Sarah Woolley is general secretary of the Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU). And on 8 October, she spoke at a Your Party rally in Leeds alongside Zarah Sultana. But while she praised the excitement surrounding the party, she insisted that: While this new formation is coming toge...
The creation of a new left party was never going to be easy. But after some rocky moments, it looks like the energy and hope around Your Party is back. And Zarah Sultana’s speech to around 600 people in Leeds On Wednesday 8 October was a perfect example of that: Zarah Sultana delivers a pa...
The BBC arranged an all-right-wing panel to challenge Green leader Zack Polanski on Question Time last night. But he schooled them all. And it was a perfect example of how to cut through establishment propaganda with clarity and compassion. In a short time, Polanski tackled: the immense da...
Campaigners in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, have been challenging their Labour council’s plans to privatise two dementia care homes. And the High Court has now stopped the council from proceeding until it provides more evidence. “The process has not been transparent or rational” As the Canary...
The Conservative Party has topped off a conference season of media suppression by stopping two independent journalists from attending – this time, from Byline Times. This comes amid an intensifying assault on journalists in Britain, who have faced arrest or harassment particularly for scru...
Sheffield group Stop Arming Israel shut down the Sheffield-based factory of arms manufacturer Forged Solutions for hours today: Sheffield arms factory: shut down Protesters suspect the Sheffield arms factory is complicit in Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Early on 8 October, Stop Arming Israel ...
Keir Starmer’s Labour government is playing a very dangerous game, bolstering rising fascism by pandering to both the far right and a genocidal foreign state. And on 7 October, it dug in with its anti-Semitic language just as far-right thugs put up Israeli flags in the street. Labour’s ant...
New Reform UK councillors in Kent promised efficiency, but have taken just a few months to go back on their pledges. And the embarrassing mess is yet another sign that the posh-boy hatemongers have nothing positive to offer ordinary people. It was only a matter of time before Reform counci...
Israel took over a dozen UK citizens and residents hostage last week in international waters. And while the British government looked the other way, as it has with Israel’s genocide in Gaza in general, we want to highlight their stories. UK government’s silence ‘inexcusable’ and ‘disgracef...
The BBC has just run scared from Green Party leader Zack Polanski’s truth-telling. Despite interviewing other major party leaders around the time of their conferences, Laura Kuenssberg refused to do the same with Polanski. And the Green leader has suggested this is because of his strong an...