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The Land Is Ours

TLIO campaigns peacefully for access to the land, its resources, and the decision-making processes affecting them

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Rewilding Britain Timeline – Partners George Monbiot and Rebecca Wrigley’s Cover For WEF/Private Equity’s Enclosure By Stealth? 28 August 2024
‘Private Equity’s Forest Torcher’, Drax Power Station, Corby, Emitting Four Times CO2 Of Equivalent Coal Plant 25 August 2024
Debt From Above: The Carbon Credit Coup, building a “green” power monopoly 11 August 2024
Scotland Bans Woodburning Stoves, Yet ‘Steven’s Croft’ Lockerbie Biomass Power Station Is Burning ‘A Truckload Of Trees Every 20 Minutes’ 6 August 2024
UK Farming Crisis Latest: Farm profits slumped by 19% in 2023, says DEFRA 27 July 2024
Banking Nature (2015) documentary on new WBCSD markets, the privatisation of nature 27 July 2024
85% of Wild Ponies ‘Killed Off’ in Natural England ‘Enclosure by Stealth’. 1,000 Year Old Forest and Moorland Common Rights Extinguished by DEFRA 29 May 2024
Petition launched to save Dartmoor ponies from ‘extinction’ after DEFRA further restricts commoners 18 May 2024
Slaves To Rent: UK housing is worst value for money of any advanced economy 26 March 2024
Mandelson: Tony Blair banned fox hunting after a £1 million donation from animal rights campaign IFAW 15 February 2024
UK ‘No Farmers No Food’ campaign launches over ‘green’ taxes and supermarket price fixing, squeezed margins force farmers out as private equity moves in 10 February 2024
Blockade: EU Farmers topple and torch John Cockerill’s statue; Welsh Farmers organise 4 February 2024
Free Party: a folk history of the 1990s free party movement against the 1986 Public Order Act and the 1994 Criminal Justice Act 21 January 2024
No Man’s Land? How To Claim Forgotten, Unclaimed UK Land For Free through Adverse Possession laws 15 January 2024
Landowner’s supreme court case threatens 2023 Dartmoor wild camping victory 15 January 2024
Norfolk villagers claim Thomas Coke, Earl of Leicester, has stolen over 3,000 acres of public common land 7 January 2024
Subsidised offshore windfarm anyone? How King Charles acquired our continental shelf, almost three times the UK’s land area 30 December 2023
The Death of Monkton Wyld..? 30 December 2023
London’s War on Informality, what seven hours in London taught me about surveillance capitalism – Brett Scott 27 December 2023
King Charles awards himself huge £40m, 50% pay rise, net worth £1.8 billion inheritance tax free 24 December 2023
No Access to Open Access Land 26 November 2023
Were the Biblical Prophets Anti-Semitic? by Michael Hudson 25 November 2023
Portumna Workhouse Famine Exhibition – Small sample from our Southern Ireland Road Trip 14 November 2023
One family told to leave their home every 8 minutes in England as no-fault evictions soar – ITV News 13 November 2023
Rural Planning Handbook: Levelling Up and Regeneration Act Update by Simon Fairlie at The Land Magazine 2 November 2023
‘Jumping Jack’ Manson vs. land-grabbing Squire Myers (1970) Anti-enclosure comic strip for junior school children to teenagers 18 October 2023
Hull City Council allow “right to grow” on unused council land [Source: The Guardian] 16 October 2023
Empty mansions in abandoned HS2 ghost village ‘taken over by squatters, dealers and religious cults’ 12 October 2023
Great Lives: Ken Loach on Digger, Gerrard Winstanley – BBCR4 – 26 Sep 2023 29 September 2023
Ramblers unite at Scots Dyke, near Richmond, North Yorkshire, to protest against England’s draconian right to roam laws 26 September 2023
Indigenous people in Brazil shed tears of joy as the Supreme Court enshrines their land rights in win for president Lula 22 September 2023
MST Founder João Pedro Stedile Confronts Landlords in Brazil’s Congress 20 August 2023
Buenos Aires authorities face questions after MST campaigning journalist dies at hands of police 12 August 2023
A personal project to save the world? Nothing beats land: Bill Gates is America’s biggest farmer 4 August 2023
Court of Appeal gives green light for wild camping to resume on Dartmoor 3 August 2023
Monkton Wyld community, new trustees at another UK countryside charity attempt ‘hostile takeover’ 2 August 2023
Homelessness in England at new 200k high amid cost of living crisis, government figures show 27 July 2023
