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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.

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.

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.

Made in Dagenham, performed by the Loughton Operatic Society, is a musical based on the true story of the 1968 Ford sewing machinists’ strike in Dagenham, and the 2010 film about it.

One way we get our ideas across in Waltham Forest, is by selling our newspaper “The Socialist”. 119 people bought our Socialist paper in the final week of April. The popularity of our paper comes as no surprise to us.

Domestic violence advocates at charity Solace successfully beat job cuts this year. Tower Hamlets Socialist Party member, Skye Mincher, reports her discussion with one of the workers.