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Students at the University of Westminster in London demonstrated on Wednesday of last week against the university management’s plans to change the academic timetable.

Join the protest for Babar Ahmad Supporters of Babar Ahmad, the south London IT worker facing extradition to the US on bogus terrorism charges, have called a demonstration to coincide with the judge’s final verdict in his trial on Tuesday of next week.

Two breakthrough results for Respect in Newham, an east London borough, shocked New Labour early on Friday morning.

Janet Alder won 6.4 percent of the vote standing as the Respect candidate in Tottenham, north London.

The defeat Tony Blair suffered in east London and his other losses in Thursday’s election are for Iraq.

As the sun came up over Brick Lane on Friday a new dawn had truly broken over the East End of London — and over British politics.

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West Ham’s rebel history has passed down from the 19th century to today. In 1937 Maurice Foley, aged 14, went to work in the Royal Docks. He spent more than 50 years there as an active trade unionist and still lives in the area.

Workers at Ambala Foods in Stratford, east London, held a second successful day of strike action on Friday of last week.

Every Major city in Europe is near a river — Rome on the Tiber, Paris on the Seine and London on the Thames. The earliest civilisations grew in river valleys. For most of human history water was a communal resource.

On the main shopping street in Barking, on the outskirts of east London, are the people the election forgot — the hidden poor who are working, but don’t have enough to get by and are forced into borrowing from week to week.

The march organised by the RMT rail union from Glasgow to London demanding the renationalisation of the industry reached the capital last Saturday.