‘Four year rule’ means log cabin built without planning permission near Vernon Kay and Tess Daly’s home ‘may stay’ 26 June 2023
Housing crisis, a simple fix: Government Self-build Houses by James Armstrong 22 June 2023
Post-war English countryside chroniclers: Robin Page, John Seymour, Jack Hargreaves 17 June 2023
Record UK net migration and the rising demand for housing 13 June 2023
Brazil’s President Lula Unveils Plan to Legalize Indigenous Lands by 2030 6 June 2023
EU approves controversial Dutch private equity farm buy-out plan to ‘cut nitrogen emissions’ 3 May 2023
‘How the Windsors got their £1bn property empire, a right Royal RIP-OFF more in line with Henry VIII than a modern democracy,’ 30 April 2023
85% rise in UK homeless tent/doorway deaths since 2019, annual figure reaches 1,300 22 April 2023
Tories’ Net Zero plan dedicates more land for biomass crops to feed Drax than new woodland 11 April 2023
Simon Fairlie vs George Monbiot – ‘Mixed Organic Agriculture vs Vegan’ debate 28 March 2023
UK’s Post-Brexit Agricultural-Support system for environmental protection – the Environmental Land Management Scheme (ELMS) 19 March 2023
Squatters’ Rights: Ken on claiming unregistered unused land as your own, or ‘Adverse Possession’ 10 March 2023
Open Letter to the Guardian – Response to the Guardian Editorial on Wed 15th February 2023 – “The Guardian view on Labour and antisemitism: two cheers for Keir Starmer” 7 March 2023
Guardian: Thousands march across Dartmoor to demand right to wild camp 22 January 2023
‘Horrified’, ‘a catastrophe’, inconceivable’. Dartmoor wild camping judgement ‘a huge step backward’ 18 January 2023
The Only Absolute Right To A Home In Europe: The Russian Constitution Chapter 2, Article 40 13 January 2023
Rent-Strike: Students at University of Manchester on Rent-Strike over cost-of-living crisis 11 January 2023
Dutch farmers battle technocratic forces driving them into oblivion 9 January 2023
‘Do you work in business?’ Sunak mocked for ‘excruciating’ Christmas exchange with homeless man 29 December 2022
The Gatekeeper: George Monbiot’s Multi-Level Marketing of Ecomodernism… but where’s the evidence? 5 December 2022
A Stroll Inside King Charles III’s $25 Billion Real Estate Empire 19 November 2022
Mass Trespass to protect AONB near Crawley, Sussex, Saturday 24 September 2022 8 September 2022
Military Homes Re-Nationalisation Row Heads To Court 15 August 2022
The National Trust is trying to eliminate livestock farming by pushing tenants out for ‘pantheist’ rewilding projects 2 August 2022
William Cobbett’s Dream Of A ‘Brave Old World’: Why Britain Needs A Peasants’ Revolt 24 July 2022
How Manchester sold itself to Abu Dhabi’s elite – for a song 23 July 2022
Bill Gates Buying Farmland, Welcome To Neo-Feudalism: A Closer Look at Farmer Bill 12 July 2022
Cash For Gongs: Prince Charles honoured tycoon Lord Brownlow who bailed out his failed eco-village 9 July 2022
Jack Hargreaves Preserved On Film The Extinguished Country Crafts We All Need To Survive Economic Collapse 7 July 2022
Enclosure For Empire: Witchcraft, Freemasonry and Oliver Cromwell 24 June 2022
Organised Crime vs Indigenous Rights: What Drove Dom Phillips And Bruno Pereira To Risk Their Lives In The Amazon? 17 June 2022
Pay No Rent! How to permanently fix the UK’s cost of living crisis – not Labour’s mendacious ‘Land From The Many’ Report 21 May 2022
Wiltshire Council leader’s anger at MoD as 1,350 military homes lie empty for years 20 May 2022
Scottish and Welsh Farmland Being Corporatised in Fake Environmental ‘Carbon Offset’ Scam 1 May 2022
An Englishman’s Home? It Now Takes 24 Years To Save For A Deposit, Compared To Three Years In The 1980s 23 March 2022
Zero Carbon Watch: Labour and Plaid Cymru destroying natural woods in Wales, selling off grazing to corporate interests to ‘offset their carbon footprint’ 12 February 2022
‘A Populist Obsession With Carbon’: Red Meat-Free School Menus Fail Our Children And The Environment 10 February 2022
TLIO camp finds opposition mysteriously vanishing to The National Trust’s privatisation of North Norfolk commons 10 February 2022
Channel 4’s ‘Sixty Days with the Gypsies’ Documentary Takes On Priti Patel’s Police State Bill 6 February 2022
TLIO Founder George Monbiot Destroyed Top UK Anti-Nuclear Scientist Using His Guardian Column Then Refuses Public Debate 7 January 2022
