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.
St Mungo’s strikes and the parasitical culture of corporatism, cronyism, and white supremacy
Tag: Homelessness
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 figures reaching 1313 in 2022, an 85% increase on the numbers recorded by the study in 2019. These statistics include people sleeping rough as well as those placed in emergency accommodation
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 51Z it looks like eviction proceedings are finally off the table for now
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 the summer were sealed off with metal grilles — the question has to be where are those people now? This summer I was really shocked by the number of homeless
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 actually needing help from the conversation – a phenomenon which was brought home yesterday to Freedom Press author Andrew Fraser. Andrew, whose precarious position has seen him move intermittently from rough sleeping to
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. They are calling for support and legal observers to come down ASAP. Please share. As we reported last week, a group of homeless people have occupied the upstairs of Hamilton House in Chester. Hamilton House is
Chester’s homeless have had enough!
726 people died on the UK’s streets last year. Well in excess of 120,000 people applied to their local councils to be recognised as homeless in the hopes of having access to meagre support. Meanwhile 200,000 houses sit empty. Then there are all the commercial and industrial units lying dormant and decaying. Chester, like most
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 lengths people will sometimes go to in tormenting the homeless. I’d been sleeping in an alcove in Romford. But it was freezing and I kept getting robbed. So I made
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 in the process of fulfilling his “ending rough sleeping” pledge by potentially banning it in the city centre — and offering unsuitable accommodation. Below, a group of homeless people in Eccles describe their experience of
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 policy is continually puppeteering NGOs in far grander and more insidious ways — and it has recently gotten considerably worse. Anyone attempting to set up a charity in Britain will have run up against
Recent Articles
Radical Reprint: Anarchism in China
There is a very obvious article to reprint from the October 1914 issue of Freedom, which is precisely why I’m selecting a different one.
Searching for Utopia in “Megalopolis”
Spoilers ahead: Did David Graeber really influence Francis Ford Coppola’s vision of the film?
Clapton fans expelled for “offensive” banners
The militant reputation that precedes Clapton CFC fans caused Brentford security to sweat ~ Yann Dey-Helle, from Dialectik Football ~ On September 29, the Clapton CFC women’s team – which plays in the 6th tier – travelled to Brentford for a championship match.
On the practices of radical punk
From shows in squats to militant action, punk shows the convergence between class consciousness, psychedelic consciousness, and consciousness-raising (1/3) ~ Alex Ratcharge, from Audimat ~ For all intents and purposes, let us say that I am neither a theoretician, nor a philosopher, nor a specialist in political matters, but a humble 40-year-old reader, also a fanzine publisher and the author of a novel (Shortcut to Nowhere) exploring the world of punk and autonomous squats in France and Navarre – fictions inspired by my experience since, to quote NOFX, “I've been a punk- rocker for most of my life”
Migration, tourism, and the knot in English identity
Why are so many people against immigration while so many of them desperately want to leave?
