This month to coincide with the 18-20 July Tolpuddle Festival we have five of Philosophy Football's Tolupddle T-shirts to be won, these shirts and a wide range of other dissenter designs are available from Philosophy Football.

This Saturday, 5 July, tens of thousands of people will take to the streets of London as part of the annual Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride demonstration.

IslamExpo attracts thousands of people every year. George Galloway & Salma Yaqoob will be speaking at the event again this year. For more detail of the variety of events at IslamExpo, go to http://www.islamexpo.com/. And this year we have a special offer for Respect members from the organisers

Hope Not Hate has organised one more round of leafleting to try to stop the BNP willing in Chadwell Heath ward in Barking & Dagenham.

It was announced on Wednesday that the three Tower Hamlets Left List councillors and one Respect councillor were defecting to New Labour. The defection of the three Left List councillors ought to sound the death knell of the Left List fiasco and finally lays to rest the lie that the split in Tower Hamlets Respect was between left and right.

East London activist and campaigner Glyn Robbins surveys the sorry state of house-building in Britain and reckons the time is right for the government to change tack.

Respect MP George Galloway today (25 June) held a "productive and encouraging" meeting with Olympics minister Tessa Jowell. This was the first stage of what will be ongoing contact with the government and its agencies over the impact of the Olympics on Bethnal Green and Bow and on East London.

Following his letter to the Home Secretary about police violence at the recent protest against George Bush, George Galloway has today written a further letter naming the undercover police officer who is now known to have deliberately provoked violence at the demonstration. Read George Galloway's letter here.

Respect MP George Galloway has tabled an Early Day Motion highlighting the scandalous collapse in the enforcement of Health and Safety laws by the HSE watchdog. New research shows you are more likely to be killed at work than through an act of violence. "But we see no hue and cry from politicians about that," says Galloway. "In fact, the government is sitting on recommendations which would begin to address the appalling collapse of health and safety prosecutions."

Reacting to the news that members of the the largest council workers' union, Unison, have voted by 55 percent to 45 percent to strike over pay, Respect MP George Galloway said:

"We in Respect fully support Unison in its battle for fair pay. It has come to something when low-paid classroom assistants, refuse workers and admin staff are having to strike, probably for two days.

Tower Hamlets council is planning to close the Bethnal Green Centre, one of the oldest adult education centres in the country. Campaigners have organised a lobby of the council on 25th June, following the recent demonstration and march attended by 200 campaigners along with local MP George Galloway.

Pleas by ministers for pay restraint have been met with contempt by the unions, emboldened by the Shell tanker drivers' 14 per cent rise over two years, way above the latest rate of inflation of 3.3 per cent and a remarkable result for the Unite union.