Cleaning Up The Streets For Who? - Black Flag Prostitutes working on the edge of the city in East London have recently been subject to a concerted campaign of abuse from the police, the local press and vigilantes. Some of the women are as young as thirteen, many are care leavers and work to support drug habits. Police harassment of prostitutes is nothing new, and the women believe that the latest round of arrests were made in revenge for the arrests of local…
Interview: Adil Rahman of Newham Monitoring Project - Black Flag Newham Monitoring Project has been fighting racial harassment and police harassment in East London…
La grève des écoliers de Stepney Un compte rendu court à propos de la grève par 800 élèves à Stepney, dans l’est de Londres le 27 mai 1971, qui a réussi à obtenir le retour d’un…
1912: a year of strikes in the East End of London An account by John Rennie of the strikes which swept East London in 1912: particularly on the docks and amongst Jewish tailors.
East London rent strikes, 1938-9 On 13 February, 1938, a rent strike began in Stepney, east London. This is an account of tenants' struggles in the area at the time, by Past…
Peter the Painter (Janis Zhaklis) and the siege of Sidney Street In October 2003 the Latvian press carried a number of articles about the Latvian anarchist Janis…
62 Fieldgate Street: yesterday, today and tomorrow - Mark Kauri A look at the history of the building in East London where the London Action Resource Centre is…
The Stepney schoolchildren's strike, 1971 A short account of a strike of 800 pupils in Stepney, east London on May 27, 1971, which successfully won reinstatement of a teacher who was…
Battle of Cable Street, 1936, photo gallery Photo gallery from the 1936 Battle of Cable Street, which saw over 100,000 working-class residents in London's East End oppose a march by Oswald…
Brick Lane 1978: the events and their significance - Kenneth Leech Scanned PDF booklet about the events in Brick Lane, in London's East End, in 1978, where Bengali…
Stop the EDL in Tower Hamlets - Part II (7 September, 2013) The English Defence League have announced plans to march to Altab Ali Park* for a rally on 7th…
