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Members of the RMT rail workers’ union on the Bakerloo line of the London Underground struck on Wednesday of last week. They were protesting against management plans to make workers "detraining" passengers at the end of the line do it by themselves rather than with another worker as happens at present.

Respect is campaigning hard in the Stonebridge ward council by-election in Brent, north west London.

Over 200 London bus workers demonstrated at sites across the capital on Thursday of last week demanding the right to toilets on their bus routes.

A strike next week by thousands of London Underground workers is part of a crucial battle over the future of our public services. The strike by employees of the failed Metronet consortium is set to start at 6pm on Monday of next week, .

Kings College Hospital rally Union members and local supporters held a rally last week in support of Unite union representative Tony Anthrobus. Tony’s job is threatened by a reorganisation at King’s College Hospital in south London where he has worked for over 40 years

Following its success in the recent council by-election in Shadwell, Tower Hamlets, Respect is standing in a council by-election in Stonebridge ward, Brent, north west London.

A construction worker was found dead at the bottom of a lift shaft in offices in central London last week.

Last week some 50 people attended a lively protest outside Newham town Hall in east London over the council’s attacks on the Unison branch chair Michael Gavan.

Bus workers from across London are set to stage a series of protests at key London transport and local government offices on Thursday of this week.

London Underground workers at the failed Metronet consortium have voted overwhelmingly to strike in defence of their terms and conditions.

On Saturday 13 August 1977 the apparently unstoppable rise of the Nazi National Front (NF) met a serious challenge. A Nazi march through Lewisham in south London faced a counter demonstration by thousands of anti-fascists. The fascists’ march was stopped.

When David Morrison, delivery rep at Islington in north London, read in Socialist Worker about a desperate strike by Egyptian postal workers (28 July), he sent a simple note of solidarity to Cairo.