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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.

It is an outrage that families need to live in hotel rooms, indeed that there are homeless families at all! Many families become homeless after being evicted from private-rented accommodation.

On Wednesday 17 May, around 40 local trade unionists, socialists and Croydon residents held a protest against the 15% council tax hike and council cuts outside Croydon Town Hall, where the council’s annual meeting was being held.