An Artistic Swamp: Designing The Emperor's New Clothes BM Blob on art and gentrification in West London in the late 20th Century.
We’re All Staying? Anti-Gentrification Struggles in 1990s Berlin Article from Black Flag #220 (2001) on struggles against the gentrification of Prenzlauer Berg in…
Privatisation and Gentrification, Reaction and Resistance, in Hackney's 'Regeneration State' – Black Flag Article on gentrification in the London Borough of Hackney, from Black Flag #222…
Billie Eilish and the Woke-Washing of Highland Park Gentrification The celebration of pop star extraordinaire Billie Eilish as the defiant “socially conscious voice of…
Smashed Up: Young service workers on the sanctity of small business A 2015 article from service workers in Oakland, discussing riots and the myths around small…
Fighting On Home Turf: Community Politics & the IWCA A Black Flag article on the working class community politics of the Independent Working Class Association (IWCA) from 2003.
Now that it’s undeniable: Gentrification in Hamilton A text from Hamilton, Ontario, discussing the state of play with gentrification in 2015, as well as the role of art and progressive urban…
Still Not Sorry: On the Plea Deal in the Locke St. Case in Hamilton Originally posted to North Shore Counter Info, the following text looks at the recent sentencing of…
1988: The Tompkins Square Riot A brief account of the riot of 1988 when Police started evicting homeless people from Tompkins Square park. The event led to the exposure of…
Who really owns the city? The Edinburgh council politics of Disneyfication of the city centre is in front of us. We see it in the never ending festival nightmare that…
Fight for the City Part 3: The City is Ours! Part three of an analysis of what is happening to cities
Fight for the City :Part Two- No Place to Run: Control of Space by Capital and State Second part of analysis of what is happening in the cities
