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Landlords
Left-wing Mazdoor Kisan Party chairman, Salar Faiyaz Ali, speaks at a rally in Pakistan Left-wing Pakistani leader freed after two months in jail

MKP activists are regularly harassed and arrested by the security forces for leading movements for land rights or resisting forceful land grabs by the landlord-state nexus in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

VS Achuthanandan at podium VS Achuthanandan: The epic life of a communist turning the tiller proletariat

The communist leadership of VS Achuthanandan built a strong worker-peasant alliance in Kerala, strengthening the state’s democratic fabric.

Farmers arrested in Pakistan Farmer leaders arrested in Pakistan for opposing illegal land grab

Farmers, under the leadership of Mazdoor Kisan Party, have been fighting against the state-landlord nexus in the region for decades, demanding rights over the land they cultivate.

Socialist Zohran Mamdani triumphs over New York’s billionaire class

Democratic Socialists of America member runs on platform centering around affordability – including freezing rent increases, creating city-run grocery stores, and free city buses

Negligent landlords strike again in the Bronx: apartment fire displaces over 200

The five-alarm fire in the Bronx sheds light on how landlords are extracting profit by maximizing the suffering of their tenants, and how New York City is doing little to stop it

Right-wing fear mongering over gangs in Colorado obscures larger issue of landlord neglect

A video went viral of Venezuelan gang members allegedly terrorizing an apartment complex in Aurora, Colorado, distracting from what building residents feared most: their slumlord

NYC tenants say: the rent is too damn high!

This weekend, thousands of tenants are expected to protest the proposed Rent Guidelines Board rent hikes on rent stabilized tenants

“How many more people gotta die?” ask Bronx residents

After building fire kills 17, Bronx community members plead for system-wide solutions as City shifts blame from landlord to residents