~ Jon and Simon round off the year with a trip into the weeds talking about reaching the Mark Jenner period in the Spycops saga, Labour’s disgust…
Anarchist News Review: What have human rights ever done for us?
Tag: Homelessness
Scrapping the Vagrancy Act
The criminalisation of homelessness and poverty is not truly ending—only being reshaped ~ Tony ~ On 10 June 2025 the Government confirmed it …
St Mungo’s strikes and the parasitical culture of corporatism, cronyism, and white supremacy
The truth is that the clients St Mungo’s is supposed to help, and the staff who are supposed to do so are just a number to the St Mungo’s machine.
New research: 1313 homeless deaths in 2022
New research by Museum of Homelessness has revealed another increase in the number of people dying while homeless in the UK – with nationwide fig…
Evictions held over, hotels for the homeless — Covid is upending housing
The legal situation has been changing so rapidly that even full-timers are struggling to keep up, but with the introduction of Practice Direction 5…
Brighton: As council seals arches, where do the people go?
On Thursday 12th and Friday 13th several arches and shelters above Madeira Drive, at Black Rock, spaces which had housed a community of people over…
No pedlars at our fundraiser: A sketch on charity and exclusion
One of the big problems with how institutional charity has replaced human solidarity towards the homeless is that it frequently excludes people act…
Chester Shows Solidarity for the Homeless in Hamilton House
UPDATE 9th October Before the court hearing even finished, the folk occupying Hamilton House got bailiffs and cops outside.
Chester’s homeless have had enough!
726 people died on the UK’s streets last year.
The day I slept in a puddle on Old Compton Street
Continuing on from the memories charted in his book Invisible: A Diary of Rough Sleeping in Britain, Andrew Fraser writes a personal note on the le…
Manchester homeless open letter to Andy Burnham: ‘You’re setting us up to fail’
Having very efficiently attacked political squatting in the early days of its tenure in 2017-18, Andy Burnham’s administration is currently i…
Silent givers: How the government manipulates charity
A recent furore in Scotland has focused on the Foreign Office playing piggy bank to a small ‘anti-fake news’ charity, but State po…
Book Extract: Invisible
In the following extract from Invisible: A Diary of Rough Sleeping in Britain released today by Freedom Press, Andrew Fraser writes on the phenomen…
Building in central London occupied for homeless shelter
A building in Central London was squatted today in order to provide shelter for homeless people.
Shard owners threat Ian Bone and Class War with High Court injunction
Ian Bone of Class War and ‘persons unknown’ are threatened by the owners of the Shard with a court injunction preventing them from pr…
Recent Articles
The Case of the Spinning Judge
Imagine what it feels like to sentence war resisters as terrorists ~ Tabitha Troughton ~ My smallish eyes blink, and my central incisors catch the …
Heavy repression in Geneva as G7 summit opens
Over 60,000 people faced tear-gas and an overnight kettle in protests against meeting of the world’s richest states ~ Gabriel Fonten ~ Tens o…
Antifascists mobilise after racist pogroms
The UK far-right surge builds on deep-rooted resentment and social fragmentation ~ Blade Runner ~ Antifascists on Saturday (13 June) mobilised agai…
Filton sentencing explainer
De-proscribing Palestine Action will not make a difference to the “Terrorism connection” enhancement ~ Andy Meinke ~ The Filton defenda…
No consent to confinement
UK Supreme Court muddies the waters on deprivation of liberty, as safeguards are stripped away ~ punkacademic ~ The Supreme Court last week ruled o…
