This essential autobiography of a working class Jewish communist in the east end of London is now sadly out of print and fetching very high prices online.
However it has now been made available at Libcom.org for free.
Previously on this blog:
Monday, June 1, 2026
Criminal: an untold history of homelessness, resistance and survival
open for 10 weeks only from 21st may → 25th july 2026
The exhibition, staged in an English perennial meadow at the museum’s site in Finsbury Park, will show that how we think about homelessness today comes from ideas that were created long ago. When people talk about the criminalisation of homelessness, it’s usually the Vagrancy Act of 1824 that is the focus. But there is much more to this story.
Researchers at Museum of Homelessness have identified the Homelessness Big Bang in the early 1600s and the exhibition starts there. Criminal explores the intertwined histories of people made homeless and transported from England, Ireland and Africa to the early plantations. Visitors will be taken on a journey exploring land enclosure, rebellion in the colonies, Elizabethan Rogue literature, Victorian institutions, resistance movements and modern-day disinformation.
The museum’s interior will be transformed into a space of resistance, with Surfing Sofas Publishing House offering people an alternative to social media. Examples of how people are challenging homelessness and housing injustice today will provide inspiration.
The rise of the far right all over the world is being matched by increasing rates of homelessness. This exhibition matters today because criminalisation as a ‘solution’ to homelessness has never gone away. Right now, in 2026, it is ramping up in many places on earth. In 2025, Fox News host Brian Kilmeade advocated for homeless people to be executed via involuntary lethal injection. We have put this exhibition on as a cautionary tale and an act of resistance.
Crucially, we will also look at how people have resisted these criminalisation. Featuring some of the UK’s foremost activists and artists, Criminal will give both the facts and the feelings and will tell you what is really going on both in the past and now.
More information:
https://museumofhomelessness.org/whats-on
Rebel Haringey: Standing On The Shoulders of Giants
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants is a project by the Radical History Network of N.E. London to collate and promote the rebel history of Haringey. By producing timelines and highlighting some particularly significant campaigns - from the 1381 Peasants Revolt against the Poll Tax (and again 600 years later!), up to the many local grassroots campaigns over the last 50 years - the aim is to help show that all residents today can learn from and be inspired by past struggles and self-organised movements for positive change. Such local movements are the giants on whose shoulders we stand today as we continue to seek a better future for all.
We already have compiled or gathered a wide range of leaflets, pamphlets and video-links on some of the key radical and grassroots campaigns and movements of recent decades, many of which are also flagged up on our website - https://radicalhistorynetwork.blogspot.com/
See an overview here: https://radicalhistorynetwork.blogspot.com/2025/10/rebel-haringey-standing-on-shoulders-of.html
Also see a Timeline here: https://archive.org/details/ra-hn-rebel-haringey-history-timeline
There will be an online meeting for all those in Haringey who might like to help with this project, on Thursday 11th June 7.30pm. If interested please contact: Radical History Network <davetottenham@gmail.com>
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