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17 February 2021
Swarming the London Mayor's question time
Waltham Forest community campaign 'Save Our Square' and Socialist Party members organised what can only be described as a swarm of London Mayor Sadiq Khan's virtual Question Time on Thursday 11 February
17 February 2021
Tory cladding money will not make us safe
Despite the horrific scenes at Grenfell almost four years ago, around 700,000 people in the UK are still living in buildings fitted with combustible cladding
10 February 2021
Big Energy piles on the misery
Energy regulator Ofgem has raised the price cap on what gas and electricity companies can charge 15 million households by between £87 and £96 a year (£1,156 or £1,138) - a 9% increase - from 1 April
3 February 2021
Save our square: we need social housing and public services
Waltham Forest Labour council in East London approved plans to build a block of unaffordable, private housing on Walthamstow town square
3 February 2021
Multimillion-pound rental firm demands thousands from homeless asylum seeker
A property firm with turnover in the millions is pursuing a campaigning asylum seeker for thousands through the courts. We say: Defend Lawanya - fight for tenants' rights!
Grenfell fire demonstrators, 17.6.17; Are we any closer to justice? photo Mary Finch
27 January 2021
Grenfell fire demonstrators, 17.6.17; Are we any closer to justice? photo Mary Finch
Grenfell fire demonstrators, 17.6.17; Are we any closer to justice? photo Mary Finch
27 January 2021
Save Our Square from New Labour gentrification
Community campaign Save Our Square E17 has successfully resisted Waltham Forest Labour council's plans to build a monster block in Walthamstow town square for six years
20 January 2021
Plymouth rent strike continues
We have now surpassed 400 signatures for our rent strike, with over £710,000 pledged to be withheld. For students there is no equivalent to the furlough scheme, and we're expected to hand over the majority
20 January 2021
Socialist Students has launched a petition to build support for its demands on the way forward for the student movement and to solve the crisis in higher education.
20 January 2021
Teachers: On the front line, in their own words
I've been working from home this lockdown, looking after the virtual classrooms. Some of our pupils struggle to access the work from home, as their parents need to work too. And some have a lot of illness
20 January 2021
Scrap fees, refund rents and pay a living grant
Right up until the last minute, the university seemed to be endlessly optimistic about how we could return this term for in-person teaching
6 January 2021
Refund the rent, cancel the fees, for fully funded, publicly owned education
With the new lockdowns, what can students expect for the rest of the academic year?
16 December 2020
Christmas redundancy shock at L&Q housing association
Workers at highly profitable housing association L&Q were shocked to be told of major restructuring and the threat of large-scale redundancies.
9 December 2020
Tenants and workers unite to take on landlords
Unite members, together with tenants and housing activists, gathered outside the HQ of 'One Housing' last Friday to protest against the unfair treatment this anti-social housing association gives out to its workers and tenants
9 December 2020
Engels and the answer to the housing question
Engels published The Housing Question in 1872 as a contribution to debates about the appalling housing conditions facing the working class in Germany, Britain and elsewhere, and what should be done about it
2 December 2020
Rent strikers' victory in student halls
Students at the University of Manchester won a 30% refund of their rent for the term
11 November 2020
Solidarity with Manchester students - fight for democratic control of campus safety
Socialist Students sends solidarity to students at the University of Manchester (UoM), who through their protests, have ensured the removal of two-metre high security fences designed to pen them in
28 October 2020
Evicted students can fight back and win
On Monday 19 October, students in Paragon accommodation, west London, checked their emails and got a huge shock
28 October 2020
Waltham Forest Save Our Square:
Mass outside meeting draws up battle plan: A breath of fresh air. After being huddled over a computer in endless Zoom discussions for nine months, it was great to be outside again in the town square, doing what the Socialist Party has been doing
28 October 2020
Grenfell watch: landlord's £800,000 saving
A director of Grenfell Tower's landlord company told the public inquiry he "had forgotten" about a secret meeting with builders discussing how to shave £800,000 off refurb costs
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