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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”

Labour will inflict more pain on the borough’s employees and residents, rather than build a campaign involving other councils, unions, and residents to fight for cash for local authorities?

Councils need to campaign alongside trade unions, service users, community groups, community campaigners, voluntary sector, and other political parties, and combine with other councils in the same boat for the necessary funds to protect services.

Enfield has the highest youth knife crime in London. Last summer, a community meeting identified the need for places where young people can hang out safely. But Enfield Labour council is cutting not increasing them.