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A magnificent strike by London Underground workers humbled their management and London mayor Boris Johnson this week.

In a disgraceful attack on the RMT union, Steve Hedley, its London regional organiser, has been arrested on suspicion of common assault after allegedly trying to stop scabs crossing a picket line.

The Unite Against Fascism (UAF) national demonstration against racism, fascism and Islamophobia in London on 6 November is a vital part of the struggle to drive back the threat of racism.

The BNP has expelled Richard Barnbrook, its elected member on the London Assembly and one of the party’s senior figures.

UAF is hosting a series of meetings across the country in the coming months. These include ones in Glasgow on 13 October, Birmingham on 16 October, London Metropolitan University on 28 October and Cambridge on 2 November.

Big business and London mayor Boris Johnson this week demanded that the government introduce even tighter restrictions on workers’ right to strike.

More than 60 London ambulance workers in the GMB union protested this morning outside a meeting of the South London Healthcare NHS Trust. They are fighting to stop privatisation and have voted by over 95 percent to take strike action.

Coca-Cola workers in Edmonton, north London, struck again on Wednesday and Thursday of last week in their fight for a decent pay rise.

Solidarity with migrant workers

Lecturers at Richmond College in West London are set to ballot for industrial action over job cuts.

The CLR James Library in east London, named after the late, great Trinidadian Marxist historian CLR James, is under threat.

Around 100 people joined a protest in Lewisham, south London, on Friday of last week against plans to close libraries in Lewisham.