PILLARS OF THE COMMUNITY: NORWICH MOSQUES FEED HUNDREDS

Posted on March 17, 2021 by Norwich Radical in Community and tagged arson, Blessed Are the Strangers, Boris Johnson, charity, chloe smith, Community, conservative party, Covid-19, East Anglian Mosque and Community Centre, foodbanks, fundraising, Ihsan Mosque, Islam, islamophobia, Mile Cross, mosque, Muslim, norfolk community foundation, norwich, Norwich Central Mosque, Norwich Muslim Community Association, religion, solidarity, Soul Foundation, Tory Islamophobia, zakat.

By Sean Meleady

Mosques across Norwich have been working hard in recent years to develop understanding of the Islamic faith and culture, and to improve community relations. Starting with the establishment of the Ihsan Mosque near Chapelfield Gardens in 1977, there are also mosques in Dereham Road, Rose Lane and Aylsham Road, and a community centre in Sandy Lane. Not only is the local Muslim community small but it is geographically isolated from larger communities in Birmingham, London and Yorkshire.

NORWICH CITY, ONEL HERNÁNDEZ AND CUBAN SOLIDARITY IN FOOTBALL

Posted on February 24, 2021 by Norwich Radical in Community, Inter|national and tagged bbc, canaries, costa rica, cuba, Cuban blockade, Cuban FA, Cuban solidarity, Curaçao, defection, diplomacy, doctors, featured, football, germany, guatemala, international football, international politics, MLS, norwich, norwich city football club, Onel Hernández, Osvaldo Alonso, premier league, Seattle Sounders, UN, UN General Assembly, US imperialism, USA.

By Howard Green

Norwich City’s glossy matchday programme for their home match against Stoke on February 13th is emblazoned with the face of fan favourite winger, Onel Hernández. Hernández, a famously bubbly and humorous character who has played for the Canaries since the beginning of the 2018/19 season, made a late substitute appearance against Stoke during Norwich’s 4-1 win. On this occasion it was a brief outing for the programme cover star – but recent developments in Hernández’s career are much more significant than this match might suggest.

STUDENTS STRIKE FOR RENT REDUCTION

Posted on February 18, 2021 by Norwich Radical in Community, Student and tagged Boris Johnson, clive lewis, coronavirus, Covid-19, david richardson, featured, higher education, keir starmer, marketisation, rent strike, Rent Strike UEA, student accommodation, student activism, student rent strikes, tuition fees, UEA, UEA Marxist Society, UEA SU, university, University of East Anglia, zoom.

By Sean Meleady

With the announcement on 4 January of a third national lockdown, the majority of students at the UEA have been unable to return to the University following the end of the Christmas holidays. However, a campaign was set up several days before the lockdown announcement by a group of students calling for a rent strike at UEA.

THE ANTI-POLL TAX UNIONS: LESSONS IN COMMUNITY ORGANISING

Posted on January 28, 2021 by Norwich Radical in Community, Inter|national and tagged acorn, activism, All-British Anti-Poll Tax Federation, anti-poll tax unions, austerity, bailiffs, campaigning, civil disobedience, class, community organising, Danny Burns, featured, grassroots, miners strike, non-payment, poll tax, Poll Tax Rebellion, poll tax riots, protest, Thatcher, Tories, uk, unions.

By Niahl Hubbard

When activists look back to the movement that arose to challenge the introduction of the Poll Tax, they will see it as one of ordinary people taking on the establishment and coming out victorious. Whilst the rioting in Trafalgar Square and similar confrontations between police and protestors often takes centre stage in our collective memory of this period, there is the risk of overlooking the grassroots and community led resistance that fought every step of the way during the Poll Tax’s introduction – the resistance of the Anti-Poll Tax Unions.

NORFOLK EDUCATION WORKERS FIGHT TO KEEP THEIR COMMUNITIES SAFE

Posted on January 15, 2021 by Norwich Radical in Community and tagged #makeschoolssafe, #protectcommunities, Boris Johnson, Burston School Strike, clive lewis, coronavirus, covid, Covid-19, digital divide, education, employment rights, Employment Rights Act 1996, Gavin Williamson, Gawain Little, health and safety, internet access, jeremy corbyn, Jeremy Hunt, keir starmer, mass testing, National Education Union, NEU, Norfolk County Council, Norfolk Labour, Norfolk NEU, Norwich City Council, Norwich Labour Party, SAGE, schools, supply teachers, teachers, trade unions, workplace conditions, workplace safety.

by Sean Meleady

Norfolk-based education workers belonging to the National Education Union (NEU) have won a hard-won victory, after working with other trade unionists across England to force the government to close schools to the majority of students. This follows a sharp rise in the number of COVID-19 cases, particularly amongst school-aged children.

THE NORWICH RADICAL IN 2020

Posted on December 31, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Community, Inter|national, Perspectives, Student and tagged arts, asexuality, black lives matter, black rebellion, covid, defund, dictionary, Donald Trump, education, featured, future, glinner, highlights, hope, iraq, LGBTQIA+, mr ripley, mutual aid, Norwich Radical, noughts and crosses, Orban, pandemic, Poland, police, retrospective, review, Roma, transphobia, Yangon, year in review, yir, ZAD du Carnet.

by The Norwich Radical team

At year’s end, many of us feel the pull to try and put a positive spin on the preceding 12 month period – to celebrate its joys, while recognising its difficulties in order to put them behind us as we look to the new year with a hopeful eye. At the end of 2020, it is particularly difficult to find a positive angle from which to look back, or forward. The slow-motion explosion that is Brexit has rolled on, the UK government that came to power just over a year ago has taken every opportunity to demonstrate its incompetence and corruption, and the mainstream media has continued to side with the powerful over the marginalised. And then there’s the elephant in every room – the Covid-19 pandemic, which has pushed many of the institutions we rely on to breaking point, revealing just how little many governments care about the lives of their more vulnerable citizens.

