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The Trade Union and Socialist Coalition is set to launch its campaign for the London Assembly elections. Speakers at the launch rally will include Bob Crow, general secretary of the RMT.

Some 50 people marched to Haringey Civic Centre in north London on Tuesday of last week to oppose council budget cuts.

Around 70 campaigners demonstrated outside Southwark town hall in south London last week as the Labour-led council passed a budget with £18 million of cuts.

The Unite union has stepped up its campaign to win a £500 Olympic games bonus payment for 28,000 bus workers in London.

Sixth form college teachers in the NUT union outside London are set to strike for half a day on Thursday of next week over funding cuts and pay.

Around 20 workers in the Unite union protested on Thursday of last week outside the plush London hotel where the Housing Innovation Awards were being held.

Over 200 people came to a Defend the Right to Protest public forum on Monday of this week. The London meeting was organised to raise solidarity for imprisoned student protesters.

Protesters exposed central London shops that exploit the government’s workfare scheme on Saturday. The protest was one of 38 around the country on a national day of action called by Boycott Workfare.

Anti-workfare activists harangued Tory minister Iain Duncan Smith outside Tottenham town hall in north London this morning (Friday).

A large meeting of British Muslims in London threw its weight behind the Syrian revolution last night (Wednesday). Over 400 mainly local people turned out for the meeting, which was hosted by London Muslim Centre in Whitechapel, east London.

Campaigners held a noisy protest in central London this morning, Wednesday, against the Tories’ Health and Social Care Bill.

This lecture by history professor David Nash is part of the Monarchy and Republicanism series running this year at the Bishopsgate Institute in London.