Interview: Adil Rahman of Newham Monitoring Project - Black Flag
Newham Monitoring Project has been fighting racial harassment and police harassment in East London for 18 years - consistently running an emergency advice line, offering practical support to individuals and running campaigns. NMP has always been a grassroots community organisation and funding has come and gone. The withdrawal of funding and loss of its office more than a year ago had lead to rumours of its demise but Black Flag found NMP still going strong when we interviewed Adil Rahman.
From Black Flag #214 1998
‘We Want Our Club Back!’: the Clapton Supporters Action Fund
Submitted by Ed on Mar 20 2016 23:03
Clapton FC's fans have gained notoriety in recent years: for their massive turnouts at non-league games, their dedication to anti-fascism, and their passionate singing from kick-off to the final whistle. Now they're challenging the club's owners in attempt to take over the club and put it under fan-ownership.
Interview: inside the Carpenters Estate
In the run up to the London 2012 Olympics Newham council gradually emptied the nearby Carpenters Estate of tenants. In March 2010 a small anarchist newsheet, the East End Howler, interviewed one of the remaining tenants. In light of the recent occupation of the estate by Focus E15 Mothers we're republishing the interview here to provide a bit of background.
Focus E15 Mothers: fighting London's 'regeneration'
Submitted by Ed on Sep 24 2014 20:46
Focus E15 Mothers, a group of young women who met each other at the Focus E15 shelter in Newham, have occupied a group of flats on the Carpenters Estate in East London to protest their situation and solve the problems which Newham Council won't.
Housing speculation, student debt, fees and dispossession; a 21st century love story - Communique concerning UCL Stratford
An article from the website of The Imaginary Party exposing the relationships between tuition fees, rents, student debt, university funding, and private equity funds, in the context of UCL's £1bn plans to dispossess the 300 residents of the Carpenters Estate in Stratford in order to build "profitable" student housing units.
Barker, Ambrose, 1859-1953
Submitted by Ed on Mar 2 2007 16:33
Short biography of East London radical secularist and anarchist, Ambrose Barker, who was active in the Socialist League, Walthamstow Anarchist Group and the London Freedom Group.
Newham refuse workers walk out
Submitted by Mike Harman on Oct 19 2006 18:54
Around 500 refuse workers in the east London borough of Newham walked out unofficially and spontaneously today over attempts to cut their pay.
12,000 say no to ASDA
Submitted by libcom on Mar 5 2006 13:08
Friends of Queen's Market is a campaign in Newham to stop the "redevelopment" of a highly valued local street market into an ASDA.
Queen's Market under threat
Submitted by Steven. on Feb 19 2006 13:22
Queen's Market is under threat from a 'regeneration' project by Newham Council, but a group of campaigners is working to save it.
