Tenants in Warsaw celebrating the first victory: a result of the campaign from the bottom they were able to prevent the sale of one of the municipal buildings. Committee to protect the residents managed to stop the privatization of houses on the street Targowa in Warsaw. This is a historic moment: as is known, is the first privatization in Poland, which managed to stop with the protests!
Moreover, local authorities agreed deprivatizirovat controversial part of the building. This means that all property (which includes several facilities) will be social housing.
Although public housing system is far from ideal, with the privatization of houses usually rent rises sharply, people are beginning to be expelled, but the owners sold the house to make way for construction of luxury housing for the rich. So what this decision means in effect that the tenants will be able to stay in their homes and will not be at the mercy of terrorists, homeowners who cut off people to the water, gas and other services, and then do send them out into the street.
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The Committee is currently fighting against several attempts at privatization.In Poland pivatizatsiya usually accompanied by fraud, and independent verification process complaints and documents missing. This is part of a tacit agreement between the municipal authorities, property owners and investors aimed at grab of public housing by the mafia and the bureaucrats privatizer that capture the real estate into their own hands and spend "gentrification" of the city, displacing the poor from it.
Facts about fraud in many cases are obvious, but the Polish law in this regard is very vague.If property is acquired illegally, but later sold, the new owner is considered "good faith", and the transaction is not canceled! This has been cleverly designed mechanisms in order to assign the fraud at home, and then immediately sell them to their colleagues, friends, relatives, etc.
In addition to attempts to stop fraudulent privatization, in Warsaw on the subject of various protests of residents, the experience of struggle and victories, as well as call for a strike, tenants, starting October 1.
The strike will be declared a local group of the Union syndicalists ZSP , and this should be the starting point to the radicalization of the protests.The timing is not accidental: in November to municipal elections. ZSP and the Committee to Protect tenants are going to wireStep vigorous campaign against the politicians involved in corruption and anti-social policies.
Syndicalists called for people's control blocks and try to convene public meetings in response to the forthcoming election campaign.
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