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RENT strikers and politicians linked arms on Saturday to march on Downing Street in their hundreds in protest over the Conservatives’ Housing Bill.
Protesters came from across London to demand a withdrawal of the proposed plans, which would end secure tenancies and stop the building of new social housing.
Among those demonstrating was Green Party leader Natalie Bennett and Lambeth council leader Lib Peck, as well as Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s brother Piers Corbyn.
Our housing crisis isn’t an accident – it’s class war, trapping millions in poverty while landlords and billionaires profit. To solve it, we need comprehensive transformation, not mere tokenistic reform, writes BECK ROBERTSON
GLYN ROBBINS celebrates how tenant-led campaigning forced the government to drop Pay to Stay, fixed-term tenancies and council home sell-offs under Cameron — but warns that Labour’s faith in private developers will require renewed resistance
