Over 1,000 people braved pouring rain to attend the annual vigil against hate crimes in Trafalgar Square, London, last Saturday.
Lecturers protested at Richmond College, west London, on Friday of last week against job cuts.
More than 35 people attended a Right to Work meeting in Newport, south Wales, on Thursday of last week against the closure of the city’s Passport Office.
Many Thousands of trade unionists and anti-racist campaigners are gearing up to march against racism, fascism and Islamophobia on Saturday 6 November in central London.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has dropped its case against 63-year old anti-fascist protester Alan Clough from Radcliff, Bury.
Activists in Preston are opposing EDL plans to demonstrate in the town on Saturday 27 November.
London’s firefighters have launched a massive escalation of their strikes by calling a two-day walkout—starting on Bonfire Night. It will come just four days after an eight-hour walkout planned for Monday of next week.
Many London tube workers refused to work on health and safety grounds during the firefighters’ strike on Saturday, severely affecting the running of London Underground.
The firefighters’ strike ended at 6pm last Saturday—but the mass picketing continued late into the night.
A house in Enfield, north London, almost burned down during last Saturday’s firefighters’ strike.
The election for the key post of general secretary of the Unite union began this week. Some 1.5 million members are to vote in the next few weeks for the leader of Britain’s biggest union.
Lutfur Rahman, standing as an independent, won the Tower Hamlets mayoral election last week—trouncing the Labour Party.
