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HOUSING campaigners successfully shut down the Mipim property fair yesterday after staging a hundred-strong demonstration against property speculation.
Barriers were erected and shutters lowered over the doors of the Kensington Olympia Exhibition Centre after some of the protesters attempted to enter the event.
The police reacted violently to the action and reigned truncheon blows through the crowds — whose numbers included mothers with small children.
Our housing crisis isn’t an accident – it’s class war, trapping millions in poverty while landlords and billionaires profit. To solve it, we need comprehensive transformation, not mere tokenistic reform, writes BECK ROBERTSON
GLYN ROBBINS celebrates how tenant-led campaigning forced the government to drop Pay to Stay, fixed-term tenancies and council home sell-offs under Cameron — but warns that Labour’s faith in private developers will require renewed resistance