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The Canary Wharf cleaners stepped up their campaign against poverty pay when about 100 people demonstrated outside the Old Vic theatre in London on Thursday of last week.

Thursday 7 AprilLaunch meeting of ASBO Concern, 7pm, Friends Meeting House, Euston Road, London (Euston station).

ITV workers’ strike set to hit flagship programmes Members of the Bectu and Amicus unions at ITV were set to strike on Friday, Saturday and Sunday of this week in their pay dispute. The strike involves over 700 broadcasting, production and studio staff at ITV centres in London, Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool, Norwich, Nottingham and Birmingham.

The extradition hearing for Babar Ahmad, the IT worker from south London threatened with deportation to the US, resumes on Monday 18 April. Babar faces trumped up terrorism charges if deported.

International Arts and Crafts exhibition Victoria & Albert Museum, London until 24 July Go to www.vam.ac.uk The Arts and Crafts movement of the 1860s and 1870s was a response to the soulless nature of capitalist development. Architects, designers and artists pioneered new apporaches which drew on less industrial techniques, instead venerating individuality and the dignity of labour.

Campaigning in East London The campaign to get George Galloway MP re-elected to parliament on a Respect ticket in Bethnal Green & Bow, east London, started in earnest last weekend. Some 30 Respect activists set up a stall in Roman Road market, one of the most vibrant and mixed parts of the constituency. "There was a fantastic turnout from Respect activists, and our tabloids were being distributed everywhere," says Jackie Turner from Tower Hamlets Respect. The Labour Party also briefly turned up to set up a stall, but soon shuffled off. "We outnumbered the opposition by at least six to one," says Jackie.

The British IT worker facing extradition to the US, Babar Ahmad, has been moved from Woodhill to Belmarsh prison in south east London.

Instead of acting to implement the findings of a public inquiry into institutional racism, a south London council is trying to use inquiry evidence given by a victimised black worker against him.

Thursday 7 AprilLaunch meeting of ASBO Concern, 7pm, Friends Meeting House, Euston Road, London (Euston station).

Firefighters in London are to continue their campaign against cuts following a decision by the fire authority to press ahead with closing a station and removing ten pumps from the centre of the city.

Students occupy their school Hundreds of school students staged a sit-in against the war on Iraq, and to demand the right to protest, at Alexandra Park School, north London, last week.

The scale of last Saturday’s Stop the War demonstration, which marked the second anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, far exceeded the expectations of many.