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30 October 2019
TV: The Accident - Will capitalism be exposed in upsetting, true-to-life drama?
There's a huge explosion on a building site. Children playing on the poorly guarded site are caught in the blast - dead, injured or trapped in an unsafe building that's collapsing.
23 October 2019
Burnt-out Barking residents picket builders' sales day
Our protest outside the builder Bellway's sales event, at the Hilton Tower Bridge hotel next to City Hall in central London, was a huge success.
11 September 2019
Another London block of flats destroyed by fire - remove unsafe cladding now!
I woke up on 9 September to learn about the fire that happened at Worcester Park, south west London, exactly three months after the fire that took place in Samuel Garside House in Barking, the building where I live.
31 July 2019
Barking: campaigning over housing safety
Following a shocking, preventable fire on its housing estate a few weeks ago, Barking Reach Residents' Association met to discuss the next steps of its campaign
3 July 2019
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Socialist Party members play an important role - in some cases leading them - in local and national fightbacks against Tory austerity and in trade union strikes.
3 July 2019
Angry Barking residents protest outside sales office
On Saturday 29 June property sales offices at Barking Riverside, London - the site of the recent horrendous fire that consumed 20 flats in just a few minutes - were closed due to a well-attended residents' and supporters' protest.
26 June 2019
Angry Barking fire victims demand action from landlords and authorities
Around 30 flats were destroyed - only now are the combustible balconies at other flats being stripped away by the builders
19 June 2019
Angry residents' meeting demands answers and action following fire
The fury poured out, demanding answers and action
12 June 2019
Grenfell two years on - Still fighting for safety and justice
Two years ago, on 14 June 2017, 72 people perished in the Grenfell Tower fire in west London.
10 June 2019
Fire tears through flats - cladding off now!
This blaze should never have happened. Grenfell was a stark warning that the drive for profit in the housing sector is putting people's lives at risk.
22 May 2019
Pouring cold water on the Riverside estate
Barking Reach Residents Association was out conducting a survey of heating and hot water issues. As we walked into the pleasant grounds of Robert Lewis House on the Barking Riverside estate, east London,
3 April 2019
NHS marches in Yorkshire and London
Campaigners and trade unionists came together to march through Leeds city centre and say that, despite the government's chronic paralysis over Brexit, the Tory plans to destroy our health service are still ongoing.
26 September 2018
Residents push back Barking estate landlords
At a recent residents' meeting with the landlords of the Barking Riverside estate, they put a price on the major concessions we have wrung out of them in a bitter three-year campaign - £250,000.
17 January 2018
Heating scandal on east London estate
The heating and hot water supply to 200 residents on the private Barking Riverside estate in east London was threatened by asset strippers in the middle of winter
26 October 2016
"We're all three pay cheques away from being homeless": "We can't facilitate" the "wellbeing of the most vulnerable," says Barking and Dagenham council leader Daren Rodwell. This was a frank admission to 'No Place to Call Home', the BBC's distressing account of homelessness in the east London borough.
20 May 2015
Defend NHS pay: Nurses could strike if the Tories' talk of a "seven-day NHS" results in attacks on unsocial hour and weekend working payments, according to the leader of the Royal College of Nurses, Dr Peter Carter
6 May 2015
Barking bin workers' eight-day strike
The Barking and Dagenham bin workers are striking for eight days between 1st and 8 May.
30 April 2015
Barking bin workers walkout over pay cuts
GMB members working for the Barking and Dagenham refuse collection continued strike action against £1,000 annual pay cuts on 23-24 April
25 March 2015
Inspired by Bob Crow to stand for TUSC
Joseph Mambuliya is chair of the RMT London Underground cleaners grade committee, and is standing for TUSC in Barking
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