Save Our Square protesters, a campaign led by Socialist Party members, gathered in Walthamstow town square, East London, on Saturday 17 June – the sixth anniversary of the Grenfell tower fire
Six years ago, 72 people died in a horrific fire at Grenfell Tower in Kensington, west London. It was a tower block lived in by working-class, mainly Black, Asian and migrant people, in the richest borough of London.
It is an outrage that families need to live in hotel rooms, indeed that there are homeless families at all! Many families become homeless after being evicted from private-rented accommodation.
Unite members at the homelessness charity St Mungo’s started a month-long strike from 30 May with Socialist Party members visiting picket lines across London, as well as in Bristol, Oxford and Brighton.
The richest local authority area in Europe was rocked by a workforce-wide pay strike on 25 May. Members of general unions GMB and Unite are demanding a rise of 15% or £5,000, whichever is greater.
On Wednesday 17 May, around 40 local trade unionists, socialists and Croydon residents held a protest against the 15% council tax hike and council cuts outside Croydon Town Hall, where the council’s annual meeting was being held.
RMT members on London Underground have voted again to renew our strike mandate in defence of jobs, pensions and agreements. 96% voted to strike on a turnout of 56%. Over 50% of all eligible voters were in favour of strike action.
In March, Croydon Council passed a shocking 15% council tax hike in a budget proposed by their Tory Mayor that included a further £27 million of cuts to services. If Labour councillors had voted against the budget and organised against the threatened government commissioners, they could have stopped it.
by Linda Taaffe, Waltham Forest Socialist Party The juggernaut construction companies roll on. Tower blocks are invading the sky everywhere. Our public land is being […]
by Dara Fitzgerald, West London Socialist Party The Tory council in Kensington and Chelsea is using funds supposed to be for ‘social infrastructure’ to buy […]
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