Social Cleansing & the End of Council Housing - Black Flag
Article from Black Flag #218 1999.
Cleaning Up The Streets For Who? - Black Flag
xProstitutes 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 officers found using the services of local working girls.
Interview: Adil Rahman of Newham Monitoring Project - Black Flag
Newham Monitoring Project has been fighting racial harassment and police harassment in East London for 18 years - consistently running an emergency advice line, offering practical support to individuals and running campaigns. NMP has always been a grassroots community organisation and funding has come and gone. The withdrawal of funding and loss of its office more than a year ago had lead to rumours of its demise but Black Flag found NMP still going strong when we interviewed Adil Rahman.
From Black Flag #214 1998
1912: a year of strikes in the East End of London
East London rent strikes, 1938-9
Peter the Painter (Janis Zhaklis) and the siege of Sidney Street
In October 2003 the Latvian press carried a number of articles about the Latvian anarchist Janis Zhaklis. These were largely based on the work of Philip Ruff who, after twenty years of research into the Siege of Sidney Street has identified Zhaklis as the most famous Latvian in London: Peter the Painter. His hunt through the archives continues but before the full story is published we thought it worth posting this article to whet your appetites. Pauls Bankovskis, who wrote this piece is a well-known journalist and novelist. His 2002 novel, Mister Latvia, was based on some of the characters involved with the events around Sidney Street.
62 Fieldgate Street: yesterday, today and tomorrow - Mark Kauri
The Stepney schoolchildren's strike, 1971
Battle of Cable Street, 1936, photo gallery
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