“The money we propose to spend on housing is an insurance against Bolshevism and revolution” Introduction The year 2019 marks … More
Author: martinwicks
A lifelong trade union activist, I was for 20 years an NUR/RMT rep in various positions. Now retired I am a tenant activist, Secretary of Swindon Tenants Campaign Group. I am on the national committee of the Defend Council Housing campaign.
I am also Secretary of Parks & East Walcot Community Forum
This 'blog' is a means of putting my writing in one place rather than a blow by blow stream of consciousness type of blog.
As well as political and trade union articles you can also read reviews on films, or music, and some of my photographs.
Radicalising Labour’s housing policy
This is an article published in Labour Briefing The contradiction between Labour’s official housing policies and the more radical aspirations … More
Labour needs to be pressed to put council housing at the top of its priorities list
MARTIN WICKS reflects on Labour’s housing policy in the wake of the party’s conference in Liverpool THE contradiction between Labour’s … More
A campaign against local government austerity?
According to Owen Jones a statement is being released later this week which organisers hope will be signed by local … More
Reading Labour council proposes to “market test” services
An emergency measure for local government crisis – suspend debt payments The virtual collapse of the council in Northampton is … More
Adoption of “the full” IHRA document – prelude to a witch-hunt?
“My fear is, if we similarly enshrine this definition into law, outside groups will try and suppress – rather than … More
An attack on freedom of speech and dissent
The attempted witch-hunt of critics of Israel mirrors the witch-hunt in Israel against critics of the Israeli state The article … More
Defence of the Israeli state is the real motive for the campaign against Labour ‘anti-semitism’
According to Margaret Hodge Corbyn is an “antisemite and a racist”, even though as late as March she said she … More
We need 100,000 council homes a year, not “affordable homes”
Labour’s Housing Green Paper, Housing for the many, has a fundamental flaw at its heart. It says that a Labour … More
What happened in Barnet?
Adam Langleben, Barnet Labour councillor, has made a video which is circulating widely, which gives the impression that Jewish voters … More
