Tag: Capitalism

14 April 2023

The UK’s recently released net zero strategy and plans for new fossil fuel projects show how the G7 group's climate ...

Electric car charging. Transition minerals for electric vehicles like this are driving human rights abuses in the Global South.

UK government’s “green day” electric car policies will sacrifice the Global South for transition minerals

6 April 2023

The UK government’s electric vehicle expansion plans risk escalating human rights abuses in the Global South for transition minerals. On ...

Housing Rebellion staging a protest outside landlords offices over their demolition plans

Landlords felt the anger of residents as the fight for decent housing continues

16 March 2023

Residents have taken the fight for safe, secure, and affordable housing to the door of landlords in a new protest. ...

Artwork of corporate colonialism in the Global South, depicting a wind energy land grab in Mexico. The image is split down the middle by a picture of the UK and UK bank notes flowing from it. On the left, a field of corn and a farmer walks along his crops. Trees in the distance. On the right, five wind turbines dominate the landscape. No high crops can be grown beneath them.

UK climate aid funding corporate colonialism in the Global South

8 March 2023

This is the fourth part of a five-part investigation into how UK government climate finance aid is grabbing land, displacing ...

Artwork of a renewable energy land-grab. An image of the UK splits the image in half, with bank notes flowing from it. On the left, satellite image of the land before the solar park, plus a landscape scene of trees, grasses, scrub and a cow on common land. On the right, satellite image with the solar park dominating the area and a landscape image of a series of solar panels. This relates to UK climate finance being used in India

UK climate strategies are colonising indigenous villages in India

1 March 2023

This is the second of a five-part investigation into how UK government climate finance aid is grabbing land, displacing communities, ...

Artwork of a solar land-grab. A yellow excavator runs through the centre of the image pushing rubble, splitting the picture in two. On the left, two farmers harvest from a field of chickpea crop. In the distance, a cow grazes on dry grasses. Trees and shrubs dot the horizon. On the right side, lines of solar panels stretch out to the horizon, where the rich and biodiverse crop field once existed. All this represents climate aid and the village of Badi in India

UK government climate ‘aid’ set to displace indigenous villagers in India

1 March 2023

This is the first of a five-part investigation into how UK government climate finance aid is grabbing land, displacing communities, ...

Shell Oil makes highest profit in 115 years while pensioners freeze in their homes

by Joe Glenton

2 February 2023

Shell's net profit surged to a record $42.3b in 2022, the British energy firm revealed on 2 January. The post-tax ...

Andrew Tate, Keanu Reeves in the Matrix and Curtis Daly

Andrew Tate: a by-product of neoliberalism – not someone helping young men

by Curtis Daly

17 January 2023

The Canary's multimedia producer Curtis Daly has been watching events surrounding Andrew Tate in recent weeks. Falling-down the rabbit hole ...

Letters to the Canary: post-Christmas poetry, the DWP, the NHS and Catalonia

13 January 2023

The Canary is excited to share the fourth edition of our members’ letters page. This is where we publish people’s responses ...

Tories desperately try to come up with a magical solution to strikes

by Ralph Underhill

9 December 2022

Richard Burgon has been talking about the autumn statement

Richard Burgon already nailed the Tories’ autumn statement live on the BBC

16 November 2022

On Thursday 17 November, chancellor (and disgraced former NHS chief) Jeremy Hunt will deliver the Tory government's autumn statement. It's ...

Jeremy Hunt and front pages about Corbyn taking us back to the 1970s, referencing inflation

The Tories are actually the ones dragging us back to the 1970s

16 November 2022

On Wednesday 16 November, the Tory government dragged the country back to the 1970s - even though it was supposed ...

A branch of Barclays bank covered in XR red paint

Climate protesters just targeted what could be Europe’s most culpable bank

15 November 2022

Extinction Rebellion (XR) protesters have targeted Barclays branches across the UK - a bank they describe as "Europe's largest investor ...

UK fat cat bosses just increased their pay by double the rate of inflation

8 November 2022

The fat cats running London's biggest listed companies increased their pay by more than double the rate of UK inflation. ...

Even with Lula’s election, capitalists still won in Brazil

8 November 2022

Brazilian president-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has already started the business of governing, with meetings already lined up to ...

The members of the Bank of England BoE monetary policy committee responsible for inflation

Bank of England about to ‘create mass homelessness’ as inflation soars again

19 October 2022