LCAP occupies RBS – people power, not bankers’ bonuses!

On Monday 22nd, members and sympathisers of LCAP disrupted work at the headquarters of the Royal Bank of Scotland. Dressed up as Santa Clauses, a group of people distracted the security guards while another group passed the security barrier and went upstairs to hand out flyers to RBS workers, including those on a trading [...]

Residents Demand Action

On Saturday LCAP and residents of Alexandra Court , a temporary accommodation hostel in Hackney, marched to a local councillor’s surgery to demand immediate action. 25 people confronted their local councillor. They told her about the disrepair and unsuitable conditions that they and their families are living in.
Residents also brought the [...]

DAN blocks Whitehall against Welfare Reform Act

Yesterday (Wednesday 3rd December, International Day of Disabled People 2008) at 2pm, activists from the UK Disabled People’s Direct Action Network (DAN) and London Coalition Against Poverty (LCAP) blocked traffic both ways on Whitehall, directly outside Downing Street, for over 45 minutes in protest against the new Welfare Reform Act, which replaces Incapacity Benefit with [...]