Tower Hamlets College strike continues into fourth week ESOL teachers in east London continue their indefinite strike. A striker reports...
Solidarity with Tower Hamlets ESOL workers leaflet A solidarity leaflet for September 12th 2009 rally in support of striking Tower Hamlets College workers.
ESOL teachers on indefinite strike in Tower Hamlets Over 250 UCU members at Tower Hamlets College are in day 10 of an indefinite strike against cuts.
Morning Star journalists win pay rise Journalists at Britain's 'daily paper of the left' have won a decisive victory over bosses who claimed they were 'betraying their class' by fighting for fair pay.
East London teachers to strike over unfair dismissal Dozens of teachers are to stage a series of one-day strikes in support of a colleague who was sacked for wearing trainers and tracksuit bottoms…
Morning Star journalists ballot for strike action Morning Star journalists could be walking off the job next month in the first ever pay strike at Britain’s “daily paper of the left.”
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…
Oldest council estate says no to private landlord In 1900 the Boundary Estate, just north of Brick Lane in the Whitechapel area of east London, became Britain's first council estate and, following a vote last week, it will continue to be so for the forseeable future.
Tower Hamlets strike over staff victimised for opposing stock transfer Staff at Tower Hamlets council began a two day strike today after a housing campaigner lost her job after working for the council for 14 years.
Crossrail and Spitalfields Following on from Corporate Watch's coverage of how Channel Tunnel Rail Link contractor Skanska is ignoring the concerns of local Stratford residents about dust pollution, we have been contacted by local residents who report of similarly damaging proposals in the East End of London.
Fascists and police routed: the battle of Cable Street - Reg Weston Cable Street - October 4th 1936 - an eyewitness account by Reg Weston, Higham resident and life-time…
