Anarchic update news all over the world - 26.05.2018

Today's Topics:

   
1.  Greece, Libertarian Initiative of Thessaloniki: Inter-Poster
      poster: Against war and armies. Solidarity with all denizens.
      (gr) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  wsm.ie: Savita was one of us - we owe her our Yes to Repeal
      this Friday (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  Greece, Libertarian Initiative of Thessaloniki ASYNF,
      Rubikon, ATP: Attack to the CoE. For our old people and our sons
      today, for us tomorrow ... (gr) [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  Greece, anarchist group "Dysenium Horse" [APO]: [Patra]
      Concentration Against Electronic Auctions -- NO HUMAN WITHOUT
      BLOCKING HOUSE IN SWIMMING POOLS (gr) [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL #283 - SOUTH Education:
      Anchoring struggles in professional realities (fr, it, pt)
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  Britain, brighton solfed: The Property Shop Pay Up! A tenant
      successfully fights back against deposit theft (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1





THOSE WHO HELP US WITH YOU IN PEACE PERIODS ... ---- They are the ones who imprison us in 
the labor camps, exercising every right, even to meet our basic living needs. They are the 
ones who plunder and exploit the natural world. Those who promote to societies racism, 
sexism, discrimination and social cannibalism among the weak. Growing thieves, rich in 
mines, who buy frigates and new fighter planes from NATO "allies," camped across entire 
islands, turning the Balkans into a large operational military center ... ---- ... CALL US 
TO REMEMBER AND REMOVE FOR YOUR OWN INTERESTS ---- They are the same people who tell us 
that all Greeks, under the great embrace of national unity, oppressors and oppressed, rich 
and poor, bosses and workers, must be fed for the interests of the country. More sincerely 
what we are asking for is, in addition to the "sacrifices" we are already doing, to be 
ready to die for our own pockets. To train in blind obedience to the militants, to hate 
the oppressed of all the earth who have exactly the same problems as us. Those who are 
separating our borders and fences, but they are joining us common fates and anxieties. To 
all of us, with perseverance and conscience, we have to give a single promise:

KARAVANADES, BATSI, INDUSTRIAL AND EQUIPMENT, STATE OFFICERS, PAPADARIO WE DO NOT WANT FOR YOU

WE WILL FIGHT AGAINST YOU

NOT ONE TIME IN THE STORM

NO DRAWING OF TOTAL STRUGGLE NEIGHBORS

Occupation Terra Incognita

Collectivism of Anarchists from the East

Open House of Western Districts

Anarchist Team Pyrant

Eleftherial Initiative of Thessaloniki

Comrades / Companions

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Message: 2






At the start of the referendum campaign in March, I took this photograph showing the 
poster image of Savita, who died because of the 8th amendment, and in the background a 
huge billboard with a CGI / cartoon of what is meant to be an 11 week old foetus. Both 
have the common slogan ‘one of us' - the photograph invites us to consider if the life of 
this 31-year-old woman of colour, who was denied a life-saving abortion, really has the 
same value as an anonymous and unknown 11-week-old foetus. ---- This is the question we 
will be voting on this Friday, indeed beyond that we are voting on whether a doctor who 
gives a life-saving abortion in a Savita-like case should have the threat of a 14-year 
jail sentence hanging over them - as the 2013 law lays down - whether any of the hundreds 
of pregnant people taking abortion pills at home in Ireland should be doing so under the 
risk of that 14-year sentence. That is the law as it stands - to change it, the 8th must 
be repealed.

This photograph describes the campaign in another fashion - one that has become much 
clearer as it has progressed. The billboard in the background is in Phibsboro, just up the 
road from the Mater hospital. Since early in the year it has carried one huge anti-choice 
ad after another, a massive expenditure of money considering its prime location 
overlooking one of the busiest intersections in Dublin. The poster in the foreground on 
the other hand appears to be a photocopy - the one peeling edge telling us it's been stuck 
there with wallpaper paste or similar. It didn't last long before it was torn down but it 
probably cost no more than 10 cent rather than the 10,000 plus euros that the billboard 
would have cost over the months.

This speaks to the asymmetry of the two sides in the referendum - a very wealthy No side 
that entered it with multiple offices, full-time staff and a fund of millions of euros, 
much of it coming from far-right evangelical Christian organisations in the USA. Together 
for Yes didn't even formally exist when this photograph was taken - the Yes campaign 
started with almost nothing but successfully crowdfunded just enough to fight a campaign 
on. But if No has spent 10 euro or more for every euro Together for Yes has, it's the Yes 
side that has the greater numbers of volunteers, energy and creativity.

