A recent report found that Croydon Council’s finances were “deteriorating rapidly”, which has led the minister for local government, Jim McMahon, to prepare sending in unelected commissioners to run the council until July 2027.
At the lobby of Ealing Labour council, the reasons people were protesting included the closure of children’s centres, and Labour’s continued support for the war on Gaza.
Teachers at ‘BSix’ college in Hackney are on all-out strike from Thursday 12 June until 30 June or “as long as it takes” for the management to drop its vicious restructuring plan.
Akram Mohamed died at four months old in a damp mould-ridden housing association flat. His parents spoke to demonstrators outside Notting Hill Genesis (NHG) head office on 6 June.
Socialist Party and Socialist Students members participated in the People’s Assembly Against Austerity demonstration in London on 7 June, opposing cuts and austerity implemented by the Labour government.
With every passing month, Thames Water moves closer to the brink of collapse. Now its preferred buyer — US private equity firm KKR — has dropped out.
The Woodberry Down estate in Hackney was built in the 1950s for East End families whose homes had been destroyed in the war. It was once the largest public housing complex in Europe.
On Wednesday 14 May, parents, trade unionists and community activists gathered outside Ealing Council offices to protest plans by the Labour-led council to close 13 of the 25 children’s centres across the borough.
The Israeli state has launched a renewed ground offensive in Gaza, in areas already battered by days of air strikes. There were 30 air strikes in a single hour in Khan Younis, Gaza’s second-largest city.
After three weeks and ten days of strike, and a strong daily picket of support staff, teachers and parents, we won everything we asked for, including no compulsory redundancies.
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