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Hundreds of thousands of workers from across Britain are making the final preparations for the TUC’s mass march in London tomorrow, Saturday.

Lecturers across University of East London (UEL) campuses walked out today, Thursday, in a dispute over workload and management bullying.

A head teacher at an east London school is threatening to cut teachers’ pay if they take part in action short of a strike.

The Tories plan to sack 600 firefighters and close 17 fire stations in London. This represents a huge and fundamental attack on the capital’s fire service.

Over 150 people linking arms around the international secretariat of Amnesty International in Islington, north London, this morning (Wednesday).

Teachers in an east London school have won a significant victory as part of a national campaign over workload and conditions.

Hundreds of people turned out at St Paul’s Cathedral last Saturday to celebrate the first anniversary of Occupy London. They heard speakers from Greece, Spain and the student movement in Quebec before marching to City Hall.

Some 40 supporters of the campaign for justice for Jimmy Mubenga protested outside Crown Prosecution Service offices in central London on Friday of last week.

Activists hand in closures petition Campaigners against the planned closure of half the A&Es in north west London delivered petitions signed by over 60,000 to stop the cuts. Around 50 activists delivered the petitions to North West London NHS headquarters last week.

RMT union members at delivery company DHL’s Neasden depot in North London are set to strike next Monday for 24 hrs over pay and conditions.

Haringey council in north London is planning to move residents to the north—and even produced a PowerPoint presentation with a motorway sign to prove it (see picture, above).

The fascist English Defence League (EDL) is threatening to descend on Walthamstow, east London, on Saturday 27 October. The racists hope to spread fear among Muslims and whip up violence.