TAKING WHAT’S OURS: ACORN NORWICH’S FIGHT FOR TENANTS’ RIGHTS

Posted on December 31, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Community and tagged abbotFox, acorn, Acorn Norwich, ACORN renters' union, ACORN Tenants' Union, community union, direct action, estate agents, housing, illegal evictions, landlords, letting agents, Northwood, Norwich City Council, pandemic, rent, rent strike, trade union.

By Sean Meleady

ACORN Norwich, a community union which focuses particularly on tenants’ rights, has been dealing with member defence cases against two Norwich estate agents: abbotFox and Northwood.

NEW TOWNS TO POOR DOORS: SOCIAL HOUSING OVER THE DECADES

Posted on December 26, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Community, Perspectives and tagged acorn, City, city planning, class, classism, council flat, council tenants, economy, featured, hierarchy, housing, housing crisis, milton keynes, neighbourhood plans, new town, post war, social housing, tenant.

by Kasper Hassett

To most people, thinking of social housing might typically invoke one of two images: kids weaving big-wheeled bikes between identical high rises; or post-war ‘new town’ developments, which historically placed workers and their families in entirely new communities in industrial areas. These possibilities may ring true for some people’s lived experiences, but with the decline of new social housing developments at a time when they are needed most, the few new properties being released to social housing tenants are often nestled among more expensive housing only available to more affluent residents, in ways which alienate the poor. In fact, social housing now is so far removed from dominant expectations of cohesive, mono-class communities that it is hard to spot.

PEOPLE BEFORE PROFIT – TIME FOR THE FIGHTBACK

Posted on December 10, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Community and tagged activism, activists, anti austerity, Arcadia Group, austerity, Australia, bedroom tax, benefits, Boris Johnson, campaigning, climate crisis, climate jobs, construction, corruption, Covid-19, cronyism, CWU, Debenhams, east anglia, engineering, eviction ban, featured, fossil fuels, furlough scheme, gig economy, government, green economy, green industrial revolution, Hospitality, hospitals, Jane Loftus, Jo Rust, jobs, King's Lynn, Labour, MPs, nationalisation, NHS, norwich, pandemic, People Before Profit, Philip Green, PPE, public ownership, recession, redundancies, retail, Serco, social security, tax reform, Topshop, Tories, tourism, trade unions, TUC, uk, Universal Credit, welfare state, wildfires.

By John Sillett

The recent collapse into administration of shop group Arcadia and Debenhams’ department stores was shocking, but not unexpected. Both companies have had their assets looted by their owners; Arcadia’s owner Philip Green has become widely seen as the unacceptable face of capitalism. Whilst the vultures pick over the bones of Topshop and its relations, there has been an avalanche of redundancies in many sectors, from construction to engineering. The pandemic has hastened the collapse or rationalisation of companies depending on footfall, like retail, hospitality and tourism.

‘BUILD BACK BETTER’: GREEN NEW DEAL NORWICH’S PROJECT TO TRANSFORM THE CITY

Posted on December 9, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Community and tagged build back better, Chris Saltmarsh, climate, climate breakdown, climate change, climate crisis, climate emergency, decarbonise, environment, environmental sustainability, environmentalism, Extinction Rebellion, featured, Green, green jobs, green new deal, Green New Deal Norwich, Green New Deal UK, Green Party, jobs for all, Leon Sealey-Huggins, Livvy Hanks, Norfolk County Council, norfolk network, norwich & district trades council, Norwich City Council, norwich green party, Norwich Greens, Norwich Labour Party, Sabine Virani, sustainability, UEA Labour, XR.

By Sean Meleady

Environmentalists and green activists in Norwich have been coming together to discuss ways in which the city could address climate breakdown, and how, in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the city could ‘build back better’. Green New Deal UK’s Norwich hub is part of a nationwide network of groups hoping to combat climate breakdown. Describing a Green New Deal (GND) as ‘our map for a future worth fighting for’, they have five key goals they hope to achieve within the next decade, which they describe as ‘a fork in the road for humanity’.

Community

PILLARS OF THE COMMUNITY: NORWICH MOSQUES FEED HUNDREDS

By Sean Meleady

NORWICH CITY, ONEL HERNÁNDEZ AND CUBAN SOLIDARITY IN FOOTBALL

By Howard Green

STUDENTS STRIKE FOR RENT REDUCTION

By Sean Meleady

THE ANTI-POLL TAX UNIONS: LESSONS IN COMMUNITY ORGANISING

NORFOLK EDUCATION WORKERS FIGHT TO KEEP THEIR COMMUNITIES SAFE

by Sean Meleady

THE NORWICH RADICAL IN 2020

by The Norwich Radical team

TAKING WHAT’S OURS: ACORN NORWICH’S FIGHT FOR TENANTS’ RIGHTS

By Sean Meleady

‘BUILD BACK BETTER’: GREEN NEW DEAL NORWICH’S PROJECT TO TRANSFORM THE CITY

By Sean Meleady

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