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Anti-cuts councillors in Redbridge are challenging the ruling Labour group’s austerity measures whose attempts to stifle debate provoked disruption of the East London borough’s 27 February budget-setting meeting by community campaigners.

Local campaign groups Shape and Aylesham Community Action held a protest march of 500 people, the likes of which do not happen often in south London.

Solace workers held a vigil outside to remember and stand in solidarity with victims of domestic violence, emphasising the importance of the work they do in the borough, which has the second highest rate of domestic violence in London.

Student Justice for Palestine held a peaceful protest at the University of Arts London against our university’s compliance in the current genocide of Palestinians, demanding that our tuition fees should not be used to fund war and arms deals.

Housing in London is notoriously crooked, morbid, and exclusionary. This includes historically working-class, culture-rich areas like Brixton, Lewisham, and Peckham.

Strikes by brave PCS union members on private contracts are continuing in a number of government departments.

The transport union RMT has secured a huge victory in the fight to defend pension rights. The TfL pension will now continue with no change to members’ contribution rates and no reduction in pension benefits.

While water bills are rocketing by up to 45% across the UK, people living on Godstone High Street were required to evacuate as the cavernous sinkhole engulfed a 20m section of the road, sparking fears of potential explosions from exposed cables.

The West Ham United board has shown little appetite for ending its attack on reduced-price tickets for the young, pensioners, and disabled people. The campaign to reinstate concessions, led by fan group Hammers United, is still going strong.

Judging from placards and banners, a factor motivating marchers to turn out was the recent pronouncement by Donald Trump that Gazans should be forcibly removed from their homeland to make way for a “Riviera”