Rent Strike at Holgate Manor: Month Three Members of the Holgate Manor Tenant Union in Portland are now in the third month of their rent strike against Princeton Property Management and…
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…
Hamilton Rent Strikers Bring Demands to Landlord’s Doorstep in Ottawa 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! 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'…
East Hamilton Rent Strike Enters Second Month with Twice as Many Tenants Withholding Rent On May 1st, the East Hamilton rent strike began with tenants from more than 70…
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…
Hamilton: Corporate Suits Fail to Intimidate Rent Strikers Rent strikers in Hamilton, Ontario were not intimidated when corporate suits showed up at their door…
Defending Hamilton: Reflections on the East Hamilton Rent Strike An organiser reflects on the conditions that led to tenants in East Hamilton declaring a rent strike…
East Hamilton Tenants Declare May 1st Rent Strike On April 24th, at a mass meeting at the local community centre, dozens of tenants from four high-rise apartment buildings in East Hamilton…
The Hebridean Land Revolt 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…
‘Rough and ready work’: The Special Infantry Corps 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…