That Yes campaign didn't really start in March 2018 though, it started in October 2012 
when news began to circulate that a migrant women who was refused an abortion had died in 
a Galway hospital. At first, little was known, not even the women's name, but if anything 
positive came out of the death of Savita Halappanavar it is that through her death she 
gave birth to the movement that was to finally Repeal the 8th Amendment. Her migrant 
status has relevance because migrant women have disproportionately been affected by the 
8th for a range of reasons, from institutionalised racism to not expecting that medical 
staff would be forced by law to equate their lives to a foetus. Some migrant women lack 
the documentation needed to travel to the UK, many, because of the poverty imposed on 
them, find it much harder to raise the funds.

As soon as the news of Savita's death broke and public outrage made it clear that change 
was coming, the No campaigns started the protracted smear campaign aimed at Savita, her 
husband, her parents, journalists and medical staff. Anyone who spoke the truth that the 
8th had contributed to her death could expect to become the target of vitriolic abuse. 
After a racist smear campaign aimed at the couple and her parents, the No campaigns moved 
on to attempt to rewrite what had happened. They tried to place all the blame on the 
hospital staff rather than admitting that the 8th amendment had also played a central 
role. They tried to claim she had been simply been killed by a sepsis infection, a tactic 
akin to insisting someone wasn't killed by a car crash but just from bleeding to death.

If you have been canvassed by the No campaign you have probably heard the lies about 
Savita. You may, for instance, have been told that her family were against her name being 
used in the campaign, while as early as November 2012 her husband Praveen Halappanavar was 
telling the Indian newspaper Hindu Times that "I am returning to Galway and will continue 
to keep the pressure on the Irish government with the support of social groups there to 
modify the law so that no other woman dies because of a religious law." In the same 
interview, Praveen said, "I repeatedly requested the doctors to terminate the pregnancy 
and save my wife as she was miscarrying and there was no chance of saving the foetus, in 
vain." see http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/i-will-fight-till-ireland-changes-...

In the last week of the referendum campaign, in a moved forced on them to counter this 
particular lie, Savita's parents Akkamahadevi and Andenappa S. Yalgi recorded a video 
pleading with the people of Ireland to Vote Yes to Repeal in their daughters name. Back in 
2012, they had said "injustice has been done to us, but it should not happen to any other 
woman hereafter," and they appear shocked that the 8th amendment was still in place. In 
the video, they address us as "my dear brother and sisters of Ireland" and repeat their 
2012 concern that the same might happen to other women, saying, "I hope that people in 
Ireland will remember the fate of our daughter Savita on the day of the referendum and 
will vote YES, so what happened to us won't happen to any families." see 
https://www.facebook.com/abortionrightscampaign/videos/1387173464761757/

Almost every leader and spokesperson in the No campaign has been on TV or radio and told 
lies about Savita. There is the occasional slightly honourable exception. When one of the 
few anti-choice doctors to be found was put on Morning Ireland the Tuesday before the 
referendum, he tried to evade the questions about the role the 8th amendment played in her 
death but eventually admitted that " I would consider it a contribution but not the main 
factor" going on to claim that "I don't worry about the 8th amendment." Whether any 
particularly doctor worries about the amendment isn't the issue, it's whether the threat 
of the 14 year jail sentence might make a doctor delay treatment rather than risk their 
liberty, and a very large number of doctors, over 1300 at last count, recognise this and 
are calling for a Yes vote. listen https://rte.ie/r.html?rii=b9_10879956_48_22-05-2018_

The official investigations into Savita's death were in fact very clear that the 8th 
amendment played a role in her death. The HSE report listed the 8th as ‘Key causal factor 
2,' saying, "The investigation team is satisfied that concerns about the law were clear or 
not impacted on the exercise of clinical professional judgement." It went on to conclude 
that, "The interpretation of the law related to lawful termination in Ireland, and 
particularly the lack of clear clinical guidelines and training is considered to have been 
a material contributory factor in this regard."

