Communists urge Labour solution to social crisis

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Category: Britain

Published: Sunday, 20 May 2018 15:56

Britain's deepening social crisis confirms the urgent need to replace Theresa May's minority regime with a left-led Labour government, Communist Party general secretary Robert Griffiths declared at the weekend.

Reporting to his party's Executive Committee, he slammed Dame Judith Hackitt's review of building regulations in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster and the Tory response. She had stopped short of calling for a ban on combustible cladding, while Housing and Communities secretary James Brokenshire had promised a 'consultation' on the Hackitt report followed by unspecified legislation.

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JOHN ELLISON - Kill the Housing Bill on Sunday March 13

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Category: Housing

Published: Thursday, 11 February 2016 11:53

Soaring homelessness, spiralling rents and home ownership beyond the reach of all but a few – this is Britain’s housing situation today. And it’s all down to governments selling off what was never theirs to sell – our precious council housing stock writes John Ellison in the Morning Star.

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BEN STEVENSON - "Create vibrant, mixed and thriving towns and communities"

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Category: Housing

Published: Monday, 18 January 2016 08:30

Ben Stevenson national organiser of the Communist Party examines the flawed and sometimes fatal approach of handing the housing supply entirely over to market forces.

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ANDY BAIN - Islington People's Assembly on the march for housing

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Category: Housing

Published: Tuesday, 17 February 2015 13:54

Andy Bain of Islington People's Assembly on the recent march for housing rights.

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