Interview | STAT Magazine on Vermin
rs21 interviews STAT Magazine editor Pete Mercer on their recent cultural event Vermin.
Interview | Tenant organising with Living Rent
rs21 interviews a Living Rent member on tenant and community organising in Scotland
Learning from the Struggle: Tenants Fight Evictions in Lambeth
The Homes for Lambeth Tenants campaign is organising and fighting back against the threat of evictions
Rent caps lifted for Scotland’s private tenants: organising after defeat
What lessons can be learned in Scotland’s tenant movement?
Review | Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis
Housing activist Kate Bradley reviews Nick Bano’s Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis
About the Dublin riots: some explanations and responses
Juliana Sassi, a member of the Community Action Tenants Union (CATU), looks beyond simplistic explanations of the recent riots in Dublin to deeper causes, and explains how anti-racists and community campaigners have responded.
The scale of Britain’s housing crisis
Danny Schultz reviews a recent work exploring the scale of exploitative landlordism in Britain, finding an indictment of British capitalism and an urgent call for renter organising.
Tenants’ unions fight back against rocketing rents
rs21 members report on December’s tenants’ union protests against some of the largest estate agents in England.
Landlords need us; we don’t need landlords
Kate Bradley and Charlotte Powell look at what underlies Tory rent reforms, and assess how the housing movement can respond.
Renters reform – much more is needed
Government proposals to overhaul private renting – not good enough.
The Housing Question today
Gus Woody reflects on the importance of Engels’ pamphlet “The Housing Question” today and how socialists can build on it around housing struggle.
Berlin Rent Cap overturned, but housing movement has bigger plans
The Rent Cap in Berlin has been overturned by the Federal Constitutional Court. But the policy was created by centre left politicians to undermine a renter led movement to expropriate the cities’ largest landlords. How did this policy come to be? What did it attempt to do? And what does it’s defeat mean for renters and radical housing struggle in Berlin?
The power of tenants’ organising
There is a renewed surge of tenants’ organising, but opinions are split on the best way to build power. What kind of organisation can hit back against landlords?
Eviction ban ends: how can renters fight back?
The government is trying to restart evictions just as a second wave of Covid-19 is arriving. We need to escalate our organising against evictions, rent debt and homelessness.
Rent strike in the Covid conjuncture?
As the knock-on effects of the Covid-19 pandemic make it impossible for many workers to pay rent while meeting their own basic needs, Allan Struthers examines the prospects for large-scale rent strikes in Britain