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Civil service workers in the PCS union in London are moving towards further action against job losses. Chancellor Gordon Brown wants to slash 104,000 jobs across the civil service.

One hundred and fifty people, mainly construction workers, joined a march and rally in London to commemorate Workers Memorial Day on Thursday of last week.

Friday 13 MayLaunch of Socialist Film Club with a showing of classic Vietnam documentary Hearts and Minds, introduced by Jonathan Neale, 7pm, University College London, Gower Street WC1 (Euston Square tube). Price £5/£3. Phone 020 7637 1848 for tickets.

Parents, school students and campaigners gathered outside Downing Street in London last Saturday to protest against the way the education system fails black children.

Hundreds of Respect supporters from across London and around the country converged on east London last Saturday. They formed an army of campaigners for the general election.

Leading trade union and labour movement figures in Newham, east London, released a letter last week calling on people to vote for Respect at the general election.

Respect canvassers in Newham are reporting a political shift on the doorsteps of the east London borough. New Labour’s stranglehold on the borough is being loosened as people turn to Respect.

Independent polls in Tottenham, north London, indicate that Respect candidate Janet Alder is now the number one challenger to David Lammy, the sitting Labour MP.

Respect's George Galloway has defeated pro-war Labour MP Oona King to win the east London seat of Bethnal Green & Bow in the British general election, in a stunning victory for the left and the anti-war movement.

Bloody sunday is the latest in the series of tribunal plays staged by the Tricycle Theatre in London.

George Galloway, the Respect candidate for Bethnal Green & Bow, went head to head with his Labour opponent Oona King in a heated debate held in the east London constituency on Wednesday of last week.

Forty Asian workers are gathered outside the Ambala Foods factory in Stratford, east London. They stand in small groups chatting in several different languages, playing cards or eating curry from polystyrene bowls.