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Bus workers across the different companies operating in London are to march on 24 July to demand better pay and conditions.

Tens of thousands of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people (LGBT) and their supporters joined the annual Pride march in central London last Saturday.

The strike by 700 cleaners on the London Underground for 48 hours from Tuesday of last week brought to public attention the workers who keep the capital running.

It is now three years since the 7 July terrorist attacks on London that killed 52 people along with the four bombers. Those three years have witnessed a systematic ratcheting up of prejudice and hate propaganda against Muslims.

Around 4,100 people from across Britain and the world came to this year’s Marxism festival held in central London last weekend.

Leila Assaf – 16, east London ‘People usually carry knives for protection. I live in Hackney, east London, which is quite a rough area. So all my friends have got knives.

Civil service workers in the Prospect and PCS unions at the British Museum in London came out on strike on Friday afternoon last week over a below-inflation pay offer.

Activists won a victory in their campaign to defend adult education courses at the Bethnal Green Centre (BGC) in east London last week.

Two years ago 12 Respect councillors were elected in Tower Hamlets, east London, on the basis of opposition to war and privatisation, and support for council housing.

The current dispute by cleaners on London Underground shows the reality of a migrant workforce that keeps Britain running and that is fighting for decent pay and working conditions.

Anti-fascist activists have spoken out against the "bully boy tactics" used by a senior British National Party (BNP) councillor against the principal of Barking College in east London.

An Independent Line is a new book and exhibition at the Political Cartoon Gallery in London featuring cartoons by the Independent newspaper’s three editorial cartoonists – Dave Brown, Peter Schrank and Tim Sanders, whose work also graces this paper.