International Calls For Vietnam To Free Land Rights Activists As Fifth, Teacher Le Trong Hung, Is Jailed 31 December 2021
Alaskan Log Cabin Building Dick Proenneke Film: Alone In The Wilderness (2003) 22 December 2021
West Bank Land Grabs: Israeli Settlers Are Establishing Farms To Push Palestinians Off Their Land 8 December 2021
Tinkers Bubble Saw Mill, Somerset Help Save Our Steam Engine or Suggest A Replacement 23 November 2021
Hijack Alert! Wall Street’s COP26 Plan To Privatise Nature 20 November 2021
Monopoly: an overview of the Great Reset. Who Owns the World? Blackrock and Vanguard? By Monique Jansen of Vrouwen voor Vrijheid 7 November 2021
Homes Riddled With ‘Vermin, Mould, Damp, Leaks And Collapsing Ceilings’ The Damning Housing Ombudsman Report Triggered By An ITV News Investigation 30 October 2021
At the Wellingborough Diggers’ memorial – with local Independent Socialists Paul Crofts & Richard Jackson 3 October 2021
C21 UK Rentier Land Grab: What’s REALLY Behind The War On Home Ownership? 30 September 2021
Mobile Home Owners In Court, Forced From Site Under New Rule Banning Caravans Over 15 Years Old 30 September 2021
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UK Romany Gypsies: We will not go quietly into the history books 7 September 2021
Friday 27th to Monday 30th August 2021 – SCOLT HEAD, NORTH NORFOLK COAST – Bank Holiday Camp on disputed land 13 August 2021
New Ruling Ends Recent Attempts To Get Wide Anti-Traveller Injunctions 26 July 2021
New Planning Bill an ‘utter disaster’, say countryside campaigners 26 July 2021
Seizing Travellers’ Homes, Neutering Protest: Priti Patel’s PCSC Bill Should Be Called ‘The Police State Bill’ 14 July 2021
Kill The Bill and Housing Rights – Stickers/Posters from Autonomous Design Group 27 June 2021
Labour house tax plan ‘would stop parents passing on homes to kids’ 21 June 2021
Bright Green Lies: Paul Mobbs’ Review Of Julia Barnes’ Documentary And Its ‘Deep Green’ Message 21 June 2021
Chronic UK Housing Destitution: ITV News Political Correspondent Daniel Hewitt Reports 13 April 2021
United Front Demands: The Yellow Vest Manifesto, Opposing Globalist WWIII Disaster Capitalists 21 March 2021
Tue23Mar21: Right To Reside and Resist Anti-Trespass call to action against Priti Patel’s Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill 20 March 2021
What are the most controversial parts of the Police Crime Sentencing and Courts Bill? 16 March 2021
How the present day land-grabbing in Africa is forcing thousands to migrate to Europe 16 March 2021
Stop The National Trust ‘Rot’ Derek Thomas MP Demands, Profit Driven Charity Must ‘Return To Core Values’ 12 March 2021
Social Cleansing: Tories new anti-Traveller laws set to criminalise nomadic way of life 10 March 2021
Is Bill Gates TOO Powerful? asks Russell Brand 4 March 2021
Forgive us our trespasses: forbidden rambles with a right-to-roam campaigner 20 February 2021
Queen Elizabeth II Got 1973 Companies Act Exclusion Clause To Hide Her ‘Embarrassing’ Private Wealth 15 February 2021
Young Palestinians and Arab Israelis Unite in Boxing Day Anti- Lockdown Rave at Muslim Holy Site 28 December 2020
Restoring The Record book: Less than 6 years left before footpaths are extinguished 28 December 2020
Prince Charles sold his Duchy food brand, bought Waitrose distribution depot to cloak John Lewis stake – massive property empire 3 December 2020
PM Johnson urged to extend Right-to-Roam 30 November 2020
‘Biggest farming shake-up in 50 years’ 30 November 2020
My Home Is A Shed: Cornwall author, songwriter and housing campaigner Catrina Davies 11 November 2020
Cassington village Allotments in Oxfordshire under threat by Blenheim Estates 26 October 2020
Gender Identity Politics: Land Justice Network Trans Activists Ban People Who Don’t Share Their Views 23 September 2020
Friends Families and Travellers Investigation: Police Don’t Want More Powers To Evict Traveller Encampments 19 September 2020
Svalbard: Bayer-Monsanto & Syngenta planning farming monopoly in a global crisis? 29 August 2020
New £10,000 fines for organisers of illegal raves from Friday under cover of ‘coronavirus’ 23 August 2020
Government set to pass new ‘hostile’ anti-Traveller laws this autumn 18 August 2020
