov 2018 ,
Housing / The housing crisis shows that capitalism is due for demolition

Housing should be a right not a privilege, yet capitalism has proven itself incapable of providing a decent home to every worker.

1 Nov 2018 ,
Ireland / Gangsters employed by the state to assist slum landlords

In Ireland, as in Britain, the housing crisis is deepening while the government backs up the vultures feeding off the misery of poor.

20 Oct 2018 , Republican News
Housing / Property tycoon hikes rent by 10 percent

The decimation of social housing proves once more the inability of the market to provide even for people's most basic needs.

1 Oct 2018 , London Worker
Housing / Housing shortage in the midst of plenty

It is not the right to buy that workers need, but the right to a home.

5 Apr 2018 , Proletarian
Leaflets / Housing: a crisis of capitalism

What must be done in order to provide decent homes to all workers?

1 Mar 2018 ,
Housing / Grenfell Tower: tragedy or crime?

What was behind the devastating fire in north Kensington in June?

1 Aug 2017 , Proletarian
Housing / What did the October Revolution do for us? 2. Housing

The second in our series of articles examining the impact of the October Revolution of 1917 on the lives of workers in Britain.

1 Aug 2017 , Proletarian
Social wage / New bill could pave the way for the final destruction of social housing

Is this the end of social housing in Britain or the start of a fight-back?

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Britain TV / The Grenfell massacre: burning and looting

Who is to blame for this mass murder of workers in their homes?

10 Apr 2018, Proletarian TV

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Housing crisis highlights

Social wage / Austerity Britain: where the homeless seek shelter in bins

Report reveals shocking rise of bin sleepers as one waste worker recounts finding children as young as nine or ten.

Pay and conditions / Union-busting at St Mungo’s homeless charity

More pressure on workers in the charity sector, where a race to the bottom is well underway.

Housing / Foreign investors head to Birmingham housing market

As London property prices nose-dive, investors are hoping to make a quick buck out of new-build apartments in the country’s second-largest city.

Housing / Right-to-rent and work checks promote racism and victimise the most vulnerable

Forcing landlords and employers to check the immigration status of tenants and employees has led to a surge in homelessness among non-white workers in Britain.

Housing / Grenfell Tower – another long and winding public inquiry

Privatisation, subcontracting and the drive to maximise profits led to the inferno, but the ruling class will be hoping the inquiry can come up with a scapegoat or two on whom to pin the blame for its crimes.

Housing / The housing crisis is lining private landlords’ pockets

Housing benefit is acting as the ‘landlords’ bonus’, while provision of emergency temporary accommodation by private landlords is the ‘icing on the cake’.

Housing / Residents resist social cleansing in Cambridge

The CPGB-ML supports tenants in Montreal Square, who are trying to save their community from redevelopment.

Housing / The housing crisis shows that capitalism is due for demolition

Housing should be a right not a privilege, yet capitalism has proven itself incapable of providing a decent home to every worker.

Ireland / Gangsters employed by the state to assist slum landlords

In Ireland, as in Britain, the housing crisis is deepening while the government backs up the vultures feeding off the misery of poor.

Housing / Property tycoon hikes rent by 10 percent

The decimation of social housing proves once more the inability of the market to provide even for people's most basic needs.

Housing / Housing shortage in the midst of plenty

It is not the right to buy that workers need, but the right to a home.

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What must be done in order to provide decent homes to all workers?

Housing / Grenfell Tower: tragedy or crime?

What was behind the devastating fire in north Kensington in June?

Housing / What did the October Revolution do for us? 2. Housing

The second in our series of articles examining the impact of the October Revolution of 1917 on the lives of workers in Britain.

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Is this the end of social housing in Britain or the start of a fight-back?

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Britain TV / The Grenfell massacre: burning and looting

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