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How Brixton is facing different division

By Paul Bakalite, July 2005

Cool and trendy? Or riddled with crime? Isn't the truth somewhere in between? Paul Bakalite argues that Brixton's recent fashionability is in itself damaging and oppressive ...

Urban renewal, gentrification and the impact on the working class in London

By Dave Amis, May 2005

The seemingly naturalised neo-liberal economic consensus is the undercurrent that informs how the processes of gentrification and urban renewal play out. Most of the existing research looks at gentrification from the perspective of the agencies charged with urban renewal and the middle class incomers who are moving into working class areas. The aim of this project is to start assessing the impact of gentrification and urban renewal on working class areas in London ...

‘Eventually values and interests merge’

By Gary O'Shea, 28 March 2005

What neo-liberalism is, where it is coming from and where it is going: Even before the unveiling of Blair's heir apparent, Alan Milburn - euphemistically described as a ‘moderniser’ - New Labour were gearing up for a fresh offensive on our democratic rights, by which we mean broad working class interests ...

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‘Let us back into our pub’ say punters

Lifelong regulars barred from a historic Somers Town pub when it went upmarket have started a petition demanding to be readmitted ... (from The Camden New Journal)

Lambeth council doesn’t know how to handle itself

A local campaigner looks at recent problems besetting this south London borough...

Locals fight back against gentrification of Broadway Market

In protest against evictions, sell offs and corruption in Hackney east London, a group of locals, activists and squatters this week reoccupied a café, successfully preventing its demolition by developers. Anthony Iles reports on this unusual counter-attack against the neoliberal "regeneration" of the city ... (taken from Mute magazine)

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