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It is less than six months since the local elections - and already the cracks are starting to show within the New Labour group that runs Tower Hamlets council in east London.

Some 50 health workers and members of the public lobbied the health scrutiny committee of Waltham Forest council in east London on Thursday of last week to oppose drastic cuts in health services.

People traveling to the Time to Go demonstration outside the Labour Party conference in Manchester on the peace train from London

People traveling to the Time to Go demonstration outside the Labour Party conference in Manchester on the peace train from London

"This is the way the world ends/Not with a bang but a whimper," wrote the poet TS Eliot. And that was how Tony Blair’s premiership in effect came to an end - at a north London school amid a press scrimmage and the jeers of anti-war students.

Workers at the Katsouris food processing plants in north west London gathered for a mass meeting at the Brent Indian Association last Saturday.

The fourth London Schools and the Black Child conference was held in central London last Saturday, focusing on the continuing inequalities experienced by children of African and Caribbean heritage in schools.

The threat of strike action has won a victory on London Underground’s Jubilee Line.

Security guards in the T&G union who work at investment bank Goldman Sachs in the City of London have won a groundbreaking union recognition deal. The workers, who are employed by security firm Knightsbridge Guarding, were awarded recognition by the Central Arbitration Committee on Tuesday of last week.

Tony Blair told an audience at a London school last week that he’d like to choose his own time to go.

The striking Merseyside firefighters are the latest group of workers to support the Organising for Fighting Unions conference to be held in London on Saturday 11 November.

Students at Quintin Kynaston school in north west London showed Tony Blair what they think of his warmongering when they protested against his visit to their school.