Keir Starmer was already rolling in disgrace over Israeli president Isaac Herzog’s visit to Britain last week. But now, the shame has grown even further as the UN has called Herzog out by name as a genocide-inciter. In the UN Human Rights Council’s commission of inquiry report, its analysi...
Supporters of the Your Party project to create a new mass party on the left have been waiting for some good news for a long time. And when you know how desperately Britain and the world need change, it’s hard to wait patiently. But a timetable has finally arrived: September – membership, a...
British RAF spy flights have been consistently recording footage over Gaza during Israel’s genocide. They’ve likely witnessed – and ignored – countless Israeli war crimes since 2023, such as the murder of UK aid workers. And in a parliamentary grilling, defence minister Luke Pollard squirm...
Legendary left-wing film director Ken Loach has joined a group of “community and trade union activists” in stressing that a focus on members’ democratic participation is essential for Your Party to become “a massive success”. The group have named themselves ‘Platform for a Democratic Party...
The Canary spoke to Zarah Sultana and Jamie Driscoll after a packed event in Newcastle on 6 September where Sultana received a standing ovation for her powerful speech. And considering all the energy and enthusiasm around the Your Party project, we asked why it’s taking so long to set up t...
Israeli airstrikes have reportedly hit the offices of two newspapers in Yemen. Journalist Inés El-Hajj said the 10 September attack killed 25 media workers. And, a statement from the Yemeni Journalists Union condemned the: direct targeting of the offices of 26 September newspaper and Al-Ye...
Green MP Carla Denyer has put pressure on Keir Starmer’s government to ensure a debate over highly controversial guidance on trans rights from “Britain’s independent equality and human rights regulator”, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). Denyer called the EHRC’s interim guid...
Carolyn Gelenter is the daughter of a Holocaust survivor. She has been consistently protesting against Israel’s genocide in Gaza and she decided to risk arrest on 6 September as part of the protest in London’s Parliament Square against the government’s ban on non-violent direct-action grou...
Your Party’s Zarah Sultana brought a packed room to its feet at a Newcastle event alongside Majority’s Jamie Driscoll on 6 September. There was clearly a lot of enthusiasm about the coming creation of a new mass party on the left, and Sultana energised people even more with bold statements...
A new study from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has shown stark gaps between different groups of university students in terms of suicide risk. Among the “160 higher education students taking this step each year”, the analysis has found that certain groups are more at risk. As Dav...