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Labour councillor joins Respect Newham, east London, has its first Respect councillor. Sarah Ruiz became a Labour councillor in 1993.

Who Shot the Sheriff?Directed by Alan MilesLondon Launch, 7.30pm,Thursday 15 SeptemberThe Scala, London, £15www.lmhr.org.uk

My Name is Rachel Corrie11-29 OctoberThe Royal Court, LondonPhone 020 7565 5000

Over 400 postal workers rallied in London on Wednesday against plans for privatisation and "liberalisation".

One room at the Tate Modern in central London is temporarily devoted to artists condemned by Adolf Hitler’s Nazis as degenerate. On one wall blares the garish colours and brash angles of a portrait by expressionist Karl Schmidt-Rottluff.

Kurds demand true democracy London-based Kurdish activist and member of Respect’s national council Sait Akgul spoke to Socialist Worker about the proposed Iraq constitution

The Kliptown Snappers: photography from SowetoThe Horniman Museum, Forest Hill, south London www.horniman.ac.ukUntil 31 OctoberFree entry

Around 150 people protested outside Plumstead police station in south east London on Tuesday of last week after the death of Paul Coker.

"The speculation and leaks taking place in the media are not the best way to deal with such a serious matter."London mayor Ken Livingstone, attacking the media for the revelations over the slaying of Jean Charles de Menezes. Livingstone has yet to meet the dead man’s family

Manchester Manchester Stop the War Coalition held a public meeting recently where 100 people gathered at the Pakistani Community Centre in Longsight against the backdrop of the London bombings.

Guerrilla graffiti artist Banksy has recently branched out from his normal east London haunts and taken a trip to Palestine, where he applied his talents to the apartheid wall being built by Israel.

Tarique Ghaffur, an assistant commissioner for London’s Metropolitan Police and the man responsible for community policing, launched an attack on the Somali community last week.