Grenfell Fire
Warnings ignored in a Tory bonfire of regulations
04 July 2017The Tories and their friends in the right wing press have been working overtime to spread the blame for the Grenfell Tower murders around. They also want to deflect attention from a culture at the top of the Tory party.
Tory councillors ban Grenfell survivors from their first meeting since blaze
29 June 2017Survivors of the Grenfell Tower are banned from the first meeting of senior councillors since the disaster because the Tory council fears protest.
'The Daily Mail won’t stop me protesting over Grenfell blaze'
27 June 2017I was attacked in the Daily Mail newspaper last week, along with others on the left, for protesting over the Grenfell Tower fire.
West of both worlds - inside the segregated borough of Kensington and Chelsea
27 June 2017The Grenfell Tower fire has exposed the deep inequality at the heart of Kensington and Chelsea.
'We will support Grenfell fire victims,' says Hillsborough justice campaigner
27 June 2017The Grenfell Tower fire has had a huge impact on some of the people around the Hillsborough Justice Campaign (HJC). The HJC has pledged support to the families and survivors of Grenfell Tower and will offer any assistance we can.
The vile Tory murderers must pay—protests can get them out
27 June 2017The Tories have stitched up a deal with the sectarian murderers and sexist bigots of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).
'It’s a wall of indifference', Grenfell survivor slams council
27 June 2017Joe Delaney, a Grenfell Tower fire survivor, told Alistair Farrow about the incompetence and indifference of the council
Anger over Grenfell murder needs to focus on the very top
27 June 2017If the inferno victims are to see any kind of justice the buck can’t stop at the local council, argues Alistair Farrow
Press racism versus solidarity from below after Grenfell Tower fire
20 June 2017Racism is a tried and tested way of deflecting people’s anger. So some newspapers focused on Ethiopian refugee Behailu Kebede, whose fridge they claim started the fire.
Outpourings of solidarity and anger after Grenfell Tower fire
20 June 2017Hundreds of people came from all over Britain to offer solidarity to the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire, and to demand answers.
The Tories are in crisis, now finish them off
20 June 2017Pressure was piling on Theresa May this week as her government tottered from crisis to crisis.
Bosses knew about worries over combustible cladding
20 June 2017the prime suspect for why the Grenfell fire spread so quickly is the cladding used on the building after a refurbishment
Neoliberalism, the ideology that put profit before safety, could be on its way out
20 June 2017It may be that health and safety is what kills off the neoliberal consensus
Grenfell—anguish turned to fury and protest
20 June 2017There was anger on the streets of London as people marched to demand justice for the dead of Grenfell Tower.
‘The poor live here, the rich don’t give a crap about us,’ say local residents after Grenfell Tower fire
20 June 2017Local residents spoke to Socialist Worker
Kensington and Chelsea, where the super-rich live in luxury and the poor live in death traps
20 June 2017The borough where working class residents of Grenfell Tower were left to live in shoddy, unsafe housing is awash with wealth and empty homes.
Grenfell Tower is a ‘crime scene,’ says Unison union
20 June 2017Grenfell is an issue that affects the whole working class
‘As an ex-firefighter, I know the deaths at Grenfell were avoidable. Those responsible must answer for it’
20 June 2017I have never seen anything like what happened at Grenfell.
Grenfell Tower survivors, relatives and relief workers abandoned by callous council
20 June 2017Kensington and Chelsea council’s abject failure to help survivors of the Grenfell Tower inferno has seen them officially sidelined.
Protest piles the pressure on Theresa May
20 June 2017Around 1,500 people rallied outside Downing Street demanding that Theresa May resigns.
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