The right-wing media is desperate to defeat Green leader Zack Polanski (and the hope he brings to so many). But the more it throws at him, the more he knocks it out of the park, and the more campaign money his team raises. Attempting to protect the privilege of the rich and powerful, peopl...
West Yorkshire Police arrested Julie Furlong on 18 November at a Leeds Lift the Ban protest — in reference to the proscription of Palestine Action. And she is refusing to let the arrest stop her from speaking out. Furlong told the Canary: I cannot live with myself if I do not do all in my...
At the first Your Party conference this weekend, members will decide on whether or not to break from the political norm in Britain by opting for ‘collective leadership’. Your Party: ‘relentlessly accountable to members and communities’ The party released new drafts of its founding document...
Ahead of the Your Party conference this weekend, Jeremy Corbyn has railed against “top-down” politics. Instead, he wants “community power” at the heart of the new left party, with local organising “in the party’s DNA”. This, he stressed, is exactly “what the old parties are afraid of”. ‘Co...
Labour-led Kirklees Council is facing an upswell of criticism over highly controversial plans to privatise two dementia care homes. Campaigners accuse the council of overlooking glaring safety concerns, and, “a live safeguarding investigation” into Mulberry Care Homes to whom it has sold t...
Ahead of the Your Party conference (29-30 November), we spoke to a few local Your Party groups about how things have been going and their hopes for the conference and beyond. Watch this space for more #YourPartyLocal articles in the coming days. Emma Jayne Park organises with Your Party Gl...
Ahead of the Your Party conference (29-30 November), we spoke to a few local Your Party groups about how things have been going and their hopes for the conference and beyond. Watch this space for more #YourPartyLocal articles in the coming days. Piara Miah has been doing community work f...
An ex-colonel’s family fled the Nazis’ genocidal rampage in the late 1930s. And now, 90 years later, British cops have arrested Chris Romberg for opposing Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Chris Romberg—’The government is escalating its authoritarian repression of dissent’ 75-year-old Chris Rombe...
In budget speeches, chancellors usually focus on either their achievements or the party sitting opposite them. But with one bad joke, Rachel Reeves showed it’s Green leader Zack Polanski who’s really on her mind right now: Watch as Rachel Reeves brands Greens leader Zack Polanski a ‘...
Ahead of the Your Party conference (29-30 November), we spoke to a few local Your Party groups about how things have been going and their hopes for conference and beyond. Watch this space for more #YourPartyLocal articles in the coming days. North Devon Your Party chair Siobhán Ovey told...