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Thames Water is demanding the right to increase customer bills by 59% – a £696 yearly increase. Thames Water has the cheek to say that it is making “up for years of keeping bills low”.

The BBC has revealed that the biggest landlord in parliament, Labour MP Jas Athwal, has tenants in some of his 15 properties that are battling mould and ant infestation.

At 3am 26/8/24, a major fire consumed another London tower block covered in flammable cladding. Residents pounded on their neighbours’ doors to get them to flee. No fire alarms could be heard.

Teachers and support staff were taking strike action against an increase in teaching time, workload, and the use of fixed-term contracts for support staff.

The new Labour government seems to be seeking to avoid being pitched into conflict with the trade unions on day one. But one person who appears determined to bring it on is Labour’s London mayor, Sadiq Khan.

It was much better that we came together after the election, and used the opportunity to discussed the new battles that could open up under Keir Starmer’s New Labour government.

Teachers and support staff at Highgate Wood School were on strike on 4 July, and again on 10-11 July. NEU members voted for action against a pay cut imposed on a number of members.

A flashmob crowd of 500 plus showed up outside the Highams Park Tesco in London on 31 May, carrying homemade placards in support of Faiza Shaheen.

A group of Black activists and trade unionists from the UK and around the world met online on 2 June for a discussion entitled: “Are you voting in the UK’s 2024 general election? If so, who are you voting for?”

I joined the Socialist Party in October, after the Israeli state’s brutal onslaught against the people of Gaza started. I have considered myself to be a socialist since I was a kid, due to other family members’ influence.