Grenfell Fire

Grenfell firms try to avoid justice during blaze inquiry

Landlords for the Grenfell tower have unveiled shocking revelations at the inquiry into the blaze. Their evidence shows that at every turn profit was prioritised over safety.

Grenfell inquiry hear details of cost cutting and incompetence that led to tragedy

The project manager responsible for overseeing work on Grenfell Tower’s cladding system didn’t properly understand safety warnings, an inquiry has heard.

Tories’ failure to replace Grenfell-style cladding leaves people ‘living in fear’

Dangerous cladding similar to that used on Grenfell Tower remains on hundreds of residential buildings

Tories vote against implementing Grenfell fire recommendations

Measures included guidelines for carrying out evacuations of high-rise buildings and regular fire door checks

‘Race and class’ at the heart of disaster

The families of those who died in the Grenfell fire and campaigners are calling for a separate investigation into the role of both race and class in their deaths.

Letters - ‘Kickstart’ program will give bosses opportunity to exploit

Measures announced in Rishi Sunak’s mini-budget supposedly to help workers have been welcomed by the TUC.

Grenfell dangers were ignored, inquiry hears

14 July 2020
Fire safety concerns relating to Grenfell Tower were ignored, an inquiry into the 2017 fire has heard.

Grenfell survivors shut out of inquiry as cladding bosses testify

07 July 2020
Survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire are furious at being kept out of the public inquiry as those responsible for installing flammable cladding testify this week.

Three years after Grenfell and people's homes are still not safe

19 June 2020
Three years on from the Grenfell Tower catastrophe, people are still living in hundreds of buildings that haven’t been stripped of dangerous cladding.

New ruling protects firms at Grenfell inquiry

02 June 2020
Companies’ words to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry can’t be used as evidence against them, the government’s top lawyer has said.

Union slams deadly fire failings and cuts

12 May 2020
Firefighters have attacked the government and building owners as a parliamentary committee’s cladding survey highlighted widespread safety failings.

Charge Grenfell firms

03 March 2020
The Grenfell Inquiry is helping the guilty to escape. It resumed on Monday after staff of companies and organisations involved in work on the tower were assured that their evidence would not be used to prosecute them.

Grenfell Inquiry—firms ‘pass buck and blame each other’

04 February 2020
The inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire heard last week that corporations had killed residents “in the pursuit of money”.

Grenfell cladding witnesses threaten to withhold evidence

29 January 2020
Important witnesses at the Grenfell Tower Inquiry may refuse to give evidence, unless they receive and assurance that they are free the threat of criminal prosecution.

‘Lives were ruined and we want justice says’ Grenfell resident

28 January 2020
“Lives were ruined and we want justice,” a former Grenfell resident told Socialist Worker on Monday. He was speaking as the second phase of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry got underway.

Reports round up: Campaigners join Silent Walk for Grenfell

19 November 2019
Cleaners at HMRC tax offices in Liverpool and Bootle were set to strike on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of next week.

Flames spread across ‘flammable cladding’ in fire at Bolton students’ flats

16 November 2019
A fire tore through a block of student flats in Bolton on Friday

Grenfell—still no reckoning for the real culprits

05 November 2019
The Tory politicians and housing bosses responsible for the murder of 72 people in the Grenfell fire avoided the spotlight in the inquiry’s report last week

Grenfell campaigners fight on for justice in wake of report

30 October 2019
Grenfell survivors and relatives have vowed to keep up their fight for justice after an inquiry’s report into the tower block fire was published on Wednesday.