Up To Two Years In Prison For Vehicle Dwellers? Bristol Mayor Marvin Rees’ Bid to Ethnically Cleanse St Werburgh’s 16 August 2020
Forgive us our trespasses: forbidden rambles with right-to-roam campaigner Nick Hayes [Observer article] 16 August 2020
TLIO and the Tories’ Campaign against the Planning System 11 August 2020
A Short, Angry History of Land in Britain, by Thom Forester 9 August 2020
Charmy Down nr. Bath: anti-lockdown rave at disused airfield ‘was too big to stop’ 21 July 2020
US Supreme Court rules half of Oklahoma is Native American land 10 July 2020
Are we witnessing the death throes of the British monarchy? 9 July 2020
The Scottish Clearances by T.M. Devine reviewed – lives ruined for profit 8 July 2020
‘Violence as police try to break up peaceful London-wide street parties’: Echoes of 1994 CJA this weekend 28 June 2020
‘Planet Of The Humans’ Controversial Environmental Documentary Yanked From YouTube After 8 Million Views – Michael Moore & Jeff Gibbs Blast ‘Blatant Censorship’; Now Free On Vimeo 2 June 2020
Raptors are returning to Britain – but the criminal gamekeepers who kill them have a growing sense of impunity 30 May 2020
2020: The Spring When Ash Dieback Devastated Complacent Britain? Denial About Today’s ‘Dutch Elm Disease’ 19 May 2020
Could Indian Land Reformers’ Exemplary Pandemic Response Open The Way For Big Brother? 14 May 2020
Buying Agricultural Land, Dividing It Up For Market Gardens. Ecological Land Coop, BBC Farming Today 12 May 2020
Greenwash? UK Solar Farm Subsidies Greater Than Revenue, Push Agriculture Out Of 62,000 Acres 6 May 2020
Planet of the Humans: how environmental and green energy movements have been taken over by capitalists 29 April 2020
Vancouver, Canada, formally declares city is on unceded Native American tribal territory 8 March 2020
Walkers urged to help save historic footpaths before 2026 deadline 11 February 2020
Boris’ criminal trespass trap: this new law could make us strangers in our own land 16 January 2020
Universal Credit targets poorer non-Tory voters: work no longer route out of poverty 13 January 2020
Tories ‘fanned flames of racism’ against Gypsy/Travellers in 2019 election campaign 15 December 2019
Home Office Consultation: Strengthening police powers to tackle unauthorised encampments 10 November 2019
‘I swapped £580 a month rent for a converted horse-box – the housing crisis forced us to look for alternative options’ 22 October 2019
The Rural Planning Handbook is back in print 22 October 2019
Anna Minton: Private equity firms gobble up property and wreak havoc on tenants’ lives 5 October 2019
The Rural Planning Handbook is being updated and is temporarily out print 5 September 2019
Duke of Westminster dishes out latest round of central London social cleansing eviction notices 25 August 2019
UK on verge of second traveller revolution? Asking experts from the 1970s and 80s 13 August 2019
UN climate report: Change land use to arable to avoid a hungry future? 10 August 2019
Social Housing under siege – on centenary of 1919 Addison Act which began huge UK council housing programme 3 August 2019
If you own land you can build a home on it: Russia changes law to replace planning permission with simple notification scheme 14 July 2019
Ed Revill: clean burning gas from woodchips, the waste ‘biochar’ makes excellent fertiliser 20 June 2019
Tory behind Grenfell cladding downgrade hosts lavish party just before 2nd anniversary of fire 15 June 2019
The UK’s 50 biggest landowners revealed – lovemoney.com 6 June 2019
Solution to inequality? UK Labour party embraces Land Value Tax (LVT) 4 June 2019
Environmental protesters barred from HS2 site in west London 17 May 2019
Bob Hoskins exposes London property scams, Omnibus (1982) Missing Believed Wiped, with Barry Norman 16 May 2019
Council stopped from bulldozing Huddersfield allotments – thanks to their own records from 85 years ago 13 May 2019
Craig Murray: XR – Extinction Aversion 25 April 2019
Rewilding: Thomas Malthus, Aurochs and ‘green fascism’. The dark side of misanthropic environmentalism 18 April 2019
New Book: “Who Owns England” by Guy Shrubsole confirms ‘half of England owned by less than 1% of population’ 18 April 2019
‘Untermensch’ with nowhere to go: Myanmar farmers under siege from land law 4 April 2019
Labour’s antisemitism fiasco has led to a drop off in pro-Palestinian activism – it’s time we found our voice again 30 March 2019
