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From The Socialist newspaper, 6 January 2022
Trinity Community Centre: Shameful eviction by Newham Council
Niall Mulholland, East London Socialist Party
On 22 December, local groups in Canning Town in east London - tutoring for kids who've fallen out of the school system, a food bank, and religious groups - found their community centre locked up by Newham Council. The council community centre was scandalously unused for years before these groups started making use of it and refurbished it.
What are the council's plans - knock it down and build more unaffordable homes? The kids have exams this month, and all their educational equipment is locked in the community centre.
This is more shameful, outrageous action by this 100% Labour council that seems hell-bent on gentrification for the well off, and social cleansing for the rest of us. These evicting councillors are up for election in May. They should expect a challenge from trade unionist and anti-austerity activists.
I attended the protest at the eviction that day, bringing solidarity from the Socialist Party.
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In The Socialist 6 January 2022:
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Tories' cost of living squeeze - build the workers' fightback
Blair knighted for services to the rich and powerful
More fares misery for passengers - renationalise the railways
Schools: union action needed for Covid safety
Capitalism in crisis
Britain in 2022: Build a coordinated working-class fightback
Workplace news
Strike threat forces Tesco to improve pay offer
West Mids metalworkers strike over pay
Sheffield JustEat couriers escalate dispute
Scunny scaffs enter twelfth week of strike action
S. Yorks Stagecoach workers start indefinite strike
International news
Chile's working class delivers a landslide vote against ultra-right Kast
Socialist history
New unionism - when mass workers' action changed Britain
Local elections
TUSC appeals for widest possible anti-austerity socialist unity for May elections
Campaigns news
Coventry: Private profits from hospital parking
Fighting Fund - 162% of target, £162,000 raised
Trinity Centre: Shameful eviction by Newham council
Obituary
Obituary: Kate Jones - 1953-2021
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