
Students in universities around the UK are taking part in, or are intending to take part, in rent strikes.
Continue reading Student Rent Strikes Take Off in BritainEnough 14 is not organizing any of these events, we are publishing these texts for people across the US and Europe to be able to see what is going on and for documentation only. – On February 1, 2021, our online shop will be closed. We have had to many delays with our suppliers due to Crona restrictions. All orders that were ordered until February 1 will be delivered. Thank you for your support.
UK. This essay by student Rent Strike organiser Matthew Lee gives an overview of the escalating confrontation between students and university management.
Continue reading UK: 5,000 students are going on rent strike – On the past and future of our movementThe following is a statement from the Americas Coordination / Coordinadora de las Américas, a joint project between Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation (U.S), Solidaridad (Chile), and Acción Socialista Libertaria (Argentina).
Continue reading Statement: Choose Food Over RentAthens. Greece. We take to the streets to demonstrate as tenants and workers, regardless of ethnicity, race and gender. We take to the streets because more and more people can’t pay their rent. We take to the streets, because more and more people are threatened with eviction. We take to the streets, as we can’t continue working all day long for shitty wages and spend most of our salary on rent. We take to the streets, because the greek state is eager to listen and legislate for the sake of bosses and landlords, while we, as tenants, remain invisible and vulnerable.
Continue reading #Athens: Can’t Pay? Don’t Pay! KEEP YOUR RENT – DEMOMadrid. Spain. During these weeks of confinement and in the framework of the international rent strike, we wanted to point out and alter the normality of some of the tools with which they take advantage of the needs and miseries in terms of housing.
Continue reading #Rentstrike – #Madrid, #Spain: One and a Thousand Forms of SolidarityOttawa. ON. Since March, several possibilities have opened up in this city for tenants to work together in our interests against landlords. While Herongate Tenant Coalition was formed in May 2018 by tenants across our neighbourhood in the south end of so-called Ottawa to defend against Timbercreek’s massive demoviction campaign, this pandemic has created another urgency; this time for working class people across the city to unite to proactively address our suffering under these specific conditions we share. Hence why the Keep Your Rent strategy rang so powerfully here as it did in other cities.
Continue reading #Ottawa, #Ontario: Midpoint Reflections on the #PandemicHamilton. Ontario. In the last week, tens of thousands of Hamiltonians have applied for the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB), the government’s COVID-19 income support package which provides payments of $2,000/month for up to four months. In this post we look into the nuts and bolts of the CERB rollout and consider what the government hopes to accomplish by ladling out all this cash.
Continue reading #Hamilton, #Ontario: Keep your CERB, keep your rent! No bailout for landlordsOn February 1, 2021, Our Online-Shop will be closed. All orders until January 31 will be delivered. Dismiss