Veteran activist Salma Yaqoob thinks challenging the lie of ordinary people’s powerlessness is key to progress. At a recent rally, she called on Your Party supporters to resist elite distraction tactics and remember how powerful we can be when we come together. https://www.thecanary.co/wp-...
The long-running Undercover Policing (Spycops) Inquiry is in the news again. And everyone on the left has a very good reason to follow its revelations. Because they give us important insights into how the rich and powerful keep their privilege at our expense. Tom Fowler goes to every heari...
The Starmer government has formally announced that it will be removing Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) from its list of banned, or ‘proscribed’, terrorist organisations. HTS, effectively ISIS in Syria and disowned by terrorist group al-Qaeda as too extreme, now runs Syria — despite resistance ...
In a powerful speech in Huddersfield at the weekend, Zarah Sultana said millions of people around Britain are angry, and justifiably so. Not only are the political class and their super-rich backers “laughing at us”, she said. But “our media class is rotten to the core” too. And as she str...
A court has ordered Israel to return 150,000 ILS, the equivalent of more than £33,500 to two fishermen from Gaza whose boats were seized by the Israeli occupation Forces navy, in 2022, and were destroyed. Israel forced to return £33,500 after court ruling Haifa Maritime Court has ruled tha...
Key ministerial meeting data for Labour cabinet member Steve Reed is currently missing from the government’s transparency register. The missing information concerns three month’s worth of meetings between January and March 2025, that the Streatham and Croydon North MP held with external or...
The Trump administration has reportedly cooled on the idea of a pardon for rapper Sean ‘Diddy’ Coombs. The rapper was sentenced to four years in prison for “two counts of transportation for prostitution” in 2025. On 21 October, music magazine TMZ reported that Trump was weighing a pardon: ...
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has quietly shut down its sole inbox that disabled people can use to lodge a complaint about discrimination within the government’s Access to Work scheme. It comes amid broader largely clandestine moves to restrict eligibility to support under the...
The UK has been rightly and heavily criticised for providing Israel with spy flights over Gaza almost since Israel’s genocide in Gaza began – RAF surveillance planes were over Gaza as Israel murdered UK aid workers and Palestinian journalists and operated almost daily throughout. Under scr...
A video has emerged of Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fighters in Sudan suspending a young woman from a tree. The video, from North Darfur, shows the militia torturing 22-year-old Gisma Ali Omer. She is hanging from a tree by her arms, and the fighter shows his face, looking proud. 🇸🇩⚠️A young...
