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Today in London’s rebel past: Rent Strike Begins, Flower and Dean Street, 1939.
2016: housing in London spirals into a morass of high rents, inflated property prices, homelessness and housing benefit cuts… Resistance… READ MORE
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Today in London’s radical history: Inspector Lovelock acquitted of maliciously wounding Cherry Groce, 1987.
In September 1985, police shot & crippled Cherry Groce, mother of 6, in a dawn raid while searching for her… READ MORE
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Today in London’s rebel past: a blasphemous sermon in Bishopsgate.
“Abiezer Coppe… did away with sin…” (Leon Rosselson) On 14th January 1650, Abiezer Coppe delivered a blasphemous sermon in St… READ MORE
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Today in London’s radical past: Tax riot in the City, 1648
On 13th January 1648, there was a tax riot in London; after an attempt to levy a special tax on… READ MORE
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