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Housing crisis highlights

  • Capitalist crisis / Communist replies to BBC budget tips: ‘Get out and see the real world.’

    What kind of ‘journalist’ could seriously investigate whether ‘showering at the gym’ could be a money-saving tip for impoverished workers?

    5 Jan 2023 ,
  • 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
  • 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 / 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
  • 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 / 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
  • 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
  • Social wage / New bill could pave the way for the final destruction of social housing

    Is this the end of social housing in Britain or the start of a fight-back?

    1 Feb 2016 , Proletarian

Housing crisis topics

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  • Cambridge
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  • Sinn Fein
  • Capitalist crisis
  • Vulture capitalism
  • Actually-existing socialism
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Housing crisis video

  • 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 crisis 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

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