Grenfell 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.
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
Tories must answer for deaths in Grenfell fire
20 June 2017Years of cuts to council budgets, the fire brigade, and the deliberate running-down of council estates are the context of this tragedy
Grenfell Tower fire shows up everything wrong with our system—it's time to end it
20 June 2017Grenfell is not some great exception to capitalist rule. It is a particularly sharp example of business as usual.
Protest piles the pressure on Theresa May
20 June 2017Around 1,500 people rallied outside Downing Street demanding that Theresa May resigns.
As Tories and the council keep failing over Grenfell, residents demand change
20 June 2017The Grenfell Tower fire showed the Tories’ contempt for working class people
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.
Grenfell Tower is a ‘crime scene,’ says Unison union
20 June 2017Grenfell is an issue that affects the whole working class
Boris’s cuts put us all at risk, exhausted firefighters warn
20 June 2017Tory 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.
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.
Shameless Tory Kensington and Chelsea council won’t take any blame
20 June 2017Kensington and Chelsea council’s response to the murder in Grenfell Tower has been to avoid questions and evade responsibility.
A poem on the Grenfell Tower fire by Alan Gibbons
20 June 2017Do you know the first time I knew I was not safe because of my class
‘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
‘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.
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.
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