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Overwhelming concern and considerable opposition. This was the response of parents to proposals to close down the St Mary Magdalene Church of England Primary School in Islington, north London, at a "consultation" meeting last week.

Workers IN the PCS civil service workers’ union at the British Library in London and Boston Spa have reached the end of their tether.

RESPECTS’S FIRST national conference saw some 300 delegates and 100 observers gather in London last weekend.

OVER 50 workers from the King’s Cross Channel Tunnel site in central London met on Wednesday of last week to reaffirm their rejection of new contracts brought in by their employer, Laing O’Rourke.

FIREFIGHTERS and emergency control staff are discussing an urgent campaign to stop the closure of one station and the loss of ten appliances across central London.

AS NEXT month’s anniversary of the worst disaster to hit London’s tube approaches, the government is busy trying to rip up safety regulations introduced to prevent it ever being repeated.

HUNDREDS OF delegates were heading to London for the first Respect national conference this weekend. Major discussions are scheduled on war and imperialism, defending communities and election strategy.

MANAGEMENT IN the Department for Work and Pensions were recently shocked by a five to one vote for indefinite strike at the Stratford social security office in east London.

THE CAMPAIGN for a new left leadership in the Unison union got off to a flying start last week when the union’s London regional council voted to back Jon Rogers for general secretary.

SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY happened during the long weekend of 15-17 October. The beautiful, crazy, creative chaos of a great social forum—which I have witnessed in Porto Alegre, Florence, Paris and Mumbai—came to rainy, grey north London.

THE DISCUSSIONS at the European Social Forum (ESF) in London on building workplace resistance showed significant progress compared with last year’s forum in Paris.

London’s image to many is cold, wealthy and impersonal, but its real history is of revolt and subversion. The crowd—sometimes called the "mob"—has played a big part in London’s history, and has developed a consciousness of us against them, the poor against the rich.