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Babar Ahmad, the south London IT worker who has been detained without charge in Britain for over four years, started his civil suit against the Metropolitan Police for assault in the High Court on Monday of this week.

Last weekend’s warm-up to the G20 meeting in London next month delivered few tangible results. At their meeting in Sussex, finance ministers resisted US pressure for yet more government spending to prevent the world economy sliding deeper into trouble.

Trade unions, NGOs, climate campaigners and anti-war activists are gearing up for a week of protests when the G20 summit of world leaders comes to London on 2 April.

The London Shop Stewards Network is holding a workplace organising conference to help boost grassroots trade union organisation.

More than 100 trade unionists and campaigners joined an angry protest on the steps of Soas, which is part of the University of London, on Wednesday of last week against the sacking of trade unionist Jose Stalin Bermudez.

Management at London Metropolitan University have now formally notified the trade unions that they plan to cut the equivalent of 550 full-time posts over the next 15 months, many of them by July.

Nearly a thousand people will be attending a conference this weekend on "The Idea of Communism" in central London.

Alan Walter, a socialist and working class activist, died at his home in Camden, north London, last Saturday.

The two remaining student occupations in solidarity with Gaza, at the University of East London (UEL) and Manchester University, have ended.

Anti-war activists are also getting ready for the arrival of the G20 leaders in London.

Activists across Britain are gearing up for a massive protest when the G20 meets in London later this month.

More than 2,000 bus drivers in the Unite union at Metroline in north London are to ballot on a new pay offer on Friday of this week.