Behind the Rent Strike

Behind the Rent Strike (1974)

October 24th, 19741h 0min

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Kirby, on the outskirts of Liverpool, England, October 1972. A chronicle of the fourteen-month strike by thousands of tenants to protest against the £1 increase in council house rents due to the Housing Finance Act.


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