Tenant Unions for the Future

Can calls to rent strike cohere into a national political movement?

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Tenant Unions for the Future

"With the arrival of the pandemic, staying home became emergency work for a failing state," Hannah Black writes.

Amid disastrous negligence at every level of government, one of the most ordinary facts of life in capitalism—rent—suddenly appeared clearly as an affront. "One section of society here demands a tribute from the other for the very right to live on the earth," Marx wrote of landlords. In the early spring, with state-level and nationwide eviction moratoriums and tenant protections in place, it seemed like there had never been a better time to refuse these bad terms.

Read the rest of Black's essay on tenant organizing during the pandemic here.

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