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By Robert Black
1972Robert BlackHousing and rents Read the scan at ETOL (PDF) →Read from the scan by machine and not corrected: headlines and words can be misread, and a caption or advert can run into the text. For anything you quote, read the scan.
slumped dramatically 360,000, the lowest total for five years and 13 per cent down on 1968. In 1970 total fell even further.
Now the Tory government has proceeded to destroy on the basis of the seeds sown by Labour.
The Tories' "fair rents' Bill, as it is known, destroys the basis of municipal housing with its proposals to impose means tests, double rents, cut subsidies and strip away powers from local councils.
Council house building has been whittled down while house prices soar 25 per cent in six months. Land speculation sees no limits and Labour councils must now pay up to £200,000 an acre in central London.
The building societies continue to hold house buyers to Moscow Trials Anthi Paperback, 62½P MAX SHACHTMAN:
Behind The Moscow Paperback 75p Stalinism In Britain Paperback £1.12,—cloth LEON TROTSKY :
Death Agony of Capitalism (The Transitional Programm Pamphlet 5p Class Nature of the Soviet Pamphlet 20p In Defence of the October Revolution Pamphlet 15p The Theory and Practice of Revisionism Pamphlet 15p Postage 10p per book, 3p per pamphiet. Order from : NEW PARK PUBLICATIONS 186a Clapham High Street, London SW4 7UG.
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