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7 February 2007
Don't privatise social housing!
RECENT CHANGES could lead to the end of "not for profit" social housing in England or, at the very least, fundamentally change housing provision...
7 February 2007
Tenants pay when things go wrong
SOCIALIST PARTY members are actively involved in the campaign by tenants of Peabody Housing Trust to stop it selling off 1,100 homes on the open market...
24 August 2006
Liberal U-turn stops tenants' ballot victory
"YOU CAN'T trust the Liberals", an angry council tenant said on leaving the 26 July meeting of Lewisham council. Socialist Party councillors Ian Page and Chris Flood had moved a resolution calling for tenants to be balloted, writes Clive Heemskerk.
20 April 2006
Fight to save our council housing!
Special Feature: TONY BLAIR has a touching faith in the private profit system's ability to solve all ills in society. But this system is making Britain's housing crisis worse - the private housing 'market' is just not building enough homes at prices people can afford...
20 April 2006
A socialist alternative to privatisation
Local elections 4 May -: THE ASSERTION that the three main parties are 'all Tory parties' has been dramatically confirmed in Southwark, south London, where Socialist Party member Lois Austin is standing in the May elections...
30 March 2006
Council elections: Great response in Lewisham
"Thank you for all your hard work on behalf of the council tenants - keep it up, some of us can't afford to buy our own homes!"
23 March 2006
Lewisham: Socialist Party takes up the fight against ALMOs
Housing privatisation...: LEWISHAM COUNCIL, like other authorities is trying to sell off our council homes to housing associations, PFI or arms length management organisation (ALMO) bodies. Socialist Party members oppose these plans...
26 January 2006
Lincoln fights to defend council housing
ACROSS THE country local councils are getting rid of their council housing through private finance initiatives (PFI), arms length management schemes and sell-offs to private companies and housing associations...
12 January 2006
Stop the privatisation of council housing
THE CRISIS in housing has been called a time bomb under working-class people's living standards...
29 September 2005
PROTESTERS REPRESENTING thousands of tenants from Peabody Trust estates demonstrated on 21 September outside Peabody's HQ in Southwark at Peabody management's plans to sell off its housing...
28 April 2005
Housing for need not profit: SO FEW houses are being built at affordable prices in Britain that even workers in jobs where there are chronic shortages cannot get on the 'property ladder'...
22 November 2003
Lewisham by-election 4 December
MANY PEOPLE in Telegraph Hill ward are really fed up with the penny-pinching way that New Labour runs Lewisham council...
12 April 2002
Birmingham tenants' victory: ONE OF the wheels of New Labour's privatisation bandwagon came off when tenants of Britain's largest landlord, Birmingham City Council, voted by a 2:1 majority to reject plans to sell off council housing to a group of private landlords, writes Clive Walder.
29 March 2002
Birmingham: Vote "No" to housing transfers: UNTIL 8 April, Birmingham city council are balloting all their 88,000 council tenant households on whether to transfer the housing stock to new private landlords
22 March 2002
BIRMINGHAM CITY council is balloting council tenants. They are threatening tenants that their homes will be sold off to unelected, unaccountable quangoes, writes Clive Walder.
14 December 2001
WALTHAM FOREST council in east London have been promoting the transfer of the whole council housing stock (at present 13,44l properties) to an 'arms-length' company or to a housing association, not even discussing the option of staying with the council, writes Louise Thompson, chair of Waltham Forest Council Tenants' Panel and chair of the Investment Working Group.
1 December 2000
SAMANTHA DIAS is now the Socialist Party's second councillor in Lewisham. This great achievement showed that where a serious socialist alternative is offered, voters will support it, writes Martin Powell-Davies.
10 November 2000
Victory for Glenn Kelly: Bromley's embarrassing climbdown
GLENN KELLY, secretary of Bromley UNISON, has won a resounding victory against Bromley council bosses, writes Bill Mullins.
4 August 2000
BROMLEY COUNCIL in south London have suspended Glenn Kelly, UNISON branch secretary, chair of the Campaign for a Fighting Democratic UNISON and Socialist Party member...
28 July 2000
Council Housing: Stop the sell -off
TORY AND New Labour housing policy has been catastrophic for social housing and for millions of working-class households living in sub-standard or overcrowded accommodation...
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