Pedro Costa's films belie both the cinematic exploitation of suffering and the documentary urge to record truth and fix recognition. Ana Balona de Oliveira sifts through the bones and ruins of Costa's Fontaínha trilogy, set in a disappearing Lisbon slum

Apparently it's not considered newsworthy beyond the local press, but a whole block of the Morningside Estate in Hackney Wick/Homerton, i.e.

re-posting from the [reclaim-spaces] list, originally in Black Agenda Report

Tear Down the Ghetto: The Price is Wrong
http://www.nathanielturner.com/teardownghettopriceiswrong.htm

What the misanthropic Jenkins calls a "small mental adjustment" is
actually a government-
subsidized economy of destruction -rather than production- divorced
totally from human needs but instead dictated by the demands of those
who deal in "moneyness."

By Glen Ford

The final crisis of capitalism is no longer looming: it has arrived with

While bird flu panic made a return to the UK mainland last autumn, the promised pandemic failed to materialise. What does continue to evolve, however, are repressive forms of population management sustained by hypothetical threats of megadeath – writes C. L-Stavrides

Preamble to Defend Council Housing document on the 'council housing' bill being rushed through parliament, which looks likely to extend authoritarian regulation of tenants' use of 'low-cost rented housing', a nebulous category encompassing public and private ownership, into which 'council housing' as hitherto understood will disappear.  On one level this confirms James Heartfield's warning (http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/3657/) that the Brown government's newfound enthusiasm for 'social housing' revives the disciplinary mission of Victorian estate building po