Why and How to Go on a Rent Strike
A brief guide to rent strikes, first published by the Quebec site grevedesloyers.info, and republished by Montreal Counter-Info and It's Going Down. This guide was created for people in Quebec, but much of the information will be applicable elsewhere.
On Rent Strike against Gentrification and the Pandemic: An Interview with Residents of Station 40 in San Francisco
Submitted by R Totale on Mar 21 2020 16:36
An interview with the residents of Station 40 in San Francisco, who were among the first in the US to state their intention to go on a rent strike in response to the pandemic. This interview was first published by Crimethinc.
L.A.’s Class Struggle Looks Like This: The Tenants Movement
Submitted by R Totale on Apr 24 2019 18:34
The View From Here: An Assessment of the East Hamilton Rent Strike
Submitted by R Totale on Mar 16 2019 10:37
Hamilton, Ontario: Big Landlord Issues Mass Eviction Notices to Threaten Organized Tenants
Submitted by R Totale on Oct 13 2018 15:46
As the Stoney Creek Towers rent strike enters its sixth month, corporate landlord CLV is starting to lose it. This story previously appeared on It's Going Down and North Shore Counter-Info.
Rent Strike at Holgate Manor: Month Three
Submitted by R Totale on Oct 7 2018 15:07
Hamilton Tenant
A newsletter by and for tenants in Hamilton. The goal of this newsletter is to share the stories of working-class tenants in Hamilton and inspire each other in our collective struggle for better conditions in our homes and our lives.
Hamilton Rent Strikers Bring Demands to Landlord’s Doorstep in Ottawa
Submitted by R Totale on Aug 16 2018 18:44
Last weekend, striking tenants from the Stoney Creek Towers in Hamilton trekked to Ottawa with their supporters to confront the executives from InterRent, a Real Estate Investment Trust with an investment strategy based around displacing working-class tenants from their neighbourhoods.
Support the Flemingdon Park Rent Strike!
Submitted by R Totale on Jul 30 2018 18:46
On August 1st, more than 200 tenants in Flemingdon Park, Toronto, will launch a rent strike against their landlord's attempt to raise the rent.
Abolish rent: for a communist tenants’ movement
This pamphlet poses a set of provocations to the contemporary tenants’ movement. The provocations are "Some Communist Theses for the Tenants' Movement" and "Abolish Rent, a note." As the pamphlet title declares, the provocation focuses on the proposition that “abolish rent” should be the slogan upon which militants promote a distinction in the movement between anarchists/communists and social democrats, toward the end of building a revolutionary tenants’ movement. (Not here, but to-be included in a future iteration, is an in-progress "Annotated Bibliography of Rent Abolitionist Tactics")
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