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Billy Bragg kicked off a series of LMHR events in schools to promote the new CD with a visit to Barking Abbey, his old school, on Tuesday of last week. The school is in the east London borough of Barking & Dagenham where the BNP has 12 councillors.

Explosion of Stop the War activity on campus Students from Sussex University went to the fantastic Stop the War demonstration in London on Monday of last week.

Haidar Eid, a lecturer at Al Aqsa University, explained the deeping crisis of Palestinian society in a talk broadcast live from Gaza to a conference in London last Saturday.

Royal Mail has set up a sorting office in Southgate, north London, which is entirely staffed by non-union scab labour and managers.

Over 120 people took to the streets of north London last Sunday against the gun and knife crime that has blighted so many young lives over the last few months.

The stakes in the dispute between Royal Mail and the CWU union grew today as unofficial strike action in Royal Mail continued to spread. Offices in south east London joined striking colleagues in east and south west London, and there is now a real possibility that all offices and mail centres in London will join the action within the next 24 hours.

Hundreds of postal workers at the Nine Elms mail centre in southwest London have today walked out in an unofficial dispute after their management told them that overtime at the office would cease.

Across the country a series of unofficial walkouts have hit Royal Mail. Post workers in Liverpool, Glasgow, East London and Streatham have all taken unofficial action on Wednesday morning as the latest official strikes came to an end.

In our issue dated 6 October we published an article which said London solicitor Anthony Julius had given legal advice to the UCU union. We have since learned that he had nothing whatsoever to do with providing legal advice to the union. In accordance with our usual practice, we take this opportunity to correct this error at the earliest opportunity.

The government last week announced that £16 billion funding had been acquired to fund the Crossrail project for London and the south east of England. City businesses, the government and fare revenues will fund Crossrail.

It’s just before six in the morning and around 50 striking postal workers have gathered for a gate meeting outside their delivery office in Loughton – the heart of the Essex stockbroker belt of outer east London.

Thousands of bus drivers at companies across London are heading towards industrial action over pay.