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workingclasshistory: “On this day, 22 September 1960 at 5 AM, bailiffs backed up by 800 police attacked two blocks of council flats in St Pancras, London to evict two communists who had been withholding payment of a rent increase for over 8 months....

workingclasshistory:

On this day, 22 September 1960 at 5 AM, bailiffs backed up by 800 police attacked two blocks of council flats in St Pancras, London to evict two communists who had been withholding payment of a rent increase for over 8 months. Other tenants rushed from their flats to fight the police, and were joined by around 300 building and warehouse workers who went on strike to support them. By the evening a crowd of 14,000 had formed who marched on the town hall and were violently attacked by police.
This is a short history of the rent strike: https://libcom.org/history/rent-strike-st-pancras-1960 https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1813671948817947/?type=3

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