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Glyn Robbins
Terraced residential houses in south east London
Features / 19 June 2025
19 June 2025

GLYN ROBBINS celebrates how tenant-led campaigning forced the government to drop Pay to Stay, fixed-term tenancies and council home sell-offs under Cameron — but warns that Labour’s faith in private developers will require renewed resistance

A demonstration in Edinburgh on January 19, 2023 for trans r
Books / 1 December 2023
1 December 2023
GLYN ROBBINS advises caution when seeking advice on trans children from the conservative and reactionary forces that are exploiting them
Features / 14 October 2023
14 October 2023
GLYN ROBBINS warns that Labour are now solidly in the ‘just build more’ camp led by business interests and developers rather than tailoring policies to social need
Protesters supporting Don't Pay UK outside Ofgem HQ in Canar
Features / 26 September 2022
26 September 2022
A campaign of non-payment of energy bills has already gained significant support — it could be an important part of the emerging resistance to the Tory offensive that is hitting the streets next month, argues GLYN ROBBINS
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer
Features / 2 May 2022
2 May 2022
The right-wing purge of the Labour Party in the last two years comes under the microscope in a new documentary that shows just how scared the ruling class was during the Corbyn era, writes GLYN ROBBINS
Features / 9 November 2021
9 November 2021
The chasm between US Establishment politics and the daily struggles of working-class Americans continues to grow – but tactical errors by the left have led to worrying outcomes in recent elections, writes GLYN ROBBINS
(L to R) Warwick Road (Kensington) Estate saved from ‘rede
BOOKS / 3 January 2021
3 January 2021
London has been a pioneer in council housing, radical local democracy and multiculturalism and a new book persuasively argues that it can be so again, says GLYN ROBBINS
BUILDING INEQUALITY: The big 10 housebuilders generated 30 p
BOOKS / 17 May 2020
17 May 2020
GLYN ROBBINS recommends an exposé of how speculative property investment is destroying access to public-sector housing
Labour Party Conference ’19 / 21 September 2019
21 September 2019
The party needs to be explicit: council housing means council housing, says GLYN ROBBINS
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) party activists in Ne
Features / 20 June 2019
20 June 2019
GLYN ROBBINS reports from a trip to the US where the Democratic Socialists of America are looking to bolster Bernie Sanders’s campaign
Features / 22 September 2018
22 September 2018
Housing is the front line of a major political battle — it’s time to step up the fight, argues GLYN ROBBINS
RESILIENCE AND EXPERIENCE: Merseyside Pensioners Association
Features / 28 April 2018
28 April 2018
GLYN ROBBINS is impressed by a film about the campaigns to protect the social benefits won over decades