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8 February 2012
Leeds Trinity students fight canteen cuts
Leeds Trinity University College canteen services have been stopped on Saturdays and Sundays for the foreseeable future. Staff have been made redundant and others have had their hours cut, writes Samantha Garratt, Leeds Trinity Union general secretary.
8 February 2012
Tower Hamlets: Save Rushmead one stop shop - fight all cuts
It's almost unheard of to see Labour Party members campaigning in Tower Hamlets, east London, more than two months before an election, writes Naomi Byron, Tower Hamlets Socialist Party.
25 January 2012
Fight the Tories' Welfare Reform Bill
The Lords won't save us!: Tory Iain Duncan Smith's vicious Welfare Reform Bill, which the government aims to make law by May, will leave thousands destitute, writes Ben Robinson.
Massive general strike in Greece on 15 June 2011, photo Stephan Kimmerle
18 January 2012
Greece: Non-payment movement against new housing tax
In October 2011 the Greek Pasok government of George Papandreou (just before being forced out of office), announced the implementation of a new housing tax through people's electricity bills, writes Christina Ziakka, Xekinima (CWI in Greece).
11 January 2012
The cumulative effect of unemployment, a shortage of affordable housing and the cuts to housing benefit is turning the clock backwards on housing, writes Alison Hill.
4 January 2012
2012: Millions face poverty and homelessness
There's been no good news for people worried about their housing situation over Christmas and New Year, writes Sarah Wrack.
14 December 2011
TV review: Britain's great housing scandal exposed
Channel 4's campaigning series of programmes, The Great British Property Scandal, has struck a chord with a wide audience, writes Paul Kershaw, Unite LE 1111 housing workers' branch.
Flooded with Debt, photo Suz www.squashdonkey.co.uk
7 December 2011
Homes Crisis: Fund housing need - not fat cat greed!
The Con-Dems have announced a 'housing strategy' that benefits big building companies and banks, including selling off more social housing stock and underwriting banks that offer 95% 'subprime' mortgages for newly built houses, writes Paul Kershaw, Unite LE 1111 housing workers' branch.
Homelessness protest, photo Paul Mattsson
23 November 2011
Con-Dems worsen the housing crisis
It isn't surprising that the Con-Dems fear that housing is becoming a toxic issue. New housing proposals, announced on 21 November, are woefully inadequate. They come nowhere near reversing earlier cuts...
23 November 2011
Rock bottom: Northern Rock, the failed bank rescued by the previous Labour government, has been sold off on the cheap to Virgin Money by the Con-Dems...
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