Striking workers at Avenue Primary School are fighting job cuts in Newham, East London. Student numbers have dropped but redundancies go beyond safe levels. Management announced 21 support staff cuts without warning or consultation.

Thousands marched through the streets of London on 1 May to mark International Workers’ Day, including socialists and trade unionists. Many paid tribute to Peter Taaffe.

I was born in the USA right before 9/11. After joining my parents at a party to celebrate Barack Obama’s election, we watched as he bailed out the bankers. My health insurance didn’t cover a surgery for me, so I had to go without.

Unison, GMB and National Education Union members at St Luke’s primary school in Tower Hamlets are taking joint strike action to fight eight teaching assistant redundancies.

Delayed trade union rights, renewed arts austerity, lack of political voice — London members of Equity have urged the performing arts union to step up these fights.

A demo and march from Marble Arch to Downing Street of around 300 people for peace and justice in Sudan took place on 19 April. Chants called for an end to the war and the return of a civilian government.

This decision is an attack on everyone’s rights, including other women, and we will not stand by while the trans community continues to be scapegoated by the capitalist elite.

Due to the massive cuts to education by past Tory and now-Labour governments, many schools cannot afford to support every student that needs it.

Just nine months into a new government, the Labour vote in St Ann’s ward, Haringey, collapsed as a result of their austerity policies.

We gathered outside Haringey Labour council, where our anti-cuts lobby united with protests over Palestine. Haringey Council, amongst many others, are pumping money into companies that have links to the Israeli state.