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London Labour mayor Sadiq Khan has unveiled a scheme to make free school meals available to every primary school pupil in London. Any support for struggling families will be welcomed. But the scheme could go much further.

Brian joined the Militant in the early 1980s. As a young working-class shop steward he had worked in numerous jobs around West London, for a while as an engineer at Otis lifts.

On Sunday 13 August, two men were stabbed in a homophobic attack outside The Two Brewers, a popular LGBTQ+ venue in Clapham, South London. This attack comes at a time when the Tories have been increasing divisive rhetoric against oppressed groups, including LGBTQ+ people.

I joined the Socialist Party following my disillusionment with the Labour Party’s treatment of Jeremy Corbyn after the 2017 election.

The cataclysmic drop in Tory support wasn’t quite as deep in the Uxbridge by-election. Anger about London’s Labour mayor Sadiq Khan’s expansion of the Ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) — charging drivers of mainly older cars £12.50 a day — cost Labour the seat.

The Thames Water crisis is just the latest example of how capitalism is systemically rigged — the rich get richer while we pay the price.

London Irish’s demise is for different reasons to that of Wasps and Worcester, but what they have in common is the curse of commercialisation and private ownership.

Save Our Square protesters, a campaign led by Socialist Party members, gathered in Walthamstow town square, East London, on Saturday 17 June – the sixth anniversary of the Grenfell tower fire

Six years ago, 72 people died in a horrific fire at Grenfell Tower in Kensington, west London. It was a tower block lived in by working-class, mainly Black, Asian and migrant people, in the richest borough of London.