Prof Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, who chaired that enquiry, reacted to the attempts by the No 
campaign to sow confusion as to the findings by telling Morning Ireland, "what held them 
behind was the fear that they might be prosecuted," and later added, "The next morning, 
they were listening to the baby's heart. They were worried that if they did a termination 
they might be accused of performing an illegal act by not complying with the Eighth 
Amendment. So I think it's important to recognise that. Even on the last day, before she 
went into septic shock, they were checking the foetal heart rate, whether it was present 
or not."

He also answered the claim that the 2013 Act had somehow solved the problem - it cannot as 
it could not amend the 8th. He said, "the law as it stands is not enough to save the 
permanent health of the woman, so I think it's the right time to consider that and to 
change and to say ‘Yes' to this particular referendum."
read http://www.thejournal.ie/doctors-savita-halappanavar-4027207-May2018

Savita's parents' video included the line that they "strongly feel that the younger 
daughters of Ireland should not have the same faith as Savita." I feel the same - I'll be 
voting Yes for Savita, for her parents, and for those younger daughters of Ireland on May 
25th.

Author: Andrew N Flood

https://wsm.ie/c/savita-one-us-yes-repeal-friday

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Message: 3





We made a symbolic attack on the State Council building a while ago. The obvious reason, 
his decision to "regroup" the law of Catastrogas for a reduction in pensions. ---- We know 
what they will say to us: They will tell us that we are casting. They will tell us that we 
are looking for easy emotion. They will tell us that we take advantage of misery. That we 
are undermining the national effort to stand the country on its feet. That we undermine 
the justice that we must respect its decisions. That we have no solutions. And of course 
they will tell us that we express the lawlessness. ---- Things are simple: ---- Only in 
capitalism, from what systems people have ever had in their history, the elderly and the 
elderly, are considered as rubbish. And there have been systems, with current measures, 
more barbaric than capitalism. The poorer always had his fate and the poor who grew even 
worse. But today it is only institutionalized and one would say that it becomes part of 
"culture". What applies to aged horses is now being enacted for people as well.

Without a social fabric, with the individual and his family being the isolated cells of 
productive and consumer mass, insurance cover and pension were the only answer to the 
survival of those who can no longer produce surplus value for a boss. So they can remain 
in the consumption and continue to have the floor to vote as the ultimate substitute for 
social and political power that is left to them. For decades, workers themselves and the 
lower petty bourgeoisie have been paid to have this "privilege" either directly or through 
their work that the boss was earning (the alleged involvement of the employer). Massive 
funds were raised in the hands of the state. And the state not only used part of it for 
its needs, but by serving the imperatives of capital, it poured that money into the 
pre-crisis capitalist casino, while in the crisis wiped up the deposits and reserves of 
the funds to meet the treasuries of the memorandums and the debt . As a result, sweeping 
pension cuts and increasing medical coverage. "The population is getting older and the 
contributions are not getting", "the state is not a good investor," the "tax evasion" is 
blamed, "scandalous retirements" are blamed, they can have a share of responsibility in 
the current situation but not the sovereign. The predominant fact is that power handled 
this money as if it were hers and scattered them for her own jobs.

In this circus of the regime's alleged distinct powers of bourgeois democracy the Council 
of State is the last but no trifling token of prestige, wheel of the trolley. There 
supposedly is the "legality of laws," there kept the seal of an independent judiciary 
which undertakes to ratify or not of any government decisions in constitutional name. In 
fact it is the political tool of the judicial power pole as every other pole do two things 
simultaneously: compete with others within the system and ensures the strength, survival 
and strengthening of the system itself. The decisions of the CoE in recent years show how 
these two are together. For a series of issues, or against the government and the 
opposition, but when it comes to systemic choices it always shows a sense of 
responsibility for the regime. And something "resignations" like Sakellari's recent only 
pretentious can be considered if not a marker for a future political career. Say the 
question of unconstitutionality wage and pension cuts, when it comes to deep state as 
police, army, judges then CoE spreads wings protection. But for the Law of Catrushall, for 
the hundreds of thousands of elderly people on the social basis, for all of them, they are 
done according to the letter and the spirit of the Constitution. And something 
"resignations" like Sakellari's recent only pretentious can be considered if not a marker 
for a future political career. Let's say the issue of the unconstitutionality of salary 
cuts and pensions, when it comes to a deep state like police, army, judges, then the CoE 
is stretching protection wings. But for the Law of Catrushall, for the hundreds of 
thousands of elderly people on the social basis, for all of them, they are done according 
to the letter and the spirit of the Constitution. And something "resignations" like 
Sakellari's recent only pretentious can be considered if not a marker for a future 
political career. Let's say the issue of the unconstitutionality of salary cuts and 
pensions, when it comes to a deep state like police, army, judges, then the CoE is 
stretching protection wings. But for the Law of Catrushall, for the hundreds of thousands 
of elderly people on the social basis, for all of them, they are done according to the 
letter and the spirit of the Constitution.

