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Class War issue 81: Our Homes Are Not For Sale!
The term "stock transfer" should (and hopefully does) send a shiver down the spine of every working class person.
The continuation of the Tory policy of the privatisation of council housing by new Labour is both sickening and frightening. Thankfully it seems to have motivated tenants, trades unionists and class conscious groups into a growing campaign of opposition. Quite simply we do not want our homes sold off to housing associations and profiteering yuppies who will bring us higher rents, poorer building maintenance, insecurity of tenancy and a total disregard for the interests of tenants.
On 24th January a rally and lobby of Parliament was held against the sell-offs. The fight against this new wave of privatisation is a gaining strength and seems to be a broad church. Local groups are being set up around the UK and we urge all Class War readers to get involved and argue against profit, capitalism and authority. These homes were built for and by US - not to be bought by speculators. Social housing, whatever its often considerable faults, was one of the few real pro-working class social policies of the post-war era. We should not give it up easily.
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