Piers Corbyn The Squatting Movement in 1968

Huntley Street Squat
From the spirit of 68 to now, What happened?
- Squatting & the Housing crisis AND
- Radical science & 'Global Warming'

Piers Corbyn talks on the critical thought and radical action he was centrally involved in from '68 onwards - with props:

Squatting / housing: The rich English heritage of land grabs, squatting and occupations by peasants students and workers From 1381 to 1649, 1945, 1968-1981. - Its renaissance in the spirit of 1968 and the international dimension of squatting in the 70's from Europe to Australia. - Victories at the barricades in the 70' when hundreds of thousands squatted in London & all over the UK*, - the GLC and Councils surrenders ** and the keys to winning - Trotskyism communists & squatting. - Squatters Action Council. - London Squatters Union. - Squat Against Sales campaign. - 'Jubilee squats'. - Links with tenants trade unions and student and factory occupations and campaigning against the criminal Trespass Law. - Where to now in the Credit crunch and vital fight to build council housing?

* eg Camden, Lambeth, Paddington, Lewisham, Wandsworth, Hammersmith, Brighton, Bristol, Manchester and on and on
** eg Elgin avenue 15 Oct 1975, 'GLC squatters amnesty' 25 Oct 1977;
** eg Huntley street (Camden rehoused) eviction & Rehousing 16 Aug 1978.
Loads more refs on internet: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/lefties1.shtml (re Villa Road Lambeth)
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Squatting+GLC+Amnesty+1977&btnG=S...
http://www.101ers.co.uk/aboutthe101ers.htm

Critical thought and radical science: The spirit of '68 to apply critical thought to everything gave a renaissance to the communistic heritage of applying science for the good of mankind and spawned action in unlikely conservative places from Kent State USA to Imperial College London (where Piers was Student Union President 1969-70). Many radical / 'socially responsible' science action movements developed from that time and Piers will mention a few. Despite those heady days the left has essentially reverted to confusion of the in principle 'objective' nature of scientific experiment and the not-so-objective role of scientists as tools in and of the socio-economic process and ruling ideology. Why else does the left so vigorously question the proverbial 'Lord Button' when he lies about WMDs and yet accept his lies about the causes of Climate Change under cover of the new Scientific-Green Religion.
Piers will point out with evidence* that there is as much validity in current theory of Man's CO2 as a driver of climate change as there is validity in the polystyrene fake mountains and ice used in Al Gore's film** to pluck your heart strings for the supposed sake of polar bears, penguins and fish. He says: "The first thing to do about the world food crisis is to stop burning food (biofuel) and end carbon trading which is a burden on the world economy; that means destroying the false religion of man-made global warming & Climate Change".