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Housing highlights

  • Capitalist crisis / Happy new year?

    There is no reform that could enable this profit-hungry system to serve the needs of the working people.

    3 Jan 2023 ,
  • China / Xi Jinping to CPC: The times are calling us, and the people expect us to deliver’

    The last five years have indeed been ‘truly momentous and extraordinary’ ones in China’s history and development – and the next five look likely to be even more so.

    23 Nov 2022 , Friends of Socialist China
  • Capitalist crisis / The cost of living crisis is a capitalist crisis!

    The capitalists have shown themselves to be entirely unable to run their own system for the benefit of society.

    4 Nov 2022 ,
  • Capitalist crisis / Cost of living crisis: the fightback is under way

    Growing militance among unionised workers and vigorous new campaigns to combat the effects of poverty and inflation signify a change in the workers’ mood.

    6 Sep 2022 , Lalkar
  • Housing / London’s great council housing fraud

    Politicians talk as if workers are fools, but no-one who has tried to live on a worker’s salary can swallow the London mayor’s lies about an increase in ‘affordable’ homes.

    2 May 2022 , Lalkar
  • Housing / Ban extended, but evictions continue

    Behind the toothless legislation is a government, and parliament, inextricably intertwined with the landlord class.

    1 Apr 2021 , Proletarian
  • Housing / Planning reforms won’t fix the housing crisis

    Building more homes is not the answer unless they are built for those who need them.

    14 Feb 2021 , Lalkar
  • Housing / Grenfell Tower: construction bosses’ contempt for workers’ lives laid bare

    Despite its best efforts, the glacial inquiry has let slip a series of unpalatable truths about the practices and motivations of the construction industry.

    4 Sep 2020 , Lalkar
  • Social wage / The plight of the homeless after lockdown

    ‘Business as usual’ as rough sleepers are thrown back onto the streets.

    29 Jun 2020 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Austerity Britain: where the homeless seek shelter in bins

    Report reveals shocking rise of bin sleepers as one waste worker recounts finding children as young as nine or ten.

    6 Apr 2020 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Union-busting at St Mungo’s homeless charity

    More pressure on workers in the charity sector, where a race to the bottom is well underway.

    4 Feb 2020 , Proletarian
  • Venezuela / The successes of the Bolivarian housing mission in Venezuela

    Bringing solidarity to a heroic people as they resist imperialist siege.

    29 Aug 2019 , Proletarian
  • Housing / Foreign investors head to Birmingham housing market

    As London property prices nose-dive, investors are hoping to make a quick buck out of new-build apartments in the country’s second-largest city.

    18 Jul 2019 , Birmingham Worker
  • Housing / Council tax becoming the new poll tax says report

    Thinktank investigation reveals the huge disparity in rates of payment between the poorest and richest households.

    16 Jul 2019 , Birmingham Worker
  • Housing / Right-to-rent and work checks promote racism and victimise the most vulnerable

    Forcing landlords and employers to check the immigration status of tenants and employees has led to a surge in homelessness among non-white workers in Britain.

    11 Jun 2019 ,
  • Housing / Grenfell Tower – another long and winding public inquiry

    Privatisation, subcontracting and the drive to maximise profits led to the inferno, but the ruling class will be hoping the inquiry can come up with a scapegoat or two on whom to pin the blame for its crimes.

    8 Dec 2018 , Proletarian
  • Housing / The housing crisis is lining private landlords’ pockets

    Housing benefit is acting as the ‘landlords’ bonus’, while provision of emergency temporary accommodation by private landlords is the ‘icing on the cake’.

    6 Dec 2018 , Proletarian
  • Housing / Residents resist social cleansing in Cambridge

    The CPGB-ML supports tenants in Montreal Square, who are trying to save their community from redevelopment.

    2 Nov 2018 ,
  • Housing / The housing crisis shows that capitalism is due for demolition

    Housing should be a right not a privilege, yet capitalism has proven itself incapable of providing a decent home to every worker.

    1 Nov 2018 ,
  • Ireland / Gangsters employed by the state to assist slum landlords

    In Ireland, as in Britain, the housing crisis is deepening while the government backs up the vultures feeding off the misery of poor.

    20 Oct 2018 , Republican News
  • Housing / Property tycoon hikes rent by 10 percent

    The decimation of social housing proves once more the inability of the market to provide even for people's most basic needs.

    1 Oct 2018 , London Worker
  • Housing / Housing shortage in the midst of plenty

    It is not the right to buy that workers need, but the right to a home.

    5 Apr 2018 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Council workers win skirmish with Manchester outsourcing cowboy

    The involvement of Labour councils in the outsourcing racket should make unions think twice about their generous donations to the party's coffers.

    11 Mar 2018 ,
  • Leaflets / Housing: a crisis of capitalism

    What must be done in order to provide decent homes to all workers?

    1 Mar 2018 ,
  • Housing / Grenfell Tower: tragedy or crime?

    What was behind the devastating fire in north Kensington in June?

    1 Aug 2017 , Proletarian
  • Housing / What did the October Revolution do for us? 2. Housing

    The second in our series of articles examining the impact of the October Revolution of 1917 on the lives of workers in Britain.

    1 Aug 2017 , Proletarian
  • Housing / Labour council pushes ahead with housing segregation in Haringey

    The disgrace of social cleansing in London.

    1 Aug 2017 , Proletarian
  • Housing / Editorial: The housing crisis

    The horrific fire at Grenfell Tower in London, which has killed so many working-class people, demonstrates the terrible reality of housing in Britain today.

    1 Aug 2017 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Editorial: Our demands

    1 Jun 2017 , Proletarian

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Housing video

  • Venezuela / Joti Brar, vice chair of the CPGB-ML, speaks on Venezuelan national television

    ‘The actions of the imperialists do not speak for the workers in the imperialist countries.’

    1 Sep 2019,
  • Britain TV / The Grenfell massacre: burning and looting

    Who is to blame for this mass murder of workers in their homes?

    10 Apr 2018, Proletarian TV

Housing theory

  • Capitalist crisis / The cost of living crisis is a capitalist crisis

    Economic crises are an inescapable feature of life under the market system. Socialist planning is our only way out.

    4 Nov 2022, Proletarian
  • Housing / Housing and architecture in the Soviet Union

    A variety of housing was built for working people designed to reflect the varied character, climate and context of the vast territories of the USSR.

    15 Apr 2019, Lalkar

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    Free Ukraine’s Kononovich brothers, jailed communist youth!

    As part of its suppression of political activity, the Ukrainian stooge regime has banned communist organisations and imprisoned their leaders.

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  • 3

    Polycrisis? Time to put an end to this capitalist madness

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    No to Nato warmongering; stop WW3! Hands off Syria!

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    EU legislates to erase the USSR’s role in defeating fascism

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    Workers at the GKN factory in Florence fight back

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    Comrade Ella: Our enemy is here at home, not in China

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    How do we defend the NHS?

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    Monstrous plans to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda

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    Assassination of Donetsk leader stalls Minsk peace talks

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