March for Homes links housing campaigns across London

Campaigners gathered outside the Home Office as women inside Yarl’s Wood organized against deportation attempts and detention conditions. Supporters carried detainees’ demands into the public...

Women marched in central London against male violence, including state-sanctioned violence, racism and austerity. The march was led by Black and Global Majority women and linked local experiences to...

After young mothers at an East London hostel received eviction notices, residents organized for social housing and against relocation away from family and support networks. Their campaign reframed...

Mothers and supporters marched through East London demanding “social housing, not social cleansing.” The campaign connected eviction notices to a borough-wide housing crisis and the displacement of...

On its first anniversary, the campaign occupied vacant flats on the Carpenters Estate and opened them for workshops, meetings and cultural events. The action exposed the contradiction of empty...

Students gathered beneath the Cecil Rhodes statue at Oriel College in solidarity with the South African Rhodes Must Fall movement. Their banner called to decolonize education. The action raised...

Oxford students protested at a debate on colonial reparations after discovering a “colonial comeback” cocktail poster depicting shackled Black hands. The action connected symbolic racism to the...

Students occupied university buildings in London and elsewhere, protesting fees, debt, marketization and institutional racism. The actions revived direct student organizing and opened debates about...

A public debate at the University of Bristol examined the legacy of the merchant and slave trader Edward Colston. Community activists had long questioned the celebration of Colston in a city shaped by...

A Manchester march brought global Black Lives Matter language into conversation with UK issues including police violence and the deaths of young Black men. Black organizers foregrounded local...