Fire Brigades Union study exposes decades of deregulation and cost cutting that led to Grenfell Tower inferno—Part 1

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/29/fir1-n29.html
Date Written:  2019-11-29
Publisher:  International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI)
Year Published:  2019
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX23901

The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has published a damning report demonstrating that years of austerity measures, privatisation and deregulation led to the entirely avoidable fire at Grenfell Tower in June 2017, which claimed 72 lives.