Evicted families occupy a building in Seville and call on others to do so Evicted families have squatted a building in Seville. They are resisting despite having the water…
Homeowners: the gravediggers of capital Tom Fox casts a critical eye over housing co-operatives. Originally published in January 2012.
Kirkby rent strike, 1972 The Kirkby Rent Strike was a 14-month long rent strike initiated by 3,000 tenants on October 9, 1972 in the town of Kirkby, outside Liverpool,…
Accusations against housing movements in Rome demolished by Tribunal In September 2009, hundreds of Carabinieri stormed a school in the Magliana area of Rome and…
Poland: Jola was murdered one year ago Housing activist Jolanta Brzeska was murdered one year ago, burned alive in the Kabacki Forest. She had been fighting against the landlords,…
Victory in less than a week for newly reformed Glasgow Solidarity Network Collective direct action against a letting agent succeeds in the full refund of an illegal…
Blikkiesdorp photo gallery Blikkiesdorp (i.e. 'tin can town) is one of a number of 'Temporary Relocation Areas', concentration camps, set up to house the urban poor in Cape…
Land Grabs and Housing in China I hope to explain a bit more about the land grabs that have been happening in China for a number of years now. This should cover the reasons why…
A radical history of 121 Railton Road, Lambeth The story of the first successful squatters of private property in Lambeth. In 1972, Olive Morris and Liz Turnbull, both members of the Brixton…
Tepito: no thanks, first world Gustavo Esteva on the puzzle of autonomy in 1990s Tepito, an inner-city community in Mexico City, which prefers to manage its own affairs,…
Postrevolutionary pioneer: Anarchist María Luisa Marín and the Veracruz renters' movement A history of the Mexican anarchist María Luisa Marín and the 1922 Veracruz Renters'…
Hidden victims of austerity 2011 has seen a massive increase in people registered as homeless and people sleeping rough. However, the governments housing minister Grant…
