London: Improvements for the homeless A new campaign to improve the lot of homeless people in London has been gathering steam after it was launched by the London Coalition Against…
Tube cleaners claim massive pay victory Tube cleaners working for contractors to Metronet are to receive substantial pay rises when Transport for London takes over the failed privateer…
London civil servants on strike Members of the Public and Commercial Services Union are going on strike today (November 1st) in Sheffield against the compulsory transfer of ten…
Tube workers prepared to fight staff cuts Passenger safety will be put at risk at Hampstead and Belsize Park Tube stations if London Underground proposals to cut staffing levels go ahead.
UK: Union claims victory as Metronet strike ends The RMT has claimed victory over jobs and pensions defence following a solid strike of Metronet engineers.
UK: Tube maintenance workers begin six days of strikes The first of two 72 hour strikes by more than 2,300 workers at failed private maintenance firm…
Metronet works vote 95% in favour of strike action Workers at the Tube maintenance consortium Metronet voted 95% in favour of strike action this week, as station staff on the Bakerloo line begin a…
Transport for London workers vote for strike action over pensions RMT members covered by the Transport for London Pension Fund have voted by a massive 15-to-one…
1850-1994: The Battle for Hyde Park: ruffians, radicals and ravers A timeline and radical history of rebellion, riots, sex and subversion in London's most famous park
The Battle of Cable St, 1936 - Joe Jacobs Joe Jacobs was in 1936 a local Communist Party activist in London's East End. This is his account of his involvement in the famous defence of the…
London tube workers strike over safety A section of the Bakerloo line is suspended as 150 workers stage a 24 hour strike over staffing levels.
The many headed hydra: Sailors, slaves, and the atlantic working class in the eighteenth century - Marcus Rediker and Peter Linebaugh Article on class struggle and compositon in the period leading up to and during the…