June 17th Learning Circle: Housing precarity and the abolition of landlordism

May 17, 2024 | event

A talk with Nick Bano

Hear how government policy has promoted a two-tier class system between homeowners and renters. Nick Bano presents a Marxist interpretation of this calamity and a radical approach to its reform.

We invite you to a talk with Nick Bano on his book, Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis. 
Nick Bano is a barrister who specialises in representing renters & homeless people.

Nick argues a lack of housing is not the cause of the housing crisis. The real culprit is a scheme of policy that promotes a two-tier class system between homeowners and renters. The abolition of rent control, housing commodification and land speculation created a system that extracts wealth from the disadvantaged to the better-off. Nick presents a Marxist interpretation, showing the interconnections between the housing crisis, racism, ecological destruction and inadequate wages/ pensions. 

Join us to discuss solutions to a problem we all face!

This is the second in a series of events we are calling The Learning Circle. These are talks by trade unionists for trade unionists. These sessions are free and open to all members of the working class.

Who?

Nick Bano, housing barrister and author of Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis

When?

17th of June at 19:00

Where?

Mayday Rooms

88 Fleet Street EC4Y 1DH

Learning Circle: spycops, unions and the state.

Learning Circle: spycops, unions and the state.

Mar 13, 2024 | event

28th of March

A talk with legendary

Dave Smith of the

Blacklist Support Group.

Hear how militant construction workers were spied on by undercover police, illegally blacklisted and denied jobs. Dave Smith has unique insight into these anti-union strategies, the police’s collaboration and the resistance effort.

Join us for a shocking and informative story of worker solidarity in the face of corporate and police collusion.

This is the first in a series of events we are calling The Learning Circle. These are talks by trade unionists for trade unionists (and would-be trade unionists). These sessions are free and open to all members of the working class. Bring a friend, bring a fellow worker, bring your mum!

Who?

Dave Smith, construction worker, secretary of the Blacklist Support Group and co-author of Blacklisted: The Secret War Between Big Business and Union Activists

When?

28th March at 19:00

Where?

Mayday Rooms

88 Fleet Street EC4Y 1DH