General secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions GAWAIN LITTLE calls for support and participation in the national partnership organised to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1926 general strike
Ending right to buy is a necessary step towards resolving the housing crisis
It’s high time for England to follow Scotland and Wales in ending the privatisation of collectively owned housing. MARTIN WICKS explains why

IN DEFENDING her support for right to buy Lisa Nandy recently said that “telling working class people they can’t own their own home is just unacceptable.”
If she meant their council home, that rather contradicts what she said at last September’s Labour conference: “The idea of a home for life handed on in common ownership to future generations is an idea worth fighting for.”
If a council home is sold to the tenant then it ceases to be “in common ownership.”
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