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Reports from the 100,000 strong Stop the War Coalition and CND 'Troops Out Now – No Trident Replacement' demonstration across central London and the rally in Trafalgar Square. The demonstration was in London on Saturday 24 February 2007.

Members of the RMT rail workers’ union on the London Underground have voted by over three to one to strike over pay.

The New Labour council in Newham, east London, took another step in its campaign of union busting last week when taxis carrying threatening letters arrived at the homes of refuse workers.

Hundreds of cleaners working on London Underground are balloting for strike action over job cuts.

Thousands of members of the NUJ journalists' union are set to strike at the BBC on Monday over compulsory redundancies. Members of the Bectu union working for BBC News in London were also set to strike.

Seventy mostly African migrant workers in the GMB union are in a bitter dispute over union recognition in Enfield, north London.

No London CWU cash for Labour?

Tower Hamlets Labour-led Tower Hamlets council in east London wants to cut home care and charge for it.

Some 150 people attended a tenants’ meeting in Lambeth in south London on Saturday of last week to organise against the local Almo.

Tenants on the Parkside estate in Tower Hamlets, east London, have won an injunction preventing the Labour council completing the sell-off of more than 2,000 council homes to a subsidiary of the housing association Circle Anglia.

Some 600 delegates gathered at Unite Against Fascism’s annual conference in central London last Saturday to launch this year’s campaign against the British National Party (BNP).

Becca Kirkpatrick, a Unison union shop steward at the National Blood Centre in Birmingham, will be joining the anti-war demonstration in London this Saturday.