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Overview
The London Squatters Union (LSU), 1979-1984, was a coalition of the Squatters Advisory Council that included a strong International Marxist Group (IMG) contingent and activists from the less hierarchical anarchist squatter movement.
The LSU pressured the Conservative-controlled Greater London Council (GLC) to formalise the housing status of 10,000 squatters in the capital, by giving them licences and tenancies.
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In 1981, LSU was involved with an occupation at Kilner House in Kennington, south-east London that was violently evicted by the Metropolitan Police Special Patrol Group. The protest challenged GLC plans to sell off its housing stock. A film explores the occupation and its eviction.