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The Socialist has carried numerous articles about Thames Water’s record of dumping sewage into our waters and hiking bills year on year — all while paying out hefty bonuses to its managers and executives.

The five-day (25-29 July) walkout by 50,000 resident doctors in England has begun. The BMA says that pay is still down by a fifth since 2008, in real terms, despite recent pay rises.

Protests have been held outside the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex following the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl, which an asylum seeker being housed there has been charged with.

On 22 July 2005 an innocent man was brutally shot to death by police at Stockwell tube station in south London. Like millions of Londoners that day, Jean Charles de Menezes, an electrician, was on his way to work. However, he became the target of a ruthless ‘shoot to kill’ Metropolitan Police operation.

“Anybody can become disabled” said one protester outside parliament on Wednesday 9 July. Keir Starmer’s plans to cut disability benefits target some of the most vulnerable people in our society.

During rush hour on the morning of 7 July 2005, four suicide bombers attacked three London Underground trains and a bus. 52 people were killed and over 700 injured.

London’s police frequently serve not as they claim to be protectors of all communities, but as enforcers of inequality, especially for Black and other minority residents.

Crowds took the streets in celebration of how far the fight for LGBTQ+ liberation has come throughout history. However, there are attacks on LGBTQ+ people worldwide. In the US, with Donald Trump’s flurry of executive orders dismantling healthcare, legal recognition, and protection from discrimination.

At the lobby of Ealing Labour council, the reasons people were protesting included the closure of children’s centres, and Labour’s continued support for the war on Gaza.

Teachers at ‘BSix’ college in Hackney are on all-out strike from Thursday 12 June until 30 June or “as long as it takes” for the management to drop its vicious restructuring plan.