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Supporters of Babar Ahmad, the south London IT worker threatened with extradition to the US on terrorism charges, have stepped up their campaign against the Extradition Act 2003.

Campaigners against the introduction of privately run city academy schools in Islington, north London, sniff the scent of victory. They have uncovered a scandalous conflict of interest at the heart of the bid.

Unite Against Fascism responded to the desecration of a Jewish cemetery in east London last week by calling a 70-strong vigil on Sunday.

A family in Hackney, east London, with children aged three and five, is under threat of losing their dad. Immigration officials say Duane Thomas must go back to Jamaica because he overstayed his student visa in 1997.

School students against the War have been keeping their presence up in north London — running stalls to build for the G8 protests.

Nearly 100 people attended a local Respect meeting in the Weavers ward of Tower Hamlets, east London, addressed by local MP George Galloway, on Monday.

Respect is to stand in a council by-election taking place in the Leytonstone ward of Waltham Forest, east London, on Thursday 14 July. Local teacher Caroline Coleman has been selected as the candidate.

Back to Black — Art, Cinema and the Racial ImaginaryWhitechapel Gallery, east London Until 4 September

Workers at Ambala Foods in Stratford, east London, were forced to return to the picket lines on Thursday and Friday of last week when their offer to end their pay dispute was firmly rejected.

The GMB union conference last week saw Paul Kenny, previously London regional secretary, take over as acting general secretary for the next year.

Anti-fascist campaigners were out in force in Manchester and east London last weekend.

Stop this housing sell-off The government is breaking its election pledges already — and just 500 yards from John Prescott’s sumptious headquarters. In the 19th century the philanthropist George Peabody founded the Peabody Trust and built decent housing for the benefit of London’s poor.