"DRAT THE British!" Karl Marx once said in frustration at his London exile. When the European revolutions of 1848 began to crumble Marx was forced to come to London.
BOSSES AT Canary Wharf in east London, where many multinational companies have their headquarters, have used a court injunction to prevent a demonstration in support of low paid cleaners.
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It was just a few months after the Notting Hill "race riot" of 1958. The small Caribbean immigrant population living in the London borough of Kensington was still reeling after being attacked by violent racist and fascist mobs during the summer.
Wall won’t stop us from twinning
ALMOST 70 supporters of the Camden Palestine Campaign packed into Daphne Restaurant in central London last Wednesday to attend the launch of the Camden-Abu Dis Friendship Association.
LECTURERS AT Hackney Community College struck on Tuesday of this week against 71 job losses and cuts that will savage educational provision in the east London borough.
Campaigners from Unite Against Fascism took to the streets of Dagenham, east London, last weekend, where the Nazi British National Party (BNP) is contesting the Village ward by-election.
Strike threat gets moves on deal
THE THREAT of strike action by parking attendants working for Vinci Park in Bromley, south London, planned for last Saturday has forced the company to meet the workers’ demands.
THE RACIST harassment of asylum seekers on the London Underground described by K Babasola (Socialist Worker, 18 September) is not the only form of harassment now happening on London’s transport.
ANTI-FASCIST campaigners are calling for the campaign against the British National Party (BNP) to be stepped up after it won a seat last week at a council by-election in Barking and Dagenham, east London.
