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Derek Allen, who sadly died last Sunday, was a much loved Socialist Workers Party (SWP) member in Hackney, east London. His passionate commitment to socialism, hard work and incredible generosity made him a popular figure among SWP members and non-members alike.

Over 100 lecturers, students and supporters held a lobby on Wednesday of last week outside London Met university. Lecturers are facing union derecognition and redundancies.

The crisis of the Public Private Partnership (PPP) on London Underground should mean the end of privatisation for our public services.

A "battlebus" organised by the CWU London division toured picket lines across the capital.

North London The strike was 100 percent solid at Highbury in Islington, North London. There were 13 people on a confident picket line out of fewer than 40 workers. Union rep Martin Gyan said, "They want to turn us into a part time company. If there is no work you’ll just be sitting at home.

Around 150 train drivers and station staff on London Underground’s Bakerloo line will strike for 24 hours from 10pm on Thursday July 19 in a safety dispute over lone working.

Don Letts, DJ Pioneering musician, filmmaker and DJ Don Letts made his name playing reggae to the emerging punk scene in London the mid-1970s.

Daily Encounters is a new exhibition of British newspaper photography that has just opened at the National Portrait Gallery in central London. This, taken in 1945, shows a Daily Express journalist taking a "truth drug" as part of an investigation into CIA experiments.

Around 200 residential and daycare workers working for Fremantle in Barnet, north London, struck for 24 hours on Thursday and Friday of last week.

The derailment of a Central Line tube train in London on Thursday of last week is down to the privatisation of London Underground infrastructure. It could have been avoided if management had listened to the warnings of the RMT rail workers’ union.

RMT to ballot over pension rights Over 11,000 members of the RMT rail workers’ union at companies covered by the Transport for London (TfL) pension fund are balloting for strike action over plans to undermine the pension rights of people forced to leave their jobs through ill-health.

Lecturers and supporters were to demonstrate and rally on Wednesday of this week against redundancies at London Metropolitan University.