On 18 October, 60 people attended a London Socialist Party public meeting to address the housing crisis. This coincided with a last-minute vigil for those affected by the air strike on a hospital in Gaza, which we attended before the meeting.
The working class in Hackney will have the option of voting for an anti-austerity fighter in the East London borough’s mayoral by-election on 9 November, Annoesjka Valent, standing for the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC).
A year after the awful police killing of unarmed father-to-be Chris Kaba, an armed police officer has been charged with his murder.
Throughout my search for a home as a young person in London, I have faced a series of issues highlighting the dire state of the housing crisis. Licensing requirements for houses of multiple occupancy gave landlords excuses to bump up their rents, making a shared arrangement more difficult than ever.
On 23 December 2022, the Barking Reach Residents Association gathered information from residents in Argent House. Promises by housing association London and Quadrant (L&Q), that contractors would turn up failed, and these issues were not resolved. Christmases were ruined.
Domestics, porters, caterers and other staff at Barts NHS Trust are continuing their fight for fair pay in the NHS, joined by other staff and coordinating with workers in other trusts.
Low-paid Newham and Tower Hamlets council workers in Unite the Union have secured an extra £750 on top of the national pay offer of a flat rate £1,925.
Our local campaign group ‘Save Our Square’ met under the shadow of the two newly constructed lift shafts for the two monster blocks being built in Walthamstow, East London. Our campaign has held these buildings at bay for eight years.
London Underground station staff in the RMT union are taking two days of strike action on 4 and 6 October against job losses and attacks to our terms and conditions.
Philip Glanville, directly elected mayor of Hackney since 2016, has resigned in disgrace. Questions emerged about when he and the Labour Party became aware that former Labour councillor Tom Dewey was raided and arrested on child pornography charges, and when he broke off contact.
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