TORY plans to sell off Britain’s remaining social housing will mean “theft from the working class,” the Communist Party warned yesterday.
David Cameron’s extremist bid to force housing associations to flog stock at massive discounts would spell the end of affordable housing in city centres and see working people crowded into flat and room-shares reminiscent of 19th-century slums, the party’s political committee heard.
Morning Star acting editor Ben Chacko said the Conservative manifesto was a declaration of class war which would strip workers of the right to strike.
BEN CHACKO says in different ways, the centenary of the General Strike and that of Fidel Castro’s birth point to priority tasks for the British left in the coming year
Building is the solution for much of our housing crisis – and will also help to address poverty, ill health, and even anti-social behaviour and alienation, writes KENNY MacASKILL
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


