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While Tony Blair met Chirac... "JACQUES Chirac—terrorist!" was the unmistakable chant as up to 1,000 people demonstrated in London last Saturday against the French intervention in the Ivory Coast.

Tuesday 30 November No 2 ID public meeting, 7pm, Brix, St Matthew’s Church, Brixton, south London. Go to www.no2id.net for details.

THE THREAT of a postal strike in London over Christmas has won a vastly improved deal which will have implications for all future agreements.

Oliur Rahman was elected as Respect councillor for the St Dunstan’s & Stepney ward of Tower Hamlets council in east London on 29 July.

BABAR AHMAD’S extradition hearing to the US on terrorism charges was to start this Thursday, 18 November, at Bow Street magistrates court in London. Mrs Ahmad, Babar’s wife, spoke to Socialist Worker before the hearing:

AROUND 1,000 radiographers showed their opposition to Agenda for Change—the government’s sweeping changes to pay and conditions across the NHS—in central London last Saturday.

RESPECT IN Lambeth and Southwark, south London, hosted a meeting on civil liberties last week. Around 70 people attended, including young Muslims from Stockwell mosque.

MEMBERS OF all the unions at Glenbrook Primary School in Lambeth, south London, have voted unanimously for a ballot for strike action against plans to turn it into a city academy for five to 19 year olds.

THOUSANDS OF Post Office workers in London are about to start a strike ballot that could halt mail deliveries over Christmas.

FIRE STATION cooks staged a lobby of a meeting of the London Fire Authority on Thursday of last week as part of their campaign to stop the scrapping of station catering.

The dreadful killing of David Morley in London has brought to attention the continuing prevalence of homophobia.

CONSTRUCTION workers at Laing O’Rourke’s site at King’s Cross, London, have won a significant battle in the campaign for a decent contract.