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Campaigners have won a significant victory in Deptford, south east London. Governors at Tidemill primary school are to withdraw their application to become an academy after campaigners exposed flaws in the proposal.

In London during the 1970s radical squatters and artists came to see squatting as the new politics.

This exhibition documents the Sidney Street Siege in east London—where Lithuanian anarchists had a raging gun battle with police in 1911.

Some 800 fire and rescue staff in London began a ballot for strike last week.

There is a possibility of more strikes on London Underground after a key RMT transport union committee voted narrowly to calling 48-hours of action later this month.

The annual conference of the Socialist Workers Party, which took place in London last weekend, was enthused by the excitement of the new student movement.

Fire bosses were renewing their threat to sack all 5,500 of London’s firefighters as Socialist Worker went to press.

An immigration operation led to 15 people at Guy’s and St Thomas Hospital in south London being arrested and charged for fraud and ID card offences on Thursday of last week.

A solid strike by train drivers in the Aslef union on London Underground had a severe effect on the running of the tube network on Boxing Day.

Firefighters in London have voted to accept new shift patterns proposed after their union called off strikes.

Bus workers at Metroline, north London, have voted by 91 percent in favour of industrial action in a consultative ballot over a pay offer.

A solid strike by train drivers in the Aslef union on London Underground has had a severe effect on the running of the tube network today (Boxing Day). The workers are furious that management have failed to offer extra pay for working on the bank holiday.