The Tories want to clear the working class out of London. The people who built our city, who create its wealth, who turned it into one of the greatest cities in the world are to be evicted so that the Tories and their friends can turn it into a heartless, soulless ghetto for the rich […]

Sunday 6th March 1-3pm Windrush Square, Brixton from the Facebook event: “Why do buildings have to be knocked down? Everyone should have a home in their home town” – Blaise (12 years old, in Brixton) On 6 March young people in London will be assembling to make the following demands: ✓ Stop demolishing our homes […]

report from Lambeth United Coop http://www.lambethunitedhousingco-op.org.uk/?page_id=1076 URGENT UPDATE An urgent update to the story of 81-year-old housing co-op resident Tony Healy, whose case is detailed below. The council are very aware of Tony Healy’s vulnerability and his state of mind and visited him on 2nd March 2016 with doctors and police trying to convince him to […]

The Lambeth Labour Group of Councillors fully opposes the Tory Government’s Housing and Planning Bill. Labour, locally and nationally, have been lobbying to try and make the bill less destructive. I gave evidence of the Bill’s damaging impact to Lambeth at a Parliamentary committeehttp://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/communities-and-local-government-committee/news-parliament-2015/housing-associations-evidence-15-16/ in November 2015, and together with Cllr Matthew Bennett (Cabinet Member […]