Health secretary Wes Streeting has delivered many gifts to private healthcare. But the latest is the announcement that Streeting will not introduce VAT to private healthcare. This is a sector that is booming because successive governments have starved the NHS of funding. More private healt...
Civil war has again ignited among the left after the registration documents of the new Your Party as an official political party named Jeremy Corbyn as leader. This was posted by the Stats for Lefties X account with a comment that it was done “without a members’ ballot”: It’s true that Cor...
The volunteer crews of the Global Sumud Flotilla of humanitarian boats has announced the likely imminent illegal attack by Israel’s naval commando unit on the flotilla ‘within the hour’. GSF radars currently show a concentration of roughly 12 unidentified vessels, 5-15 miles from the floti...
Community assemblies have become more and more a part of grassroots organising in the last couple of years, with the aim of people-powering a democratic revival. And new Green Party leader Zack Polanski gave us his thoughts on events like assemblies and how to really make them count. Zack ...
“War criminals are proposing a war criminal as head of…. Gaza.” That was the verdict of former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis responding to the mooted role of mass murderer Tony Blair in leading a transitional authority in the devastated territory. The former British prime ministe...
In our latest CanaryPod joint podcast between the Canary’s Ed Sykes and Collective’s Sean Halsall – leader of Southport Community Independents (SCI) – we discuss how corporate elites have shifted the goalposts of what ‘normal politics’ is to the point where far-right extremists look likely...
Across the globe, zoonotic and vector-borne diseases (ZVBDs), illnesses that jump from animals to humans, either through direct contact or via carriers such as mosquitoes, have increased significantly over the past few decades, claiming millions of lives each year. Now, the spotlight for t...
International law advocacy group Lawyers Without Borders (LWB) has publicly supported the accusation by the humanitarian Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) fleet of volunteer-crewed aid boats that Spain and Italy – which provided ships to escort the flotilla but are not offering it military defen...
Israeli occupation forces have committed a new crime against civilians in the Gaza Strip by closing Al-Rashid Coastal Road, one of the last vital arteries connecting the north of the Strip with the south, exacerbating the suffering of the besieged population and cutting off the last safe p...
Over the last four days, Gen-Z voices led one of the largest anti-government protests ever seen in Morocco. Principally, the demonstrators criticized their government’s handling of public money. In particular, they called out the under-funding of healthcare and education – all whilst huge ...
