Urgent: demonstration tomorrow. posted by Richard Seymour

Following on from this post, in which I discussed the victimisation of Eileen Short, the Tower Hamlets council worker who has been campaigning against housing stock transfers, it transpires that she has been fired.

Eileen has worked for Tower Hamlets Council for fifteen years. As Helene Mulholland reported in The Guardian, there has never been any question regarding the quality of her work. After a recent internal reorganisation she was told that there was no longer a job for her, despite the fact that four jobs remain vacant within the department, which she is more than qualified to do.

She is a RESPECT activist, and a tireless campaigner for Defend Council Housing. She spends hours of her free time fighting to keep local authority homes in the public sector, defending the right to a secure tenancy and an accountable landlord, and trying to stop the give away of this most valuable asset to the likes of the Guinness Trust and Poplar Harca. The success of the five out of seven ballots before Christmas, in that the estates voted NO to transfer, along with the suspension of the ballot on the Ocean Estate, and other estates more recently, has been largely down to Eileen's work.

Eileen has clearly lost her job because her politics are at variance with those of the council.

There will be a demonstration tomorrow at 4.30pm, outside the Town Hall in Mulberry Place.