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11 April 2012
2012 is the year that London hosts the Olympics, the greatest sporting event in the world. The event has been promoted as bringing great opportunity and hope to those working and living in the surrounding boroughs...
8 February 2012
Tower Hamlets: Save Rushmead one stop shop - fight all cuts
It's almost unheard of to see Labour Party members campaigning in Tower Hamlets, east London, more than two months before an election, writes Naomi Byron, Tower Hamlets Socialist Party.
21 September 2011
Poplar 1921: 'Better to break the law than break the poor'
This year marks the 90th anniversary of the struggle of councillors in Poplar, east London, against government cuts, writes Pete Dickenson.
5 September 2011
EDL kept out of Tower Hamlets by thousands protesting
The racist and divisive EDL rallied at Aldgate behind lines of police that separated them from anti-racist campaigners on Whitechapel Road
31 August 2011
Keep EDL out! Jobs, homes and services - not racism
Update added on 2nd Sept at end of article The racist and divisive English Defence League planned to march through Tower Hamlets on 3 Sept
25 August 2011
Keep EDL out of the East End: for anti-racists' right to march
The English Defence League has announced its intention to march through Tower Hamlets on 3rd September.
Racists Out! Youth against Racism in Europe marches for jobs and homes not racism, photo Paul Mattsson
17 August 2011
Keep the EDL out of Tower Hamlets: Supporters of the racist and hooligan English Defence League fought running battles with police in Eltham shortly after after the recent riots
23 June 2011
London Met strike against compulsory redundancies
Unison and UCU members held a one day strike at London Met university on 22 July after management had repeatedly refused to talk to the unions
Photo Pete Dickenson
1 April 2011
Teachers and council workers strike together in Tower Hamlets
The fight against the cuts in Tower Hamlets, East London, got a big boost on Wednesday 30 March when there was a joint strike of council workers and teachers. An edited version of this article appeared in The Socialist.
16 March 2011
Campaigning against all cuts and privatisation
Tower Hamlets: In 1921 Poplar councillors, led by George Lansbury, electrified British politics by refusing to make working class East Londoners pay unaffordable rates...
4 February 2011
Tower Hamlets anti-cuts meeting
Nearly 200 people came to a meeting in Bow, east London, on Thursday 3 February to protest against cuts in services. The event was organised by the Tower Hamlets council joint unions
27 October 2010
Youth Fight for Jobs and Socialist Students day of action
Goldsmiths University: The Comprehensive Spending Review on 20 October announced cuts that will be detrimental to the future of young people across the country...
23 June 2010
AT LEAST 5,000 people marched in Tower Hamlets last Sunday (20 June) to keep the racist and hooligan English Defence League (EDL) out of the London borough, writes Naomi Byron.
Youth Fight for Jobs, photo Sarah Mayo
16 June 2010
Tower Hamlets: Jobs, homes and services - not the racist EDL!
A victory has been scored in East London as the racist and hooligan English Defence League (EDL) has called off its plan to "hit" Tower Hamlets on Sunday 20 June, writes Paula Mitchell and Naomi Byron.
5 May 2010
Tower Hamlets mayoral referendum
Comment: Would having an 'executive Mayor' be more democratic than the way Tower Hamlets council is run at the moment...
28 April 2010
LONDON IS the most unequal city in the industrialised world, with the richest worth 273 times the poorest, according to a new book, writes Pete Dickenson.
30 September 2009
Tower Hamlets college: A month of all-out strike action has forced Michael Farley, the principal of Tower Hamlets College in the East End of London, to withdraw compulsory redundancy notices to 13 teachers, writes Pete Dickenson, UCU member.
16 September 2009
College workers strike against vicious cuts
About 400 students, education workers and supporters gathered in Altab Ali Park in Aldgate to rally in support of the striking UCU members at Tower Hamlets college in East London, writes Chris Newby.
30 June 2009
A PASSIONATE and noisy protest against cuts in education marched through East London, attracting lots of attention and support from shoppers and local residents, writes Naomi Byron.
28 March 2003
Waltham Forest: DAY X - the day war in Iraq began - was a day that youth walked out of schools, colleges and universities in their tens of thousands...
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