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Solidarity with Palestine A successful Palestine solidarity festival organised by the Camden Palestine Campaign was held last Sunday in Somers Town, London.

Some of the lowest paid people in Britain are in revolt. The invasion of Goldman Sachs offices on Tuesday (see page one) was just one of a series of loud and angry protests outside the offices of some of the largest financial institutions in the City of London.

Low paid cleaners and their supporters occupied the plush central London offices of the huge global investment bank Goldman Sachs this Tuesday.

German Film FestivalGoethe-Institut and Curzon Soho, London23 November to 1 December This is a great chance to see a few films that will most likely not make it to general release.

Over 650 delegates from across the country gathered in central London last Saturday for the People’s Assembly on Islamophobia and the "war on terror", called by the Stop the War Coalition.

Journalists in the NUJ union from a number of national newspapers and magazines met in central London on Tuesday of last week to discuss their battle for better pay and against cuts.

BBC strike Some 100 Bectu union members working for BBC News in London struck over new working patterns on Tuesday of last week.

In another blow to New Labour in east London, longstanding Labour Party member Haroon Juneja has joined Respect in Newham.

London postal workers have voted by a huge majority to reject management’s paltry offer over pay, and to move towards a strike ballot.

Over 2,000 striking Metroline bus drivers brought whole areas of north and central London to a standstill on Monday.

The Great English playwright Howard Barker has been marginalised by the London theatre establishment - none of his dramas have been staged by the National Theatre in London.

In The Face of HistoryBarbican, central Londonuntil 28 January Emmy Andrisse’s Girls Hanging Onto Shop Railings taken just after the liberation of Amsterdam from the Nazis in 1945 is part of the In The Face of History exhibition at the Barbican in central London. The exhibition charts the history of European photography from 1900.