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People's History

Celebrating 30 years of the Base for Anarchy and Solidarity in Easton (BASE)

As the Easton-based social centre reaches its thirtieth birthday, we explore the history of the much-loved volunteer-run community space, which began life as a squat back in the mid-1990s

Listen: People Just Do Something, with Bristol Apartheid Free Zone’s Matt and Sacha on building a boycott for Palestine

‘Collective power is where it’s at’: City Academy workers celebrate strike action successes

Reports

Reactions to council’s new proposals on van dwellers

The draft plans, which outline greater enforcement powers, receives mixed reactions.

City

“Underhand and sneaky”: Plutus Energy plan new power station

City

How Bristol 24/7 missed the mark on gentrification

Protest reaps the rewards: repairs to housing

Following a demonstration against dangerous housing conditions, a Liv N Let manager attended the home of one of the three tenants and promised that repairs...

Easton residents protest “damp & dangerous” housing

Over 50 people protested today outside Liv n Let property agency on Mina road in St Werburghs. The demonstration organised by ACORN Bristol community union...

Liv n Let Die: Del Brown – Bristol Entrepreneur or “Slum Landlord” ?

Single mums demand repairs and a halt to “revenge eviction”. Del Brown, a Bristol born and bred multi-millionaire, is “damaging the health of his tenants” claim...