30% profit on every Persimmon home sold last year thanks to taxpayer ‘help to buy’ subsidy 1 March 2019
Kirklees land grab: Huddersfield’s David and Goliath allotments fight heads for the High Court 26 February 2019
Book review: The New Enclosure by Brett Christophers – the sale of public land in neoliberal Britain 13 February 2019
Buckingham Palace ‘should be converted into housing for 50,000 people’ 24 January 2019
What the ‘Irish famine’ genocide teaches us about Palestine 17 January 2019
No Right To A Home: Amsterdam’s ADM Squat Evicted Today, Amsterdamse Droogdok Maatschappij 8 January 2019
Nearly 600 homeless people died last year in the UK, first official government figures show 22 December 2018
Revealed: over 500 a year. The UK homeless deaths this Tory government refuses to count 19 December 2018
Skin deep beauty of Britain’s Lake District: Villages that no one calls home 16 December 2018
Homeless pods designed to keep rough sleepers alive in the cold and safe from street violence, are denied funding 11 December 2018
Ramblers’ Pathwatch app includes OS 1:50k Landranger & 1:25k Explorer maps 6 December 2018
Memory lanes: the ramblers trying to save 10,000 lost British footpaths 5 December 2018
Cumbria villagers oppose army bid to ‘grab’ common land 30 November 2018
1637 Pequot massacre: The REAL Story of the Annual U.S. Thanksgiving 22 November 2018
Labour shadow chancellor John McDonnell calls for collective ownership of land 15 November 2018
Tombland by C. J. Sansom: new historical novel set in Norfolk during Kett’s rebellion 25 October 2018
Why would anybody farm? Stone Age Economics, by Marshall Sahlins (1974) 29 September 2018
The Invisible Land: The hidden force driving the UK’s unequal economy and broken housing market 1 September 2018
Cambodia frees leading land rights activist Tep Vanny after royal pardon 31 August 2018
Planning Problems Faced by Small Farmers by Simon Fairlie 14 August 2018
Gove accused of letting wealthy grouse moor-owners off the hook 12 August 2018
Law Commission proposal for leaseholders to buy a freehold at discount 22 July 2018
Anglesey dispute with the RSPB car park charges 19 July 2018
The Rural Planning Handbook published July 2018 11 July 2018
Fast-track fracking plan by the government denounced 27 June 2018
Residents of Scottish island Ulva raise €5.1 million to buy out aristocrat landlord 23 June 2018
Tories vote down law requiring landlords make their homes fit for human habitation 17 June 2018
How the extent of County Farms has halved in 40 years (from Who Owns England blog) 13 June 2018
Concrete Soldiers – Saving Britain’s Council Estates and Social Housing from the Developer Philistines 24 May 2018
French Police Use Tear Gas, Water Cannons against Thousands of Eco-Activism Protesters 24 April 2018
The 34 Estates Approved for Destruction By Sadiq Khan Despite Promising No More Demolitions Without Residents’ Ballots 23 April 2018
Sat 14th April 2018: Tour of London’s land & housing crisis by the Land Justice Network 14 April 2018
Sat19May, COUNTY MAYO Irish Famine Walk 2018 12 April 2018
Nine Gaza land protesters shot dead by IDF snipers, at least six journalists shot and wounded 7 April 2018
US blocks UNSC statement on Israel’s use of force on Land Day 3 April 2018
Palestine: The Great Return March, marking 70 years since the Nakba. 31 March 2018
Steward Community Woodland: part of Dartmoor’s soul killed by an overbearing authority 30 March 2018
Building in central London occupied for homeless shelter 9 March 2018
‘All we want is a bed’ – Hull’s Baker Street squatters march for the homeless 25 February 2018
Solving the housing crisis? The Case for Land Value Taxation 24 February 2018
UK Parliament investigates the effectiveness of current Land Value Capture Methods 6 February 2018
The Norman Yoke: Britain’s landless serfs, owned by foreign mercenary landlords 1 February 2018
Housing as a speculative financial asset: introducing REITS (Real Estate Investment Trusts) 23 January 2018
Varsity: The homeless should be helped, not criminalised 21 January 2018
New Chartist manifesto 2017 – six demands 20 January 2018
Landworkers’ Alliance crowdfunder to lobby for small scale, traditional family farms & ecological farming for the UK’s post-brexit agricultural policy 17 January 2018
