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Author: Phil Tsappas \ Barnet \ homelessness \ interview
The experience of regeneration in Barnet
The North London Star’s Phil Tsappas meets Alex Finnie, resident of 9 years on the West Hendon Regeneration estate in Barnet Events have been escalating this year on the West Hendon estate (Borough of Barnet). Temporary tenants and lease holders alongside council tenants are making their voices heard through peaceful protest against a rising tide of […]
Author: Benali Hamdache \ immigration
Let’s tell MPs that immigrants are welcome here
by Benali Hamdache I alongside many thousands of others regularly complete YouGov quizzes in the vain hope of eventually accruing enough points to earn £50. In pursuit of that rather remote goal I regularly complete the weekly YouGov poll that tries to assess the political climate. One of the weekly questions asked was what the […]
North London News Round-Up
A few bits and bobs we’ve spotted in the last week from round North London; Richard Osley takes a look at Labour’s runners and riders for Holborn and St Pancras. The Evening Standard reports on how Londoners on benefits are being driven from the capital. Over at Londonist they have renamed the entirety of the […]
Music \ Russell Brand \ Video
Video: Russell Brand and Rubber Bandits response to Parklife jibes
When some sections of the press mocked Russell Brand for being a verbose, working class Essex boy by saying that everything he said should be followed by “PARKLIFE” it was pretty fun. Brand’s response, to team up with the Rubber Bandits and turn the joke back on the tellers is even better.
Author: Jen Izaakson \ Film \ Review
Review: Nightcrawler, a fantastic rendering of capitalism
by Jen Izaakson The Nightcrawler works as a contemporary insight into working conditions in the post-economic crisis West, one still reeling from the 2008 crash. Lou Bloom (Jake Gyellenhaal) relentlessly embodies all that is alienating about contemporary life. Lou casts a hollowed out figure onscreen, representing different positions within capitalist employment, shifting from lumpen criminal, […]
St Mungo's \ strikes \ trade unions \ Video
Video: St Mungo’s Strikers Celebrate Victory
A spectacular victory – and a potentially very significant one – for St. Mungo’s Broadway housing workers, just as they were about to embark on 10 straight days of strike action. Management were forced into conceding virtually all the strikers demands and abandoning their plans to savagely cut wages and conditions and effectively derecognise the […]
Author: Louis Bayman \ Book review \ Books \ Fascists \ History \ immigration \ Refugees \ Review
Book review: Beaten But Not Deafeated
Book Review of Beaten but not Defeated: Siegfried Moos – A German Anti-Nazi who Settled in Britain by Merilyn Moos. Chronos Books, Winchester 2014. £17.99 by Louis Bayman You might be forgiven for asking, who was Siegfried Moos? There is little reason for fame to accrue to an academic at the Oxford Institute of Statistics […]
Author: Jim Jepps \ David Cameron \ Ed Miliband \ Fawcett Society \ feminism \ Nick Clegg
The rise of T-Shirt feminism?
by Jim Jepps David Cameron refused to pose wearing the Fawcett Society T-Shirt “This is what a feminist looks like”. It’s an existential poser to ask whether someone who’s obviously not a feminist can be less of a feminist. It’s not exactly news that the leader of the Conservative Party is more Margaret Thatcher than […]
benefits \ Haringey \ Haringey Solidarity \ Video \ workfare
Video: protesters invade Urban Futures against Workfare
Protesters, including those from Haringey Solidarity Group, invaded Urban Futures in order to protest against their use of Workfare.
benefits \ disability \ Video
Video: The story of the closure of the Independent Living Fund
We’re NOT all in this together: the story of the closure of the Independent Living Fund from Moore Lavan Films on Vimeo.
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