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")
East Hamilton Rent Strike Enters Second Month with Twice as Many Tenants Withholding Rent
Submitted by R Totale on Jun 5 2018 21:04
On May 1st, the East Hamilton rent strike began with tenants from more than 70 units withholding rent. On June 1st, that number doubled!
Between Neighbors: From Rent Strike to Rent Strike
The following interview between residents involved in two different rent strikes was first published in This is Parkdale, newsletter of the group Parkdale Organize!
Hamilton: Corporate Suits Fail to Intimidate Rent Strikers
Submitted by R Totale on May 16 2018 20:55
Rent strikers in Hamilton, Ontario were not intimidated when corporate suits showed up at their door demanding rent.
Defending Hamilton: Reflections on the East Hamilton Rent Strike
Submitted by R Totale on May 8 2018 20:55
An organiser reflects on the conditions that led to tenants in East Hamilton declaring a rent strike. This post previously appeared on North Shore Counter Info and It's Going Down.
East Hamilton Tenants Declare May 1st Rent Strike
Submitted by R Totale on Apr 30 2018 20:14
On April 24th, at a mass meeting at the local community centre, dozens of tenants from four high-rise apartment buildings in East Hamilton committed to going on rent strike on May 1st. This story was first published by the Hamilton Tenants Solidarity Network and North Shore Counter-Info.
The Hebridean Land Revolt
Submitted by DD on Mar 2 2018 10:18
The Hebridean land revolt was a major uprising by the rural peasantry in 19th-century Scotland. Rents went unpaid. Fences were cut in the night. Land was illegally occupied. Telegraph poles were cut down. Roads were blocked with boulders. And government officials were attacked and beaten by mobs of women and men and children. Finally, in November 1884, the British government authorised a military invasion, dispatching gunboats and hundreds of marines.
‘Rough and ready work’: The Special Infantry Corps
Submitted by Anonymous on Jan 23 2018 22:43
Article by John Dorney telling the story of the Special Infantry Corps, a military unit set up during the civil war of 1922-3 to suppress agrarian agitation and strikes.
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