Anti-cuts councillors in Redbridge are challenging the ruling Labour group’s austerity measures whose attempts to stifle debate provoked disruption of the East London borough’s 27 February budget-setting meeting by community campaigners.
Local campaign groups Shape and Aylesham Community Action held a protest march of 500 people, the likes of which do not happen often in south London.
Haringey Labour council has agreed to hike council tax by 5%, and continues to cut services and attack its workers. Teachers are striking against class size increases and housing maintenance workers in Unite the Union are in a long-standing dispute with the council.
Protesters gathered to oppose cuts, a council tax hike, and plans to sell off local assets. The Labour council aims to put up council tax by 10%, council rents by 2.7%, and cut council tax support by 10%.
NEU members at three schools in the north-east London borough of Waltham Forest are taking six days of strike action, alongside several other schools in London, demanding the removal of performance-related pay (PRP).
Solace workers held a vigil outside to remember and stand in solidarity with victims of domestic violence, emphasising the importance of the work they do in the borough, which has the second highest rate of domestic violence in London.
Student Justice for Palestine held a peaceful protest at the University of Arts London against our university’s compliance in the current genocide of Palestinians, demanding that our tuition fees should not be used to fund war and arms deals.
Housing in London is notoriously crooked, morbid, and exclusionary. This includes historically working-class, culture-rich areas like Brixton, Lewisham, and Peckham.
Workers across London are fighting for decent pay and against attacks on conditions over the next week in a mini London strike wave.
There has been overwhelming support for strike action over Haringey Labour council’s proposals to increase class sizes and change terms and conditions in the five local authority-run secondary schools.
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