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East London Racism Row is Labour’s First Test of Chakrabarti Principles

Ashley Irons

Two weeks ago the Labour MP Jim Fitzpatrick chose to racialise a routine selection procedure, providing Labour with its first test following the Chakrabarti report.

Exposing London’s Dirty Energy Complex: 5 Companies (and Industries) Causing Climate Change

Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik and Charlie Satow

Climate change is being driven by more than just big name oil and gas firms like BP. A whole network of industries contributes to and relies on environmental destruction. Here are five of the worst offenders based in London.

London Housing Crisis: Squatting Becomes More Precarious, While Guardianships Boom

Housing Action Southwark & Lambeth

As more people struggle to keep up with rising rents, squatting continues to be criminalised while London councils are turning towards the promotion of insecure property guardianships.

How Rising London Rents are Funding Elite Private Schools

Sol Gamsu

While you're shelling out to put a roof over your head, it's easy to forget who owns the ground beneath your feet. For many cash-strapped London students, rent money is helping to feather the nests of the elite - and the situation isn't uncommon.

Will Sadiq Khan’s Election Make a Difference to the Policing of London’s ‘Gangs’?

Harry Stopes

Following the pilot of Operation Shield, Boris Johnson's controversial scheme for dealing with 'gang crime' in London, Sadiq Khan has given no indication of whether he intends to roll it out across the city.

5 Reasons the Fight for Energy Democracy Starts in Communities

Fanny Malinen

Since its inception in late 2015, Switched On London has gone from strength to strength in its campaign for energy democracy. Now the campaign is looking to build a community-led movement to take on fuel poverty.

‘Sadiq and Zac refused to meet the Greens’ – It could cost them the London mayoralty

4 Reasons Why Clean Energy Must be Public Energy

Archie Davies

Tired ideological tropes and ingrained vested interests are stopping cities from securing clean, democratic and socially just energy systems. It’s time to take our power back.

Why Boris Johnson’s high-rise ambitions will have Londoners living in the shadows

Adam Robertson

Boris Johnson's answer to London's growing population is simply to build tall, fattening the wallets of investors in the process. In doing so, he contradicts the point of the capital's original high-rise estates.

Long Read: Modern Homelessness: Privatisation, Policing and Public Toilets

Alex Gabriel

Sunday Long Read: Since 2010 homelessness has soared in London. What does privatisation feel like for those forced to sleep rough?

5 Reasons London’s Bicycle Couriers are Organising (and Winning!)

Ina Fever

The Couriers and Logistics Branch is the latest section of the IWGB to get unionising and winning. Ina Fever speaks to three of London’s best bicycle couriers on life as a courier, the struggles of the job and the campaign ahead.

IMOBastani: Khan trick? Why Is Sadiq Khan Cozying up to Big Business?

One week as Labour's candidate for London mayor and Sadiq Khan is already pissing Aaron off.

IMOBastani: Why Is London Getting Bigger?

On this edition of IMO, Aaron explains why London's population is set to reach an all-time high this decade.

8 Key Findings into Council-Administered Social Cleansing in London

Housing Action Southwark and Lambeth

Housing Action Southwark and Lambeth has used freedom of information (FOI) requests in every London borough to research the effect of the 2011 Localism Act on the rehousing of homeless households. The findings reveal the social cleansing of central London by the hands of local authorities.

Interview: Interview: Rabina Khan

Aaron Bastani sat down with independent Tower Hamlets mayoral candidate about the demise of Labour in ethnically mixed working class communities.

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East London Racism Row is Labour’s First Test of Chakrabarti Principles

Ashley Irons

Exposing London’s Dirty Energy Complex: 5 Companies (and Industries) Causing Climate Change

Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik and Charlie Satow

London Housing Crisis: Squatting Becomes More Precarious, While Guardianships Boom

Housing Action Southwark & Lambeth

How Rising London Rents are Funding Elite Private Schools

Sol Gamsu

Will Sadiq Khan’s Election Make a Difference to the Policing of London’s ‘Gangs’?

Harry Stopes

5 Reasons the Fight for Energy Democracy Starts in Communities

Fanny Malinen

‘Sadiq and Zac refused to meet the Greens’ – It could cost them the London mayoralty

Josiah Mortimer

Interview: ‘People want to see radical policies’ – Sian Berry

IMOBastani: We Need to Build a Wall… and we’ll make them pay for it

IMOBastani: No We Khan’t? We Need to Talk About Sadiq

4 Reasons Why Clean Energy Must be Public Energy

Archie Davies

Why Boris Johnson’s high-rise ambitions will have Londoners living in the shadows

Adam Robertson

Long Read: Modern Homelessness: Privatisation, Policing and Public Toilets

Alex Gabriel

5 Reasons London’s Bicycle Couriers are Organising (and Winning!)

Ina Fever

IMOBastani: Khan trick? Why Is Sadiq Khan Cozying up to Big Business?

IMOBastani: Why Is London Getting Bigger?

Interview: Interview: Rabina Khan

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East London Racism Row is Labour’s First Test of Chakrabarti Principles

Ashley Irons

Exposing London’s Dirty Energy Complex: 5 Companies (and Industries) Causing Climate Change

Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik and Charlie Satow

London Housing Crisis: Squatting Becomes More Precarious, While Guardianships Boom

Housing Action Southwark & Lambeth

How Rising London Rents are Funding Elite Private Schools

Sol Gamsu

Will Sadiq Khan’s Election Make a Difference to the Policing of London’s ‘Gangs’?

Harry Stopes

5 Reasons the Fight for Energy Democracy Starts in Communities

Fanny Malinen

‘Sadiq and Zac refused to meet the Greens’ – It could cost them the London mayoralty

Josiah Mortimer

Interview: ‘People want to see radical policies’ – Sian Berry

IMOBastani: We Need to Build a Wall… and we’ll make them pay for it

IMOBastani: No We Khan’t? We Need to Talk About Sadiq

4 Reasons Why Clean Energy Must be Public Energy

Archie Davies

Why Boris Johnson’s high-rise ambitions will have Londoners living in the shadows

Adam Robertson

Long Read: Modern Homelessness: Privatisation, Policing and Public Toilets

Alex Gabriel

5 Reasons London’s Bicycle Couriers are Organising (and Winning!)

Ina Fever

IMOBastani: Khan trick? Why Is Sadiq Khan Cozying up to Big Business?

IMOBastani: Why Is London Getting Bigger?

8 Key Findings into Council-Administered Social Cleansing in London

Housing Action Southwark and Lambeth

Interview: Interview: Rabina Khan

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