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Health workers were another group of emergency service workers who performed tirelessly last week to save lives.

I and a number of friends took the number 30 bus from Hackney, east London, to attend the Marxism 2005 event on Friday of last week.

Around 70 people attended a peace vigil in Edinburgh on Friday of last week after the London bombings.

The fascist British National Party (BNP) suffered a major setback on Thursday night when it was comprehensively defeated in a council by-election in Barking, east London.

White, Asian and black people united together in commemoration of those who died in the London bomb attacks, and against war and Islamophobia on Sunday 17 July.

At the start of last week Leeds Stop the War Coalition decided to call a vigil that Thusday for victims of the 7 July London bombings.

Today’s housing struggle Council tenants in Bow, east London, are angry at being blackmailed and rushed into a ballot for privatisation of their estates by Tower Hamlets council.

Up to 150 school students staged a noisy demonstration outside the Learning Trust in Hackney, east London, on Thursday of last week in protest against plans to close their school, Homerton College of Technology.

Drivers for Centra Buses in Croydon, south London, staged another one-day strike last week. The drivers, members of the RMT union, are involved in a bitter dispute over pay and conditions which stretches back over a year.

The eighth TUC Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered (LGBT) conference met in London on the two days before the Pride demonstration which took place last Saturday.

Over 300 people attended the "Even Bigger Brother" rally against ID cards on Wednesday of last week in London. Speakers included Tony Benn, Respect MP George Galloway and Shami Chakrabarti, the director of civil liberties organisation Liberty.

Home secretary Charles Clarke has refused to meet the family of Babar Ahmad — the south London IT worker who faces extradition to the US on trumped up terrorism charges.