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In announcing the project for the New Year, previous Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn MP said “We need solidarity beyond our borders and across communities to solve our common problems together.” The Peace and Justice Project will work with labour and social movements, providing platforms to those campaigning for change for the many, not the few.Continue reading “Project for Peace and Justice – cooperative approach for peace and socialism, more than what Labour opposition is doing”

Car park and tennis courts at Harrow Weald Recreation Ground is now open as an additional  walk-through COVID-19 testing centre as cases continue to rise rapidly in Harrow (20,964 cases as of 10 December and 599 deaths). In view of such an alarming situation, action has been taken to stop the trend, which has seenContinue reading “Rapid rise in corona cases in Harrow – a new walk-through Covid-19 testing centre now open”

Formal emails to Harrow Clinical Commissioning Group surgeries, currently recruiting staff and volunteers to deliver vaccination, indicate that the vaccination would start in a matter of days, latest in 2-3 weeks. As on 27 November, Harrow has 14,739 corona infection cases and 520 deaths. The first group to get vaccination are 50 plus. It looksContinue reading “Coronavirus vaccination in Harrow very soon”

Harrow West MP Gareth Thomas must publicly apologise for administering “virginity tests” to Indian female immigrants hoping to enter the country in the 1970s on marriage visas The BBC reports that women are being offered controversial “virginity tests” at British medical clinics.The tests involve a vaginal examination to check if the hymen is intact –Continue reading “History of virginity tests that started under a Labour government”

Harrow East Labour members meeting on 24 November acknowledged that the Labour Party is in the business of supporting and helping the young, low income families and those battling unemployment. The meeting also noted many (although not all) landlords in Wealdstone, Edgware, Stanmore, Queensbury and Harrow Weald are well off and have made – andContinue reading “Caring Harrow East Labour ask local residential landlords to lower rent by 25% for one year”

Harrow’s share of the COVID Winter Grant (around £588K), is unreasonably less than Barnet (£987K) Brent (£1,142K) and Hillindgon (£831K).The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) grant, ring-fenced, is to enable to provide support to families with children, other vulnerable households and individuals from early December 2020 and covers the period until the end ofContinue reading “Harrow COVID winter grant less than neighbouring boroughs – very disappointing”

Many feel that Harrow council has generally failed to meaningfully recognise, support the Islamophobia awareness month campaign or to show any commitment to embed the awareness in the work of the council. It is quite worrying to hear comments like: ‘frogs before Muslims, only in Harrow could this happen’ with reference to the council supportedContinue reading “How ‘superficially’ council handles community matters: Harrow council inadequate Islamophobia response raises further concerns”

A change.org petition to the Labour run Harrow council asks for specific inclusion of Islamophobia in the implementation of its motion for ‘commitment to fighting systemic racism’ (July 2020), and to put out a public statement in support of the Islamophobia Awareness Month campaign. The petition is launched days after the Guardian reported a newContinue reading “Harrow council less responsive to Islamophobia, highlights a petition”

In a forthcoming presentation to the Harrow Health and Social Care Scrutiny, the NHS England and NHS Improvement update on the review of all of the cancer services provided by Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC). The Centre is run by East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust and the services delivered from a site in NorthContinue reading “Mount Vernon Cancer Centre Review, Harrow interested”

Following the council motion for ‘commitment to fighting systemic racism’ (July 2020), Black Lives Matter protests, coupled with the Public Health England report evidencing the disproportionate impact of Covid-19 on people from a BAME, the council plans to focus its work initially on race and ethnicity to support the council in its on-going commitment toContinue reading “Council’s bold response to Black Lives Matter”