Residents and traders in the Seven Sisters area of Tottenham suffered a temporary setback this week as they were denied a judicial review into Haringey Council’s decision to grant a developer permission to demolish a block of houses and an indoor market.
In the Royal Courts of Justice on Wednesday the Wards Corner Community Coalition’s legal [...]
From The Industrial Workers of Great Britain
ISS Services claim to make “quality cleaning a priority”, but their cleaners do not feel prioritised. In March, the company made their highest ever profits and the cleaners asked for a raise from the legal minimum wage to the London Living Wage. They were met with dismissals and racial [...]
As heard by @justinthelibsoc
McCann (Lab): Families are getting pay cuts while millionaires get tax cuts!
PM: You buggered the economy. We’re creating more jobs
Amess (Con): Thatcher’s dead, unlike my mum. Hurry up with EU referendum before she dies too.
PM: I love your mum. Vote Tory 2015
Ed M: I love the army too. A&Es are struggling. What [...]
On Wednesday 24th April in an extraordinary art performance, the artist taxi driver, Mark McGowan also known as Chunky Mark will crawl along the road on his hands and knees pushing a toy pig with his nose the 4.1 miles from Kings College Hospital in Camberwell Green to number 10 Downing Street. It is a [...]
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By Koos Couvée
Just before the onset of Britain’s switch to a post-industrial theme-park economy, Margaret Thatcher announced her flagship Right-to-Buy policy, designed to extend the joys of home ownership to council tenants by allowing them to buy their homes at a considerable discount. In August 1980, with the passing of the Housing Act, she told [...]
By Justin / @justinthelibsoc
The name Stephen Lawrence always generates mixed feelings when I hear it. I am taken to think acutely about the sorrow of his family and those who knew and loved him. Also when I think of those who continued and continue the fight for justice long after the initial police investigation, a [...]
By Dean Atta / @DeanAtta
We re-publish this video as part of our memorial to Stephen Lawrence on the 20th Anniversary of his murder.
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Twenty years ago on this day, Stephen Lawrence was murdered. We commemorate his life and his family’s grief and struggle for justice by hosting this film made by Paul Greengrass for Britain’s ITV channel in 1999. I watched this film when it was first broadcasted, it chilled me as I had been in similar circumstance [...]
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By Benjamin Zephaniah / @BZephaniah
We know who the killers are,
We have watched them strut before us
As proud as sick Mussolinis’,
We have watched them strut before us
Compassionless and arrogant,
They paraded before us,
Like angels of death
Protected by the law.
It is now an open secret
Black people do not have
Chips on their shoulders,
They just have injustice on their backs
And justice [...]
By Justin / @justinthelibsoc
On Wednesday 17th April, in Nea Manolada, Greece, more than 30 Bangladeshi migrant strawberry pickers were shot by their supervisors and bosses and several workers are currently in critical condition. The shooting took place when around 200 migrant workers demanded to receive wages for 6 months unpaid work. The Associated Press news agency [...]
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