A sharp-eyed left-winger has accused Keir Starmer and the Labour party of pinching the colours and styles used by grassroots left group Ordinary Left in his latest ad. X account @LeftMosaic noticed the eerie similarity in an awful, jingoistic video Starmer posted on X with the comment “Def...
Last week, on Friday 5 September, tube union RMT initiated its rolling strike action, centering their demands on improvements for fatigue management and pay. As part of a separate dispute, Docklands Light Rail (DLR) workers also began industrial action on Sunday 7 September. Now, it’s caus...
In the Shuja’iyya neighborhood of Gaza, where the rubble of houses lies scattered like autumn leaves and it is difficult to distinguish the sound of human voices from the sound of explosions, the story of Muhammad Mushtaha began, a young man who experienced life and death in a single momen...
This year’s Trade Union Congress (TUC) kicked off yesterday, on Sunday 7 September, and will run through to Wednesday 10 September. It marks the 157th annual meeting of the federation of trade unions. TUC general secretary Paul Nowak took the opportunity to renew his organisation’s calls f...
The street artist Banksy has unveiled a new piece at the Royal Courts of Justice in London. Looking at it, it’s clear he’s making a statement about the how the UK is increasingly using legal means to restrict the right to speak out. Fittingly, the powers-that-be immediately moved to hide h...
Spain’s prime minister Pedro Sánchez announced on Monday 8 September that his country has decided to adopt a series of immediate measures to pressure Israel and stop what he described as “genocide in Gaza,” stressing that previous efforts have failed to alleviate the suffering of the Pales...
On 6 September, Your Party’s Zarah Sultana spoke at an event in Newcastle, alongside Majority’s Jamie Driscoll. After an inspiring event where Sultana got a standing ovation from a packed room excited about the efforts to create a new mass party on the left, the Canary sat down to speak wi...
At the end of July, US special forces veteran Lt Col Anthony Aguilar, who had been working as a contractor for the US-Israel run so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), came forward as a whistleblower and said that he had left GHF after seeing fellow contractors and IDF soldiers murd...
Trade unions are calling on Labour to demonstrate their commitment to workers’ rights following last week’s cabinet reshuffle. They want the ensure that the government follows through on the in-progress Employment Rights Bill without watering it down further. The demands come after Angela ...
One of the most shocking moments of Israel’s genocide in Gaza so far was its murder of five-year-old Hind Rajab in January 2024. And a new film capturing her horrific story has just won second prize at the Venice Film Festival, following an unprecedented 23-minute standing ovation at its p...
