Tower Hamlets councillor Oliur Rahman, a Left List candidate in the 1 May London Assembly elections, was detained at Heathrow airport under the Prevention of Terrorism Act.
The Left List hit the ground running last week with its campaign for a radical political alternative in the London elections – one that will stand up for ordinary people against the privateers and property developers.
Neil Stockwell has worked as a fruit and veg trader at Queens Market in Newham for 30 years – and he is furious at Sir Robin Wales, the borough’s New Labour mayor.
Across Camden, north London, there is a fight on for the future of the borough – and a mood for change.
From Enfield in north London to Feltham in the west, Left List campaigners made their presence felt last weekend.
Left candidates are standing across England and Wales, including in Manchester, Cardiff, Newcastle, Cambridge and Birmingham.
Deborah Cameron is a professor of language and communication at Oxford university.
Students vote at crucial conference Delegates to this week’s annual conference of the National Union of Students (NUS) were voting on whether to transform their campaigning body into something more akin to a lobby group as Socialist Worker went to press.
Members of the UCU union and other protesters are set to lobby the council of Keele university on Thursday of this week over the threatened redundancy of 38 of the 67 staff in the School of Economic and Management Studies.
Lecturers at Glasgow Metropolitan College entered the third week of their pay dispute with a two-day strike on Tuesday and Wednesday of last week, and are due to strike on Wednesday and Thursday of this week.
Results of the Unite union executive elections were still coming in as Socialist Worker went to press.
The NUJ journalists’ union called for an end to the harassment of its members by the police on Friday of last week. A set of guidelines on dealing with the media was agreed between the NUJ and the Association of Chief Police Officers last year.
