Tag: housing

UP TO half a million (450,000) disabled people and their families – including children and disabled adults living on their own – will be...

HALF a million disabled people and their families are set to lose thousands of pounds a year under the government’s proposed Universal Credit, a...

THERE are currently 270 food banks across the UK where poverty-stricken workers and youth are directed to get subsistence amounts of food. As the capitalist...

NEW research published in The Lancet has uncovered the hidden health toll that refugee life in Lebanon has taken on more than 400,000 Palestinians. The...

IN an attempt to show some class war steel, Chancellor Osborne began his speech at the Tory Party conference with an assault on a...

IN HIS speech to the Tory faithful yesterday the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, made it absolutely clear that he is going to grind the...

‘WITH this abhorrent proposal, the Chancellor is saying that some children will be marked out from birth as second class citizens with their lives...

PRIME minister Cameron yesterday revealed on the eve of the Tory Party conference that the government is planning to slash welfare by another £16...

THOUSANDS are marching through west London against hospital closures today, determined that Charing Cross, Hammersmith, Central Middlesex and Ealing hospitals will not close. Today’s march...

IN A MOVE to devastate the finances of some of the poorest people in the country, the Coalition Government is planning to break the...

THE Tory pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, is a man on a mission – a mission to drive the unemployed, low paid and youth...

DELEGATES at the TUC Congress 2012 in Brighton yesterday voted unanimously for composite Motion 1, which calls on the TUC to give its full...

HEALTH Secretary Andrew Lansley has been demoted to the role of Leader of the House of Commons. This is after his health goose was cooked...

SQUATTING in a residential building in England and Wales has become a criminal offence, meaning squatters would face six months in jail, a £5,000...

new figures show there has been a massive 33% rise in court orders to evict private tenants over the past two years. Housing charity Crisis...

HOUSING charity Shelter yesterday described the rental market as ‘out of control’ as letting group LSL revealed the average rent paid by private tenants...

JOBCENTRE staff who deal with calls from people entitled to benefits and crisis loans went on strike yesterday over oppressive working conditions and unrealistic...

SAVAGE ‘austerity’ cuts to prop up bankrupt capitalism and its banks are being met with a revolutionary response from workers and youth throughout Europe. In...

THIS year’s TUC Congress next month is meeting at a time when all of the basic rights and gains of the working class are...

THE daily picket to stop of Chase Farm Hospital will be marking its 150th day by mid-August. Organised by the North East London Council of...

TORY PM Cameron has declared, in the last few days, that he will be pushing through austerity measures until the end of the next...

UNEMPLOYMENT has fallen by 65,000 in the three months to May, while the number of newly unemployed in receipt of the JobSeekers Allowance, for...

IN RESPONSE to mine owners Glencore and Xstrata’s arrogant refusal to meet with a delegation of IndustriALL global union affiliates to discuss labour issues...

‘If this is allowed to go ahead then the precedent that has been set is that tanks can turn up on your lawn, missiles...

TRADE unions yesterday slammed Cameron’s plans to axe housing benefits for under-25-year-olds. A TUC spokesman told News Line: ‘This is a vicious attack on young...

THE PM has said that people under the age of 25 are to lose their right to housing benefit, as part of moves to...

OXFAM warned yesterday that the ‘UK could return to inequality levels not seen since Victorian times’. Government rhetoric about ‘making work pay’ – used to...

THE New York Times has revealed that the United States and Israel were behind the Stuxnet virus cyber-warfare attack on Iran and its nuclear...

US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said yesterday that he is ‘ready to act’ on the US economy, hinting that the US is about...

While Egypt’s presidential election has dominated the headlines, the class struggle continues unabated with workers determined to defend their rights and improve living standards. Egypt’s...

The University and College Union (UCU) on Wednesday called on the government to urgently protect healthcare education funding after MPs warned that delays in...

Dozens of activists launched a hunger strike on Sunday at the Egyptian Press Syndicate’s headquarters in Cairo to protest against military rule and the...

THE Joseph Rowntree Foundation has carried out a comprehensive investigation into migrant workers’ experiences of forced labour and exploitation in the UK food industry...

The economic and political crisis in the Eurozone countries is now firmly expressing itself in Germany, the dominant capitalist nation in Europe and the...

Tenants on the Aylesbury estate are very angry at Southwark Council’s indifference to their complaints and the Council’s high handed attitude towards tenants’ needs. Tenants...

UNISON yesterday warned the government that its ‘botched roll out’ of Universal Credit, less than 18 months away, will make it more difficult for...

THE Dublin Trades Council has declared that it is not the job of local authority workers to knock on doors in pursuit of the...

GAZA is being reduced from a massive prison for the Palestinian people to one in which they are homeless, jobless, and beginning to go...

IT WAS Frederick Engels who said that the housing problem and capitalism were inseparable, and that to get rid of the former you would...

THE ACTORS’ union Equity is angry as Arts Council and local authority funding cuts lay waste to theatres and arts organisations across Britain and...

WEST Kensington tenants were angry that a ‘drop-in session’ hosted by Hammersmith and Fulham council on Thursday night was closed down early. The premature closure...

THE fight to occupy Chase Farm hospital intensified on day 38 of the daily picket on the gates of Chase Farm as medical students,...

Armed militias operating across Libya are committing widespread human rights abuses with impunity, warned Amnesty International in a new report released yesterday. The report, Militias...

BRITAIN’S credit-worthiness has a ‘negative outlook’ Moody’s ratings agency declared late on Monday night, shortly after the markets closed in the US. In the first...

‘Israel is implementing a strategy of Judaisation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories,’ Professor Raquel Rolnik, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing,...