Hackney

Scanned song and chant sheet used by striking workers at the Hackney Picturehouse cinema in East London in 2016.

Workers and residents in Hackney, North London, are fighting a corrupt and incompetent council which has lost £26... £76... who knows how many… millions of pounds. Strikes, occupations and demonstrations have been the response to cuts and closures. There's more to come. Article from Black Flag #220 (2001)

Article from Black Flag #218 1999.

Article on gentrification in the London Borough of Hackney, from Black Flag #222…

Prostitutes working on the edge of the city in East London have recently been subject to a concerted campaign of abuse from the police, the local press and vigilantes. Some of the women are as young as thirteen, many are care leavers and work to support drug habits. Police harassment of prostitutes is nothing new, and the women believe that the latest round of arrests were made in revenge for the arrests of local…

In Black Flag issue 212, in the article "Scotland Yardies" we argued that "police strategy is in reality about the confinement of crime within…

A Black Flag article on the working class community politics of the Independent Working Class Association (IWCA) from 2003.

Police chased Rash into a shop, then held him on the floor for several minutes. He stopped breathing…

An emerging radical history of open spaces in Hackney is being put together by Hackney History.

Barry Burke's account of the UK general strike of 1926 in the East London borough of Hackney.