Arusha, Tanzania – The East African Court of Justice (EACJ) Appellate Division has upheld a decision regarding the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP). In November 2023, the First Instance Division of the EACJ dismissed a case that four East African civil society organisations filed in...
Campaigners have called a decision by the Clwyd Pension Fund to update its investment exclusion policy a “milestone”. The unanimous vote to remove investments complicit in the oppression of Palestinians is the first by a pension fund in Wales. Clwyd Pension Fund committee members moved to ...
Despite Labour’s Employment Rights Bill, the lack of a single status of ‘worker’ means access to statutory employment rights will remain limited for too many working people. A new Workplace Report legal feature looks at the continuing problem of defining employment status. It considers why...
Following on from the expulsion of some Socialist Workers’ Party (SWP) members from Your Party in recent days, the Your Party conference has just confirmed that its members have voted resoundingly in favour of allowing dual membership. Regardless of the party’s reasons for expelling some S...
The government won’t want you to read the new CAGE International report. That’s because it shows just how direct action has been integral for forcing Israeli arms dealer Elbit into crisis. And, the report demonstrates just why Keir Starmer’s government chose to ban Palestine Action (PA). A...
Jeremy Corbyn has spoken exclusively to the Canary, setting out his own vision of the future ahead of the Your Party conference in Liverpool this weekend. Corbyn spoke to us after chancellor Rachel Reeve’s budget fell flat. He told us that: If anything proves the need for an alternative po...
Dewsbury and Batley independent MP Iqbal Mohamed has followed Blackburn colleague Adnan Hussain in resigning from the new Your Party and, like Hussain, has done so with a blast at his treatment during his time with the Corbyn/Sultana outfit, claiming that he was subject to “many false alle...
A new investigation published by Corporate Watch, in collaboration with Good Jobs First, has uncovered evidence of soaring profits and burgeoning property portfolios among key subcontractors providing accommodation for asylum seekers. The report, timed to coincide with Clearsprings Ready H...
On Tuesday 28 October, Defend Our Juries and Prisoners For Palestine jointly announced plans to launch what they aim to be the: most widespread mass civil disobedience across the UK in modern British history. Defend our Juries and Prisoners for Palestine: plans for mass civil disobedience ...
Two young people received suspended sentences today for spray-painting two private jets at Stansted Airport in June 2024 to demand the UK government negotiate a treaty to phase out oil and gas by 2030. They were found guilty of criminal damage at Chelmsford Crown Court in September. Jennif...