Haringey Solidarity Group

Who we are

We are a group of local people who want to get rid of the current system which places profit and power before people’s real needs. To do this, we believe we all need to get organised, fight back and take over the decision-making in communities and workplaces. We support and participate in local campaigns, spread ideas and help create effective opposition to the powers that be.

Get involved

Come along to our monthly meetings, held on the first Tuesday of each month at the Phoenix Millennium Centre, or check our events calendar for other events. Anyone who lives or works in Haringey is welcome.

Sign up to our news email list

Add your email address to our regular announcements list. Updates are sent every few weeks about what we're up to and how you can get involved. Or subscribe to our news feed by email.

Articles about...

Login Form

Cap rents not benefits - protest – Mon 15 Apr, 8am-10am, Stratford

The benefit cap is due to start on 15th April in Haringey, Enfield, Bromley and Croydon, before being rolled out nationwide in the summer. These four trial boroughs were apparently chosen because one office processes all their benefit claims.

On the day of its introduction, we are asking opponents of the benefit cap from all over London to join us in an early morning protest at this faceless DWP hideaway in Stratford.

Cap Rents not Benefits - Scrap the Benefit Cap

Monday 15th April, 8am-10am. Stratford Benefit Delivery Centre

Department for Work & Pensions, Jubilee House, Farthingale Walk, Stratford, E15 1AW.

Just next to the HMRC enquiry centre, a minute’s walk from Stratford station. Overground/tube: Stratford

Details: Published: 06 April 2013

Homebase pay your workers! Picket Sun 14 Apr, 1pm, Harringay

This Sunday, a few of people from Boycott Workfare will be coming to Haringey to picket Homebase in Green Lanes about their take up of forced labour. Sunday is their busiest trading day in the week. Please come along and join in.

1pm-2.30pm, Sunday 14th April, Haringey Homebase, Green Lanes. (close to Sainsbury's & Harringay Green Lanes overground)

In just one week, Homebase in Haringey profits from 750 hours of unpaid work, with over 20 workfare placements in the store. A fact which they proudly display on a poster in their back office.

Not surprisingly, this is having a massive impact on the paid work available: a staff member has told us that, since tens of workfare placements were brought in, overtime has been cut for everyone. Some people’s hours have been cut from 48 down to eight – far below the threshold for Working Tax Credits – because that is all they are contracted for.

Details: Published: 11 April 2013

Community Housing Inspectors return to expose anti-social Haringey letting agents

Brian Thomas - discriminating against HB On Saturday 27th April 2013,as part of a London-wide day of action against Letting Agents, 20 Haringey Community Housing Inspectors went out to investigate the practices of local Letting Agents in Green Lanes, Haringey.

Other actions took place in other parts of London including in Islington/Hackney, Brixton and Herne Hill, see the Let Down campaign blog.

Haringey’s action was a follow-up inspection to one held six months ago – in October 2012, members of Haringey Housing Action Group became ‘Community Housing Inspectors’ and exposed the unwelcome practices these Letting Agents are engaged in: profiting and supporting landlords all to the detriment of the basic need of people to find an affordable, secure home.

Details: Published: 29 April 2013

Return of the Community Housing Inspectors - Letting Agent protest Sat 27 Apr, 12pm

Join in, and meet at 12 noon outside Turnpike Lane tube.

We will once again be taking to the streets of Haringey to inspect local letting agents as part of Let Down: a day of action against letting agents.

Six months ago, on 6 October 2012, local housing campaigners became ‘Community Housing Inspectors’ to investigate local letting agents and uncover the unwelcome practices they are engaged in. On Saturday we are carrying out further inspections to find out if any of our demands for changes have occurred. Where they have not, we will be providing a ‘Cease and Desist Order’* to letting agents found to be engaging with greedy and anti-social behaviour. The ‘Cease and Desist Order’ will only be revoked if they put an end to such practices.

Details: Published: 26 April 2013

Stop workfare on Homes for Haringey estates - protest Wed 10 Apr, 1pm, Wood Green

Homes for Haringey is the borough's arms-length management organisation, set up to manage council housing. Recently, we have found out that local unemployed people are being forced to work on their estates for no pay and with no workplace rights.

Please come and support a lunchtime protest
this Wednesday 10th April, 1pm
at the Homes for Haringey offices in Wood Green
Alexandra House, 10 Station Road, N22 7TR (2 mins from Wood Green tube)