Serco lose their Home Office contract to accommodate Asylum Seekers in Glasgow. Living Rent members react to further developments following this news:

Glasgow member George talks us through the last couple of weeks in the campaign against Serco's illegal evictions.

Hundreds Pledge to Defend the Doors Against Serco Evictions

As a Tenants’ Union, we will not allow this brutal attack by SERCO on some of the most vulnerable people in our city to become just another episode in the shameful history of housing in Glasgow. Our position as a union is clear: We are against all evictions; we are against homelessness; we are against the victimisation and intimidation of tenants by those who hold power, wealth and property in their hands.

We must win the eyes and ears of our neighbourhoods, the working class people of Glasgow hold the key to defending their neighbours against this practice. Where Glasgow defeated dawn raids in the past and built solidarity that made a real difference, it was through the solidarity of working class communities, through solidarity in action, physical resistance to raids, dawn raid watches on the top of tower blocks at 5am every morning, through education, agitation and action.

We call on everyone to engage, challenge and organise against these evictions.

Living Rent Glasgow statement on SERCO evictions

The situation we are facing in Glasgow today must be seen as a turning point, or we else must turn it into one.