Julian Assange protest is ignored by the BBC and Guardian
On Saturday 8 October, thousands of people converged on the area around the UK parliament. They came out to form a human chain to show solidarity with imprisoned journalist Julian…
Man dies after being restrained by Hertfordshire police during mental health crisis
The director of the charity INQUEST, Deborah Coles, set out the facts: Read on... A man in mental health crisis is Pava sprayed, restrained and dies. A long pattern of…
Leftists supporting Putin are ‘idiots’, say anarchists from Ukraine
Within the Russian population, there’s resistance against Putin’s war. The Canary has tried to highlight this resistance by amplifying grassroots movements. Critically, it’s important that our ‘left’ alliances don’t result in…
Tories push fossil fuel expansion even as climate crisis leads to record excess deaths
On 7 October, the UK opened up a new licensing round for potentially over 100 fossil fuel licences in the North Sea. The government argues that this is “good for…
a month in power and nothing to show for it but chaos
Just over a month has passed since the Tory party made Liz Truss prime minister. And, it’s been hell on earth for everyone involved – including her. She has lurched…
Supporting Mahsa Amini and other Iranian women means rejecting imperial feminism
The disturbing death of Mahsa (Jina) Amini, a Kurdish-Iranian at the hands of Iranian police while in custody, for supposedly not observing proper hijab, has rung alarm bells for most…
Truss and Qatar: PM set to deepen relations with authoritarian Gulf state
Prime minister Liz Truss has indicated she will court Qatar as an energy partner to counter the UK’s energy crisis. The authoritarian regime, known for its long list of human…
Homophobia at an LGBT+ Conservative event? Colour me shocked
An LGBT+ Conservative party at the Reflex nightclub in Birmingham was disrupted by homophobic abuse. The event took place on the final night of the Tories’ annual conference. Anyone with…
New disclosures in Chris Kaba killing suggest the Met is still out of control
Disclosures in the Chris Kaba case cast new light on the latest police killing of a young Black man. Kaba was shot dead by Metropolitan police officers in September. Kaba,…
Relatives of people disappeared in Turkey are imprisoned for their actions
Content Warning: graphic descriptions of state violence and disrespect for the dead In 2021 and 2022, I was part of two delegations to Bakur, the part of Kurdistan that lies…
The Tories are now responsible for 334,000 austerity-related deaths
A new study has found that between 2012 and 2019 there were over 334,000 excess deaths. The authors of the research have linked the deaths to austerity. Meanwhile, the Guardian…
A new wave of Palestinian prisoners join the hunger strike against detention without trial
Thirty more Palestinian prisoners have joined a mass hunger strike inside Israel’s military prisons, calling for an end to imprisonment without charge. Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network wrote: Thirty Palestinian…