The Victorian slums are back – and housing developers are to blame again 16 January 2018
United States was forced to abandon Grosvenor Square embassy because Duke of Westminster refused to sell freehold 13 January 2018
Imber in Wiltshire: Salisbury Plain village and church access restricted by MoD 12 January 2018
‘Appeasing the developers’: even Labour controlled cities keep extent of privatised ‘public’ space secret 11 January 2018
Bristol’s GRC: Bailiffs in Balaclavas 5 January 2018
Post-Brexit farming funding set out by Michael Gove 4 January 2018
National Community Land Trusts Network 3 January 2018
Dissolution of the Monasteries, Civil War, Thomas Cromwell, Oliver Cromwell and the founding of freemasonry and Zionism? 2 January 2018
Happy New Year! New Year Dishonour List 2018 31 December 2017
Tories quietly drop two flagship housing policies from key strategy document 24 December 2017
Criminalising homelessness: Homeless man jailed and forced to pay £115 after he fell asleep in doorway of central Bath hotel 24 December 2017
introducing “Ourfield” – a cooperative co-farming/crop share investment collective grains movement 10 December 2017
Guardian editorial: make water available for free on tap [and food, clothing, shelter] 10 December 2017
Plymouth’s ex-Barclays Bank squatters evicted from Mutley Plain 9 December 2017
Guardian: House prices aren’t the issue – land prices are 25 November 2017
Dukes of Westminster pumped millions into secretive offshore firms and avoided billions of pounds in tax 24 November 2017
Marion Shoard – Power In The Land (1987) – LWT production for Channel 4 23 November 2017
What next for young people in Zimbabwe’s land reform areas? 9 November 2017
Prince Charles has millions in off-shore tax havens: Royal is latest to be dragged into Paradise Papers cash scandal 8 November 2017
Brazil: Unemployment, rent drive housing occupations 4 November 2017
Taxpayers contribute millions to maintain Royal Palaces and Castles in Britain – some are barely used 2 November 2017
Crofting: traditional British land tenure enshrined in law after battles of the 1880s 20 October 2017
Homeless offered a year’s rent to leave New York permanently 8 October 2017
NEF map reveals public land suitable for affordable housing is being sold off instead 6 October 2017
Aussie couple builds off-grid mobile home with two shipping containers 28 September 2017
Nyéléni : the voice of the international movement for Food Sovereignty 25 September 2017
Co-operative socialism – The Fair World Project (FWP) – for a just global economy 23 September 2017
How the Aristocracy Preserved Their Power, by Chris Bryant (source: The Guardian) 10 September 2017
UK Housing Crisis Can Be Solved by Rich Land Owners 8 September 2017
Simple homes in the British countryside that need protecting 1 September 2017
100s of leasehold National Trust tenants told they face ground rent increases of up to 10,000% 26 August 2017
British property divide revealed as over five MILLION own second homes despite 250,000 homeless 21 August 2017
Sale of Peak District National Park woodlands, a sign of growing “privatisation” of countryside, campaigners say 19 August 2017
Australia: New totalitarian law forces end to Sydney tent city protest 18 August 2017
Grouse moor landowners take criminal toll on our birds of prey 16 August 2017
Homeless charity Crisis reveals over 12,100 UK households are squatting 10 August 2017
The Grenfell inquiry must feel the collars of the developers carving up our cities 14 July 2017
European Parliament approves ban on pesticides in environmentally-sensitive areas 3 July 2017
Peoples’ Food Policy – www.peoplesfoodpolicy.org 2 July 2017
Defra secretary Michael Gove indicates departure from largess of subsidies to large landowners & refocus on environment & countryside stewardship in post-brexit UK farm subsidy system 2 July 2017
Homeless people living on canal banks and forced to fish for their food in desperate struggle to survive 26 June 2017
Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg’s wife’s ancestral home benefits from £7.6m state rescue 23 June 2017
Summer of 1645: Trials of the Leveller founder, Freeborn John Lilburne 16 June 2017
The Autonomous City by Alexander Vasudevan review – in praise of squatting 7 June 2017
Sweden has just listed the entire country to stay at for free on Airbnb 27 May 2017
