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CAMDEN COUNCIL in north London has a new magazine—Camden Living. The front page lead is "Cracking Down On Crime". The editorial and another whole page are devoted to Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs).

Respect supporters were out in the Millwall ward of Tower Hamlets, east London, over the weekend, leafleting door to door, as the campaign for the council by-election there got underway.

THE government’s Agenda 2010 policy in Germany threatens the biggest attack on the welfare state since the Second World War.

Babar Ahmad was arrested last December in one of home secretary David Blunkett’s "terror" raids. The 30 year old IT worker from Tooting, south London, was released without charge a week later.

Ashfaq Ahmad was speaking at a conference in Tooting, south London, last Sunday to protest against harassment of Muslims by police.

THE CWU postal and telecom workers’ union is encouraging members to come along to the European Social Forum to be held in London from 14 to 17 October.

THE OLYMPICS seem to be an innocent enough event. Who could object to people having some fun and watching sport? Won’t ordinary people benefit if the Olympics come to London and areas are regenerated?

In March Love Music Hate Racism organised a tremendously successful gig at London’s Astoria.

THE TWO-DAY strike of 98,000 workers in job centres and benefits offices at the end of last month was the best supported yet.

A HUGE cheer went up outside the election count as the full scale of Respect’s victory in Tower Hamlets, east London, became known.

MORE THAN 180 trade union activists from across London and the south of England met at the TUC on Thursday of last week to launch a campaign to build union support for the European Social Forum (ESF).

Community very cross at Crossrail THE GOVERNMENT’S proposed Crossrail project could destroy the unique community around Brick Lane and Spitalfields in east London.