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Respect candidate Michael Lavalette was at the centre of organising a Make Poverty History event in Preston last Friday evening. Hundreds of campaigners linked hands around the town hall as part of the Trade Justice Movement’s global week of action, before a busload left for the all-night trade justice vigil in London.

Rally packs out town hall The biggest political meeting in Newham for two decades gave a huge boost to Respect’s challenge to New Labour in the east London borough on Monday of this week.

"For Britain’s Labour Party there are few more loyal strongholds than Bethnal Green & Bow in London’s East End. But this time the party’s candidate is in trouble, and the reason is simple — the war." Washington Post

There was an electric atmosphere at the launch meeting of the Asbo Concern campaign in central London on Thursday of last week.

The Marxism 2005 event, which takes place in central London from Thursday 7 July to Monday 11 July, will be a great opportunity to develop a strategy for the movement after the protests against the G8.

Hundreds of media workers in the Bectu and Amicus unions struck between Friday and Sunday of last week at ITV. They are fighting for decent pay. Strikers picketed ITV offices in London, Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Norwich, Birmingham and Nottingham.

Lecturers at Hackney Community College in east London struck on Thursday of last week in protest against at least 55 redundancies.

New Labour is facing a strong challenge from Respect in Newham, east London. Lindsey German is contesting West Ham for Respect and Abdul Khaliq Mian is standing in East Ham.

Oliur Rahman, Respect councillor and candidate in Tower Hamlets, east London, is taking up the case of four Traveller families who have been left without toilets for over a week.

New Labour in east London is adopting the same practices that allowed the postal voting fraud exposed in Birmingham.

George Galloway’s challenge to New Labour in Bethnal Green & Bow in east London has got off to a tremendous start. George told Socialist Worker, "My campaign has been fantastically busy and very successful over the last week.

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