Independent media news outlet with an edge of leftist activism.
Iran attacks FIFA and Trump, setting three conditions for its participation in the 2026 World Cup
2 May 2026 @ 6:34 pm
The Iranian Football Federation has stepped up its criticism of FIFA, announcing specific conditions for participating in the 2026 World Cup finals, scheduled to take place in the United States, Canada and Mexico next June and July. The Iranian news agency Tasnim quoted the federation’s president, Mehdi Taj, as levelling sharp criticism at FIFA, saying […]
By Alaa ShamaliJerusalem nun attacked by Israeli settler
2 May 2026 @ 4:57 pm
In this latest video, published on the occupation’s police site and showing us the racism and apartheid of the Jewish supremacist state, an Israeli settler can be seen carrying out a violent attack on a nun, while she was in Jerusalem’s old city. The man then walked away, before he stops, goes back to the […]
By Charlie JaayWest Bank village of Mughayyir is alone in the face of settler violence
2 May 2026 @ 3:53 pm
Residents of the occupied West Bank village of al Mughayyir have suffered too much violence. Intimidation, house raids and land theft occur on an almost daily basis by the Israeli occupation army (IOF) and the armed settlers that live in the many illegal outposts that surround the village. These settlers work with the army — […]
By Charlie JaayActually, the public sector innovated your smart phone
2 May 2026 @ 3:42 pm
The idea that neoliberal capitalism brought about the smart phone is actually a myth, as economist Mariana Mazzucato debunks in her book The Entrepreneurial State. In fact, it was the public sector that innovated the crucial technologies in a smart phone. The tech The US public sector, via the armed forces, pioneered the internet through […]
By James WrightTwo Global Sumud Flotilla participants still in Israeli custody; abducted participants report severe injuries
2 May 2026 @ 3:30 pm
We have received confirmation that most of the abducted Global Sumud Flotilla participants, including the members of UK Global Sumud, have been released from Israeli custody into Greek custody in Crete after 40 hours of sustained, brutal, and illegal containment. The participants report severe injuries including broken bones and bloody wounds caused by beatings received […]
By The CanarySouthwark Independents stand in hope to revive rich history of socialist ‘systems of care’
2 May 2026 @ 1:20 pm
Southwark — With just five days until the local elections, polls expect Starmer’s Labour to take a significant hit at the ballot box. The 7 May looks likely to see thousands of incumbent Labour councillors losing their seats to opposition parties. Increasingly, the choice appears to be between the far-right Reform and progressive candidates in […]
By Maddison WheeldonThe local elections will be brutal for Labour – and they deserve it
2 May 2026 @ 11:28 am
We’re heading into 7 May elections — local councils across England, the Scottish Parliament, and the Senedd in Wales — and the whole thing feels a bit like watching a slow betrayal unfold in real time. I obviously didn’t vote Labour in 2024. I couldn’t bring myself to do it. Not after the purges, the […]
By Rachael SwindonVideo shows Israeli thug slamming nun’s head into the pavement
2 May 2026 @ 11:19 am
Israel — A Zionist criminal has brutally assaulted a Christian nun in Jerusalem, in footage caught on camera. Middle East Eye has the shocking video, which shows the cowardly thug running up behind the woman and shoving her. She is sent hurtling head-first into a nearby kerb, in an attack that could easily have proved fatal. […]
By Robert FreemanBadenoch posts Bloody Sunday footage while demanding impunity for British troops
2 May 2026 @ 11:03 am
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has posted footage of Bloody Sunday in a video where she effectively calls for British soldiers to be immune from prosecution for their crimes. Bloody Sunday was the 1972 massacre British troops carried out in Derry, killing 14 people and wounding at least 15 others. Badenoch used the video to criticise […]
By Robert FreemanThe MSM is ignoring one of the three victims of Golders Green attacker
2 May 2026 @ 10:57 am
Mainstream media are drawing criticism for overlooking one victim of the knife attacker in north London. Britain woke to news on Wednesday 29 May of an attacker in Golders Green, a largely Jewish area. He stabbed two Jewish men, both apparently complete strangers. Thankfully, neither suffered seriously threatening injuries and both are recovering. Essa Suleiman, […]
By Cameron Baillie