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Socialist election candidates are entering the final few days of campaigning as they step up their efforts ahead of polling day this Thursday, 3 May.

Boris Johnson has been a mayor for the rich and the bankers—not to mention he’s a millionaire himself. He has pocketed £250,000 a year for his Telegraph column alone while he’s been in the job, but he says that money is just "chicken feed". Meanwhile he has hiked tube and bus fares, hitting the poorest. Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, to give him his full name, not only went to posh private school Eton with David Cameron but was in the Bullingdon Club at Oxford with him too. And both are descended from royalty, tracing their ancestors back to King George II. No wonder Boris hates working class people and has been lobbying for even tighter anti-

The national executive of the NUT union met yesterday (Thursday). The meeting deferred any decision on national strike action in June until a further executive meeting on 10 May—the day when hundreds of thousands of other public sector workers will strike over pensions.

The national executive of UCU lecturers’ union today voted overwhelming to strike alongside Unite and PCS on 10 May. The union believes that the strike is a welcome step in the campaign to fair pensions for all.

More than 10,000 workers in the Ministry of Defence and other government departments are set to join the strike over public sector pensions on 10 May.

Jim Wolfreys author of The Politics of Racism in France spoke at a meeting in central London on 25 April

Teachers across Nottingham struck for the third time yesterday, Wednesday, against council plans to rip up their terms and conditions.

London Underground maintenance, upgrade and emergency workers employed by Tube Lines started a 72 hour strike yesterday afternoon (Tuesday).

Dozens of pickets huddled under umbrellas across the six entrances of Central Foundation Girls School in Bow, east London this morning (Wednesday).

Last Saturday more than 120,000 people gathered in Prague’s Wenceslaus Square to demonstrate against government austerity. It was the climax of a week of protest—as well as the biggest demonstration in the Czech Republic since the "Velvet Revolution" against the old Stalinist regime in 1989.

The Tories are trying to impose their own austerity package in Britain.

Up to 500 families on housing benefit in east London could find themselves relocated to Stoke-on-Trent if Newham Council has its way.