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Facing bills of £2,400 for a two-bedroom flat, 61 furious residents from two hard-hit blocks of flats have signed an email, assisted by the Barking Reach Residents Association, demanding the bills be struck off.

The ‘Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill’ makes it illegal to identify as LGBTQ+ or outside of the gender binaries of male and female.

The English Rugby Football Union (RFU) has held arms fairs at Twickenham stadium for the last few years and a protest greeted the second such fair this year on 27 February.

Going to campuses with the Socialist newspaper is a great opportunity to talk to students. Even when a stall is not in the busiest place, you can always find people interested in what we’re doing.

The University and College Union (UCU) offices at Queen Mary University (QM) were recently broken into by security who forcibly removed UCU posters displaying solidarity with Palestine (see ‘Gaza – Queen Mary uni management orders break-in of union office’).

Croydon Council has spent over £300,000 pursuing a legal case it had already lost in the courts. Ruba Imam uses a wheelchair, and her family has been living in accommodation that Croydon Council deemed unsuitable back 2014.

Travelling with young children and a buggy on the London Underground is never easy, but the ongoing disruption to the Central Line is making it a nightmare.

The Croydon and Sutton Socialist Party branch was officially launched at the end of 2023 thanks to the combined efforts of party members across south London throughout the year.

In a letter to constituents on Holocaust Memorial Day, London Labour MP Kate Osamor referred to events in Gaza as a genocide and rapidly had the Labour whip suspended by the party.