Around 80 Respect supporters in Tower Hamlets, east London met on Monday of this week to discuss the way forward for the organisation in the wake of George Galloway’s decision to split.
The Tower Hamlets Respect meeting was chaired by Kumar Murshid, a former Labour councillor in Tower Hamlets and former adviser to London mayor Ken Livingsone. Kumar quit Labour to join Respect earlier this year.
Since my election in May I have been getting myself established as a councillor who works for the people.
Day Centre workers in Glasgow have begun their fifth week of an indefinite strike.
Myself and thousands of other postal workers across Britain this week received ballot papers from our CWU union asking us if we are willing to accept a leadership-backed deal to end our long running dispute.
Activists are campaigning for a no vote in branches that have recommended to accept the deal, as well as in those that aim to reject it.
Leading Scottish human rights lawyer Aamer Anwar has been told that he will face a hearing over possible contempt of court charges.
The ministry of Defence was heavily criticised at the inquest into the death of Gordon Gentle, a soldier who was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq in June 2004.
Plans for ID cards are in danger of sliding into farce as hold-ups have again delayed the scheme.
Last week’s Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) report into the shooting of the Jean Charles de Menezes notes that not one of the 17 witnesses on the Northern Line tube train could recall hearing armed police identify themselves as they rushed into the train carriage where Jean was shot dead.
Over 500 people joined an angry demonstration in London against foreign intervention in Somalia on Saturday of last week.
The Stop the War Coalition is mobilising against the US, France and Britain’s threats against Iran. Its recent conference called for two days of action next week to highlight the growing danger of the extension of the "war on terror" to Iran.