Victory for Tent City homeless as judge slams Bristol City council 11 May 2017
Michael Davitt and the Land League: an Irish Revolution 30 April 2017
Poole council lied, DID issue tent eviction notice, despite initial claims it was ‘fraudulent’ 20 February 2017
Squatters’ Handbook 14th edition (2016) – a 21st century entrepreneur’s bible 4 February 2017
‘Squat Belgravia’ target Qatari general’s £17m townhouse hours after being evicted from £15m mansion 2 February 2017
‘The housing crisis has spread to everybody’, says former boss of Shelter 27 January 2017
LandBase – new centre for land based skills in Dorset 26 January 2017
Haringey lives torn apart and assets lost: this is what a Labour privatisation would mean 20 January 2017
Thousands sign petition for royal family to pay £369m Buckingham Palace repairs themselves 15 January 2017
NEW: Squatting In Britain 1945-1955 Housing, Politics and Direct Action by Don Watson 18 December 2016
Tragedy of unknown homeless man found ‘frozen to death’ in city centre on coldest night of the year 5 December 2016
William Everard: The forgotten man of the English Revolution 27 November 2016
Concerns raised over Brighton and Hove City Council’s biggest sell-off of downland in 20 years 17 November 2016
Mipim UK and BNP Paribas: Property speculators are carving up our cities 14 November 2016
Abolishing Standards Board for England may have undermined planning system 1 November 2016
30 Country estates given £4million subsidy in 2014 for grouse-shooting 1 November 2016
Land for What? – a participatory weekend of learning, thinking and planning practical action around land rights, ownership and usage 23 October 2016
Common Agricultural Policy: Rich List receive millions in EU subsidies (Greenpeace Report) 23 October 2016
Evictions reach new high as 19,000 private renters forced onto streets in just one year 29 September 2016
Neighbours form human chain around Bristol mum’s house to stop eviction 23 September 2016
BURIED: UN slams Tories over UK human rights abuses 20 September 2016
Revealed: Homeless charities ‘complicit’ in rough sleeper deportations 19 September 2016
Private landlords double housing benefit haul to £9.3bn 21 August 2016
Queen Elizabeth has vast, secret, Bank of England shareholding 16 August 2016
Empty homes: graphics show shocking extent of Britain’s unnecessary homelessness 12 August 2016
Passing Clouds eviction: Supporters of Dalston music venue protest outside court 11 August 2016
Queen Elizabeth: A Look at 90 Years of Vast Wealth and Perks 6 August 2016
The Queen just got a 6.5% payrise – but how much will she be paid in total? 24 July 2016
EU Approves three new GM Crops 23 July 2016
Fracking’s affect on Farms Ignored by UK Govt 23 July 2016
Heralding Article 25 : A People’s Strategy for World Transformation 12 July 2016
Guardian: UK housing crisis ‘in breach of Universal Declaration of Human Rights’ 12 July 2016
John Manthorpe: ‘Why privatising the Land Registry is wrong’ 10 July 2016
The Global Architecture of Wealth Extraction by Joe Brewer 12 April 2016
Petition to stop the privatisation of the Land Registry 4 April 2016
The Most Socially Just Tax? 18 March 2016
EXCLUSIVE: Duke of Buccleuch’s £10 ‘park levy’ may be illegal 18 March 2016
Seven charged after Yorkley Court Farm group eviction 15 March 2016
National March for Homes, London, Sunday 13th March 2016 12 March 2016
Hippie ‘hunter-gatherers’ face eviction from Steward Woodland commune nr Dartmoor 3 March 2016
A new petition for Land Reform in Wales 13 February 2016
Maybe we need to start with principles: that everyone has a right to a home… 9 February 2016
Right to roam: Countdown begins to prevent loss of thousands of footpaths and alleyways 9 February 2016
Call for new charter to protect Britain’s ancient woodland 15 January 2016
Rural Manifesto launched to challenge the elitism that dominates UK rural policy 13 January 2016
Save the Land Registry! 27 December 2015
Time for a Compassionate Revolution! 11 September 2015
Runnymede Eco-Village in Epic Court Battle – Sept 2015 11 September 2015
International Reclaim the Fields Action Camp 28th August – 2nd September 2015 in Shropshire 5 August 2015
SNP-led Scottish Government unveils radical plans to tackle land ownership inequality 22 July 2015
Video of Peoples’ Parliament debate: “Land ownership: who owns our country?” March 17th 2015 22 July 2015
