The Bacton Fashions strike, 1990 - Mark Metcalf An account of the 1990 strike in East London of mostly immigrant workers, which won several concessions for the workers and prevented the owner…
The great London dock strike, 1889 A huge and powerful strike of British dockers against low pay, unsafe conditions and casual, precarious employment contracts which, with…
Three day strike at Whipps Cross Hospital This week there was an escalation in the long running dispute betweeen cleaners, porters and switchboard staff, and their private employers at…
Chatterton, Dan and his 'Atheistic Communistic Scorcher' - Andrew Whitehead Communist atheist pamphleteer, bill poster, slum dweller, early birth control advocate, fierce…
London: Hospital porters and cleaners on strike Porters, cleaners and switchboard staff employed by Rentokil Initial, based at Whipps Cross Hospital in East London, have been on strike since…
Sharpley, Kate, 1891-1978 Brief biographical information about London resident, anarchist and World War I-widow, Kate Sharpley who once attacked Queen Mary.
Canary Wharf cleaners to ballot for strike action Cleaners at some of Britain's leading banks and financial institutions are to vote on strike action after a long-running campaign to make bosses improve working conditions and pay them a living wage.
The Battle of Broadway Market A report from Hackney Independent on the recent protests at Broadway Market.
Locked out of Acton's Lock Residents of the Whiston and Goldsmiths' estates - and especially those in Debdale Court - are less than impressed with Hackney Council and British Waterways over the proposed development at Acton's Lock. An article by Hackney Independent from 2006.
1995: The JJ Foods Strike On October 31st 95, forty five workers at JJ Fast Food Distribution Ltd. in Tottenham were sacked for joining the T&G.
12,000 say no to ASDA Friends of Queen's Market is a campaign in Newham to stop the "redevelopment" of a highly valued local street market into an ASDA.
Dalston occupation update - eviction? libcom has just heard that a hearing at Shoreditch County Court has resulted in an eviction order being granted at Dalston Theatre, it could therefore be evicted any time after 7pm this evening.
