Grenfell Fire

Protest piles the pressure on Theresa May

20 June 2017
Around 1,500 people rallied outside Downing Street demanding that Theresa May resigns.

Shameless Tory Kensington and Chelsea council won’t take any blame

20 June 2017
Kensington and Chelsea council’s response to the murder in Grenfell Tower has been to avoid questions and evade responsibility.

As Tories and the council keep failing over Grenfell, residents demand change

20 June 2017
The Grenfell Tower fire showed the Tories’ contempt for working class people

Murderous contempt for poor people’s lives goes to the top

20 June 2017
A series of Tory housing ministers fought to stop developers and landlords taking responsibility for fire safety

Tories must answer for deaths in Grenfell fire

20 June 2017
Years of cuts to council budgets, the fire brigade, and the deliberate running-down of council estates are the context of this tragedy

A poem on the Grenfell Tower fire by Alan Gibbons

20 June 2017
Do you know the first time I knew I was not safe because of my class

Housing bosses ignored tenants' warnings

20 June 2017
Board members and officers are directly responsible for the deaths at Grenfell Tower.

Grenfell Tower fire shows up everything wrong with our system—it's time to end it

20 June 2017
On the third anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire, we republish an article we wrote immediately after it happened

Boris’s cuts put us all at risk, exhausted firefighters warn

20 June 2017
Tory minister and former London mayor cut millions from capital’s fire budget, while telling those who questioned his plans to ‘get stuffed’. Now austerity’s effects are there for all to see.

Press racism versus solidarity from below after Grenfell Tower fire

20 June 2017
Racism 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.