TLIO yurt at Yorkley Court 9 May 2015 16 May 2015
Citizens Land Security Bill – September 2004 10 May 2015
Green Earth Awakening Camp 2015 May 21st 10 May 2015
Brown NT ‘detectors’ in Wiltshire 10 May 2015
Tues March 17th 2015: Land ownership: who owns our country? 5 March 2015
Richard St George & Roger Kelly: Ecoville 2000 talks now online 28 February 2015
Scottish Land Action Movement 28 February 2015
Bristol tree camp eviction threatened 11 February 2015
Monkton Wyld Family Fun this halfterm – February 19+20 2015 3 February 2015
BBC documentary ‘Bitter Lake’ is ‘too dangerous’ for TV 2 February 2015
FarmHack UK 18th & 19th April 2015, Ruskin Mill farm Gloucestershire 28 January 2015
Neighbourhoods That Work (NTW) 28 January 2015
Reclaim the Fields European Assembly 8-12 January 2015, Nottingham UK 5 January 2015
Welfare Reform is ending the bribe for the Theft of our Land. 20 December 2014
Land Registry: Data For Sale ( by Mike Hannis) 15 December 2014
Look who owns Britain: A third of the country STILL belongs to the aristocracy 4 November 2014
Harold Wilson Oct 1974 Elected On Land Nationalisation Manifesto 18 October 2014
Thousands turn out for ‘Britain Needs a Pay Rise’ in London (PHOTOS, VIDEO) 18 October 2014
London Anarchist Bookfair Saturday 18th October 13 October 2014
Yorkley Court Open Day 11 October 29 September 2014
Welfare for the Rich: how large landowners & corporations get lion’s-share of UK’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) annual windfall 23 September 2014
Yorkley Court Open Day Saturday 30th August 12 – 5pm 23 August 2014
Yorkley Court Dodgy Eviction Attempt 25 June 2014
Pembrokeshire roundhouse fails retrospective planning application permission? 18 June 2014
Sat12Jul – Who Owns Britain? Bristol Teach-In with Kevin Cahill 17 June 2014
Infrastructure Bill: Act now, sound the alarm, spread the word… any public land could be taken from us and given to developers 12 June 2014
ecological land co-operative 6 June 2014
growyourownhome.org 3 June 2014
Prince Charles strikes another blow for the British republic 25 May 2014
Social & economic polarisation in the UK & London’s role as collateral store-of-wealth & world financial hub 13 May 2014
Cap the Common Agricultural Policy! 13 May 2014
The problem with the EU Common Agricultural Policy – TLIO information briefing 13 May 2014
The long-term trend of cultural apartheid against the gypsy & travelling community 13 May 2014
Land Registry workers to stage 48-hour strike over privatisation plans 11 May 2014
John Pendragon 11 May 2014
New Occupy Political Party 10 May 2014
Land Is Ours recommended Rock Music 10 May 2014
Edge Fund 10 May 2014
Land Registry privatisation plan revealed 6 May 2014
UK Land Rights & Ownership – Bettany Hughes – Breaking the Seal – Enclosures (2000) 5 April 2014
The Land Is Ours – UK land rights teach-ins 3 April 2014
Farmageddon by Philip Lymbery (with Isabel Oakeshott): Book review 7 February 2014
The Take Back the Land Movement 10 January 2014
Yorkley Court Farm 10 January 2014
Thousand-Huts Campaign, Scotland 10 January 2014
Occupy Movement UK 10 January 2014
Lammas Low Impact Ecovillage, Pembrokeshire, Wales 10 January 2014
ENGLISH & WELSH FORESTS: NO PUBLIC SELL-OFF …for now 10 January 2014
Keveral Farm 10 January 2014
Steward Community Woodland 10 January 2014
Diggers2012 10 January 2014
Middlewood Trust 10 January 2014
Grow Heathrow 10 January 2014
Ashton Allotment Action 10 January 2014
Organic Lea 10 January 2014
Bristol Community Farm 10 January 2014
OpenStreetMap is a wiki-like map that anyone in the world can edit. 10 January 2014
Bristol Housing Action Movement – BHAM 2 January 2014
Landmatters Permaculture Project, South Devon 13 December 2013
The UK’s 2nd Domesday Book – the ‘Return of the Owners of Land’ 1872 25 November 2013
Bristol Garden Share 1 January 2013
George Monbiot takes questions at the New Putney Debates 29 October 2012
ANTI-SQUATTING LAW in England & Wales NOW IN FORCE 1 September 2012
Changes to retrospective planning: What the Localism Act 2011 means for Gypsies and Travellers 15 November 2011
The eviction of DALE FARM Travellers Site in Oct 2011 19 October 2011
Land and Freedom Camp, Clapham 17 September 2011
Clapham Land & Freedom Camp 2011 17 September 2011
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