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By Rix Bragg This summer London will play host to the 30th Olympiad, a sporting extravaganza touted as a showcase of the best of British, as providing unparalleled opportunities for…
June 12, 2012 / Comments Off / Read More
By Marcus Halaby THE HEADY combination of big business, land development, local and national politics, and the struggle for international prestige has always ensured that major sporting events like…
May 12, 2012 / Comments Off / Read More
BUS DRIVERS in the capital are to ballot for strike action in pursuit of a £500 Olympic bonus to compensate for the 800,000 extra passengers expected during the summer Games. The…
May 12, 2012 / Comments Off / Read More
In the last week, the London Metropolitan Police have become swamped by a series of exposes of police racism dating back to the London riots. The allegations expose the way…
April 16, 2012 / Comments Off / Read More
On May 3, Londoners go to the polls to elect a new mayor. The two main candidates are the incumbent Tory candidate, Boris Johnson, and Labour’s Ken Livingstone, who was…
April 4, 2012 / Comments Off / Read More
Up to 5,000 people rallied to the call to occupy the London Stock Exchange last Saturday. Although police blocked an early attempt to enter the precincts of the temple of…
October 18, 2011 / Comments Off / Read More
This morning, Wednesday 28 September, the second London demonstration of electricians and supporters with official backing from Unite the Union took place. Billy McKean was there…
September 28, 2011 / Comments Off / Read More
The construction workers campaign against vicious attacks on their JIB (Joint Industry Board) terms and conditions is escalating. Today 200 construction workers held a protest outside Farringdon Crossrail site, then…
September 21, 2011 / Comments Off / Read More
The anti-EDL protest in Tower Hamlet’s teaches us a lot about the problems we face in the anti fascist movement, but also how we can go forward, writes Mark Booth…
September 19, 2011 / Comments Off / Read More
OVER 200 rank and file electricians organised a picket outside Balfour Beatty’s Blackfriars Station construction project on 24 August, the first of many protests to stop eight major construction contractors…
August 31, 2011 / Comments Off / Read More