SOME 180 left wing Labour Party activists met in London recently for the annual general meeting of the Labour Representation Committee (LRC).
ON FRIDAY 15 July the news broke that Lambeth council in south London had reversed its decision to put an academy on the site of a primary school in Clarence Avenue.
WITH PREDICTABLE speed the home secretary Charles Clarke has announced the introduction of yet more laws ostensibly to combat terrorism.
Jean Charles de Menezes was an innocent man. He could have been stopped by police at any time after he left his home on his way to Stockwell tube station. Instead he was followed and shot dead.
Signs of a racist backlash POLICE FIGURES record that one in five Muslims say they or their family have faced abuse or hostility in the wake of the bomb attacks on London. Muhammed Babrul Haque, the Imam of Dulwich mosque in South London, was attacked on 16 July.
The fight to reinstate Jerry Hicks is on. He is the deputy plant convenor sacked from Rolls Royce’s Bristol site.
The fight against the privatisation of council homes gained a significant victory in Tony Blair’s own constituency last week.
On Tuesday of last week Tony Blair met up with self-appointed leaders and representatives from various Muslim communities in order to discuss and tackle what he calls the "evil" within these communities.
Many people in Northern Ireland nodded in recognition when they heard of Jean Charles de Menezes being shot repeatedly in the head as he lay face down and helpless on the floor of a tube train at Stockwell.
There have been 37 fatal shootings by British police since 1990.
THE MEDIA and political establishment have closed ranks following the death of a Brazilian man at the hands of armed police in London.
