Zack Polanski has just swept into the leadership of the Green Party, with bold promises to take on the rich and their cronies. And answering a question about whether he would work with Jeremy Corbyn, Zarah Sultana, and others in a new mass party of the left, he stressed that: collaboration...
Zack Polanski is now the leader of the Green Party, and will be in the role for the coming two years. This is of great relevance to the left as a whole, because he has previously insisted: I’m open to working with anyone who’s up for challenging the far-right threat of Reform and this unpo...
West Yorkshire councillor Jo Lawson left the Labour Party in early 2024, calling her Kirklees Labour Group a “toxic swamp” with almost no free speech or democracy. She had stood up to the leadership over its weak stance on the Gaza genocide, and suffered the consequences. Speaking to the C...
In the second of an occasional series of joint podcasts between the Canary’s Ed Sykes and Collective’s Sean Halsall – leader of Southport Community Independents (SCI) – we discuss the nature of neoliberalism, the damage it has caused, and how to replace it. Welcome to CanaryPod: the Canary...
Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana have completely shaken up British politics in recent weeks with their announcement of the ‘Your Party’ project to build a new party on the left. 800,000 people have already signed up, eager to help shape the positions and structure of this new party at “an i...
U2 singer Bono says that “uncertainty in the face of obvious complexity” long held him back from commenting on Israel’s crimes in Palestine. (It didn’t stop him taking Israel’s side, apparently.) But as more and more experts call the apartheid state’s assault on Gaza genocide, a ‘pompous, ...
Genocide scholars, human rights groups, and ethical legal experts agree that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza. Some reached that conclusion before the end of 2023. Others reached it in 2024. And some took until 2025 to use the word genocide. Below is a c...
National treasure Miriam Margolyes isn’t afraid of speaking the truth. And amid the ongoing horrors of Israel’s genocide against Palestinians, the 84-year-old Jewish actress has invoked the wrath of Zionist genocide-supporters by calling them out. She recently explained to the Big Issue ho...