Social Cleansing & the End of Council Housing - Black Flag
Article from Black Flag #218 1999.
Cleaning Up The Streets For Who? - Black Flag
Prostitutes 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
La grève des écoliers de Stepney
Un compte rendu court à propos de la grève par 800 élèves à Stepney, dans l’est de Londres le 27 mai 1971, qui a réussi à obtenir le retour d’un professeur qui avait été licencié pour avoir publié un livre de poésies écrites par les enfants.
1912: a year of strikes in the East End of London
Submitted by Steven. on Aug 25 2017 14:58
An account by John Rennie of the strikes which swept East London in 1912: particularly on the docks and amongst Jewish tailors.
East London rent strikes, 1938-9
Submitted by Steven. on Jun 26 2017 20:07
On 13 February, 1938, a rent strike began in Stepney, east London. This is an account of tenants' struggles in the area at the time, by Past Tense.
Peter the Painter (Janis Zhaklis) and the siege of Sidney Street
Submitted by Steven. on Dec 15 2016 22:31
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
Submitted by Steven. on Jan 5 2016 18:35
A look at the history of the building in East London where the London Action Resource Centre is based.
The Stepney schoolchildren's strike, 1971
Submitted by Steven. on Oct 19 2015 09:49
A short account of a strike of 800 pupils in Stepney, east London on May 27, 1971, which successfully won reinstatement of a teacher who was sacked for publishing a book of pupils' poetry.
Battle of Cable Street, 1936, photo gallery
Submitted by Ed on May 12 2015 22:26
Photo gallery from the 1936 Battle of Cable Street, which saw over 100,000 working-class residents in London's East End oppose a march by Oswald Mosely's British Union of Fascists, forcing them to abandon it entirely.
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