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Up to 150 people attended the Solidarity with Greek Strikers and Occupations event in Dalston, east London, on Friday of last week.

The RMT union has announced details of its strike ballot at Tube Lines, the company responsible for maintenance on three London Underground lines.

Traffic wardens in Ealing, west London, struck on Thursday and Friday of last week to demand the reinstatement of sacked rep Parveen Bhardwaj. The Unite union members picketed offices on Uxbridge Road, waving union flags and blowing horns. They were set to walk out again this Thursday and Friday.

Council leaders met up for the Local Government Chronicle awards at the Grosvenor House Hotel in central London on Wednesday of last week.

Teachers in the NUT union in London were set to strike on Wednesday of next week as Socialist Worker went to press, along with lecturers in the UCU union.

Teachers at Downhills primary school in Haringey, north London, will hold an indicative strike ballot over plans to force academy status on the school.

A planned national strike on 28 March will not go ahead after the leaderships of the unions involved voted to either call it off or limit the action to London.

Some 700 students marched through central London yesterday (Wednesday) to protest against government attacks on higher education.

The national executive committee (NEC) of the NUT teachers’ union met today, Wednesday, and agreed a London strike on 28 March.

Disabled workers facing the sack joined a central London protest as the latest unemployment figures were announced this morning (Wednesday).

Campaigners gathered in London for the Right to Work campaign’s forum on austerity and resistance last Sunday.

Political theatre has made something of a comeback in recent years, from the long run of the Pitman Painters at London’s National Theatre to smaller productions detailing cover-ups and corruption.