London Anarchist Communist Group will be running a
bookstall at the London Radical Bookfair at Goldsmiths University, 81 Lewisham
Way, London S.E.14 on Saturday June 2nd. In addition it will be holding
a meeting at the Bookfair:
Land and Liberty
‘Land and liberty’ has been a key anarchist
slogan through-out the world. This is because without land, one cannot survive,
and without liberty, we cannot live. Though often associated with peasant
struggles, the struggle for land is as much as issue today in urban areas as it
is in the haciendas of Latin America. All our struggles in the city are arise
because we do not have control and access to land. Houses, food, community and
social spaces, parks and open spaces all are at the mercy of whoever owns the
land. And this is extremely unequal. Although
a majority of us have a small stake in the 5% of UK land upon which our housing
is built, the majority of land (70%) in the UK is owned by just 0.6% of the
population. But even land owned by the government is not land controlled
by us. Think of Grenfell and the lack of control residents had over their homes
that were meant to be in public ownership. Think of the land owned by the
Forestry Commission and the Ministry of Defence.
This talk will discuss why demands
for land justice need to be at the heart of our struggles, both to have
common ownership but also liberty to organise how we use the land for the
benefit of all. There will be some historical and international examples as
well as examples from London.
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