
East London fire fuelled by profits and cuts
At 3am 26/8/24, a major fire consumed another London tower block covered in flammable cladding. Residents pounded on their neighbours’ doors to get them to flee. No fire alarms could be heard.
At 3am 26/8/24, a major fire consumed another London tower block covered in flammable cladding. Residents pounded on their neighbours’ doors to get them to flee. No fire alarms could be heard.
People rallied at Goldsmiths, University of London, responding to the university’s decision to cut 97 jobs, which threatens three MA degree programmes: Queer History, Black British History, and Black British Literature.
I thought that criticism of Black Pride’s sponsors, for their close proximity to the Israeli state, would make it quite a tense atmosphere, and a challenge to initiate conversation. But I was completely mistaken.
The board of West Ham United Football Club has scrapped concession prices for match tickets, and fans are rightfully outraged. They’ve done the same for new season tickets too. Now children and pensioners will have to pay full adult prices.
My Unite the Union branch meeting considered the 5.5% pay award for NHS workers by the pay review body (PRB), and the decision was made, following a vote, to recommend rejection to our members in the coming consultation by the national union.
Following a successful campaign, which has brought in locals and unions together to reject austerity and gentrification in East London, Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club has been granted status as an asset of community value.
Tens of thousands of anti-racist counter-protesters took to the streets on the evening of 7 August. A list of locations as potential targets for further racist right-wing attacks had circulated online.
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