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If measured by the success of the Labour Party in local and parliamentary elections since 1997, London is now a regional stronghold for the party like many other big cities, but not necessarily "red" in the way Hatherley means. The GLC was first controlled by social democrats in the mould of Morrison, before the New Left under Ken Livingstone took power in 1981, espousing a very different type of locally-based grass-roots socialism. This includes the record of Ken Livingstone, previously socialist "Red Ken" who controversially led the Greater London Council (GLC) in the early 1980s before Thatcher abolished it in 1986, leaving London without its own elected government until New Labour created the less powerful Greater London Authority (GLA) in 2000. [Extracted from the article]

Urban Claims and the Right to the City: Grassroots Perspectives from Salvador Da Bahia and London: Edited by Julian Walker, Marcos Bau Carvalho and Ilinca Diaconescu. In contrast, the authors from Salvador are much more comfortable with Lefebvre, unsurprising perhaps as the 2001 federal law in Brazil, the I City Statute i , provides a legal framework through which urban rights are foundational. This is a collection of grassroots perspectives on urban politics in Salvador, Brazil and London, UK. [Extracted from the article]

Caouette, D and Kapoor, D., editors, 2016. Beyond Colonialism, Development and Globalization: Social Movements and Critical Perspectives. London: Zed Books. 292 pp. 28.95$, ISBN: 978-1-78360-584-2 pb [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 1982 the annual conference of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) voted to relocate the union's official headquarters from London to Sheffield. NUM officials saw London as the seat of Margaret Thatcher's hostile Conservative government, disinvesting in coal and other nationalised sectors, and dismantling union influence in workplaces and policy-making. Making Cultures of Solidarity: London and the 1984-5 Miners' Strike: By Diarmaid Kelliher. [Extracted from the article]

Discusses the contribution of the theatrical production "Little Eyolf," by Henrik, Ibsen, which was performed at the Avenue Theatre in London, Englad, to feminism and feminist self-consciousness in the 1890s. Development of experimental theater; Description of the matinee audience of Ibsen; Intensity of the relationship between the plays of Ibsen and female spectators.