We are confident that with the social peace that this series of pension cuts will be, it 
will be the last. Capital wants full privatization of insurance wants to replace the state 
as a collector of contributions and investor of these funds. The EU and the IMF want to 
save their debt and achieve full alignment with the liberal agenda. Bosses are pushing 
unbearably to lower their insurance contributions, in fact they want to cut their wages 
even further by lowering these contributions. Syriza, like ND, will do what it takes as a 
governmental power pole in the system to meet the pyramid's top requirements. From the 
state's point of view, there is no doubt that it seeks to continue to complete this 
economic and age-based eugenics.

The only hope is on the road. The younger generations, those who will live the status of 
integration of the liberal agenda, those who instead of a pension will receive 250 euros 
of guaranteed minimum income and pay the medicines out of their pockets, have to go out on 
the road. Older generations, the victims of robbery and violent deprivation, must force 
younger generations to come out on the road. Older generations have the experience most of 
all that power is handled only by force. How nothing is won without a battle, that nothing 
in the social war is held without constant vigilance, consistency and boldness at the 
critical moments. This experience wants the power to wipe out with its natural bodies, the 
aged horses.

In what we will say after our action, we answer:

If we say to the oppressed and the exploited, we are part of it. And for those who only 
have access to their clothes cost more than a pension, we have no problem also to admit 
that we are "popping up". The emotion is different if you have an empty or full stomach, 
but it is not just the emotion that we care to clarify. We only care about the emotion 
that becomes conscious rage and leads to organization and action. Why misery, as part of 
the people we live in. We live it ourselves, our parents, our children. And as for the 
"national effort" of local and foreign capital to "gather everything", let's undermine it. 
And yes, we have no systemic solutions because there are no systemic solutions. The 
solutions are at the base either as a struggle for defense of rights or as the painful and 
enormous task of social overthrow that will save us once and for all from the real problem 
that no patch is facing. Since the Parliament, the Government, the CoE, the Troika and 
their decisions are the law and the justice, then we proudly declare the lawlessness and 
subversives of their law.

And let us tell us pictures of "the main generals of the radical left". And let's be hit 
by Party marshals and paid pens of Media. And let's help mayors from zeroes become numbers.

We did it for the old and the old ones. Our own elderly and old men today, ourselves 
tomorrow. These are our opinion of today's and tomorrow's aged horses of our class.

We know the opinion of the other side before we do anything ... and it does not matter 
much to us.

21/5/2018

Anarchist Collegiate of New Philadelphia

Anarchist Collectivity of Rubikon

Eleftherial Initiative of Thessaloniki

Comrades / Comrades

Video from the attack on the CoE:

https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=lOeW_1526969886

https://libertasalonica.wordpress.com/2018/05/21

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Message: 4





For months, we have been gathering every Wednesday afternoon in front of the Patras County 
Court to prevent our fellow-house auctions. Together with other fighters, student clubs, 
collectives and organizations, we have managed - at the present time - to put down mounds 
in the attempt to get the first home from the state and the banks. Respective 
mobilizations were carried out by a number of people at county courts throughout the 
country. Mobilizations that have occasionally been targeted by state repression and 
resulted in the persecution of several fighters. ---- The inability of the state and 
capitalist system to draw consensus on its plans has led to the adoption of the method of 
electronic auctions through the relevant online platform. Electronic auctions are 
conducted with the care of local notary offices on various days and hours. In many cases, 
fighters attempted to block electronic auctions and were faced with the repressive state fury.

Despite government announcements for immediate operation of the system since September 
2017, technical issues, according to the official version, have not allowed its 
implementation. In fact, the development of a militant and unwavering movement to defend 
housing and basic social goods coupled with widespread aggravation of the social anger and 
indignation generated by the assault of the bosses created a climate of complete 
socialization of the measure, postponed for about 7 whole months.

True allies throughout this aggressive movement of the state and capital are the big 
notary offices, which act as the long hand of the banks by undertaking the implementation 
of electronic auctions. Nobody is responsible ...

