The University and College Union (UCU) offices at Queen Mary University (QM) were recently broken into by security who forcibly removed UCU posters displaying solidarity with Palestine (see ‘Gaza – Queen Mary uni management orders break-in of union office’).
The pro-austerity Labour administration in Newham is in turmoil, and lashing out under pressure from union, community and anti-war campaigns.
Thousands gathered outside parliament again on 21 Feb, demanding the end to the Israeli state’s brutal offensive on Gaza. Inside, MPs were debating a ceasefire motion from SNP.
Parents and trade unions shredded the council’s proposals to privatise or close two children’s centres, and change the usage at two others, at Hackney Council’s scrutiny meeting on 19 February.
People of all demographics flooded past towards Hyde Park, noticeably more than the last march. So many were keen to take the ‘End Israeli state terror’ placards I held.
“France out of Africa!” Senegalese protesters outside the French Embassy in London on 15 February demanded an end to imperialist interference, supported by members of the Socialist Party.
Oliver Campbell has been fighting to clear his name for 34 years and is back at the Royal Courts of Justice this month where it is expected to be overturned.
Croydon Council has spent over £300,000 pursuing a legal case it had already lost in the courts. Ruba Imam uses a wheelchair, and her family has been living in accommodation that Croydon Council deemed unsuitable back 2014.
Travelling with young children and a buggy on the London Underground is never easy, but the ongoing disruption to the Central Line is making it a nightmare.
The RMT, by being prepared to take strike action on London Underground, has won an extra £30 million a year from Labour’s London mayor Sadiq Khan and the Greater London Authority.
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