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14 August 2019
After the fire: fight for facilities for all
Not quite three weeks after the devastating fire at Walthamstow's shopping mall Save Our Square (SOS) campaigners were out on Saturday 10 August in the lime tree avenue leading to the east London market, making it quite clear. We are still here!
31 July 2019
Ilford: parents and teachers unite against school cuts
Ilford County High School, which has a deficit, should force the council to allow a moratorium on repayments
17 July 2019
Newham housing repairs workers announce strike dates
Unite the Union members employed by Newham Council in its housing repairs service have agreed dates for the start of strike action. This follows a 100% yes vote in the ballot.
3 July 2019
Angry Usdaw members strike at Sainsbury's distribution centre over sick pay cut
Dozens of members of shop workers' union Usdaw picketed Sainsbury's Waltham Point distribution centre in Essex for most of their 24-hour strike against changes to sickness policy.
19 June 2019
Angry residents' meeting demands answers and action following fire
The fury poured out, demanding answers and action
19 June 2019
East London bin workers call 12-day strike over wage grades
Bin workers in Newham, east London could have lost over £20,000 each over the last decade
19 June 2019
Oppose big business's sphere of influence!
A Trump backer plans to build a sphere - as tall as Big Ben and as wide as the Millennium Dome - in Newham, east London, writes Ian Pattison, East London Socialist Party.
5 June 2019
Neglected Newham tenants demand action
For decades, repairs on the homes on the Lawrence Street estate in Canning Town, east London, have been neglected. These homes have also been under threat of demolition. 30 residents met on 30 May to discuss their problems.
22 May 2019
Pouring cold water on the Riverside estate
Barking Reach Residents Association was out conducting a survey of heating and hot water issues. As we walked into the pleasant grounds of Robert Lewis House on the Barking Riverside estate, east London,
15 May 2019
Newham gas workers' strike threat
Newham's Labour council had unilaterally withdrawn call-out payments from gas safety managers. But the east London borough backed down on the eve of strike action.
8 May 2019
The council's proposed rota could leave up to 42 weeks a year without a manager having gas knowledge to deal with emergencies
1 May 2019
On 28 April Waltham Forest Trade Union Council hosted two important events in Abbotts Park in Leyton, east London
17 April 2019
Newham bin workers ballot for strikes
Refuse workers employed by Newham Council in east London could have lost more than £20,000 each in the last decade in a dispute over grading.
27 February 2019
PCS union branch opposes cuts to women's services
These union members work with people escaping domestic violence - they can see austerity and government policy have put women in a worse position
12 December 2018
Shares in Interserve - one of the UK's largest private providers of public services - have collapsed after it announced it has £500 million worth of debts.
28 November 2018
King George A&E faces closure again
King George Hospital A&E remains under threat. That's the warning from a march and rally on 26 November.
7 November 2018
East London public square threat halted
The Save Our Square (SOS) campaign in Waltham Forest, east London has heard that building company Mount Anvil has pulled out of the contract with the shopping centre owners to build monster tower blocks in our town square
17 October 2018
Newham finance staff fight pay and grading insult
Workers for Newham's Labour-led council who are responsible for processing payments to suppliers are hacked off at bosses for grading their important jobs in a way that gets them less pay.
26 September 2018
Residents push back Barking estate landlords
At a recent residents' meeting with the landlords of the Barking Riverside estate, they put a price on the major concessions we have wrung out of them in a bitter three-year campaign - £250,000.
TGIFriday workers at Stratford, London. TGI staff at a number of restaurants have been on strike against cuts in their tips. photo by Pete Mason
22 August 2018
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