Labour lost control of Enfield council in the May local elections. Years of disappointment and cuts meant support collapsed, as in so many councils.

Teachers and support staff in the National Education Union (NEU) at Highgate Wood School have now had eight days of strike action in their fight against a package of austerity cuts that threaten to make 10% of staff redundant

BBC Panorama recently detailed allegations of sexual exploitation made against former West Ham United football club chairperson David Sullivan. Sullivan’s previous nickname was ‘King Porn’.

You have been voted into the council chamber, because working-class people want a change from the politics of austerity and hopelessness, conducted by the previous Labour administration.

On 2 June, Socialist Party members joined an RMT picket line in support of striking tube drivers at Arnos Grove station. The strike is as a result of unagreed changes in working conditions.

Our recent stall at the Sainsbury’s in New Cross Gate, South East London, was great! Many people were angry that we had to keep on paying while oil companies increased their profits.

Poignantly, just hours after his beloved Arsenal won the league title, our friend and comrade Pat Atkinson passed away on 18 May, aged 73. Tributes highlight Pat’s generosity, humour and warmth – “a lovely man” is the phrase that comes up repeately.

This year’s local elections were a disaster for the capitalist establishment parties. The London borough of Haringey was no exception. Labour had controlled Haringey council since 1971.

Working-class people in Waltham Forest are in desperate need of change. The previous Labour council made millions of pounds of cuts and was punished at the elections. Now the Greens have gone from having no councillors to 31.