Labour-led Kirklees Council in West Yorkshire is facing community action on a number of fronts for its antidemocratic behaviour. But perhaps most shockingly, it has been allowing private housing developers to cause a public health crisis by cutting corners on the site of a former asbestos ...
A group of older Jewish women of conscience have been organising support for Gaza under the name Jewish Peaceniks UK. And they’re now planning a fast to mark the second anniversary of the escalation of Israel’s genocide of people in Gaza. They are inviting other Jewish people to join them ...
Keir Starmer and Donald Trump are both bleeding ordinary people dry in service of an increasingly brash and powerful billionaire class. And we need to destroy once and for all the dangerous notion that they’re different. Because as far as 99% of us are concerned, they’re both a dire threat...
Striking workers in northwest England faced a “shocking and horrifying” event this week when a vehicle ploughed into them in an “unprovoked attack”. Strike action at Sellafield The nuclear waste management site in Sellafield, Cumbria, is Britain’s “largest and most strategically significan...
18 September saw public divisions among leading Your Party figures. And there are very legitimate questions and concerns about this, especially at a time when unity on the left is so necessary. Speaking to the Canary, on 6 September, Zarah Sultana put disagreements and arguments online dow...
Last night’s Together for Palestine fundraiser brought together powerful music and words of resistance. Amid Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, famous voices from different professions united in opposition. The event raised around £1.5m for Palestinian-led organisations. Here are some high...
Israel has detained and deported two British MPs, in what is now becoming a routine. But far from returning the favour, the British government continues to be one of Israel’s most loyal international allies, allowing genocide-inciters and war criminals to walk freely in Britain. Israel det...
In a new video, a range of famous voices have united to back the sold-out Together for Palestine fundraiser tonight. Photographer Nan Goldin said: It’s always been the artist’s role in society to speak out, to risk speaking truth to power. Author Michael Rosen added: We know that the leade...
New Green Party leader Zack Polanski spoke to the Canary recently. And he stressed that we need to: fundamentally change the relationship between wealth and power and the 99% in our society. And the first step to doing that, he said, is with a wealth tax. As Oxfam has explained: A wealth t...
The Hillsborough disaster in 1989 was emblematic of establishment classism, corruption, and propaganda in Thatcherite Britain. To this day, accountability has been elusive. And we very much doubt Keir Starmer’s lot is going to change that in any meaningful way. Any positives from the gover...