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London housing activists are fighting back
by Andy Bain

“If you don’t sign to go your kids are likely to end up in care.”

This sort of threat is now being heard by social tenants in London boroughs with right-wing councils.

Earlier this week 150 people crowded into the Hilldrop Community Centre, Islington, for an event organised by the North London People’s Assembly.

  • Stop demolition of quality council homes
  • Control rents
  • Cut rents not benefits
  • End the bedroom tax and welfare caps
  • Stop scapegoating migrants
  • Secure tenancies for all
  • Build new council homes
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