‘Historical amnesia lays the groundwork for crimes that still lie ahead,’ says Noam Chomsky. We must never forget the killing of Palestinian people in Gaza. Issa’s placard echoes Chomsky’s warning against historical amnesia. Our schools and colleges will never pour this history into our children’s heads. The media will conceal historical truths with blurry complexity and propaganda.
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“I’m outraged that Lendlease want to build an office block, when the original plan was for new homes and open space,” says Jerry Flynn, a former resident of the Heygate council estate.
Elephant and Castle residents and community groups are fighting against a giant office block being built right in the middle of the new residences of Elephant Park, the private housing development that replaced the demolished Heygate council estate.
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But Justice? Daffarn says there has not yet been “a single clink of handcuffs” on those who should ultimately be held accountable by the criminal justice system for the Grenfell Tower fire. “We want the criminal justice system to do its job.”
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Hisam Choucair, who lost six family members at Grenfell, says the failure to prosecute feels like “a dagger to my heart”. But Choucair, tenants, residents and housing campaigners are trying to persuade government and property developers to make sure a Grenfell-type fire tragedy does not happen again.
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Elected members of the London Assembly have formally called on Mayor of London Sadiq Khan to provide public funds to council estate residents campaigning to save their homes from being demolished by developers and local councils. But, for many of these residents, the LAM’s plea to Mayor Khan to ‘level the playing field’ smacks of too little, too late.
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“I don’t believe it was a true vote,” says Agnes Thomas, an east Londoner who has lived on the Carpenters Estate in east London for 52 years. Thomas criticises the ‘Yes’/No’ estate demolition and ‘regeneration’ ballot held by Newham Council in December 2021.
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Corporate developers rarely withdraw from lucrative London ‘regeneration’ schemes. But Grainger has announced its withdrawal from Wards Corner in Tottenham.
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‘Doctorpreneurs’ have transferred NHS contracts to run 49 London GP surgeries to an American corporation.
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Rewind to 2014, seven years before the Coronavirus Pandemic. Duncan Selbie, then chief executive of Public Health England, warns the UK government: ‘The prospect of a flu pandemic is one of the highest risks faced by the UK.’
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The view of London from Alexandra Palace conceals more than it reveals. A ‘havoc’ of luxury residential and office towers gives London’s skyline a jagged edge. They are the product of an unaccountable and powerful alliance between global corporate capital interests and a cadre of London’s leading politicians, including the Mayor of London. This opaque ‘local market state’ severely cramps the life chances of working Londoners on average and lower incomes, demolishing Londoners’ secure council homes – and then denying Londoners the secure and genuinely affordable homes they desperately need.
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