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Lecturers at London Metropolitan University returned to work this week to face a critical ballot for action over job cuts.

London Underground drivers in the RMT transport union on the Victoria Line were to strike from 9pm on Tuesday of this week for 24 hours.

The police in Britain – and London’s Metropolitan Police in particular – are on the defensive over their handling of the G20 protests in London earlier this month.

More state lies about the death of Ian Tomlinson at the G20 protests in London came unstuck last week as the second post-mortem, commissioned by the IPCC, returned a verdict that Ian died from an abdominal haemorrhage—internal bleeding.

The Territorial Support Group (TSG) police riot squad used its full might to crush protests in the City of London on 1 April, with tragic consequences.

The Sri Lankan state claimed to be near to military victory over the Tamil Tigers as Socialist Worker went to press.

Bus drivers at Metroline in north London were due to hold a consultative strike ballot across all its garages on Friday of this week.

Workers at the Ford Visteon car components plant in Enfield, north London, are continuing their campaign for jobs and justice despite ending their occupation of the site on Thursday of last week.

There is deep anger among London tube workers in the RMT transport union after a legal challenge by their bosses to a strike ballot means that workers will have to vote again.

Tube drivers in the RMT union on London Underground’s Victoria Line are set to strike for 24 hours from 9pm on Tuesday of next week over the sacking of a worker.

Around 100 station staff in the Willesden Green London Underground station group struck for 24 hours from 7pm on Wednesday of last week over what their RMT union describes as "aggressive and bullying local management".