Tower Hamlets

Content on libcom.org about the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

Tower Hamlets

Social cleansing in Tower Hamlets: interview with Balfron Tower evictee - James Butler

James Butler interviews Sara, a single-parent in Tower Hamlets, East London, which illustrates the…

Ruderman (back row, right)

The street where God did not strike down Feigenbaum

A short account of anarchist connections to Hanbury Street in the East End of London.

Helena Applebaum with Lou

Echoes of Ferrer in an East End back street

An anarchist history of Fieldgate Street in the East End of London

MOTD: EDL vs UAF

DSG aims to publish posts and propaganda from various sources as provocation and stimulation. The following text was produced by Paul O’Hagan, a journalist living in East London. He is…

Video from the Battle of Cable Street, 1936

Video footage of the Battle of Cable Street, when Sir Oswald Mosely's fascists tried to march through east London, and were stopped when hundreds…

Struggle as a second language - interview with Tower Hamlets College strikers

An interview with two workers involved in the open-ended strike against cuts at Tower Hamlets…

Keeping Occupied - Living on the Ocean Estate in Stepney Green

An interesting personal account of squatting on an estate in Tower Hamlets, east London.

An account of unofficial action at Tower Hamlets College

A short account by a participant of a staff rebellion in 2009 against an enforced training session,…

Tower Hamlets College strikers interview

The Commune interviews two participants in the September 2009 ESOL teachers strike in East London against job cuts.

Tower Hamlets College strike ends in partial victory

After a month-long strike against cuts, teaching staff at Tower Hamlets College have voted to return to work.

Tower Hamlets College strike continues into fourth week

ESOL teachers in east London continue their indefinite strike. A striker reports...

Solidarity with Tower Hamlets ESOL workers leaflet

A solidarity leaflet for September 12th 2009 rally in support of striking Tower Hamlets College workers.