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‘“I paid my rent just 10 minutes ago and now I have £22 left in my account.” The words came from a young man introducing himself to the first meeting of the Hackney People’s Assembly Against Austerity earlier this week.
The speaker was from Digs, a group attempting the near-impossible task of organising local private sector tenants to resist rocketing rents while offering support against benefit cuts and the bedroom tax. The bald statement of his own circumstances wasn’t made merely to elicit sympathy, however, but as an illustration of quite how austere living has already become for some in this east London borough.’
Comment: ‘ I’ve been involved with the People’s Assembly in Leeds. The first attractive thing about the group is that it was set up and is still being motivated by people who weren’t the ‘usual suspects’ rather than the existing groups of activists.’
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