Today, electronic auctions are held in many notary offices under a massive massive 
mobilization outside and under the protection of the police, which often attacks the 
protesters and makes arrests.

Until mid-April, no Patras Notary Office had undertaken to conduct an electronic auction. 
On the morning of Wednesday, April 18th, it became clear that Athena Ravazoula's notary, 
in Votsi 52, will auction houses in Agrinio. After the intervention of several fighters, 
no auctioning eventually took place.

A few days later, on Tuesday evening, 24/4, it became known that besides the Ravazoula 
counterpart, notaries of Papageorgiou Vasiliki at Botsi 21 and Mitropoulou Irini at Kanari 
45 will attempt to launch electronic auctions. Massive mobilizations took place outside 
these offices, but the strong presence of the MATs that blocked the road to the movement 
secured their conduct.

For Wednesday, May 23, a series of electronic auctions are scheduled for the notary 
offices of Ravazoula (Votsi 52) and Papageorgiou (Votsi 21).For our part, we call the 
world of the struggle for vigilance for the upcoming mobilizations, which attempts to 
exploit the social wealth in our region and declare that we will stand in every way 
against the state and its mechanisms in the attempt of looting the people's residence. 
Housing, as well as access to basic social goods (electricity, water, health, education) 
are non-negotiable rights and we will defend them against the state which once again bangs 
the lower and poorer social strata confirms its timeless antisocial role . Any notary 
attempts to contribute to the realization of the most anti-social plans of the state and 
the capital must know that he should also bear the cost of his choices. This is the moment 
when organized,

The only way to be able to respond to the attack launched by the state, banks and bosses 
is the road of social and class struggles. Employees, unemployed, youth, locals and 
immigrants, knowing their real needs, must live in their own hands, organize themselves 
and fight, collectively, self-organized and uninvolved, away from all sorts of mediation 
and factories. In every social and workplace, in schools and schools, workplaces, 
neighborhoods and streets, away from any party and syndicalist manipulation that 
inevitably leads to the weakening and degeneration of the social and class movement. It is 
now perceived that people from the bottom of society, they can no longer have any 
confidence and can not wait for anything from the various aspiring managers and mediators 
of social anger. The only way to abolish exploitation and oppression is the 
self-organized, unconditional social and class struggles of the base, the total rupture 
with the rotten system and the overthrow of the state and capitalism.

We emphasize that the insidious approaches of the state, the bosses, the bankers and their 
notaries will fall into the gap. No attempt to evict will be tolerated. Safeguard our 
neighborhoods, apply social solidarity and class self-organization in practice.

To link them some and-demand games for permanent and stable employment, access to social 
goods housing, healthcare, education, to defend labor and social rights, with the full and 
timely social and political demand for the overthrow of the world of power and the 
libertarian transformation of society. For the society of equality and solidarity. Of 
justice and freedom.

NO PEOPLE WITHOUT HOUSE

TO ORGANIZE SOCIAL SELF-MADE AND CASUAL COMPETITION!

CONCENTRATION: WEDNESDAY 23 MAY, 1pm ON THE SQUARE OF GEORGE (KORINTHOS)

anarchist group "Dysenium Horse"

https://ipposd.wordpress.com

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Message: 5





The SUD-Éducation congress was held in Boulogne-sur-Mer from March 26th to 30th. The 
challenge: better plow the ground, to remain faithful to the inheritance of the 
revolutionary syndicalism. ---- New liberal offensives aim to destroy the school, through 
a growing territorialization of public service, fiscal austerity and reactionary attacks. 
Faced with this, the congress of SUD-Education wanted to interrogate, define and build 
tools of social transformation for militant teams. ---- The texts adopted touch on major 
strategic axes. ---- Building strong strikes is one of them, and has given rise to 
difficult discussions about the articulation between strike renewable, partial strike and 
/ or punctual without falling into the ritual incantation. The Congress reaffirmed the 
centrality of the general strike in the history of the revolutionary trade union movement 
and our trade unionism, despite the difficulty of creating the conditions and an 
unfortunately insufficient anchorage of SUD. Several texts have proposed tools to overcome 
this situation, by developing struggles around working conditions by training activists to 
self-management tools (the action-survey for example) and to build an inclusive school 
project.

The activity was thus defined from two angles: that of the improvement of working 
conditions and that of an inclusive school open to all. An important debate was thus 
devoted to anti-sexism and the fight against discrimination of LGBT +.

