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Clara Osagiede, a union rep for cleaners on London Underground, is continuing her fight against victimisation.

Activists in Tottenham, north London, will meet tomorrow (Tuesday) to help co-ordinate campaigning activities for people coming up in court after the riots.

Anti-racists and anti-fascists from across Britain will join thousands of local people in east London on 3 September.

Right wingers wheeled out a well-worn cliché to explain the riots last week—the underclass. "London riots: the underclass lashes out," read one Daily Telegraph headline, while the Financial Times said the riots were "the intifada of the underclass".

The Tories claim that Britain is united against the rioters. But while there is a backlash, many people have defended young people and opposed the police crackdown.

A south London family could be the first to lose their home after David Cameron’s call for councils to evict rioters from social housing.

The Nazi British National Party (BNP) booted out its London regional secretary Chris Hurst last week after pictures emerged of him making "sieg heil" salutes.

The monthly meeting of the recently-formed London’s Local Anti-Cuts Alliance took place on Wednesday of last week.

The media has condemned the riots in London as mindless acts of destruction. The Sun newspaper screamed about an "orgy of mob violence".

By Monday evening the rioting had spread outside London.

Anger against the police burst out in Tottenham, north London, last Saturday after a protest over the police killing of local black man, Mark Duggan.

Activists are ready for a huge march to confront the English Defence League (EDL) when it tries to come to east London on 3 September.