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The Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) is backing the national demonstration against war, racism and occupation in London on 24 September. The party’s executive last week unanimously voted to support the protest.

There was singing and dancing outside the high court in London on Thursday of last week as the home office was forced to back down from plans to restart the deportation of Zimbabwean asylum seekers.

Widespread and wide ranging outrage followed the shooting dead of Jean Charles de Menezes by the police on a London underground train at Stockwell tube station on Friday 22 July.

A new book by Leon Kuhn and Colin Gill uncovers the hidden history of London’s many statues and landmarks — shedding light on the brutality of the British political elite at home and abroad.

Our book Topple the Mighty involves two parts of a whole. The first part goes through some of London’s statues, using them as a "coat hanger" to talk about what these people really did and who they were.

Security guards working for Chubb at Eurostar depots at North Pole (west London), Waterloo and Ashford International have voted unanimously for action to win union recognition.

Tens of thousands of people held a minute’s silence to remember Jean Charles de Menezes, the Brazilian man shot by police, at Burgess Park in south London last week.

In a magnificent show of solidarity, thousands of workers at Heathrow airport in London have walked out unofficially in support of sacked colleagues at caterers Gate Gourmet. At the moment check-in staff, baggage handlers and bus drivers are on strike at Terminals 1 and 4. Some 20 incoming flights have been re-routed away from Heathrow and outgoing flights halted.

The only explanation Tony Blair will tolerate for the atrocities in London is an empty one that serves himself. They are, he says, simply the product of an "evil ideology" that, in some mysterious way, has burst in to an otherwise tranquil world.

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There are many reasons for condemning the London bombings. One is that the attacks have, temporarily at least, politically strengthened Tony Blair.