The battle over what kind of London we need is taking place across the capital in the run-up to the crucial 1 May elections.
Lindsey German was Respect’s mayoral candidate in the 2004 London elections. She was re-selected as Respect’s mayoral candidate last spring by over 300 Respect members at a properly convened all-London convention.
PCS members in Acas, the government conciliation service, have voted for action over pay.
Workers at the Maritime and Coastguard Agency took the first strike in their history on Thursday of last week over pay. The strike, by PCS and Prospect union members, severely affected services.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) pay strike next week is set to be the "strongest yet", say activists. The national strike by PCS union members is due for Monday 17 and Tuesday 18 March.
Omar Deghayes, the British former Guantanamo Bay detainee who was released at the end of last year, will be speaking at the Stop the War demonstration in London this Saturday.
Anti-war campaigners are meeting at Aldermaston in Berkshire on 24 March to encircle the nuclear research centre and call for it to be shut.
The fight by postal workers to defend their final salary pension scheme reaches an important stage this week.
A host of bands, MCs and musicians are set to deliver a blow against the fascist British National Party (BNP) next month at the Love Music Hate Racism free carnival in Victoria Park, east London, on Saturday 27 April.
Nicola Sturgeon, deputy first minister of Scotland and Scottish National Party (SNP) MSP, will address the World Against War demonstration in Glasgow this Saturday.
Campaigners won a victory in Cambridge last week when councillors refused planning permission for an extension to Tesco’s proposed site. Some 350 people turned up to the meeting to urge councillors to vote against the proposals.
People in Britain are forced to work an average of 70 days a year just to pay the interest on their debts – and that’s before making any repayments on the amount borrowed.