Fight against the hierarchy
International solidarity has not been forgotten. Times of collective reflection have been 
organized on self-management and anticolonialism ; the congress asserted solidarity with 
the people of Rojava, and voted a motion to support the families of Saharawi political 
prisoners, victims of the Moroccan monarchy.

Beyond the orientation debates, the discussions showed that the preparation of the 
professional elections was a major challenge for the union teams who were able to overcome 
the internal tensions in order to build together an orientation and a federation able to 
carry out campaigns and renew his tools as his practices.

These texts are in addition to the motions passed at previous congresses, setting 
guidelines in terms of the fight against hierarchy and self-management practices in both 
trade unionism and professional activity.

However, the weakness of the SUD-Éducation federation remains the inability to capture 
topics that directly mobilize colleagues, with quantified demands on working time for the 
different categories of staff, on the number of pupils per class, or on the careers and 
remuneration of the incumbents and non-incumbents. Finally, the major stake remains that 
of the militant establishment of SUD, to really live our orientations on the ground.

Libertarian Communists from SOUTH Education

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?SUD-Education-Ancrer-les-luttes-dans-les-realites-professionnelles

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Message: 6





In October 2017, Brighton Solidarity Federation was organising with a tenant who was 
facing a £344 deduction from their deposit after moving out of a house administered by the 
lettings agency The Property Shop in Kemptown. The tenant approached Brighton SolFed for 
support to organise a public campaign against this, which concluded successfully with full 
replayment to the tenant after around one month of actions. Below, the tenant tells the 
story of their experience of this situation, as well as of the public campaign. ---- I 
requested my deposit back from The Property Shop after I moved out of my house. This was 
when they decided to charge me and my former housemate for the replacement of a broken 
shower and for unblocking a drain. The maintenance of sanitation facilities is the 
landlord's responsibility under Section 11 of The Landlord and Tenant Act 1985, and the 
agency had no proof that we as tenants had caused these issues - the shower broke because 
it was old and rusted - so it was the landlord's responsibility to pay for them. They sent 
one of their own staff members round to unblock the drain, and then tried to charge us £50 
for it.

I was very stressed out by this charge, because I had no option of going through the 
Deposit Protection Scheme, as I was misinformed that I could leave requesting the return 
of my deposit as long as I needed to (which was longer than the DPS's dispute resolution 
service was available). It was a scary situation to be in because I just wanted my money 
back. I tried to go through the Deposit Protection Scheme but I'd left it too late. This 
was in part due to the estate agents delaying dealing with my request for my deposit back, 
so it was out of the three-month bracket in which the protection scheme could be involved.

I contacted SolFed through a friend. It was really reassuring to find people willing to 
support me. They involved me in every step of the process, allowing me to make final 
decisions on everything. They supported me throughout. Having someone there from start to 
finish was very comforting.

We delivered a demand letter to The Property Shop, requesting the return of my deposit, 
explaining that the issues at the property were the landlord's responsibility to pay for, 
and giving them time to respond, in late October 2017. At first, they did not enter into 
negotiations, insisting that myself and my former flatmate had to pay for the shower and 
drain, though they provided no clear evidence why. They were generally quite hostile 
throughout, but they soon began to panic when the public campaign started to escalate, 
which began with a picket of the agency in late October and which I was encouraged, but 
not pressured, to take part in.

When they first realised we weren't going away, they responded by trying to pit me against 
my former housemate, by implying that I should indicate that all of the charges be taken 
out of their deposit. This was obviously an act of desperation - they were clearly rattled 
and wanted the campaign to be over as soon as possible, but we did not relent. They 
decided to pay after my landlord was contacted directly; after some negotiation, he 
instructed The Property Shop to give me back my full deposit. We also have written 
confirmation that my former housemate will not be charged for these problems when they 
move out.

I felt elated and relieved when they paid. Before I had the support of other tenants and 
those in solidarity with me via SolFed, I was alone with no chance of being able to hold 
my former estate agents accountable. With their solidarity, though, I was able to get my 
full deposit back.

Having trouble with your landlord or letting agency? Get in touch with SolFed by sending 
an email to housing@brightonsolfed.org.uk, or by sending a text to 07427239960.

http://www.brightonsolfed.org.uk/brighton/the-property-shop-pay-up-a-tenant-successfully-fights-back-against-deposit-theft

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