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Respect is urging as many of its supporters as possible to get to west London this weekend to campaign for a left alternative in next Thursday’s Ealing Southall parliamentary by-election.

Over 1,000 people packed into the opening rally at the Marxism 2007 festival of resistance in central London tonight. The rally celebrated the struggles of workers and movements around the world against neoliberalism and imperialism.

Salvinder Singh Dhillon will be standing for Respect in the Ealing Southall parliamentry by-election in west London on Thursday 19 July. He stood for Respect in Green ward, Southall, in the council elections two years ago, coming second.

The How We Are: Photographing Britain exhibition currently showing at London’s Tate Britain gallery certainly can’t be faulted on grounds of scale or ambition.

Unofficial solidarity action by teachers in support of low paid kitchen staff severely disrupted Haggerston School in Hackney, east London, on Wednesday of last week.

Over 170 teachers attended a meeting at NUT teachers’ union headquarters on Tuesday of last week to address the situation facing hundreds of overseas teachers in London.

A crucial battle is coming at London Metropolitan University (London Met) over jobs and union rights.

Tens of thousands of people attended the annual lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) London Pride event last Saturday.

Following the failed bomb attempts at Glasgow airport and in central London last week, lurid headlines speak of a doctors' plot to bomb Britain. Armed police sealed off airports and the City of London.

West London "Morale is up, the strike is solid and there’s no-one in the sub-offices," reported Paul the CWU rep at Paddington mail centre in West London. Around a dozen pickets gathered.

Over 170 teachers attended a meeting at NUT teachers union headquarters on Tuesday of this week to address the situation facing hundreds of overseas teachers in London.

The Imperial War Museum in London includes a fascinating map of the world that lights up to show, year by year, which countries have been ravaged by conflict since the Second World War.