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10 December 2014
Tenants can resist Scrooge landlords
Housing crisis: Last month, evictions hit record-breaking levels. According to the homelessness charity Shelter, more than 1,300 people are put at risk of repossession or eviction every day
3 December 2014
Angry New Era tenants take protest to Cameron
500 march from Westbrook headquarters to hand in petition
The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition stands for rent control and building council housing, photo Waltham Forest TUSC
26 November 2014
Housing crisis! What do socialists say?
The housing crisis is hitting everyone in the face. The mainstream press, politicians and economists all feign concern. Not to mention the real concern of those of us actually affected by it!
New Era estate campaign
19 November 2014
Raging tenants evict rich landlord
When a 200 strong march of London's New Era estate and their supporters posted a massive eviction notice on management's door, no one believed it would happen five days later
12 November 2014
Waltham Forest Labour council made a disgraceful decision yesterday in the face of angry tenants
11 November 2014
Tenants serve 'eviction notice' on richest Tory MP
New Era estate tenants are fighting against plans to hike rents to 'market' levels
29 October 2014
Southwark Labour demolishes homes
No-one would oppose building more council houses. But is Southwark council really going to deliver on its latest promise of "11,000 new council homes over the next 30 years"?
22 October 2014
Classless Ukip?: Ukip claims to represent 'all social classes'. So what is the commons voting record of Ukip's newest MP, Tory defector Douglas Carswell?
8 October 2014
Bedroom Tax: Still making tenants' lives hell
'The bedroom tax? Hasn't that been scrapped?' We get comments like this at our campaign stalls now. The Labour Party said it would scrap the tax and the Lib Dems said they no longer support it, writes Cathy Meadows, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Scrap the Bedroom Tax.
1 October 2014
Housing - a history of class struggle
Housing is one of the most pressing social issues in Britain. Millions are struggling to pay their rents or mortgages. Government policies have resulted in rents and house prices reaching crazy heights
Russel Brand is actively supporting the campaign to defend New Era estate tenants, photo Paul Mattsson
24 September 2014
Tenants threatened by 'feudal lord'
Tenants on the New Era estate in Hackney are faced by an unholy alliance of predatory property speculation
10 September 2014
Bedroom Tax edges toward its doom
...but tenants still suffer: If a man dives headlong into a cesspool and then clambers out of it, the first thing he will do is find a way to wash his face and hands, writes Dave Murray.
31 July 2014
Lindsey Garrett from the New Era Estate in Hoxton spoke to Brian Debus from Hackney Socialist Party.
9 July 2014
Super-rich Tory MP profits from evictions
Market rents of £2,000 a month are the aim of rapacious landlord Benyon estates for the 90 flats on the New Era estate
25 June 2014
Victory! York socialists win university letting agency
York Student Socialist Society recently won a major victory. Our proposal for the student union at York university to open its own letting agency will become reality from August.
7 May 2014
Private sector rents and Labour
Labour launched its election campaign with proposals aimed at attracting private renters. There was little detail, but Ed Miliband raised a few limited measures
23 April 2014
Why is there a housing crisis?
The Daily Telegraph predicted that 2014 will be another profitable year for homeowners, suggesting that "the spring could be a great time to go for that investment-cum-country-house you have had your eye on."
2 April 2014
London: Quinn Square Rent Strike 1938
The East End battle against high rents and slum conditions The women's poster demonstration was the first the locals in Bethnal Green in London's East End knew about their rent strike. Quinn Square was a slum.
22 January 2014
Bedroom tax loophole: Can legal tactics be effective?
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has confirmed that tenants who have been continuously entitled to housing benefit since at least 1 January 1996, and who have occupied the same home since that date, are exempt from the bedroom tax
15 January 2014
Scrap the Bedroom Tax NOW: Tory welfare-slashing minister Iain Duncan Smith should resign. The millionaire architect of the hated 'bedroom tax', has illegally imposed the tax on tenants not liable to pay it
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