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📍 NEWCASTLE UNDER LYME - Locals were SHOCKED to found out the TRUE nature of Reform's plans.
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🚨 BREAKING: Take Back Power supporters REDISTRIBUTE food from supermarkets to those most in need
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UNANIMOUSLY NOT GUILTY: A major victory for free speech and solidarity at the Old Bailey. Student activist Sarah (of the SOAS 2) has been fully acquitted by a jury after facing prosecution for speaking in support of Palestine. Speaking outside court, Sarah described the verdict as an incredible boost of morale for the entire movement: “My case has proved that we have the right to defend the Palestinian people... and that what we’ve shown here today is that speaking about Palestinian resistance is not the same as supporting terrorism. When you stick to your principles, the people united will never be defeated.” The trial saw prosecutors download entire phone records and scrutinize private messages between friends and family, yet failed to produce evidence of illegality—Sarah never once expressed support for Hamas. Instead, this case exposed the ongoing efforts to criminalize dissent, surveil young activists, and silence legitimate advocacy under international law. Today’s verdict sends a resounding message: solidarity is not a crime. #FreeSpeech #SOAS2 #OldBailey #PalestineSolidarity #RightToResist 📽️ Ranjan Balakumaran Ranjan Balakumaran
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URGENT 🚨 We're outside the Edgware United Synagogue where Zionists are holding an Israeli Real Estate conference - selling illegal land in the Occupied Territories. The government and Met Police have allowed this event to go ahead. And now, it looks like the blow back has started as things are quickly escalating.
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📍 CLACTON - " He says he's for the people and the workers in Clacton... have a walk around Clacton town centre."
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“Andy Burnham has spent years crafting a specific public myth. He is the 'King of the North,' the casual jacket-wearing, anti-Westminster populist who promised to smash the Whitehall bubble, reverse decades of devastating de-industrialization, and bring failing water utilities back under public control.” But as he prepares to enter Downing Street as Prime Minister, the mask has officially slipped. Burnham has handed the keys of Number 10 to his new Chief of Staff, James Purnell—the ex-chair of Labour Friends of Israel, a former BBC executive, and the CEO of Flint Global, an elite corporate lobbying outfit that protects private water companies from state takeovers and was recently sold to a private equity firm notorious for price-gouging the NHS. This appointment exposes the absolute hypocrisy behind Burnham's carefully managed rhetoric on devolution and public control. Before he even steps foot inside Number Ten, we must demand a full, unvarnished list of all James Purnell's corporate conflicts of interest—because right now, devolution and reindustrialization is the bait, and corporate capture is the switch. Editor: Ranjan Balakumaran Ranjan Balakumaran
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We're on the ground at HMP Bronzefield NOW and as we speak prison staff are refusing to answer the intercom to a sitting MP and a growing crowd of people out in solidarity with Qesser Zuhrah - as her life hangs in the balance Zarah Sultana MP Nicola Jeffery Prisoners For Palestine
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🎤 "A VICTORY FOR FREE SPEECH": Tony Greenstein speaks following his acquittal at Kingston Crown Court. Following a not-guilty jury verdict delivered in just two hours, activist and writer Tony Greenstein broke down his trial under Section 12 of the Terrorism Act in a hard-hitting doorstep interview. Key highlights from the interview: Free Speech vs State Censorship: Argued the prosecution was an attempt to twist political commentary into criminal charges, calling the state's case "the thinnest of thin gruel." The Toll of Prosecution: Described the three-year ordeal on bail—facing debanking, travel limits, media smear campaigns, and the threat of prison. Defense of Jury Trials: Warned against government moves to restrict jury trials, citing the historic 1670 Bushell’s Case to emphasise that 12 ordinary citizens—not state judges—are the true safeguards of conscience and liberty. Foreign Policy & Civil Liberties: Criticised historical UK counter-terror legislation, drawing links between foreign policy interventions and the erosion of domestic democratic freedoms. 🔗 Follow his writing: / #TonyGreenstein #FreeSpeech #CivilLiberties #TrialByJury #HumanRights #KingstonCrownCourt #Section12 #UKPolitics
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‼️ The deputy leader of The Green Party, councillor Mothin Ali was racially abused by far-right thugs in Manchester today. They were part of the Britain First rally that's currently going through the city. Mothin spoke to the Canary after the incident cc Zack Polanski
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"A high court judge has just greenlit criminal proceedings against Rajiv Menon KC, one of the UK's most prominent human rights barristers...this unprecedented move has sent shockwaves through the legal profession and is actively terrifying junior defence lawyers." Courts aren't just gagging defendants – now they're threatening independent lawyers with prison for reminding jurors that, when deciding on a case, they can use their conscience. Justice Jeremy Johnson has continued with his attempt to have Rajiv Menon KC, the human rights barrister who represented one of the recently sentenced Filton 4, convicted of contempt of court. Footage: @ranjanbalakumaran
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