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We got rid of almost all the leaflets, overprinted with local meetup info, on our first visit to NewVic sixth form in Newham. Three students took small stacks of leaflets to give to friends. Two of them are active N20 organisers now.

When we were contacted by a student at a school near Muswell Hill, we arranged to meet them for a coffee with their friends. We talked over some ideas about how to meet more people who might want to build the walkouts.

After a week-long strike, bin workers in Unite the Union have forced their employer, outsourcer FCC, to the negotiating table, despite management trying to break the strike.

National Education Union (NEU) members at St Ignatius School took their seventh day of strike action on 22 October. They were on strike for six days last term.

The British Library faces a funding crisis and privatisation — and it is workers and the public who will pay. The British Library is a national legal deposit library for the UK and a legal deposit library for the Republic of Ireland.

More than 1,000 GMB union members working as school support staff in Greenwich and Merton went on strike on Friday 9 October.

by Hamza Khan, West London Socialist Party Hammersmith and Fulham Labour council has warned that it needs to raise council tax by up to 150% […]

It’s the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street. Then, hundreds of thousands of workers and young people mobilised across the East End of London to stop Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists (BUF).

When standing at a bus stop on Mare Street or Dalston Junction these days, we wait longer, watch crammed buses pass by, and increasingly read notices saying that the routes we rely on are being permanently altered or cut altogether.

Catering staff and cleaners at the Forest private school in Waltham Forest, London, members of Unite the Union, are on strike from 28 September to 2 October after their employer, the Compass Group, proposed changes that would mean a loss of pay of 13.5% per year!