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Trafalgar Square, London, has been the site of demonstrations, and of attempts by the authorities to ban them, since it was constructed in 1842-3.

MIKE LEIGH’S film, out this week, takes us back in time to London in the 1950s. As in many large cities in Europe at that time, you find working people living in the wake of the Second World War and facing hardship, shortages and poverty.

Kennington Common, the area in London where Kennington Park and the Imperial War Museum now stand, was the scene of one of Britain’s most famous working class demonstrations on Monday 10 April 1848.

FIFTY TWO people attended a public meeting called by firefighters in Islington, north London, last week to protest at plans to remove ten appliances from inner London and shut a station.

OVER 70 people gathered in Brixton, south London, on Tuesday of last week to hear arguments from the NO2ID campaign against identity cards.

Victim treated as a terrorist FRIENDS AND family of an Arab student who was left in a coma after a brutal assault in north west London are raising serious questions about the police’s behaviour in the case.

ABOUT 240 people packed into the community hall of the North London Mosque in Wightman Road, Haringey, on Saturday of last week.

PARENTS AND pupils were on their way to a protest against the privatisation of their east London school under the government’s city academies’ scheme when they discovered the main sponsor was pulling out.

OVER 50 people attended a recent anti-incinerator meeting at Colnbrooke Primary School, west London, and over 100 marched on Grundon’s waste disposal site.

INDIGENOUS PEOPLE from Canada and the Arctic travelled to London last week to campaign against Tony Blair’s government for its refusal to recognise collective human rights.

Returning the favour STEEL ERECTORS at the Wembley Stadium site in north west London took up a collection for the Socialist Worker appeal last week and raised £48.

LONDON Underground station staff have been ofered a 35-hour week deal as a result of the RMT union’s recent pay strike.